I *heart* crafting! (No pun intended - ok, its intended!)

I got a little ambitious the last few days making homemade valentines.  So much fun!

Little birdhouses for my girlfriends.  Birdies courtesy of Studio Calico.  Freakin' adorable birdhouses courtesy of the silhouette store (Lori Whitlock).

My 5 year old is a super hero fanatic.  This is what we made for his preschool class.  Plus he got great practice writing his name!  We are doing the same thing for his teachers, but with water bottles. 

And here are a sampling of Valentine's for my 8 year old daughter's class.  Cuts and cupid courtesy of the silhouette store.

A bit of summer crafting.

Summer break is finally here (insert gleeful exclamations!).  However, I haven't had too much crafting time yet.  Hopefully that will change soon.  Here are a couple of things I have done so far. 

This is a quick father's day card for Jeff's dad. 

Here is a cute page about my little man.  It is his fall and spring preschool pictures.  He is growing SO fast.  This page is from the 35mm kit at Studio Calico. 

Crafting with Kids

My daughter is kinda-just-a-little-bit exactly like me.  Which is delightful and frightening at the same time.  But one way she is like me is that she loves to craft just as much as me.  The other day at the craft store I picked up this notebook so she could make her own smash book (journal) for summer.   I may have helped with a little cutting - but this is all her.  So cute!  (She even took the picture on my phone so I could post it!)

Today she told me, "Mom, do you know why I love crafting with you?  Because everything you do is so cute!"  I swear ... I didn't even pay her to say that.

Spring!

Since it is nearly May - I figured I should get a spring banner hung up.  Our Valentine's Day banner that my sister Bailey made me was oh so cute and so we have just kept it up ... until today.

Here are a few of the cute details.  I embossed all the letters (cut out with my cricut - embossed with my cuttlebug).  

Here is the final product -don't mind the top of Max and Ruby's head.  

Happy Spring!

Scrappin' the night away!

My girlfriend Melissa and I went to a crop on Saturday.  We took our girls with us in the morning and they had a delightful time.  In fact, Mylie got more done in the morning than I got done all day!!  We took them out to lunch and then took them home and then went back for kid-less scrapping. 

Here are some of my layouts from the weekend:

Almost all of the layouts were made using primarily Studio Calico kits.  Jeff got me a subscription to their monthly kits last year for my birthday and I love getting a surprise every month!

Here is another layout that was in my stack from last month:

Here it is as a 2 page spread.

I am so looking forward to summer and getting to spend more time scrapping! 

Using your stash for non-crafty projects

A few weeks ago I volunteered to make a poster for a service project at my kid's daycare in April.  The last few weeks have been crazy, busy, insane (basically insert any adjective here), and somehow April snuck up on me.  I grabbed a piece of posterboard at the store today and since I fly to Las Vegas in less than 12 hours (and I still haven't slept), I figured it was now or never. 

My sweet husband told me he would make the poster for me, and while I adore his offer of help, the anal crafty side of me could not agree to that.  Our service project is collecting dog food and cat food for the humane society, so I knew I wanted an animal on there somewhere, but that is about as far as I had planned. 



Please excuse the quality of the 3 am photo.

So I just started out like I would with a layout.  I wanted to use my fringe scissors to make grass at the bottom so I did that, then cut the puppy and his bowl out on my cricut (Everyday Paper Dolls).  Of course, no project would be complete without Thickers, so I personalized this bowl.  The blue sky is just cardstock painted with white paint.  All the info about the fundraiser is on the yellow sheet and I cut the big red letters out on the cricut.  I decided I wanted to add a little more, so I stamped the bees (studio calico stamp) on yellow cardstock and then cut them out.  I didn't feel like cutting butterflies out on the cricut and I remembered the Basic Gray black and white fabric flowers that had been sitting in my stash for a while because I couldn't decide what to do with them.  I misted them with Mister Huey's and then stapled them in the middle, glued them down and drew antennas = insta-butterfly!

 

Now granted, this is more cutesie than I scrap or craft, but I still had a lot of fun making this and it was still a creative outlet ... plus, the isn't about what I like, the whole point is to catch the attention of the preschoolers and their parents in the lobby ... mission accomplished!

Message Board

This is a message board that I made for my dear friend Karen's birthday.  I learned the HARD way that magnetic spray on paint DOES NOT work.  This was made from a 12x12 canvas.