Heart That Mouse Layout

Made this cute Mickey Mouse layout using SCAL for most of the Mickey's and the hearts and Mickey & Friends Cart for the "THAT MOUSE" and I used punches for some of the Mickey heads.

The photo mat is for a 5x7 pic and is actually 5.5x7.5. I tied some yellow bakers twine around the bottom of the photo mat.

I used white gel pen to dot around on some of the title letters and around the heart on the bottom right of the page. The little yellow Mickey head in the "O" of "MOUSE" is on a pop dot.

And a red zig marker to put some dots on the yellow heart at the top and to stitch around the star.

I am entering this layout into the following challenge:

Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Disney

Simon Says - Anything goes

DL.ART - anything goes

Oldie But A Goodie - anything goes

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Jayden's 2nd Birthday Party Pt 2

Don't forget to enter for a chance to win a free Cricut cart for my 300 follower giveaway HERE!!

To see part 1 of Jayden's 2nd birthday party go HERE!

I still have not found the pics of the invites, food, the food table banner, thank you cards and pinata but I guess this will turn into a 3 part post. I did however find pretty much everything else.

The Headband - I made this using a headband base from Michaels (clearance for $0.79), Pooh Ribbon from Michaels and the yellow ribbon is from Michaels $1 bin. I glued the yellow ribbon to the end of the base and then wrapped it around the base and gluing again once it was wrapped to the other end. I used my bow easy to make the bow out of pooh ribbon and hot glued it on the headband.

Food Tags - Using my Cricut and the Pooh & Friends cart I cut out Piglet, Kanga & Roo, Rabbit, & Tigger at 4inches. I then folded brown card stock in half to the size I thought good for each individual shape and folded in half to make a card. I then cut each "card" all raggedy on the ends to look like a wood sign. Then I wrote the different food titles on each card in white gel pen to look like it was done by a kid.

Favors - Each boy got a toy car, a ball, a slinky, a pack of pooh themed cards, a pooh puzzle, a pooh finger puppet, bubbles & honey sticks

Each girl got a princess phone lip gloss, 2 bracelets, a slinky, a pack of pooh themed cards, a pooh puzzle, a pooh finger puppet, bubbles & honey sticks

I made a special wrap for the bubbles red paper cut the the same size as the bubble labels with a small pooh die cut (from my cricut & pooh & friends cart), one had a bee die cut & one had eeyore. I also put a pooh cut on the honey sticks. The honey sticks were ordered from Chase Honey Company and came in packs of 8 with 2 of each flavor (10 packs of 8) and I also ordered 10 packs of 8 regular clover honey sticks.

Party favor bags - I cut out the stencil shapes from pooh & friends cart (one of each.. piglet, eeyore, pooh & tigger). Using red bags I placed the stencils on one side of the bag using a tape that I knew wouldn't rip the bags (photo squares that don't really hold) and brushed/ sponged on white paint. I did the same thing for 2 big gift bags using the same stencils. On the little bags I free handed each kid's name on the bottom and put a different design on .. and I free handed "Happy 2nd Birthday Jayden" onto one of the big gift bags.

Napkins - I wrapped plastic silver ware in red and yellow napkins and tied them closed with the opposite color of paper raffia.

"Jayden's Howse" banner to make this I used the Pooh font cart & cut the banner shape from Princess party and strung it up with paper raffia

I am entering these items into the following challenge:

Decorate to Celebrate - #16

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Pin It

Name Christmas Bulbs

It's been awhile since I've made a post but I assure you I've been crafting tons and I'll show it all as soon as I have it all done. I'm working on Jayden's 2nd birthday party.. and Im making pretty much everything.. from the cake to the hats.. and lets not forget the invites, the party blowers (kinda), the favor boxes, food, food lables, signs, banners, cookies, the list goes on and on.. and the theme.. well Jayden's favorite of course (but it's a surprise) and I promise to share soon.. her party is the 14th so it'll probably be up by the 20th. As for other crafts I'll try to post some other stuff in the meantime it's just a matter of having the time to post.

In other news we just bought a new couch about 2 days ago, and are going to pick up another one tonight.. :D. Jayden sang a song all by herself for the 1st time on Jan 1st (a song that goes with her party theme), Harmony laughed (I don't mean a little giggle, I mean busted up laughing) for the first time on the 2nd.

Harmony's Pin It

No tutorial needed.. 1) put some pledge floor shine in the bulb. 2) swish it around and make sure to cover the entire inside of bulb. 3) dump out excess floor shine. 4) pour fine glitter into the bulb (I tried some glitter that wasn't so fine and it fell off :(.. so i think fine glitter is better). 5) shake bulb and cover inside with glitter (Jayden did this part and she had a blast!). 6) put on lid... and its done!

Jayden's Pin It

I added vinyl names but these looked great without the names too it just adds a special touch.

Mine. Pin It

I cut our names out of gold vinyl (left over from the stuff I bought for Adams grandparents anniversary party) using my Expression & SCAL 2.0. Peel the names off and stick em on.. sooo easy and it looks great!

Adam's Pin It

Not only was this an easy project.. it was also a fun project Jayden (my almost 2 year old girl) & I could do together (so very kid friendly)... but it was also pretty inexpensive! I had all of these glitters in my stuff already that I bought on clearance last year after Halloween from Michaels.. ($3 for 16 different glitters in a pack), the bulbs I had 3 of them from last year on clearance after Christmas (less than $0.50 each) and 1 from this year ($1), the Pledge floor shine was $3-4 for the bottle that looks untouched... so a total of ... $9.50 for these bulbs (and thats not counting that I have all the stuff to make them again so in the future it'll just cost the price of the bulbs (which I'll be getting on clearance from Michales lol).

As for the 300 follower giveaway.. I'm a tad more busy than I expected to be.. you know with my baby turning 2 and all.. well hopefully I'll have the giveaway posted by the 10th.. that is my goal. I don't wanna forget to thank all of my wonderful followers so please don't give up.. it's coming I promise!!

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Flashback Friday 13.0

I just came across the Flashback Friday Challenges blog and their current challenge is to post your 1st non traditional shaped card. Mine of course is Jayden's birth announcements.. I made them using SCAL 2 and my expression. The actual file my husband and I designed ourselves. We even had a seperate layer to cut for the liner (which in the card pictured is blue but we made all colors). I actually made these before Jayden was born but they were completed about 2 weeks after her birth.. so late Jan 2010. I LOVE these announcements.. Now they are definitely gonna be hard to top for the little girl we have on the way. :) Hope you like em!

card closed

card semi open

card inside

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Stocking Stuffer Boxes

This week at SweetSassyDiva DT we were asked to make a last minute stocking stuffer! I made these little boxes.

Recipe:
12x12 blue, green & white cardstock
Sure Cuts A Lot

Cricut

Adhesive

Clear Plastic sheet

ink pad (your choice of color)

Instructions:

Made the box file to cut in SCAL.. it's a plain box and I added different shapes to the top in SCAL and cut them out. I then scored them, folded them, adhered them together. I inked the edges one in black in and the other 2 in silver ink. I cut down my clear plastic to fit over the shapes on the top and adhered them to the inside of the lid. Simple. I put some truffles inside the boxes, tied some ribbon around some (to hold them closed) and stuffed them inside the stockings..

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Back 2 school card

I made this cute little "Back 2 School" card for my husbands cousin. She just went off to college yesterday (or the day before) out of state. This is her first time away from home (for living) all alone. So I thought it would be nice to send her a card and complete some challenges at the same time! So that's just what I did.

This card fits into the following challenges:

Glitterbabe's Challenge - #11 Purple, Yellow, & Red

Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge - Sketch #36

Critter Sketch Challenge - #31 School, school school

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Button up for school

I used Sure Cuts A Lot to make the apple, Create A Critter to make the worms, Glaze purple pen to write "Back 2 School!", gold, red & green glitter glue on the worms & apple, yellow ribbon, dark purple, yellow, red, green & light green card stock, & a purple button.

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