Tink B-day card

Tinkerbell birthday card made using the Tinkerbell cart.

the front of the card... i used black, hot pink, and lime green cardstock, white ink, and hot pink ribbon. I used my big bite to punch holes down the side and thread the ribbon threw and then tie into a bow. I stamped the happy birthday stamp all over the black card stock and kind of made my own background. i think it turned out pretty cute :)

ribbon in detail (not great pics they were taken with my iphone)

tink in detail.. I bent her wings up and shes on pop dots so she's up off the page hard to tell in this pic thow.

the inside of the card.

I am entering this into the following challenge:

Whimsical Wednesday - Time Flies

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Candy's Craft Corner 400 follower candy

Head over to Candy's Craft Corner and see how to win this amazing candy!! She's celebrating 400 followers. :)

300 Follower WINNER!! & whats new

Sorry this is late I know I said Feb 1.. and it's the 2nd... where does the time go??

So anyway no more waiting... Jo Ann V you are the winner!!! I will attempt to contact you right after this post.. you have 48 hours to get in touch with me (babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com), If this doesn't happen I'll have to choose another winner. Congrats!!

Thank you to the other 3 people that entered (kinda laughable I'm celebrating 300 + followers and only 4 entered... that's perfectly ok thow). I'll be doing my next "big" giveaway at 500 followers.. but I'll also probably have more before then.. blog hops, just being nice, etc. So stick around :).

So... what's new?

Harmony: is now busting up laughing and its super cute. She can sit on her own unsupported for a few seconds now and supported for as long as she wants. Adam put her Exersaucer together and shes loving it (so is Jayden lol). Her current fav toy is her Hershey's Kiss. She's full of baby babbles and she says something that sounds just like "Yea Yea!" and she's said "hi" a couple times but we probably aren't counting it cuz she won't do it all the time.. she can wave and She got her first taste of baby food on Jan 30th (Turkey & turkey broth).. HATED it lol. She is also cutting her very first tooth.. my baby girl is getting TOO big TOO fast :( !!! That's all I can think of for "Harma" right now..

Jayden: won't stop talking! She's copying everything anyone says (cute and not so cute at times).. She can now draw an "O" a heart, and a "frosting mmm man" (frosty the snowman lol).. she's always making us laugh. She knows what an "A" "M" and "O" are and look like.. and can count from 1 to 3 (she was counting from 3 to 7 but she stopped for some reason). She also is starting to potty train (not off to a great start but it could be worse) and actually went poopoo on the potty chair on her birthday! Lots of funny stuff to tell about her but not enough time in the world lol :).

And me? Well... Adam bought me a sewing machine last week and it came on Friday but I didn't get it until Sunday night. (I've never ever used a sewing machine and couldn't tell you a thing about one or how to work one or even how to turn one on lol sad i know). My sister-in-law Rachel came over on Monday and taught me some basics (we also shopped for some basics and a couple patterns on Saturday) and she helped me make my very first project.. I'm pretty pleased to say the very first thing I ever sewed with a sewing machine was pillows to sit on the couches in the living room and they turned out GREAT! I can't believe that my very first time sewing with a machine was so successful I'm super pleased and never coulda done it without Rachel's help.. shes the very best Sister anyone could ask for. She's always helping me with something.. be it my senior project paper, a report for a college class.. helping me plan my wedding, making the dresses and vests for my wedding, making all of the diapers and dresses for Jayden, the crib set for Harmony, thowing my baby showers, helping me bake & decorate 100s of sugar cookies for a party when shes got tons of homework to do, planning parties with me, teaching me to sew or just being there for me.. she never ever lets me down (except that senior project but thats another story lol!!).

Anyway so I don't have any pics of the pillows yet but I'll take some and post them soon.. and maybe a pic of my new machine.. shes a beaut! Just what I needed.. another hobby.. cuz I'm not already busy with a 2 year old (which is in the beginning stages of potty training) a 4 month old (cutting her 1st tooth) and a paper crafting problem that won't quit lol! So I guess I'll have more than paper crafts to share now.. bad thing? we'll see! LOL

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Buccaneer Imagine Cart for Sale

Hey Everyone.. I'm selling a brand new Buccaneer Cricut Imagine cart. I have it listed on craigslist you can view it HERE!

Basically, I'm selling it for $35 OBO and thought that if any of my followers were interested I'd let you know about it. If interested email me @: babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com and let me know. If one of you decide to buy this cart from me we'd just do a paypal transaction and I'd ship it within 48 hours of payment. So again... if interested let me know!

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RRR giveaway

RRR is having a giveaway for their blog anniversary check it out here!

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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snowman tag

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Made these cute little snowman tags to go on bags of white chocolate fudge & white chocolate pretzels.

I used the snowman cut from the Hello Kitty cart and made the tag long enough to cover the top of the bag (about 4 inches) x 4 inches and folded in half so it was 4x2. I cut the tag shape using Accent Essentials. I inked the edge of the tag and used swiss dots and my cuttlebug to emboss one of the tags. The "there's snowman like you" cut is from Winter Frolic.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #94

My Craft Spot - #41

Cooking With Cricut - Winter Warmies

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300 Follower Candy!!

Ok guys/gals.. I know I've been promising for awhile to do a 300 follower giveaway and you've all been so patient waiting for the giveaway. Thanks so much for not giving up on me :).

So this is gonna be a simple giveaway, I'm gonna try to stay as far away from complicated as possible!

What is the giveaway? - Stretch Your Imagination Cricut Cartridge ..

This Cartridge is used... I got it used.. I was told it was never linked to a Gypsy.. and I have never used it since I got it so.. I figure I don't wanna waste it and just have it sitting in my collection when I'm sure someone else might actually use it. So from what I know it's used and not linked to a Gyspy (but thats not a promise cuz I don't know how to tell if it's been linked or not.. if it hasn't been.. great for the winner! If it has.. well.. its free to you and you can do with it what you like. :)

How can you win?:
REQUIRED entry: Must be a follower & leave a comment letting me know you are

Extra Entries:

1 entry - post about this giveaway on your blog, come back leave another comment with a link to your post so that I can check it.

1 entry - post about this giveaway on your sidebar, come back leave another comment with a link to your blog so that I can check the sidebar.

That's all! 3 chances to win. All comments need to be left by January 31, 2012 @ 11:59 PM PST to be entered for the prize. I will use random.org to draw a winner sometime on February 1, 2012.

This is only open to US residents unless you would like to pay the extra shipping cost to have this shipped to you if you win.

Thanks for being my followers and thanks for entering my giveaway! Next follower giveaway will be done at 500 followers.

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Jayden's 2nd Birthday Party

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So, it's happened... my baby just turned 2 on January 11, 2010, I cannot believe it. My lil big girl.. not only is she growing fast and getting real big, but she's also sooo smart it just blows my mind and on her birthday she went poopoo on the potty chair :).

Jayden loves Winnie the Pooh, ok more like she is obsessed with anything and everything having anything to do with Pooh. So I knew what her birthday party would be... Pooh of course!

I started planning for her party over a month ahead of time (which was very hard for me because she had just switched recently from the Little Mermaid to Pooh and I was worried she was gonna change her mind right before her party).. my husband convinced me that I needed to pick a theme for her party and she would like whatever I did.. so I set the theme. I started my shopping for all the items I'd need I had lists all over and one book that I kept my shopping and to do list in to make sure I had everything.. I wanted to start early so that it didn't get down to the day of the party and I forgot something really important.

The actual party was on Jan 14, 2012. I made most of the items myself with the exception of a few things like the plates, napkins, silverware etc.

A quick note: I am having a very hard time finding the pics for a few items. I will do another post for these items and I'll try to get them all in one.. so sorry about that :( I hate that I can't find the pics but I'm sure they'll show up. Here is the list of items I cannot find pics of and will do another post for:

The invites

Jayden's headband

napkins

Jayden's Howse banner

How about lunch banner

food tags

favor bags

favors

the food

Bee Hive Pinata

Mr Sanders vinyl art (above Jayden's door)

thank you cards

Jayden's Attire:

I made Jayden's pooh headband using a headband from Michaels that was in the clearance for $0.79 & some $1 yellow ribbon that was the perfect color and shine for honey & some pooh ribbon from Michaels for $4 but I used a 40% off coupon on that. With the left over yellow ribbon I tied it around Jayden's red dress that she wore (got it from TJ Maxx for $10). (These pics of her headband are missing too so again.. a later post for better pics)

The decorations:

Banners - "Pooh Corner" is all from SCAL the banner shapes are just triangles & the font is Comic Sans.

"silly 2 year old bear" high chair banner cut form scal.

Party hats - using SCAL & the free file I got HERE I cut these hats out in red & yellow card stock. I then cut the honey pot 2 from pooh font cart (Just for Jayden's hat) I had cut some pooh ears from the same yellow card stock as the rest of the hat & I cut some slits in where I wanted the ears to go & I added some honey on the pot using the drippy goo punch. For the rest of the hats I put 2 stars of the opposite color on each (I cut these with scal at the same time as the hats with the extra space on the card stock). I punched some holes in the hats with my big bite II and tied elastic on. I cut a special small hat for Harmony to wear (which she did for about 3 mins just long enough for some pics but it was too tight and I couldn't leave it on her) and one for Sweetums who for the first time ever ran from me so she didn't have to wear something.

Potty Chair Sign - Jayden's thoughtful spot sign I cut the "wood" background by hand, and cut out the words using pooh font cart and the crass is from the Happy Hauntings cart.

Honey pot - I used a small flower pot and wrote "hunny" on it with a sharpie, I cut some strips of yellow card stock with the drippy goo punch and fringed the top and adhered theme to the top of the pot. I put the extra honey sticks inside and sat it on the food table.

The cookies:

These sugar cookies took me a lil while to make but were possibly my fav thing at the party. I've made these before for Adam's grandparents 50th Anniversary party.. not the same designs or anything but the same recipes. Though they are not perfect I did like the way they came out. I had to order the pooh cookie cutter from ebay it's a 3D cutter but I ended up mainly using the head part and cutting the rest off. I free handed all the cookies and used a food color marker for the face on pooh and the black outlines on the bee wings. These cookies were a HUGE hit.. everyone loved theme.

The cake:

I made cupcakes... these didn't turn out how I had pictured but they did the job. I wanted the cupcakes to look like bee hives. And I made Jayden's cake to match. They were just yellow cake with cream cheese frosting that was colored yellow. I had a couple compliments on my cupcakes the one that meant the most to me was from my brother (he has his degree in pastry arts (cake decorating etc)) he told me it was the best cake he'd ever had he also said he loved the cookies.

The games:

Hunt for red balloons - I cut a bunch of red balloons from my Pooh & friends cart and we hid them around the house.. the kid that found the most won a prize.

Pin the tail on Eeyore - I cut Eeyore as large as I could on my expression from the pooh & friends cart (11.5 in) and only had the pastels for the larger sheets so I cut his black out in black, his main body in purple & his lighter color in purple.. for the body I painted it blue with some fabric spray paint. for his tails I cut part of the main cut for the black out and then canceled the cut after the tail was done so that I didn't waste paper or time. Since there was no easy way to do the rest of the tale I hand cut the rest of it tracing one part as the templet. I put each kids name on the back so that when they played we knew who was the closed.. the closed to the "X" on Eeyore won a prize.

Everyone thought the party looked great (I even got some comments that it looked like the type of birthday party a kid would have in a movie and it looked all professionally done). And Jayden had a blast which was the most important part!

On her actual birthday we took her out to eat at the Olive Garden (we also took her here to eat for her 1st birthday).. We were also gonna take her to Chuck E Cheese to play some games but she fell asleep on the way so we ended up just doing dinner.

Hope you enjoyed my party spread :)

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Decorate to Celebrate - #16

More Than Favors - #63

Whimsical Designs - Anything goes

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Pirate Brithday Card

Cut the pirate card using Life's A Party.. Then I inked the cream colored card stock with brown ink to make it look aged. I think it turned out pretty good.

the name on the front of the envelope i wrote with a red zig marker

And for the back I closed the envelope with a skull sticker (cut from Life's A Party with DCWV Adhesive backed card stock).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #93

Celebrate the Occasion #45

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