Birthday and Valentines Cards

Now that I have returned to work, my crafting time has come to almost a complete halt…dang government for wanting money for everything.  I did however sneak in some time to make a few cards after everyone else was in bed for the night.  I was also able to make some valentines for K’s class, since she insisted on having Alvin the Chipmunk (her current obsession) on her cards and since he isn’t “IT” right now, there was nothing in the stores, so I had to make them for her.

 

My hubby’s 42nd birthday was on the 12th, so I made him cards from both K and I.  The one from K was one I just made up in Photoshop Elements, the owl one I made using both Photoshop and just a paper cutter.

Valentines day card that I designed using SCAL3 and my Cameo.  The pink is an overlay on a solid red background.

I ended up making 18 of these Alvin the Chipmunk Valentine cards for K’s class. Only took K 3 hours to write her classmates names and her name on the back of each of them. granted that was spread out over the whole weekend, but ugh, what a pain that was, maybe I should have just been like the majority of the class and filled them out myself for her…but we were asked to let them do it so they could get the handwriting skills in, so I did as was asked, but when your child has ADD, it takes patience on all ends to get through such a simple task, something we all need to work on here.

And Life Happens…

With our return to WI, and closer to being “back home”, we have attended a family reunion, K has started 4K at school, hubby started a new job, I have returned to work, a year earlier than planned, but  more financial issues reared their ugly head and it became a necessity for me to do so.  I have done some work on a few odds and ends projects. I have hemmed some pants.  I have made some more crochet hair clips for a friends daughter back in CA.

I have made some washcloths.

  I made some Halloween treat boxes for K’s new class.

A birthday card from K to her old teacher.

I made an owl hat for K and designed a skull mohawk hat for hubby.

And I am currently working on a sweater for K. It’s been ripped out about 5 times now, but it is slowly getting there, just taking longer now that I am back to work.

Been a Busy Month

Been a crazy month, with K’s birthday, K’s first dance recital, being not only a paper cutting test cutter but also a sewing pattern tester, and Christmas, it’s been non-stop go go go here.  I am unable to show off the test cuts or the sewing pattern testing I have done yet, but I will post them once I get the ok from both designers.
Here are some of the photos of crafts from K’s party. We had an Under The Sea theme.

Treat bags

Cupcakes

Party Hat

Fish Net

Made some Christmas Subway Art to hang up on my wall.

 

Christmas Cards I made for the family.

I decorated K’s door with streamers for her to run through in the morning when she woke up on her birthday.  She was all sorts of confused and called for us to get her out when she woke up.  I plan on running and getting some red and green streamers to do for Christmas morning too.


I really wish I could share my test cuts and pattern testing dress I made, the dress is a definite one that will have several made for her throughout the years.  I love it!!  But soon enough, she is still testing out size fittings for the other sizes, hopefully it will be fairly quickly.

Thanksgiving Crafts

Thanksgiving came and is now gone, and I finally have time to post some of my most recent crafts.  K’s last day of school for this session was the day before Thanksgiving, and she is now off till the 9th of Jan.  Before she was done, they had a Thanksgiving party.  I made some skittle sticks for the kids in her class with some turkey tags that I created, in retrospect, I should have made the beaks a bit bigger, but oh well, they still turned out super cute.

I also made her a new little “fall” skirt.  She loves the panels with the owls.

And next weekend is her b’day party, so I am trying to get things set up for that.  I decided to make her her own little party hat to wear.  I think I still want to make a “4” to attach to it, but for now this is it.

1st Birthday Greeting Card

K and I had a friends sons 1st birthday to go to today.  I made a little card to put with the gift. I did the inside with a self made rub on, however I have no photo of the inside.

Littlest Pet Shop Pony Card

I have girlfriend whose daughter is having a b-day party this weekend, and she loves LPS.  So K and I made her a birthday card with one of the little ponies found here .  K picked out which animal to use, which colors to use and then which embossing folders to use.  I cut it out, put the pieces in the folders and let her emboss them.  I then glued them on deco trimmed the edge with my paper cutter.  I think we did a good job.

K’s Thank You Cards

Again I used my Cricut and SCAL to make the Thank You cards to go along with K’s party.  I love that SCAL allowed me to cut out “Thank You” in the Rope font, I need to try to find a lasso to put in her hand yet, but I think they turned out pretty cute.

K’s B-day Party

K turned 3!!  We did a Toy Story – Jessie theme this year cause this girl is obsessed with Toy Story, all 3 of them.  I got creative and did all the décor myself, yet again missing a ton of photos…what is up with that? 

Banner made using my Cricut & Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL)

I even made her cake…my very first time working with fondant, while it is far from perfect, I think it turned out pretty good and K loved it, so I can’t say it was a failure at all.

More Cricut creations, 3D centerpieces, which I just so happen to forget at home, oops.  I also ended up making 20 of the aliens and filled them with candy for the kids to take home.  The eyes on Buzz did get finished, but for some reason they are not here.

I seemed to find one photo of set up for the drink/treat counter.  I made homemade punch from a recipe from a friend, her cake, and the most awesomeness of s’mores pops…DROOL!!

K’s 2nd Birthday Shirt

I used a friends embroidery machine to make a shirt for my daughters 2nd birthday shirt.  We had several issues and ended up ruining 3 shirts along the way and had to end up taking a onsie and cutting off the bottom and turn it into a shirt.  We cut the 2 out on her cricut.