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.

Valentine’s Day

This year, with it being K’s first year of school for Valentines Day, I had to put my hand forward and make her “cards” for her. I had to make a total of 40 of them, 27 for her class, and 13 for a party we have to go to after class that day. I used my cricut to cut a file found on SVGCuts.com named Sweet Treat Bags.  I need to add some more embellishments to them, just need to find something in my many stashes as to what I want to use. I bought some 3x4 bags and a stack of K&C Valentine paper over at Michael’s.  I filled the bags with some sweethearts and some valentine M&M’s.

 

I also printed up some Subway art for the walls that I found over on Pinterest, I am addicted to this site!

Valentine Cards

K has dance on Monday’s and it just so happens that V day falls on a Monday this year, so we made some cards with suckers for the other little girls in her class and her teacher.  We had fun with these.  I used SCAL for the card shape and the slits for her to insert the suckers into.  I used my Create A Critter cartridge for the little bee and a rubber stamp for the “B mine” and some heart ribbon I got in the $1 bins over at Michaels earlier in the day.