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!

Giveaway Over at Creating from the Heart

A very talented Melissa over at Creating from the Heart is doing her annual end of the year giveaway.   For you paper crafters this is definitely one you will not want to miss entering, but for any crafter, why would you pass up on the chance to just get that wonderful Michael’s gift card?  The drawing will remain open until Jan. 1st, 2012.

Here is all that she is giving away. 

~ A $150.00 Gift Card to Michael's Craft Stores

~ 1 Copic Air-Brushing Starter Set System

~ 1 Copic Color Swatch Book

~ 36 Copic CIAO Marker Set!

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.

Halloween Pumpkin

We finally got around to carving our pumpkin this evening.  Because K is obsessed with “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and with Jack Skellington in general, we decided to do a Jack carving on our pumpkin this year.  As I was cleaning up the cuts and widening others, one of the mouth “stitches” was cut too long and when I went to cut the chin area, the mouth dropped so I had to stick a toothpick in there to hold it together.  Other than that, I am quite pleased with the way it turned out.