Flower Shoppe Day!

Happy New Year!  Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe entrance into the New Year!  We spent time with friends and had a great evening!

This is my first post of 2012!  I am sharing a small creation with you for Flower Shoppe Thursday from Erica's Cricut Craft Room.  I made a scrapbook for a friend and used LOTS of cartridges in the process but I'll show you only a few at a time!  I gotta keep ya coming back right!?  LOL!

First up is just a basic flower with four layers overlapping and a crystal accent in the center.  I ran all the layers through the Cuttlebug for some texture.  See how my flower mirrors the pattern on the paper?  Pretty clever huh?!

Next up is some more basic, flat flowers and leaves.  For the stems, I cut thin strips of green paper.  Each part of the flower is outlined in Stickles while the center is covered in clear Stickles. 

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Lisa

Would You Believe it Wednesday?!

It's Wednesday and you know what that means, it's Would You Believe It Wednesday?! at Erica's Craft Room!  We only use the features keys to create a project.

Today I'm sharing two nursery room pictures.  I used Animal Kingdom, the "head" button as well as the "sound" button.  You just gotta love a pink pig and a purple lamb!  I also used my Cuttlebug to give the lambs tuft of fluff some pizazz as well as the pigs snout a little something extra!  Googly eyes and ink accents along the edges complete the look!

 

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Card Creating Sundays!

This is my first time posting something for Sundays!
I made just one card this week.
I used Freshly Picked as well as the i-rock gem setter by imaginisce.  You can see that there's alot of layering on this card.  This does take some time, but I think the result s are well worth the effort!

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Card Creating Tuesday!

Don't ya love a handmade card?  There's just something about someone taking the time to make a special little something just for you!  I love to make them probably more than getting them!  Except the ones my kids make they are always my favorite!

Here's are two cards I made to share with you this Tuesday.  First one is a Thank You card for a wonderful friend who is just that, WONDERFUL!

I used Cindy Loo for both the tree and the words.  Cindy Loo is such a great cartridge!  Lots of fun things are on it!  I've been breaking out my Cuttlebug lately.  I seem to forget what a versatile tool it really is.  Embossing makes such a statement!

Next, is a card I made for my Mom's birthday which was yesterday.

I used Sweet Treats for this one.

The center of the flower is a button from my stash and again I embossed with my Cuttlebug!

Sneaking one more in here!

This was a card I made for a friend who made me a yummy chicken pot pie!

I used Doodlecharms for the pie and Cuttin' Up! for the Thanks!

The stamps were from Stampin' Up Just Chicken In

Hope you enjoyed today's cards! 

Thanks so much again for stopping by!

I'm posting some new stuff tomorrow as well!

This time School Decor for

Would You Believe It Wednesday?!

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Lisa

Another Would You Believe It Wednesday?!

I know most of my fellow design team members love Card Creating Tuesday, and so do I, but Wednesday is a challenge! This week, I am again sharing some of the creations I made at my daughters' school. As you can imagine, with the economy in the toilet, school districts have cut budgets beyond recognition. All the little "extras" are gone. Teachers sometimes spends $1000's of their own money to make sure kids have a stimulating, enticing learning environment. I wanted to do my part! Here's just a few things I've made. More to follow in the coming weeks!

First up is the Van Sciver for Vision Eyeglass Donation box!  Everyday Paper Dolls provided the eyeglasses, Don Juan the words!  The scalloped border was from Plantin Schoolbook.  Yes, I made the nose!  Just folded up some paper, and voila a schnoz-o-la!

Our school has an after school program and they asked me to make them a sign to show off their art work!  Printing Press is such a fun font!  It does kinda remind me of a ransom note, but I still like it! 

Lunch Rules!  Okay, sometimes we all need to follow the rules!  This sign is over 7 feet tall!  Plantin Schoolbook and Locker Talk, PERFECT for schools! 

These next two pictures are our Writer's Wall.  The quote "Today is a great day to learn something new" is in vinyl and is permanently on the wall.  Each month a new class displays their latest work!  This was from our Resource Class who learned all about the Iditarod.  An actual dog from the race came to visit the kids!  It was amazing!  To help create this wall I used, 50 States, Everyday Paper Dolls, Zooballoo for the mountains, Graphically Speaking for Fearless, & My Community for the dogs. 

We also follow the Character Counts Program.  There are 6 pillars of Character that the children strive to live by and each month 4-6 kids from each grade are recognized and their picture goes up on the bulletin board. 

Last but not least, is the Glass Case Projects,  Here we display writing and artwork to share.  It changes each month and on this month it was the book Where the Wild Things Are!  Home Decor for the crown! 

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Lisa

Would you believe it Wednesday?

Well after LOTS of rain and flooding, my craft room is somewhat back to normal!  We are still having water seep in, because it has literally rained EVERY STINKIN' DAY for weeks since Hurricane Irene.  With the ground so saturated the only place for the water to go in in my craft room!  UGH!  I am optimistic that it'll all be over soon! 

Here's my creation for Erica's Cricut Craft Room's Can you believe it Wednesdays?!  What that means is I can use ANY Cricut cartridge, but I can only use the feature keys, not the main image keys (so if you open up a cartridge handbook, the big picture on the left is the main image, off to the right are all the extra , wickedly cool, fun things that we sometimes forget about!)

I used Car Decals for my creation this week!  LOVE LOVE LOVE this cartridge!  So much fun stuff!  The "I "heart" Cats" is from the phrases keys, while the cat on the left is actually 3 layers cut from, the Athlete, & Sports keys.  My cat's name was Casey and that was cut out from Cuttin' Up! 

Casey was an amazing companion and we miss her very much!  She passed away in October 2009 and we all still have a special place in our hearts for her!