Christmas Wall Hangings

I made these wall hangings using the cute christmas font on Winter Woodland and my cricut. I cut the letters with chipboard and the deep cut blade. And attached them with ribbon, I'm sure there is probably a better way to do it, but this is what I had on hand.                                        

 So super easy to make and very inepensive.(gotta love free and homemade). And they look great hanging on my wall!

Teacher Christmas Gifts

Christmas is right around the corner. It has really snuck up on us this year. I have been so busy making Christmas gifts and other things that I haven't posted much. But here are the teacher gifts I made for my kids' teachers. The Christmas tree box is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.

 The little sentiment that I attached. Inside the box is full of little chocolates.

ChRiStMaS PaCkAgInG

Christmas is in the air and I'm trying to prepare. I already feel like I'm way behind. I'm working on packaging and tags for gifts. Here is the first box. It's made out of 12x12 cardstock and the bow is cardstock as well. I learned how to make this cute bow and box HERE.  

I used Winter Woodland for the trees and snowflakes.

ThAnKsGiVinG CaNdLe HoLdErS & CaNdY HoLdErS

Man, my table is looking so bare! I don't really have any Thanksgiving decorations except for these awesome placemats that my mother in law made me...

                                                                Awwwwww! That's better!!

 I made the little pilgirms and Indians from Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, but had no idea what to do with them. SO....my sister said I should made candle holders with it, so that's what I did. (Thanks Janelle) and then I made some little treat boxes too, to hold all that leftover Halloween candy!

Halloween Bouquet

I can't wait to display this one in my house. It was surprisingly easy to make. The Frankenstein planter is actually a project we made in Relief Society last night and I thought this would be a fun way to "jazz it up". It's just a terrocata planter painted green and painted a fun face on it.

 All the cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up. They are hot glued to wooden dowels that I painted black with glitter on it for some BLING.  Tie some festive ribbon on it and voila!

 This was so fun and easy I think it would be super cute to re invent it for Thanksgiving or Christmas even.

I can't take total credit for this idea, the general idea came from a project posted on the cricut messageboard, however I have been unable to get the website for a link. So whoever came up with this, thanks!

Ambria's Halloween Project

My two year old created this. I think she did a great job, but I might be a little biased. I had some extra cut outs that I wasn't gonna be using so I let her glue them on this paper and make her own Halloween project. She loved it.

Halloween Plaques

Why buy expensive Halloween decorations when you can make them yourself? This was a really fun project and super easy. I painted some wooden blocks and used mod podge to adhere the paper to the wood, then mod podged over the paper to give it a glossy finished look.

Solar System

    

                                                        This is from a few weeks ago, Braydon had a science project to do. He had to make a solar system. And here's the kicker, he only gave us one evenings notice. So this is what we came up with. Our homemade solar system is a cardboard box painted black inside and the planets are 2 cardboard circles that fit together to make it dimensional. And they are just colored and hanging from yarn and paper clips (the only yarn we had was white so we actually painted the yarn black to blend in). We cut a bunch of little stars from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and the astronaut, spaceship, alien, and UFO are all from Everyday Paper Dolls. It's days like these, we are SO glad to have had the cricut! Oh and the sun is just one of those squishy toy balls. Haha.

Fathers Day Card

More Cards

'Hat's off to you' was made for my brothers birthday. I used All mixed up and plantin schoolbook for the 'Hats off to you phrase" and welded it together with the gypsy. The argyle background is from Wild Card, and the cowboy hat is from everyday paper dolls.

'You make me melt', and 'Love you a latte' are both just from Just Because Cards. I have been making a lot of cards lately. I really like cards. I'm not much of a scrapbooker so I don't really know how to do layouts, nor do I have the patience for it.

Bee Happy Card

This is made from Just Because Cards (my very fav cartridge so far!)

Word Book-Mothers Day

This was a Mothers Day gift for my Mother this year. It was designed on the Gypsy and cut out using chipboard and the deep cut blade for cricut.

Mothers Day Word Book

This was a gift for my mother in law for mother's day. It was designed using the Gypsy. The front and back covers are chipboard covered with cardstock, the other pages are just cardstock. A little tip, when cutting chipboard it's best to use a clean, new sticky mat. I learned this lesson the hard way. The chipboard kept shifting around on the mat and didn't cut right.

A Little Bird Told Me Card

I made this for my brother and sister in law, who just found out they are expecting!! Yay for them! This is also made with Just Because Cards cartridge. I SO love this cart!

Just Peachy Card

Another Mothers Day card I made usinf Just Because Cards cricut cartridge.

You Take The Cake Card

A card I made for Mothers Day. Call mark on the back was just a silly thing I added to be funny. It was created using the gypsy. You take the cake card was made using Just Because Cards cricut cartridge.

Lady Bug Cake

This was for my 2 year olds birthday this year. My awesome sister in law, Marqae and I made this. It was the first for us both. So fun!

The cupcakes were decorated as lady bugs as well. A very easy addition, but adds so much.

Bakugan Cake

A Bakugan birthday cake I made. This is my first attempt at making a fondant cake by myself. I have to say, I really enjoy making these cakes! It really relaxes me. I'm not great at it yet by all means, but I am proud of my work! And I LOve, love love that I can do it myself and not buy it from the store.

Bakugan Birthday

My son turned 9 this year and wanted a Bakugan birthday party, so I just HAD to ablige! I didn't really like the decorations I saw at the store. Plus, chilling memories of last years party decorations for his "army" party came back to haunt me as I thought of how much this was gonna cost. So I decided I would 'make my own'! It was a little time consuming, but really not too bad at all! And the best part-I was able to use things I already had at home, besides a few sheets of blue, black, red, and yellow paper to cut the decorations from. So, total cost-about 3-5 bucks!
The invitaions are cut with the expression and I used Wild Card for the card, envelope, and words. (this is what took the longest) "Happy Birthday Braydon is from All Mixed Up. I just strung yarn through the holes on the tags and the letters hung from the yarn.

The gift bags are from Plantin Schoolbook. And I bought some Bakugan stickers. I think those only cost about 2-3 dollars.

Braydon loved his party and was so excited about it, and I felt good because I made it all and the grand total for his birthday (including the Bakugan cake supplies) was about $30. I would definitly do this again!

ChOrE ChArT

A chore chart I made. This is my first try at one, I might do it a little different the next time around, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The little squares are removeable so I can change them around on different days, ect. but I think as my daughter gets older I will change out the colors of the squares that you stick on to make blue for my son and maybe pink for my daughter.

Simple Birthday Goodies

This is just a cute way to display cupcakes. I didn't coin this idea, but it really made it look more fun and festive. Just simply tie a pretty ribbon around a nicely arranged plate of goodies. Here is a simple card and envelope I made for the same birthday party. I used the cricut expression and the Wild Card cartridge.