Under the Big Top

Last night was the 8th grade graduation dance at the school I work at.  The theme was "Under the Big Top!" How fun and what a perfect chance to use my Carousel Cartridge.

I love the font on this cart and it looks so great up on the wall at school. I  cut them all at 4 inches so they would really show up. After getting the layers together I added some Silver Stickles to the diamond pattern in each letter.

I decided to add the large tent and 2 tickets from the same cart to the main hallway wall as well. It was a great place for photos and I will display some highlight photos form the night on the wall Monday.

We also buy frames for each student for the dance and take their photos as they enter. The theme of the dance is on the frame so I just did a simple row of tickets for this area and we found these great red and white polka dot balloons to add to them space. Didn't the students look amazing?  It was a great night.

Now I am off to work on the 8th grade slideshow.  This project takes me most of the year with the the photos and putting it together but in the end it is an hour of wonderful memories form the school year and hold over 1000 photos!!

Snail Mail

Who doesn't love getting a hand made card? As a paper crafter I have become so happy making cards and sending the to people.  It almost makes me laugh that I did not consider myself a card maker for the longest time. This is a card I made to send a new friend.

I started with the images cut off the Sentimentals cartridge and this great paper from the Old Wold stack by DCWV. I made a simple base with a scallop cut square and layered my snail on top.  I add a few pearls to my corners.

I kept the inside very plain with a few simple layers and lots of room for a message to my pen pal. I hope everyone is having a great week.

LOVE

Hello everyone.  Welcome to a new Tuesday and a new Die Cuttin' Divas challenge.  This week our theme is

RAINBOW COLORS!

I decided to to play a little with my Fiskars edger and make a paper rainbow. I gathered my colors and tore a strip of each before adhering them together and using some brads to put my rainbow on my card. I made another one for the inside of the card as well.

After I got the base of the card ready I selected the word "LOVE" as my message.  I found this cut on Lacy Labels and felt it fit the card well.

On the inside I just placed a simple heart for the rest of my message.  I  hope you can find time this week to play along with Die Cuttin Divas. I know at the end of the school year time is very limited, but that just means soon i will have a whole summer for playing in my craft space!!

It's a Good Day!

We all have those days when things do not go the way we want them to.  On days when things are not so great for me I tend to make cards with a happier theme.  I made this card back when I was really wishing we had some sun shine Now that it is here I am finally remembering to share it.

I started with some paper I had just bought from the DCWV Kidlet stack. I selected this fun layered sun off the Create a Critter cartridge and embossed it with some small hearts. 

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I added the heart to the center and a simple ribbon. On the inside I repeated the paper and small heart and added a great sentiment stamp form the February Stamp of the Month set form Pink By Design.

I forgot to take the photo of the whole inside before I put my note in. Anyways just a simple card to share with my bloggie fiends on a Monday morning.  Often people need a little pick me up at the start of the week. Hope you start your week off just right.

Happy Mother's Day

I just wanted to take a moment this morning and wish all the women who act as some type of Mom to someone who needs love a 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Partyasaurus Gift Bag!

What is a Partyasaurus? Well that is a dinosaur who loves a good party of course! For a kid who love all things dinosaur nothing makes more sense than a gift bag featuring this rare breed.

I started by letting my daughter pick out the dinosaur of her choice for her friend, the birthday boy! She selected one from Create A Critter and I enlarged him to fit our huge bag. We made him a fun blue to stick out on the green bag and gave him a glitter tummy and stripped tail. Next, came his fun little hat which I cut using 3 Birds on Parade. I stuck on our great dino using some pop-up dots to make him stand out a little form the green bag (plus  these stick really well to the shiny bags.

All that was left was the letters, which were cut from the Dinosaur Tracks cartridge. They looked great and we got a huge smile form the birthday boy himself when he first saw the bag.

*All the paper was from the DCWV Citrus stacks (patterns and colored card stocks)

With Sympathy Card

I find sympathy cards among the hardest to create for someone. Recently I had to create one for a friend who lost her mother.

I wanted to use soft colors and patterns, but also knew how much my friend enjoyed flowers. I started with an embossed backing and layered the strips of paper over that before adding a ribbon and "With Sympathy" cut off the Wild Card cartridge.

On the inside I added another embossed layer and an additional strip of the flowered paper before selecting this sweet stamp form Pink By Design's Life's A Garden set. I sent flowers for her to plant in her mother's memory with the card.