2012 Kindergarten year end goodie bag

BOO HOO, BOO HOO - PJ will be done Kindergarten on June 27.  My baby will be in grade 1...boo hoo.  Tomorrow they have their "Graduation" and I'm going to bring these little treat bags for them.  I totally scraplifted this idea from Nadia (With Glittering Eyes) because it was so cute - I've been waiting since she posted the idea LAST SPRING until now!  Please visit Nadia's version HERE.

Its pretty much exactly like Nadia's except that I made the little guy smaller and...I couldn't find "fun-size" chocolate bars!  I hunted and hunted for several weeks looking for them, but had to settle for these little mini chocolates.  I also had to hunt down liquid applique (used to make the marshmallows puffy)....I got the last tube in town!

At the last minute, I decided to hunt for background paper for the little guy to sit on...not sure why I left it until the very last minute...probably because I thought I'd just use a shadow on the wee guy and plop him directly onto the topper!  I'm so glad I didn't, I like the paper I found.  

One of the MANY reasons I got this Campin Critters cartridge was for this little porcupine...and I'm so glad Nadia came up with this idea so I could steal it!  

THANKS NADIA!







 

Cricut Circle May Magazine challenge - re do

Two posts ago, I uploaded some photos of dressing up little plastic cricut dolls - love it...but after looking at the other entries, I wanted to add a back-drop, so...here's my NEW entry to the challenge.

Ms. Pink is stylish in a brown dress supplied by Paper Doll Dress-up and accessorized by a Go Canada Leaf whilst roasting a marshmallow (from Campin Critters).  The marshmallow was covered in Liquid Applique.

Mr. Blue is looking dapper in his Mountie Hat and is being uncharacteristically patriotic by waving his country's Flag (both provided by Go Canada).  I wish I had pop-dotted the hat - but it was starting to rain, so I took the photos and ran inside.

Ms. Purple is showing off her fantastic pink glasses (from paisley) and is being very coordinated by roasting marshmallows (from camping critters) whilst drinking a beer (from Go Canada).

All of the small (non background) items on these cute cricuts (nd the beaver & goose) were done on white paper - I colored them all with Copics markers.  I believe the size of everything was 2" - the dress was a bit long, so I had to alter it a wee bit and I think that maybe the hat, might have been 1.5.  The background was modified from Campin Critters (about size 7), the trees were from camping critters (about size 5).  The beaver and goose were from Go Canada and the fire is from Old West.

What a HOOT that was to do!

Cricut Circle May Magazine Challenge

This was such a FUN challenge!  I almost forgot to do something until someone posted on the circle message board that all the entries were SO CUTE...and when I went to look at them...they WERE cute!  Thankfully, its a random draw for the winner (who'd will $150 to spend at cricut.com!) because mine is pretty pathetic compared to all of the rest of them - WOW - they all have elaborate backgrounds...I'm not that coordinated or talented.

I did mine this afternoon - I should have been working on treat bags for PJ's end of Kindergarten party...but I did this instead!

Ms. Pink is stylish in a brown dress supplied by Paper Doll Dress-up and accessorized by a Go Canada Leaf whilst roasting a marshmallow (from Campin Critters).  The marshmallow was covered in Liquid Applique.

Mr. Blue is looking dapper in his Mountie Hat and is being uncharacteristically patriotic by waving his country's Flag (both provided by Go Canada).  I wish I had pop-dotted the hat - but it was starting to rain, so I took the photos and ran inside.

All of the items on these two cute cricuts were done on white paper - I colored them all with Copics markers.  I believe the size of everything was 2" - the dress was a bit long, so I had to alter it a wee bit and I think that maybe the hat, might have been 1.5.

What a HOOT that was to do!

OK, so I CHANGED this a bit - please see updated post HERE.
 

Scrapbook Layout - 2009 Great Outdoors

I thought I better put in a project - the organizing is getting a little boring.  Here's a layout I did in November.

This is PJ playing out in the backyard in 2009.  He ended up thinking that the shed was the best toy ever!  HA HA, silly boy.

I used Elegant Edges for the postage stamp looking background. Pretty much everything else was from Campin Critters, except for the lawn mower, which I believe was from Pop-up Neighbourhood.  I used glossy accents on the mower (even though you can't see it in the photo).  I also inked (with copics) all the edges on the trees as well as used Swiss Dot embossing folder on the green trees.  Pop-dots were used on some of the trees and on the mower.

Thanks for looking

1st mini book

So, awhile back, there was a sale on the Cinch, and I buckled and bought one.  I managed to make my 1st book and its for my god daughter.  Here's the finished product (although, I may add some flowers to the front).  Now its just waiting for her to plop in some photos and words..

Font is Mickey

Moose from Campin Critters, word box from Elegant Edges

Title - Quarter Note; heart - CTMH Art Philosophy

font = Storybook; family = gypsy wanderings; heart = lacy labels

"School is"=Batman font; "cool" = Boys will be Boys

Title = elegant cakes; cake = Doodlecharms

Title = Beyond Birthdays

Title = Storybook; Butterfly = MS elegant Cake; Dragonfly = Paisley

Title - Christmas(Noel); Elf = Jolly Holidays

Title = gypsy font; moose = Campin Critters

The book base is from Elegant Edges.  These are a pain - trying to get the cut paper to line-up with the book base is a PAIN!  Other than designing it, that was the most time consuming part of the project.

Scrapbook layout - 2009 Playground Fun

I managed to get a scrapbook page done this weekend.  This is PJ on a new playground not too far from us, back on July 1, 2009.  I wanted to make the little badges from Campin Critters and this layout was the one that got that treatment.  I also did it all in blues (well, and white) - which was great fun...mainly because I can't get enough blue and I think it turned out cute. You can't tell in the photos, but the items on the badges are all popped-up.

Title is from Old West, badges are from Campin Critters.

Scrapbook Layout - 2009 Fort Edmonton

Here's a layout of PJ's 1st trip to Fort Edmonton Park.  It started out kind of chilly, but turned into a nice day.

I was very pleased when I purchased a paper stack that included this dark-wood grain paper - it was perfect for these photos.  I was also dying to try my newest cartridge - Campin' Critters - the little guy was so easy to assemble - too bad I don't camp because that is a fantastic cartridge!

The title was made using Pooh Font (I think).

School house - end of year card

I finally finished my 8 pop-up cards with a school house inside (yes 8 - there are 8 teachers/aides/therapists in PJ's class).  I think they turned out pretty good (considering I'm the one making them).

Here are some photos of some of the pieces after they were cut (I used the gypsy to squish as many as I could into the smallest piece of paper.

Here's the front of the card - I did some inking around the white piece and the apple:

And the pop-up part:

I added the tree and grass myself.  It took awhile to figure out how to get the tree to pop-up...and as long as it does it the 1st time they open the card, that's good enough for me.  I wanted some dimension, so I put the tree slightly ahead of the building...which made it hard to do the grass...so its only adhered with glue on the tree trunk.

Cartridges used are Pop-Up Neighborhood (schoolhouse), Doodlecharms (apple), Campin Critters (tree), Plantin Schoolbook (grass).  I used glossy accents for the windows and the stamp is from Stampin' Up.

Here's the link to my original test-concept - school pop-up trial