Teacher Appreciation Week!!! Day 2/Tuesday

Pinterest, oh Pinterest how do I love thee?!?!?   This website has made my life so organized and has sparked that crafty side to me that has been asleep!!!  


Today is day 2 of Teacher Appreciation Week.  I loved this idea of the lemonade drink and tags "Thanks for "quenching" the thirst for knowledge".  They are all over Pinterest. We wanted kick it up a notch so we had straw cups personalized with our school's logo and in one of our school colors:  blue.  Our school colors are red, white and blue.

  


I used my Gypsy and Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge to create tags the right size to attach the Crystal Light lemonade packets.  I used my Expression E2 to cut them as well as the preloaded Cricut Essentials cartridge to make the other tags.  I had to use glitter paper so I used paper from my DCWV the dots, stripes & plaids stack.  I created the name tags and other tag with a fun font from my computer.  It was a long process to create, however I know they will love them and know that they are appreciated!!!


Make sure to turn your lemons into lemonade whenever possible!!


Have a crafty kinda day!
Cindy :)~

Berry Sweet!!!

So besides our P.A.L.S group spoiling our teachers the student council sent home notes for the kiddos to spoil their teachers.  Each day something new.  So today, Tuesday, is Fruit.  I didn't want to give her a plan old apple.  I wanted something special and different.  I saw another "sweet" idea on, yes you guessed it, Pinterest and ran with this theme of strawberries.  I used Cricut Cartridge Simply Charmed and made a strawberry and the saying.  I am totally in love with glitter paper these days and orange...I just can't get enough!!  

Tomorrow my son will give his 4th grade teacher a package of strawberries with this cute label on top.  Because I embossed the strawberry I am going to enter this craft into Sprinkle With Glitter's for her National Scrapbooking Day challenge.  National Scrapbooking Day was on Saturday, May 5th (my 40th bday...whohoo).  


Here's her challenge:  Your National Scrapbook Day Challenge from me is to create a project using embossing.  You can create ANY type of project and use ANY type of embossing.


I used my cuttlebug and swiss dots to give the strawberry a 3D look and it looks a little more realistic?!?

I know my son's teacher will love this and I hope you did too!

Have a Berry Sweet Day!!

Cindy :)~

Teacher Appreciation Week!!! Day 1/Monday

All week our P.A.L.S. (Parents Assisting Legacy School) group is going to spoil our teachers at school.  Today was just a little treat and note to get them excited for the week of treats/goodies.


I took this idea and craft-lifted it from Pinterest.  It was super easy, especially since I had to mass produce 40 of them.

WE THINK YOU'RE OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!  I used my Expression E2, Gypsy, "Boys Will Be Boys" Cricut Cartridge, popdots, ATG tapegun, The Glitter Stack DCWV paper and of course Milky Way candy bars.


Have a wonderful day!!
Cindy :)~

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY, CINCO DE MAYO AND MY 40th BIRTHDAY!!!

I can not believe how I have neglected my blog!!  Today is MY day...my 40th birthday.  What a better way than to do something for me.  I am doing 40 nice things for myself during the month of May & June.   I have started off my birthday with a wonderfully cooked breakfast by the hubby and boys!!  They spoil me sooooo!!!


I am hopping around from my favorite blog and person in the world My Pink Stamper. I am entering this birthday card into Quick Chick Designs "let's get moving".  This birthday card was made from my Expression E2 (I got last year for my birthday!!) and the preloaded Cricut Decals, I used old baseball stickers for the card and baseball ticket holder. I hope you like it!!


Have a festive Cinco de Mayo, Happy National Scrapbooking Day and Birthday to me!!!


Much love!!


Cindy :)~

Another Challenge:

I am a big fan of Kassidy over at Inking It Up Crazy. Click here to read her post on this super FUN challenge. I made a really cute scrapbooking page. I plan on using it for the MOMS Club Halloween party I attended with my two boys a.k.a Mario & Red Ninja

Here is what this weeks challenge is:
Make a project using: Black, Orange and Purple

I used some extra spiders from the goody bags (see previous post for the info on the spiders) I handed out, 2 pieces of 6x12 cricut paper (taped the sides to make a 12x12 page), stickers I found at Walmart, purple Studio G pigment ink and extra paper scraps for the picture boarders. I really like how this turned out

Have a spooky day!!!
Cindy :)~


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My Pinkalicious Blog Hop Challenge:

Challenge: Make a goodie bag or 3-D item that is for a Holiday. Any Holiday or Occasion will be perfect. If you want to join in on the fun...click here.

I have 3 goody bags to share with you!! All 3 bags have the same sort of candy but different looks.

First Bag: Have a SWEEEET Fall Break. These bags were made for my son's school for all the teachers and staff. I used Smiley Cards cartridge to make the candy corn card. I am totally INTO glitter paper and just can't get enough. I used pop dots to put up the note from our parent group for the teachers. We filled the bags with several kinds of candy corn.







Second Bag: Pumpkin Tears. These bags were handed out to all the students in my son's class. I tweeked a poem I found online to make it a little bit more appropiate for the kids. I used my spots & dots embossing folder for my cuddlebug and just cut the poems out in ovals using my Creative Memories cutting system. (I had to dust that thing off...all my creative memories stuff is so neglected these days). I used ink chalk to give the spots & dots more pop. I filled the bags with candy corn.



Third Bag: MOMS Club Halloween Bags. I used candy corn filled bags and made the cutest spiders for our annual MOMS Club Halloween party. I used googly eyes, glitter paper and scraps of paper I had on hand. I cut at 2.55 width x 1.84 height on my gypsy. I found this CUTE spider using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. The spider is found under accessories 2, 3rd row, first button. I hid the mouth and eyes so I could attach the googly eyes to each one. Each spider has a pop dot under them to raise them up a little. I think these might be my favorite goody bag I made so far.





I hope you enjoyed some of my goody bags...not it's time to go blog hop some more and get more ideas for more goody bags!!

Have a great, crafty, glittery day!
Cindy :)~

Happy 60th Birthday

Hey Blog Hoppers!!! Over at Kassidy's Inking It Up Blog it's World Cardmaking Day. Thanks for hoppin' on over to my little blog for some Glitter and Bling!!! Being in a household with all boys it's nice to be able to do some projects that are girly. Today I made a 60th birthday card for a mother of a dear high school friend. She reached out to almost everyone she knows to honor her mother with a HUGE surprise. She wanted everyone to mail her mother a birthday card so she got at least 60 cards before her big day. I thought it was such a sweet idea, I had to make her something.

Today I used my newest/favorite thing to work with Pearlescent Paper by Colorbok. I found this paper pack at Wal-Mart. I used the bright pack. I love this paper because it looks like glitter paper BUT I don't get glitter EVERYWHERE.

This is the paper palette I choose, the one color looks orange but it's yellow. I wanted my card to be bright and full of celebration.

RECIPE:

• Gypsy
• E2
• Pearlescent Paper by Colorbok (purple, pink, green & yellow)
• Stickles (yellow & stardust)
• Stampin' Up "happy birthday to you"
• Sticky Thumb dimensionals
• Cupcake Cricut Cartridge
• Celebrations Cricut Cartridge
• Brads
• Adhesive

After cutting my images, as seen on my Gypsy, I assembled my card. The card needed some extra pop, so I added some Stickles for some extra GLITTER and then 2 brads for some BLING.

In order for the cupcakes to stand out, I popped them up using Sticky Thumb Dimensionals.

I hope you enjoyed my card.

Have a Glittery, Blingy kinda day!!

Cindy :)~

P.S. If you get a chance please click here to read about my other PASSION and FIGHT!!!