Easter Card for My Nephews

2 of my nephews are being baptized Easter morning but unfortunately we cannot make it to their baptism because it is out of town and my husband is involved with our church's Easter drama.  I made this card to send to the boys to let them know how excited we are for them to be baptized!!  I used the cross from the Easter 2010 cartridge and the frame is from Twinkle Toes.  I blinged it up a bit with my irock cuz I thought it was a bit drab. 

Lego Rock Band Projects

I am part of the blog hop "A New Season A New Skill"  which starts over at craftingmisfit.  The challenge for us was to try a new skill or something we had never done before.  This is what I did -

Vinyl
 I have done a little bit of work with vinyl on the magnetic/dry erase boards I have been making but not much more than that.  Sunday was my youngest daughter's birthday party and I used vinyl to decorate some plastic water bottles I bought from Wal-Mart.   I made one of the little girl's especially happy because she has an unusual name and has never been able to buy a product with her name on it before:-)

Added the musical notes to fit the theme of the party!

Banner
I also decided to make a banner for my daughter's birthday party.  She had a "Lego Rock Band" party and this is the first time I had ever made a banner.  I used Twinkle Toes for the base of the banner and Mickey Font for the letters as well as Smiley Cards for the guitars.
 

Notice the googley (is that a word?) eyes!!

Shrinky Dinks

I also cut out shrinky dink material using my cricut.  I cut out the guitar from Smiley Cards but only used the shadow feature.  I found that setting my regular blade at 6 my pressure at high and multicut 2x worked great.

The kids colored them in with colored pencils.  

This shows how I laid the cuts out on the mat.

Baking in the oven.

The final product!!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my projects and have a wonderful week!!  You should now hop on over to Melissa.

Ballet Shoe Birthday Card and Upcoming Blog Hop

I made this birthday card quickly today for a birthday party my two older daughters were invited to.  The birthday girl is one of my dance students so I just HAD to make a dance related card and use my Twinkle Toes Cartridge!!  I chose the ballet shoes because my student loves ballet:-)  I was pleased with how the card came out because I didn't have a lot of time to make it but sad when I smudged some of the ink on the shoe while stamping the sentiment.  Oh well, this time it had to be "good enough". 

I am participating in my first ever blog hop on Monday, April 11th.  Check out the blinkie on my sidebar.  I have tried several "new" projects today using my cricut and I will be posting one or more of those for the blog hop.  Have a great day!!

Set of Notecards - Twinkle Toes

I am getting a jump start on some thank you cards for my daughters'  dance teachers.  The recital is not until the end of May but I am planning ahead because I know how busy April and May get.  I am one of their dance teachers but they have 3 others besides me who are awesome at what they do!!

Lovebirds

A card I made for my mother and father in law's anniversary:-)  51 years and counting!!

first post

I have had my blog for awhile now but have never posted anything on it yet.  I am hoping to change that today:-)  so, let's see if I can figure this "blogging" thing out!!  wish me luck!!