Thank You Notes

I made these super simple thank you notecards for my youngest daughter to use to thank all of her wonderful friends for her birthday presents.  They are just a "card front".  I used a stamp from Scrappy Moms.

Cute Gift Card Holder

Between my 3 girls and their friends and our family we have lots of birthdays in April.  Last weekend there were 4 birthday parties on the schedule (one was the now famous Lego Rock Band Party at our house:-).  This weekend it is one party.  There are a few more on the agenda after this one too so I made this gift bag to house a gift card for one of the upcoming parties.  I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and cut it fit to page.

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.

Lego Rock Band Party A Hit!!

whew!!  we made it through the party and everyone had fun:-)  Here are a couple of pics of the cupcakes we had.  I decorated them with Lego candy.  I will be posting some of the projects I made for the party tomorrow for the blog hop I am participating in so check back in!!

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!!

It's April Fools Day!!

and that means it is also my youngest daughter's birthday!!  YEAH!!  She turns 9 years old today.  This is the card I made for her.   Not one of my best but I think she will like it.  She is not really into the color pink but she loves strawberry ice cream.  I used Martha Stewart fine glitter on the top scoop.  I think I will enter this into the challenge over at card creations & more by c.

It's April Fool's Day and. . .

that means it is my youngest daughter's 9th birthday!!  YEAH!!  She is not really fond of the color pink but she loves strawberry ice cream so I went with the pink because of that:-)  I also used some Martha Stewart fine glitter on top of the paper to give it some pizzazz!  I think I will enter this card in the challenge over at cardcreationsbyc.blogspot.com.  Hope you had a great April Fool's Day - we did!! This morning as we were driving to school we were chased down by a mountain of bubbles!!  Somebody put soap in our neighbor's pond and the bubbles were EVERYWHERE!!  A pile of the bubbles was several feet high and was gliding towards our car like a ghost.  It was hilarious!!