Back to School Blog Hop

Hello Everyone and welcome to the Back to School Blog Hop Hosted by the talented Jovan at Cards by Jovan!  If you arrived here from Girlia's blog then you are heading in the right direction.  She is so creative, isn't she?  If you just stopped by to see me today (thanks) then you'll want to go back to Jovan's blog to start at the begining, you won't want to miss a stop!  There are so many talented blogs in this hop, blog candy to be won and there's also a fun challenge at the end too!  I hope you'll join us!
 I am so excited for Back to School time!  As much as I love the fun summer brings, I also love the structured schedule of the school year (yes, it is part of my OCD, I need my schedules) and I LOVE fall!  This year is very special because my Oldest E is heading to Kindergarten.  As much as I'll miss her, I know she is going to LOVE Kindergarten and I know she'll thrive there!   I am also a preschool teacher, so I can't wait to meet the new students and to see the kiddos who are returning!  Such an exciting time and who doesn't love NEW SCHOOL SUPPLIES!  There is nothing like fresh crayons and un-sharpened pencils....hmmmm!!! 


For my Back to School Project, I decided to make a gift for my girls to give to their Auntie K for her classroom (she is not really their aunt but that is what they call her). 

I had seen these at a local craft show a few years ago and thought they were soooo cute!  I made a few of them last year for Christmas gifts and they were all well received!    They are such a cute addition to any classroom and very easy/inexpensive to make! 

I've seen the crayon wreaths in many sizes and colors but here is how I made mine.  I started out with a 6" and 8" hoop.  I've made them bigger before but I like this size the best!  You get two wreaths out of these hoops! 

I used two boxes of 24ct crayons on this size wreath (minus the neutral colors).  I started out by lying the crayons in a pattern where I wanted them.  Then I hot glued them to the hoops.

After adhering all the crayons, I tied ribbon around to hide the hoops.  At Christmas time I think I used red ribbon.  I really like the green better, but then green is my favorite color too!   

Once the wreath is wrapped I added a hanger ribbon, a large bow and some fun decorations!

I cut a chalkboard, personalized it, added a little bookworm with a Peachy face (I'm sorry, I know I use this little worm way too much, but I can't help it...he's too cute) and a rolled piece of white for the chalk.

A little school bus from Doodlecharms with a "hello" stamp from My Craft Spot.

The glue is from Simply Charmed and the scissors are from Locker Talk.  I hope you like my crayon wreath!  They are very easy to make and can be decorated to fit anyones classroom style!  You could always make it with pencils to be more fitting for a Middle/High School Teacher too!

So, who wants some blog candy?  I have an assortment pack of 8.5 x 11" Stampin' Up! cardstock that I think includes the colors Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Early Expresso, and Daffadil Delight.  I was going to include the bottle of Stickles too, but my little darlings got a hold of it today (that was a fun mess, sorry for the teaser picture).  I'm sure I'll find something else to throw in there by time I pull a winner!

BLOG CANDY RULES

1. You must leave a comment telling me what Back to School means to you.

2. You do not need to be a follower, but I would love if you were!

3. Because I love my friends (aka followers), followers may have an extra entry by adding a second comment letting me know that you are a follower (old and new)!

4. You must stop back on Monday Aug 15 to see if you won!

I have taken enough of your time today.  Thank you Jovan for hosting this fun hop today!  There are so many more wonderful Back to School projects to see, so have fun and thanks for hopping by today!  Your next stop is my talented friend

Jayne at JayneDesigns!

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost along the way!

Jovan  

Cindy   

Amy  

Girlia   

Amber   You are here

Jayne   NEXT STOP

Adrain   

Sherrie K   

Amanda   

Melissa  

Theresa   

Amber  

Carri  

Jovan   to participate in the Back to School challenge!!

Products Used:

• 2 pks of Crayola Crayons 24ct box
• 6" cross stitch hoop
• 8" cross stitch hoop
• Ribbon from Michael's
• Stampin' Up! Cardstock
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments Set #1
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces
• Crystal Effects
• Stampin' Write Markers

Challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #25 Back to School

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #72 Let's Get Buggy

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great weekend!

Celebrate the Occasion #18- Birthday

It's Tuesday and another fun challenge at Celebrate the Occasion!  This week we are celebrating Birthday's and most of you know, I love Birthday projects!  The challenge is to make a birthday project but it must have a Party Hat!  I have had several request for my Party Hat card so I thought I would show it off in a different color scheme!

I have more details HERE on how to make this fun card!  The Crinkle Ribbon was so much nicer to work with for the bottom ruffle than the ribbon used on the last card.  It is from My Craft Spot and you can check out all the fabulous colors for sale by heading to My Craft Spot!

 I do like the old color combo better but my daughter is in love with this one (can you guess what her favorite color is)!

 Product Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Ink, Dimensionals, and Punches
• Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Licious Paper Line
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge (Party Hat)
• B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge (Background)
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments #1 Set "Happy Birthday" Stamp
• My Craft Spot Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Michael's Ribbon

I hope you'll join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for your chance to win the monthly prize!  Thanks for stopping by!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday Guest Designer

Hello everyone!  Welcome to my Guest Designer Project for this week's Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  I am so excited to be joining the amazing FCCB Design Team today!  The challenge for this week's Challenge #62 is Remember This!  Make something to remember a special person, time or anniversary.  The second I saw this challenge, my mind immediately went to my Oldest E's Preschool Graduation!  I wanted to make her something special to give to her (besides her scrapbook) to remember her early school days!  Here is what I came up with!

I made a Memory Box to hold a picture book for each school year (Preschool - Fifth Grade)! 

I found this box in my Yard Sale junk box!  It had some cards in it which I can still sell but the sturdy box was exactly what I was looking for!

I used Mod-Podge to cover the lid of the box with this fun School Days Paper!

I added little school themed Cricut cuts to all four sides of the box!

I used one of my favorite embellishments, Bakers Twine from My Craft Spot!

All of the Cricut cuts are outlined and popped up...

and I even managed to get my favorite little bookworm on here!  I like to add Crystal Effects to his glasses to make them look more realistic!

Here are the cuts on the ends of the box.

The little school bus with the stamp across the bus was inspired by my very talented friend Kate (I told you I  was going to be borrowing the idea too...hehe)!   Her little bus is much cuter with little kiddos and everything but I really loved the stamped idea!  Thanks Kate!

I used vinyl on the top of the box so that I don't have to worry about the top being torn up when getting store!  i'm sure eventually there will be stuff stacked on top!

I am so proud of myself for even getting all the little books prepared!  There is one for each school year Preschool through 5th grade (that is all the further the paper pad went up too).  Each book has 6 blank pages to add pictures/comments (front and back) so I figured I can get about 12 events in each book!  Her Preschool book is already mostly done (except for a few pics that need printed)!  Most of the pictures include classmates so I can't show you the inside of the book without having to blur out most of it but you get the idea!

Products Used:

• Me & My Big Idea School Days Paper Pad
• Stampin' Up! Cardstock and Crystal Effects
• Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge
• Plantin School Book Cricut Cartridge
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Bakers Twine
• Peachy Keen Critter Face Stamp Set
• Pink By Design Simply Everything Stamp Set
• Expressions Vinyl

Other Challenges:

The Paper Variety #35 School Week

Stop by Fantabulous Cricut this week to see all the wonderful inspiration from the Design Team and please join us for Challenge Me Monday !   I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with for their "Remember This" project!  Thank you so much FCCB for having me as your Guest Designer this week and thank you everyone for your support!

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #14 - Anniversary

Hello Everyone!  It's Design Team 2 Day at Celebrate the Occasion!  Last week we focused on Wedding projects and now we are challenging you to make Anniversary projects!  It just so happens that my hubby and I are celebrating our 6th Anniversary this weekend so I thought I would make him a cute little card!

For the longest time I couldn't figure out what was missing then I realized the turtles looked too much alike so I added a little bow to the girl turtle made from My Craft Spot Crinkle Ribbon! 

I made the blue pattern paper using a mini bacground heart stamp (I thought it would go perfect with the stamp) then I popped everthing up!

The stamps come from My Craft Spot Inside & Out Set #1 and they relayed the perfect message to my wonderful husband!

He is a wonderful husband and the best father to our three beautiful little girls!  Happy Anniversary B!

Products Used:

• American Crafts Cardstock
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Inside & Out Set #1 Stamps
• My Craft Spot Pink Bumblegum Crinkle Ribbon
• Stampin' Up! Sprinkles Stamp Set
• SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces
• Stickles

I hope you'll join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for your chance to win the monthly prize Spring Holiday Cards Cricut Cartridge!  Thanks for stopping by!

Teacher's Apple Box Set

Since the end of the school year is upon us, I wanted to make another teacher gift!

Doodlecharms has one of the cutest apples! 

 I decided to make another box set of cards like my last teacher appreciation project!

The box apple is cut at 6" and the card apples are cut at 3".  I used my Gypsy to weld them into cards. 

I added the little tag with Bakers Twine from My Craft Spot and stamped it with a My Creative Time stamp.  The tag was missing something so I sponged it blue (which actually worked out great because now the project fulfilled a Throwback Thurs requirement)!

The little apple shaped cards are stamped with "...just a little note" but it does not show up well in the pictures. 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid Cardstock, Stamp, Bermuda Bay Ink
• Bo Bunny Double Dot Paper
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• My Creative Time I Believe in Leprechauns Stamp Set
• My Craft Spot Black Licorice Bakers Twine
• Stickles

Challenges:

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #59 Teacher Feature

My Creative Time Throwback Thursday Doodlecharms must use blue somewhere

More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday #38 Anything Goes

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #6 Take Shape
 ***I'M ALSO ADDING THIS TO YOU HAD ME AT CRAFT'S FIRST OFFICIAL MADE IT MYSELF MONDAYS!!  WHAT A FUN WAY TO SEE NEW CREATIONS!***

I hope this inspires you to thank a teacher this year!  Thanks for stopping by! 

This project was a Top 5 pick at FCCB!!



Easter Card Orders

Springtime means Easter time!  For me that also means lots of orders for cards and Easter gifts.  Right now I have several orders coming in for Easter goodies, one of which is for 200 Bunnies!  YAY!!!  I know it would be so much easier for me if I just made a bunch of the same card in bulk, but I just can't do it !  Well, I can do it and I will for the order of 200.  I am pretty good at making things in bulk, but only if that is what the order calls for.  Otherwise, I like to give them a selection to pick from!  By the time Easter is over, I will not want to see another Bunny until next year!  This being said, for the next few weeks you are going to be seeing a lot of Easter projects!   

I had originally embossed a single bow for this little gift box card, but it just didn't pop.  I then decided to cut it out in several sizes.  I added dimensionals to the first 2 layers and curled the top 2!  I really like the dimension I got from this a lot better!

The inspiration for this came from the Flaunt it Fridays Challenge to use the Birthday Bash Bunny w/ Present.  I do not have that cart and I racked my brain to come up with a creative way to use another similar cut!  I decided to flip the choice cut and have the present holding a bunny!!  I love how it turned out!

Products Used:

• Scrap pile CS and Paper (I am pretty sure the pink is CTMH)
• Stampin' Up! Dimensionals and Stampin' Write Marker
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge
• Basic Grey Button
• Twine from Michael's
• Signo White Gel Pen

Challenges:
Flaunt it Fridays Ch #16 Birthday Bash
The Cuttlebug Spot Buttons..Buttons Everywhere
CCCC #10 Doodlecharms

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for Stopping By! 

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #1

It's an exciting day!  Today is the opening challenge for the new challenge blog BIRTHDAY SUNDAES!!!  These challenges are going to be so much fun because we all need Birthday cards!  The challenge this week is Anything Goes Birthday and the Design Team has some fun cards to inspire you today!  Kristie, the founder of Birthday Sundaes will be sponsoring the prize this week.  This week you'll be playing for the chance to win the super cute Cupcake Ruby from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! 

Here is my Birthday Sundaes creation for this week!

 I apologize for the light to dark pics this week.  My baby E got a hold of my camera and did some major damage to the settings!  I have gotten it back to where the pics are not all blurry but I still need to work on it!  Anyway, I used Doodlecharms, an oldie but goodie cart for my first Birthday Sundae creation.  I dug into my scrap pile for the Bo Bunny Sun Kissed Line as well as the coordinating Double Dot paper for this fun card.

I added tons of dimensionals to get lots and lots of layers.  This isn't a card that is going to be mailed to anyone, that is for sure!!  I may even have a hard time giving it away!

If you've visited my blog lately, you'll see that I've been playing with ribbon in some different ways!  This cut has a little topper but I wanted something bigger, so I used my scissors to cut that off and added ribbon to the top!

And I added a little ribbon ruffle accent to the bottom of the hat too.

Here is an inside look at the hat.  I sponged the circles, the bottom ribbon was sewn on and the top ribbons were taped onto this layer!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Ink, Ribbon(retired), Dimensionals, Birthday Stamp and Punches
• Bo Bunny Sun Kissed and Double Dot Paper Lines
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge (Party Hat)
• B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge (Background)
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Michael's Ribbon

 
If you haven't already, stop by Birthday Sundaes to see all the creative cards from the rest of the DT and be sure to link up your fun cards!   I can't wait to see your "Anything Goes Birthday Cards" this week and please let me know you were here!  I love to hear from you! 

We are packing up and heading out to the Great Wolf Lodge for a few days so I will see you again on Tuesday!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!