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I found this giant hippo that goes in your flower bed area for my mom for her birthday. She likes lawn ornaments to put around their deck and stuff, so I thought I would make a hippo card to match it. I am planning on making her a hippo theme cake to match as well. I used the Create a Critter cart for the card and the words on the inside. 
My sister wanted me to make something to go with a giftcard that she was getting for a lady at her work that is having a little boy. I first saw these little washcloths made to look like candy in a bag on Lori from FCCB's blog. I wanted to do something similar to that. I have these jars from some truffles that my grandmother buys at Christmas time and I always have her keep me the containers so I can use them to put ribbon, etc. in. I thought it would work great since it is a candy jar. I rolled the little washcloths up to look like a piece of candy and pinned them at the end. I then used the stamping cart to make swirls for the top of them and wrapped them in cellophane. I added a little bit of shredded, white paper at the bottom of the jar. The tag was cut from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart and then I printed the white square with "For a Little Sweetie" on the computer. I love how this turned out and I hope the new mom will too!
One of the things I was busy with today, was going to my best friend from high school's 30th Birthday Party. I made him this bouquet using George and Don Juan cart for the circles and words and the card was made using the above two cards and the Wild Card Cart. I went with the red and black colors, because I had a few of these containers in red, so I thought it would hold the 30 suckers well. These suckers were a great find, because I have only made 50 and 70 sucks in the past, so I new it wouldn't take up as much space if I only used the small suckers. (In case you are going to make one of these and need some, these larger suckers came from the Family Dollar and were only $1 for a pack of 36, so they were a great deal.) I guess you have figured out by now that I love bargains, lol. :)
I finally worked on a layout with some pictures from Valentine's day this weekend. These little Robots came from a K and Company set of shapes and I thought they were just so adorable I had to use them. I found the little sticker at the top at Michaels on the clearance rack for 49cents. On the side, I took some paper and made a little pocket to hold the cards that Kaylee got for Valentine's Day. This way, they would be all together and wouldn't get lost, but she would be able to pull them out and look at them when she wanted.
First off, let me say sorry for not posting or visiting any blogs the past two days. I have been very busy and I am just on here for a second now. Tomorrow I will be back on here and will hopefully have time to visit some blogs and things, but I just wanted to get on for a few minutes tonight and post a few pictures.
My hubby brought me a surprise in on Tuesday afternoon, the Mini Monsters cartridge. I made a couple of monsters to see how they looked and I think they are super cute.
I put my new spice rack on my shelf above the stamps and reoraganized some of the other embellishments that I use alot in the basket beside it.
Here is a side view where you can see what is in the jars. I painted over the words for the spices, but I need to make some labels for the front.
This is my new area for my cuttlebug and folders. The folders and cuts are in the brown box and the plates and cutting board are in the owl basket. (I like owls, there is another one on the page that says Jean above it, but you can't see it in the pic.)
I have run out of space for cricut carts. They are in this all the way to the back of both shelves and the solution carts are in the purple container hanging on the inside.
This is the foot stool with storage space I found today. I got this at Ross for $19.99 and thought it would work perfect. I did have paper in old scrapbook boxes all around the room. I have a main stand up folders for solids, papers I use a lot and paper stacks and then 8x8 and 8 1/2 by 11 on a shelf under the desk, but the other extra paper was getting ridiculous. (My husband said he thinks I just like to collect scrapbook paper)
This is the inside. What you see on top is actually a box lid with the layout that I am working on right now. The paper stacked up a lot higher than I was thinking it would.
My grandpa made me a peg board, because I have stickers everywhere in the closet in containers and I was complaining that I will buy some and then can't find what I am looking for when I am ready for it. I went through all of my stickers and stuff today and pulled out the ones I will mainly used and put on here. I am going to get some more pegs for the back of it. (I didn't really have anywhere to put it in here, so I put it over by my husband's closet and his Halo stuff.)
The challenge at Off the Wall Craftiness this week is to use the colors mint green, white, black, and a little bit of red. I made this layout of my niece at Cathedral Caverns. She went last weekend and really enjoyed it. I used Don Juan for the letters on this one and welded them together in the Gypsy.
I have not had a chance to play along at the Stuck on You Sketches blog in a few weeks, but I loved their sketch for this week. I made this page of my niece at her birthday party. She had a separate cake with a ladybug on it and it turns out that it was more icing than cake. We had quite a time trying to get to the cake for her, because unlike most kids, she is not the biggest fan of icing. The little ladybugs are all from a sticker page that I found in Walmart in their new scrap section. I used the Gypsy to make the border that I put around the page. The title is stickers and I hand cut the backgrounds for the title and the journaling. I was going to use the Gypsy and then decided to just do it the old fashion way by hand, lol. Sometimes, I forget that I did actually make scrapbooks and crafts before I had my cricut.
A good tip for using vinyl without transfer tape is to get some Scotch Joint Tape at Walmart in the paint section. You can get a large roll for a couple of dollars. It is slightly sticky, so it will help pull your vinyl and regular cuts off of the cricut matt, then you just lay them out where they need to be applied and use the cricut spatula to remove the tape. This can make it a lot easier when you have designs with a lot of swirls and things like this one had.
My sister is having a 31 party on Friday night and she asked me to make her some cupcake toppers. 31 is a company that sells purses and bags, etc. I made these in pink and white to match the colors she is decorating in. I used the gypsy to design them and set up the sizes. I cut the scalloped circles twice so there would be a front and back to the toppers. Then, I cut the little purse from Paper Doll Dress Up and embossed it with the divine swirls folder before adding the little flower gem. I made one of them a little bit bigger than the others and put thirty one on it. She is going to have them on a cupcake display stand, so the one with words will go at the top. I hot glued these to the sticks to make sure they were not coming off. I will try to remember and take a pic of them in the display at her party.
I had one more thing I needed to make for my secret pal on the cricut message board to be caught up with the items to make so far. This week we were supposed to make a containor and fill it with goodies. I got this wooden box unfinished at Hobby Lobby and painted it pink. Then I added the white vinyl cuts to it. The circle on top is from the Home Decor Cart, the P is from Gypsy Font and the butterflies are from Stamping.
I made a few items for my secret pal today. I made a cup, a planner, and a paperclip bookmark. The cuts for the circles are from Sentimentals and the letters are from Gypsy Font. I think they turned out cute. When I finished them, I was thinking that I am going to have to make myself one of the cups.
