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This is a layout of Kaylee on Take Your Daughter to Work Day. I printed the words directly onto the paper. I then just added a Gruffies (House Mouse Line) stamped image that I colored and cut out. I had wanted this stamp for a long time, but never had a use for it, so I decided this would be the perfect excuse, lol. I kept this one simple, because the picture with her paragraph about the day took up most of the page. She had to write a paragraph about the day she spent with her mom for school. Her mom is the office manager for Southland Trucks, so she loved seeing all of the big trucks there on the day she spent at the office. I love that this has her handwriting on the bottom, because I think that will be great to show her when she gets older.
I made the title for this layout using the Don Juan cart and welding the letters together with the Gypsy. The branches are from the Live Simply cart and I embossed them with branches and then used Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink on them. The owls were actually some patches that I have had sitting around for over a year and finally found a use for them on this layout. The little hats I added to them are from the Locker Talk cart and I used the white opaque pen on them. I was trying to keep this page sort of simple and have the title as the main detail on the page. I think it turned out cute.
I am in a Girly Girl Swap on the Cricut MB and I signed up to make compact case albums like I made previously for my sisters. Problem is, I searched everywhere and could not find any black mirror cases like I used for theirs. I was beginning to think that I was going to have to get an actual make up case and try to get the make up out of it. Luckily, I found some white compact cases, so problem solved. I was wondering how they would look, but I actually like them better than the black ones. I put quotes about friendship in these and just used my Gypsy circle album I had made previously. The quotes on the white circles were printed on the computer and I hand cut those. (Very tedious, because I had to make 5 of the mini albums, so I had to hand cut 25 little circles.) I liked how they turned out, but I can tell you that I do not want to hand cut anymore circles for a while, lol.
The Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge this week is to use the colors pale pink, grey and cream or white. I made this butterfly card for my grandmother's birthday using the Gypsy and the Stamping Cartridge. I cut the base in grey and then the top layer in pale pink. For the white, I added some flat back adhesive pearls to the center. On the inside, I wrote the following sentiment: "Just fluttering by to say, Have a Happy Birthday!".
I found this blue pail in the dollar zone at Target for $2.50. I had bought my grandmother a few new tshirts, because she was needing some and I thought this would be perfect to put them in for her. I cut the butterflies from white vinyl and the image is from the stamping cart. I just added them on and they made the pail look so cute. I think she will really enjoy it and it is like two gifts in one. :)
Sorry, I have been missing most of the week, but it has been crazy around here. I do have a project to share today. My best friend had surgery on Monday, so I made her a card today to mail to her. The whale is from Create a Critter. I embossed the water with the Divine Swirl Cuttlebug Folder. I took an actual bandaide and cut it down to fit on the whale's head. 
Since my whole family is addicted to Twilight, I thought I would make try to make a word book for it. I am working on a Team Jacob one right now, but I thought I would go ahead and share the Team Edward one with you guys. I cut the base on chipboard and all of the paper I found came from Hobby Lobby. The letters I used are from Don Juan.
The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project with a yummy treat and optional shape card. I used one of the fuzzy socks that I had used to make cupcakes to make this. The cute icecream containor came from the dollar area at Michaels. I used Doodlecharms to make a tag for the cone and to make a shape card. The inside of the card says "Happy Birthday to a sweet friend!" I used MS glitter markers on the cone and a colored pencil for shading.
Hope everybody had a fun and safe 4th of July. Spent the day out at my mom's house and did fireworks out there as well. She lives in the county and we live in the city, so it is illegal to shoot them off where we live, so we always head out to their house. I had to use my cricut a little bit for the fourth, so I made some toppers for some mini cheesecakes I made with the Stand and Salute Cart. I also made mini apple pies and crockpot macaroni. We had tons of good food and lots of fun. Hope everybody else had a great 4th as well.
Here is the cake.
Kaylee made this for my mom.
Here is the banner, the 50 Kaylee made and the hippo. He has a really cut bow on the side, but I think Kaylee is covering it up in the pic.
My mom with her cake.
I wanted to do something different for my mom other than 50 sucks like I made for my dad last year. I originally was going to put 50 is cool with the york peppermint patties, but my husband came up with the saying that I used. I wanted to have 50 items, but did not have enough room for 50 patties, so I used 20 patties and 30 peppermints. The patties are on scalloped circles that I punched with a 1 7/8 inch punch and I printed out the shape and sentiment on the computer. It says: "You are still in "Mint" Condition, Even if you are half a century Old. Happy 50th Birthday!" We wanted it to be a funny saying, so this worked. I did not use the hippo on this one, even though he has been my theme, but I did try to use the same colors that I have been using on the hippo items.
Last night I decided I better work on a banner for Mom's birthday. We are not having a huge blowout like we did last year for my dad's 50th, because we have so much going on right now with my one grandmother moving in with them and my other grandfather just finishing up his chemo treatments, but I still wanted to make some decorations and things for when we get together tomorrow night.
