School Days

Hi everyone.  So summer is about over and school is beginning in 7 days.  I can't believe my little guy is heading into first grade!  I am sad that summer is over, but it will be nice to be back on a routine again. 

We have a busy week of buying school supplies and uniforms ahead of us.  Monday, we are going to a meet and greet with the new teacher and drop off the school supplies. Max wanted something nice to bring to his new teacher and I wanted something cute to deliver a teacher survey in.  This year I decided I didn't want to have to guess on what the new teacher likes throughout the year so I'm sending this little survey for her to fill out.  There are a lot of different versions out there, but the one I found on Domestically Speaking I think is the best.  I'm going to print it out on some cute paper and insert into a cute card!

Cuts and cartridges:

grass           Ribbons & Rosettes         1/2"

road            My Community                1"

fence           My Community                3/4"

bus              Beep Beep                      1 3/4"

kids             Autumn Celebrations       1 1/4"

school          My Community               2 1/2"

clouds          CCR Basics                    3/4" and 1/2"

                    This & That                    1/2"

I used a paper from the DCWV Grade School mat stack for the inside.  I decided to leave it blank and I'm going to let Max write his own message in there.

I hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

Linking to:

Cardz TV - Back to School

BBTB2 - School Bus

Craftin Desert Divas - Back to School

Fishing up some Christmas Wishes

Hi everyone!  I have another Christmas card to share with you today.  I was sitting here with my husband this morning and said I was working on something with candy canes.  He tossed out the idea of fishing candy canes.  I love that man!  He sure does help me out when I run into a creative block  :-)

I started with a red card base, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  I cut a blue and white polka dot paper 1/8" smaller, inked the edges with indian corn blue and ran it through my cuddlebug using the snowflake folder.  The background paper came from My Mind's Eye 6x6 paper pad called Sweater Weather.  All other paper came from scraps. 

 I used quite a few different cartridges for this one.  The clouds are from This & That, sized at 1/2" and inked with indian corn blue ink.  The trees were cut a various sizes from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I colored the trunk with a brown marker and added silver glitter like garland or snow.  The snow was cut from the grass border on Plantin Schoolbook under the RolyPoly feature at 1 1/2".  I cut three of these, inked the top with indian corn blue, alternately layered them and spread some stardust glitz over them for glistening snow. 

The pond was also cut from Plantin Schoolbook, the oval under the Basic feature at 1 1/4".  The deer was cut from Campin Critters at 2 1/2" and I just cut the fish off the line.  The wreath over the antlers came from Christmas Solutions and was cut a 1" and added green glitter glue.  The candy canes were cut at various sizes from Tis the Season.  I cut these out of red and added the white stripes with my gel pen.  I  popped up the deer and a couple of the candy canes with foam tape.

I didn't have a stamp that I liked for a sentiment on this card so I typed it up in a word doc and used a free font called Beyond Wonderland.  I had some scraps from the same Sweater Weather paper pad left from another project, so I trimmed them to 1/4" and added to the top and bottom.

Hope you enjoy!!  And I'm sending a BIG thank you to my husband for the creative idea!!!!  

Linking to:

Bitten by the Bug 2 - Christmas in July

Festive Friday - Candy Canes

Paper Crafting Journey - Punches and/or Die Cuts

Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes

Christmas in July - Project 2

what?!?!?!  Two posts in one day!!!  Welcome to project #2 in my Christmas in July week!

Today's project is a Christmas scene card:

All cuts are from the Christmas Solutions cartridge that I purchased digitally and all papers are from my scraps!  I love that!

The base is a white a2 size card.  The blue layer is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 to cover the whole card front.  I adhered a strip of white sized 1 1/4 x 5 1/2 with a torn top edge for a snowy ground.  The back set of trees are cut at 1.986 and adhered directly to the card.  The front set of trees are sized 1.708 and adhered with foam tape for dimension.  The trees are found on button 43.  The house and snowy layers (button 46) are sized 2.139.  I used a scrap piece of yellow on the back so it would look like light coming through the  windows.  I popped the house and the ground snow layers up with foam tape.   The moon and Santa's sleigh and reindeer are all cut at 1.5 inches and adhered directly to the card front.  I used stardust glitter gel on the snowy layers for some sparkle.  The sentiment is from a Recollections set called Merry Merry.

Thanks for joining me today!  I'll be back tomorrow for project #3 for Christmas in July!

linking to:

Exploring Cricut challenge and Fantabulous Cricut challenge