Girly Goodie Bags!

Well this party is mostly girls, with only 4 of the greatest little boys ever invited!

I do have boyish goodie bags, but we will start with the girly ones, cause they rock!

Inside the goodie bags we have a mini PINK gumball machine, along with pink spree jelly beans, pink M&M's, pink princess tattoos, a small Littlest Pet Shoppe Jibbitz for crocs, a GIANT pink lollipop, pink candy lipstick, pink mini reese cups and a pink raspberry Ghiradelli chocolate. The best part of this goodie bag is a giant pink Daisy hair clip with a rhinestone center, along with a Pinkalicious pink hair extension clip (thank you Burger King for having these, and thanks for just selling them so I didnt have to eat your crappy food)

I packaged the whole shebang into a clear celophane bag and tied it shut and added the Daisy clip onto the outside!

Here is the side view with the darling Pinkalicious hair clip!

Yes, I am a terrible blogger...

I realize it has been months since I've blogged, but really we are rather boring around here so you didnt miss too much!

I am in the process of planning this little firecrackers 6th birthday (doesnt really seem possible). So you probably know how I loved to plan a kid's party so here's how we start!!

This year we are celebrating with a big ol' Pinkalicious Party. If you aren't familiar with Pinkalicious, it is a book about a little girl who makes pink cupcakes with her mom and eats so many of them that she turns pink. She goes to the doctor and her only option is too eat only green things, she doesnt and sneaks more pink cupcakes and turns red!

It is a darling little book, if you have a little girl in your life look at it for her!

Anyhow, any good birthday must start with a cute invitation.

I knew we wanted a cupcake and of course it had to be Pink! We hit my mecca (Hobby Lobby) and had to find the perfect papers for our paper cupcakes.

Lindsay spied a pack of pink cardstock with 5 shades of pink, none were Blush and Bashful though. We snagged that at half off (a whopping $2.50) and some pink swirly openstock on 50% off as well.

We got to work!

I whipped out my Sweet Treats cartridge. I wanted this cart so bad and got it around Thanksgiving, this is the first time I used it (I have problems, yes indeed)

I cut the cupcake out in solid pink and then cut it out again in white and once again in pink swirly paper. Then I cut the liner, one with lines and one solid.

I glued the front of the cupcake together first starting with the non-solid liner, then the solid liner, then the swirly and finallly white. Next I tured the whole shebang into a pocket by only attaching the pink cupcake with glue on the edges.

After my cupcakes were done, I cut out a much smaller cupcake and added a big red juicy cherry to it. The small cupcake has the party info and slips right into the big cupcake pocket. To get the details you pull up on the cherry and voila`!

Next Goodie bags! Whoo hoo, I got those suckers down early this year! Sweet!

Cricut Cupcake Cuteness!

I totally stole this idea from someone on the Cricut Messageboard, there is an amazingly talented bunch over there!! These are sock cupcakes!

Anyway, I made these for some of my friends that I am going out with tonight! The socks are from the Dollar Tree and I had the paper (duh!) and the red pom poms!

Thanks for looking!

Stamp your diecuts!

Over at just buggin our newest challenge was to create something using a Cricut cut (of course) and the somehow jazzin up the die cut using stamps!

I whipped out one of my newest carts (Paisley) and created this little frog card for a b-day card. I used Stampin' Up mini background stamps to give him some tone on tone pizazz. I added stickles to his crown and around his belly!

Inky Fingers

Over at just Buggin our newest challenge is Inky Fingers, using Ink to jazz up your Cricut Die cuts.

I used a lot of stars from George for this layout, I spread the stars all around the focal photo, across two pages. The ink adds a little extra deminsion and makes the stars pop off the page a bit.
The paper is Basic Grey and the title font is MIckey Mouse Font. Thanks for looking!

Just Buggin' Challenge 15

This week is challenge 15 at Just BUggin! This challenge was to create something witha Holiday theme.
http://justbugginchallenges.blogspot.com

I am in the midst of doing a 12 days of Christmas celebration for Mrs. Fitzgerald, Lindsay's teacher. For the 7th day of Christmas she recieved 7 decorated gift bags. I'd share my dorky poem with you, but then you'd just laugh at me and my lack of poetry skills!

HEre are two of the bags that I made, all 7 used the Cricut and various cuts. These 2 used Very Merry Tags, A Child's Year and Winter WOodland. I added loads of glitter glue because sparkles make everything prettier!

Just Buggin' Challenge 13

Here is my first design team project. The challenge was to sew your die cuts, it could be real machine sewing, hand sewing, stamped sewing or even pin stitching.

You can see other fun projects, or submit your own at justbugginchallenges.blogspot.com .

I had these pictures of Lindsay on a field trip to a local horse farm with her preschool class. I whipped out my Animal Kingdom cartridge and cut out the horse at 5 inches. I wanted to give him a more realistic mane and tail. I used my Bazzil Stich'z flourishes templates and laid them out to give him a mane. My advice for you is to only do one line at a time, when I started I put the whole design on with a pencil and all the dots made my head go crazy so I had to erase and start over.

Here are the two pages, I stitched little yellow x's on the corners of the journaling box and on the focal pics on page 2.

Here they are together.


And a close up of the title. The title font is Mickey Mouse Font cut at 1 (H and A) and 3/4 the rest the letters.