2 Peas in a Pod - Diaper Cake and Cupcake Pics

Baby showers are my best business these days! I love it! I crafted a diaper cake and matching cupcake picks for a shower for twins next month. The theme is 2 peas in a pod. I love this color palate for babies. Don't you? Believe it or not, I have had people think my diaper cakes are real cakes, LOL. When I am carrying it, they always offer to help and look really worried that it might fall over. I guess that means they look as good as a real one. I'm smiling from ear to ear! 

This three tiered diaper cake is accented with ribbon from hobby lobby and a topper that matched the cupcake pics.

     

   Diaper cake -

• 100 diapers
• Sheer ribbon, decorative ribbon
• cake support
• Terrifically Tacky Tape, Scotch ATG, Xyron

   Topper -

• pastel green oval  - cut at 5.5" from Cricut Cart Just Because Cards (stencil-S pg 40, key 17) - Recollections cardstock
• scalloped oval - 7" from Cricut Cart Create a Critter (phrase-S pg. 60) - Bazzill cardstock
• peas  - 10.6" from Cricut Imagine Cart Nursery Tails - Bazzill Basics white cardstock 
• 2 - cut at 2" from Cricut Cart American Alphabet - DCWV glitter cardstock
• Terrifically Tacky Tape, Scotch ATG, Xyron

Cupcake Picks

I designed these picks with my Cricut Imagine machine. For some reason it would not cut the small peas icons after it expertly printed 30 images. I had to fussy cut each one out. I was HOT!!! But the Elizabeth crafts spring action fussy cut scissors really made the process painless. I have tendinitis in my hands and can't usually do all that maneuvering with scissors. I need to call Provo Craft to get the advanced calibration directions.

30 Cupcake picks -

• blue toothpicks
• Jolee's Boutique - White icing dots 
• Clear and Simple Stamps hybrid ink - Espresso your style
• Stampin' Up Occasions Alphabet
• pastel green oval  - cut at 1.25" from Cricut Cart Just Because Cards (stencil-S pg 40, key 17) - Recollections cardstock
• scalloped oval - 1.50" from Cricut Cart Create a Critter (phrase-S pg. 60) - Bazzill cardstock
• peas  - 2.0" from Cricut Imagine Cart Nursery Tails - Bazzill Basics white cardstock
• 2 - cut at 0.5" from Cricut Cart Cricut Alphabet - DCWV glitter cardstock
• Terrifically Tacky Tape, Scotch ATG, Xyron

Challenges

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes
D.L Art - Anything goes
Pin and Tack - Anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes


La-Vie

Thanksgiving Class Project (REPOST)

I posted this project in 2010 when my (at the time) 5 year old daughter and I designed this card for a Kindergarten class project. I thought it would be cool to repost it today.

We used the Cricut Cartridge create a critter, stampin up! stamps, stazon black stamp pad and a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background effect. I did all the cutting and stamping and she did all the glueing. We made a great team! The give thanks stamp and the talk bubble stamp are recent additions to my stash from HSN. I decided to emboss the envelope flap, stamp the front of the envelope and add some googly eyes to the turkey for the compelte effect.

The kids will make one card for their parents and one card for elders at a nursing home. I will volunteer at the school and teach the kids how to make this card. It's got a lot of layering...but I think if my 5 year old can do it, all 5 year olds can try (right)?

La-Vie

Provo Craft Birthday Layout Challenge - Cricut 5th Anniversary

I am excited to share my second layout submitted to the contest. It is a challenge for me to do boy layouts because I started scrapbooking for my daughter. This Birthday Boy layout is my greatest page yet! The robot is cut from the Boys will be Boys Cricut cartridge - pg 64. I used the fit-to-page button which cut at 11 1/4". Die Cuts With A View - the Metallic Stack (silver). The black layer is cut from the same cartridge at 10 1/2". The robot's clothes are cut from stripped paper from Darcie's Country Folk.

• 

Recipe

• The base layer is blue bazzill premium cardstock
• The eyes of the robot are made of white Bazzill premium cardstock and large google eyes from Hobby Lobby
• The gift is cut at 3" from Create A Critter cartridge pg 27 from Die Cuts With A View paper. It was cut with the real size dial on.
• Birthday - cut from American Crafts foil cardstock and Create A Critter cartridge pg. 27. Boy is cut at 1 1/2" from Graphically Speaking Cricut cartridge pg 41 with the jumbled button on.
• The mats on the robot's body are cut from Die Cuts With A View safari kids matstack
• Balloon and Party hat layer are cut from Create A Critter at 5"
• eyelets, white paper clips, blue brads and metal arrows, brown twine and white wired pompom ribbon are from my stash

La-Vie

Christmas Card for the Troops

I designed this Christmas card to thank the troops for their service. A group of young children age 3-6 from my Jack and Jill of America group assembled several of the cards and they were sent in care packages for the troops through Give2thetroops. This was our community service project.

Here's the recipe:

• card base - cricut cartridge plantin' schoolbook
• card layer - white glittered cardstock Die Cuts With a View, punched with Martha Stewart Punch Around the page
• reindeer - Cricut cartridge create a critter
• Joy - cricut cartridge joys of the season
• googly eyes
• sentiment inside - Stampin Up!

La-Vie

Teacher Christmas Gifts - Homemade Christmas

And then there were 8! I'm so glad to have more followers today than yesterday! Ok so on to the crafting!

I have a bit of an obsession with collecting Cricut cartidges. I have so many that I have not really dug into what each has to offer. As a challenge to myself, I set out to make every card on the Cricut wild card cart (one of my favs!)

What started out as a cool idea to learn about a cart and to create a card stash became gifts for my children's teachers. I decided to create 5 to 7 unique blank cards to give to each teacher for their personal use throughout 2011. Sounds reasonable right?

Although this labor of love was time consuming, I was really feeling good about it. Then I got worried... I was trying to thank the teachers by giving them a gift that they would not untimately keep. What kind of gift is that??? I was pleasantly surprised that everyone went nuts over the cards. I discovered it's the kind of gift that keeps on giving. Our family gives to theirs and they can share it with those they love and receive love back. priceless and not the run of the mill gift.

While I didn't take a picture of all of the cards, I did snap a few of my favorites. How do you like them? I packaged the cards in a cello bag and topped it with a card I made using another favorite Cricut cartridge -create a critter. The sentiment "Joy" is cut from Cricut Cartridge joys of the season.

La-Vie

Circut Circle Weekly Challenge #3 Autumn Splendor

My 5 year old daughter and I designed this card for a class project. We used the create a critter cartridge, stampin up! stamps, stazon black stamp pad and a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background effect. I did all the cutting and stamping and she did all the glueing. We made a great team! The give thanks stamp and the talk bubble stamp are recent additions to my stash from HSN. I decided to emboss the envelope flap, stamp the front of the envelope and add some googly eyes to the turkey for the compelte effect.

The kids will make one card for their parents and one card for elders at a nursing home. I will volunteer at the school and teach the kids how to make this card. It's got a lot of layering...but I think if my 5 year old can do it, all 5 year olds can try right? And the best part is, without even knowing, I completed the weekly challenge for the cricut circle. Wish us luck!

 

La-Vie