Drippy Goo!

Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to stumble across the Drippy Goo punch by Martha Stewart. I was so excited to find it so I went right home and got to work creating with it. Earlier in the week I had found this wooden picture frame I had been meaning to alter so I decide this would be the perfect project to use my new punch on. The paper and chipboard embellishments are Doodlebug. The font is Storybook by Cricut. The punch is Drippy Goo by Martha Stewart.

On a roll!

My young niece is sick with the flu and expected to be cooped up in bed for several days. So we thought it would be nice to take her some colors and coloring books to help her occupy the time. I had recently found the instructions for making a "crayon roll" from a wonderful blog called Skip to my lou. So I thought it would be fun to make her one of these instead of just giving her a box of crayons. Here is my finished results on this project. I plan to make several of these as Christmas gifts. If you would like detailed instructions including pictures check out the above mentioned blog.

Tissue Box

I haven't been getting much done lately. I've been busy with school starting back and our kitchen remodel but I did finally get a project finished. I wanted to make my sons Kindergarten teacher a tissue box cover for their classroom. I bought the wooden tissue box at Hobby Lobby in the unfinished wood section. I simply painted the box black and then cut pieces to cover each side and the top. Then I embellished with Cricut cuts from the Locker Talk cart and added stickles. The paper is from the Grade School DCWV paper pack.

Pillowcase dress

We had a birthday party on Saturday to go to for a sweet little girl that is very close to the family. So I took this opportunity to try my hand at something new...a pillowcase dress. I had seen some adorable ones on Etsy and I just new I had to try it. Since I don't have a little girl small enough to wear one I thought I would take the opportunity to make one for our little friend. It turned out to be quite easy to make but I'm not including instructions because I really just did it as I went along and I didn't use a pattern or anything. If you are interested in learning to make one of these dresses you might do a search on Youtube which is were I watched a video to get the basic idea of how to do it. Since making this dress I actually have some people wanting me to make them and sale them now. So I'm really happy I ventured into this little project last Saturday.

Pretty Little Princess'

We will be attending a birthday party of a sweet little 3 year old this weekend. She is getting ready to make her first trip to Disney World soon and being a little girl naturally she loves the Disney princess'. So naturally I wanted to make her something Disney theme. On a recent trip to my local Dollar General Store I found this cute sand bucket and the idea struck me to make her a princess bouqet. So I borrowed the Disney princess carts from a friend and went to work. And I must say these are some of the most difficult cuts I've done with my Cricut to date. All those tiny little intricate cuts are a real challenge to work with. But they where tons of fun to put together and embellish with my stickles. After finishing all the cuts I placed them on skewers and stuck in styrofoam in the bucket and added a gift card. And here is the finished results.

Go Team!

My daughter recently made middle school cheerleader and I wanted to make something for her to congratulate her. So I decided to try the freezer paper method to paint her a Hello Kitty cheer shirt. The cheerleader comes from HK Greetings. You place a piece of freezer paper shiny side up on the mat and cut your image. You remove the freezer paper and place it shiny side down on your fabric and iron with a hot dry iron. You check your edges and if they are all snuggly down then you paint in your image. I have had a ton of questions conerncing exactly how I done the image and I've tried explaining but it doesn't seem to be coming across too well in words. Sadly I've been busy and haven't had a chance to post more instructions with pics but I will work on this project in the next couple weeks so check back on my blog for step by step instructions with pics. Thanks!

Almost forgot

I almost forgot to post the goodies I made for Grayson's friends at school. I made little treats for everyone to wish them a "cool" summer. I made a pocket by cutting an 8 1/2" x 11" paper in half vertically. I scored at 3 1/2" and made the pocket then decoarted. The sun was cut at 3" from Hello Kitty Greetings cart and the tag is from George. Then decorate and add your two popsicles.