Did you find any leprechauns yesterday? Did you set up a trap but didn’t catch any of the sneaky fellas? Maybe you need to try out a pair of Leprechaun Binoculars! This year I wanted to try something a little different. Each year the kids and I have made a leprechaun trap since the kids were really … Read more Leprechaun Binoculars
We’re closing in on St. Patrick’s Day! Here are a couple of quick and easy (and cute!) projects you can try out yourself. I made these cute (and simple!) cups. All you need are some green paper cups, Black Shimmer Trim, Gold Glitter Paper and 3-D Foam Tape. I carefully wrapped the Black Shimmer Trim … Read more St. Patrick’s Day Projects
Easter is right around the corner and you can’t do Easter without a cute basket, right? I thought this cute pattern contained in the Penelope Paper was perfect for creating a basket. It coordinated so well with the *NEW* Spring Critters Stamp Set that has a matching Thin Cuts set. Using the Zip Strip from … Read more An Easter Basket with a Twist
Here in Northern California it is feeling a lot like Spring! What better way to celebrate these warm days than to create some amazing Spring-themed projects!!
I love these Self Closing Boxes! We’ll be making one at my Technique Time on March 8th if you’re interested in learning how to make one. You can EMAIL ME for details or you can RSVP through MY CLASS CALENDAR. We’d love to have you join us!
Looking for a Valentine’s Day gift that is straight from the heart and easy, too? Make this adorable little box and fill it with your sweetheart’s favorite candies!
This is one of the projects I made with my Stamp Club this month. It’s as simple as a few cuts, a few scores and then some embellishing!
It’s time to start getting ready for Valentine’s Day! And what better way to get ready than to create a super adorable Valentine’s Mailbox that you can stuff with cherished notes or yummy treats! This video will show you step-by-step how you can create this amazing 3-D project using our exclusive Cricut Art Philosophy and … Read more Make a Cricut Valentine’s Mailbox
About a week and a half ago I happened to see a small chunk of a holiday DIY segment on a morning show. They were talking about making a festive and easy Peppermint Bowl out of Starlight Mints. I was intrigued!
I was just killing a little bit of time when I saw it so didn’t really have plans of making one. However, we had a holiday party to attend this past weekend and I thought it would be fun to give it a try–only instead of doing a bowl, I wanted to try a raised platter.
It was really simple to do and my family was extremely impressed with the results! So here is a little quick tutorial so you, too, can impress your friends and family!
Gather the supplies (Starlight Mints and a candlestick–both can be purchased at your local Dollar Store–bonus!!) You’ll also need Parchment Paper, a Cookie Sheet and a hot glue gun.
I wanted to take a quick moment to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!! And if you are reading this early enough in the day and would like some fun conversation starters at the dinner table (whether for the kids or for the adults!), Close To My Heart has some wonderful ones HERE.
Want a fun way to create place cards for Thanksgiving dinner this year? Why not try one of these adorable (and easy!) treat containers that would be perfect for a place card. They can be as simple or as elaborate as you want.
This one we created in my Stamp Club this month. I loved using our beautiful Fundamentals Papers–they make it look so elegant without any extra work!
If you stopped by our Close To My Heart Scrapbook Expo booth in Santa Clara, CA this past August, you would have seen these Dixie Cup Party Lights I made and strung across our booth. I had every intention of posting instructions (they are really quite simple!) shortly after the event, but life somehow always gets in the way! But I decided it’s better late than never, right?!
STEP 1: Gather enough Dixie Cups to cover your strand of lights–plus 1 extra (for the template!)
This darling little Halloween Box is so quick and easy to put together with the help of Close To My Heart’s Cricut Artiste Collection. It’s the perfect little box to put a little treat in for your special trick or treaters this Halloween. Making fun little treats for those special people couldn’t be easier since the Cricut does all the work. Simply select the size you want (a recommended size is given in the Cricut handbook) and then fold all the score lines, sponge the edges if you’d like–for a little more spooky look–and then glue the tabs together and voila, you have an amazing Halloween Box for giving treats in.
We used the Little Monsters Stamp Set which is so adorable with it’s spooky cute characters that can be colored in using our ShinHan Alcohol Markers or our Watercolor Pencils. I don’t think you could create a bad project using this stamp set! It’s just so cute! I would recommend prepping all your pieces for the box and adhering them before putting the box all together. It’ll just make it easier to have nice contact when adhering the spooky creatures to the box.
Today was the first day of school for my kids. I wanted to create a little something for the teachers so I went with something useful. I stamped up little notebooks for them to use throughout the year. I did get a little grief from a friend who works at a school about my use of apples. Apparently, teachers get tired of all the apple-themed gifts. Who knew? I guess I can understand as I think more about it though. Hopefully the teachers weren’t like, “oh no, more apples!” =)
This darling Crayon Bouquet is something I wanted to share since last spring–and the timing seems perfect with the start of school!
As promised earlier this week, here is an upcycled project I created using this month’s Stamp of the Month—Life Is Wonderful. It’s a little treat container! I reinforced the base using a cut out circle and some Liquid Glass. Fill it with whatever treat you’d like and then wrap it in some tissue paper (a perfect square works nicely!) Tie the top closed–I used some Glacier Extra Thick Twine. I unraveled the twine to make it a little more substantial–a fun and easy technique.
Now comes the fun part–
Today’s project is a Gum Box Container I created for my teammates attending CTMH’s Convention. It’s part of the little gift I’m giving to each of them. Convention starts tomorrow–it’s so exciting!! Soon all the newest CTMH goodies will be revealed. Today I’ll be CTMH’s Leadership Day. Usually no big surprises are revealed to us, but sometimes we get a small taste of what’s to come. Like last year, we got a chance to use the *NEW* ShinHan Alcohol Markers before anyone else (well, 1 day ahead of everyone else!)–so that was our little sneak peek!
Happy 4th of July! How about making a fun and festive pinwheel?!? The perfect DIY project for the 4th of July (or an average summer day!)
The key is to always start with a square. I used Close To My Heart’s Exotic Flower Hostess Stamp Set (B1477) since it is a perfect square. To make this project interesting, I decided to use a piece of transparency rather than cardstock. I stamped the image using Black StazOn ink (Z888.) Then I flipped the piece over and colored in the image using ShinHan’s Warm Grey (Z2468), Carmine (Z2448) and Marine Blue (Z2458) Markers.