These darling Hershey Kiss Candy Dispensers are what my kids made for their teachers as a holiday gift this year. It was one of the many things that occupied our time over the last week and a half. Boy does this time of year get crazy! The nice thing about this gift is it … Read more Merry “Kiss”mas
It’s just one week until Thanksgiving. Are you ready? Here’s a creative idea for place settings using CTMH’s Cricut Art Philosophy Collection. We made this thankful turkey project at this month’s Stamp Club. We started with the Fry Box cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy in Saddle Cardstock. We then added a Saddle Fundamentals Cardstock … Read more Cricut Art Philosophy Thanksgiving Place Setting
I’ve added a *NEW* Grab-n-Go Guide to my site for purchase. It’s perfect for the holiday season! In this guide, you’ll learn to create 16 identical cards while also learning a couple techniques, too. For more information about this guide or to purchase it, click HERE.
It’s official, the Fall Soccer Season is over. Phew, we made it! I’m excited to have my Saturdays back as well as my Wednesday and Thursday late afternoon/evenings back, too (at least until Spring time!) My son’s coach asked me if I could make up the End-of-the-Season Gifts for each of the players on the … Read more End of Soccer Season Gifts
Happy Halloween! For many, it’s just not Halloween until there’s candy corn involved, right? I created this fun Candy Corn Box as part of a SUPER fun Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge Close To My Heart was doing on their *NEW* blog (found HERE.) And guess what? I won! Yay! You can see all the … Read more A Candy Corn Halloween
Close To My Heart has a *NEW* collection of quick and easy kits designed to make darling projects in no time at all. We made these Cut Above Halloween Treat Bags at my Stamp Club this month. We took the kit up a notch by simply adding an additional black circle to mat the sentiment … Read more Cut Above Halloween Treat Bags
Have you been loving the Witches Hat featured on page 38 of Close To My Heart’s Annual Inspirations Book? If so, I have great news for you! There is a step-by-step tutorial that you can follow to create your very own Witches Hat. Step 1–grab your Cricut Artiste cartridge! Don’t have one yet, click … Read more Cricut Artiste Witches Hat
This Frightfully Fun Halloween Black Cat Tag is one we created as one of our three projects at last Saturday’s Creative Connections Event. It showed off several *NEW* products from the Annual Inspirations Book. The supplies used to create this tag are: *NEW* Frightfully Fun Stamp Set (B1453) *NEW* Trick or Treat Sweets Stamp Set … Read more Frightfully Fun Halloween Tag
Today was the day to go to school and find out who your teacher will be for the year. There was also the opportunity to visit your classroom and meet your teacher before school officially begins tomorrow. I had to share this darling poem my son’s teacher gave each of her students–it is so sweet! … Read more Scrapbooking the Start of School
While at Close To My Heart’s Annual Convention this summer, we got the opportunity to try out 2 of the *NEW* Cut Above Kits. These new kits allow you to make wonderful projects in little time. This birthday card is one of the ones we made from the Happy Birthday Card Kit. I must say … Read more Cut Above Kits from CTMH
Need to thank someone? Why not make an amazing matchbox sized to fit a gift card using CTMH’s Cricut Artiste Collection? Even the 3-D flower was created using the Cricut Artiste cartridge. And don’t forget to line the inside of your box for a little extra detail! Be sure to check out my other … Read more Cricut Artiste Matchbox Gift Card Holder
With Picture My Life Scrapbooking Programs being the focus of this month’s special with Close To My Heart, I thought it would be fun to show you some other ideas throughout the month that you can do with these pocket scrapbooking programs aside from their intended use. This first idea is compliments of my roomie … Read more Mini Album with Picture My Life
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I coordinated class gifts for the teachers in both my son and daughter’s classes again this year. Since I’m always short on time, I tried to keep the ideas similar enough that I wouldn’t be stressed out more than I needed to be at the end of the school year. First, I started by making … Read more End of First Grade Teacher Gifts