Just a blank card

I had a bunch of scraps laying around and a brand new blade in my Cricut.

I cut the center medallion using the Home Accents cartridge. The base of the card is confetti cream from Stampin' Up!

I like the torn look of the paper. I scuffed up the edges of the brown with white craft ink.

This is a good card for just any ol' reason, works equally well for boy, girl, birthday, party, whatever. I don't think I'd use it as a wedding card though :) !

Ready for School

Here are my kids all dressed up for school!!

Actually, the elemenary school had a "formal/fancy wear" day on the same day that the high school boys had a basketball game (the boys must wear shirt and tie on game days).

I love the fact that they both looked so great on the same day!!

Valentine's Box

This is a box I made to put valentine goodies in for my son.

I started with a box that some coffee came in. I used Stampin' Up! paper for everything.

I put glue all over the box and layed the paper flat on the box. Before it dried I loosely refolded the box so the paper would "dry" in the right shape.

After the glue had dried I cut away the excess paper.

I used my Cricut to cut the emblem, letters and hearts. The cartridges I used are storybook, home accents, opposites attract, and cuttin' up.

I cut a piece of barely banana to used a a background and glued that to the front of the box. I put a fire and ice brad in the center of the emblem and glued that to the yellow piece. Then I ran my ribbon through my small xyron sticker maker and wrapped it around the box. The bow was tied seperately.

I punch a hold in the top of the box and used gold cord to hold all the hearts and the word "love" at the top so they would dangle a bit.

Our Monthly Calendar

Sometimes we have a hard time keeping our schedules straight, especially my son's basketball schedule (they have practices at different times including 6am!!). My pastor's wife uses this method and I loved it!!

This is the tile just above our stove. It was the perfect size to fit a calendar.

The days of the week and the dates are in black but I'm going to either find some calendar vinyl cling or cut some with my Cricut.

Everybody else has their own color and general items have a different color from everyone else.

These are just dry erase markers so it wipes clean. This looks great with just white tile but I couldn't get my husband to change ours just for this!