4-H Camp Picture 2012

Each year my dad goes and leads a group at 4-H camp, and he brings a gift to give to the leader in trainings.  I normally help with ideas or making parts of it.  This year I figured since I have this fun new Cricut to play with that I would offer to help with the picture to go in the frames they made.  Mom came over to help watch the little guy. It turned out pretty fun, I love a good reason to play with paper!

The tree background is from the ZooBalloo cartridge, the tent and fire came from the Best of 2008 cartridge, and the grass (which is hard to see but it's behind the tent and on the left side blending in the trees to the forground) was done with the Create a Critter cartridge.  The writing I did with Nate's ABC's.

Mom and I went shopping together and picked out all the fun papers.  The theme of camp this year was twin timbers so I went for something that looked like a forest but had two trees that stood out.  We picked paper that has the under color different so we could use the distress tool and make the edges pop in the night sky.  We wanted a pretty night scene, I think it worked out.  Dad's color group this year was red, hence the red tent.  We  had to make 3 of these and it really did take all day between doing that and keeping a 2 month old entertained.  I hope the kids enjoy their gift which is a memory from camp.

Mom and dad made the frames, they bought them and spray painted them red and then cut wood rounds to put around the edges. I think they turned out pretty neat.  I hope the kids enjoy them!

Onesie Thank You

The last thank you card I made for baby gifts is this one with a blue onesie, I LOVE the way this one turned out.  I used the Life's A Party Cricut cartridge for the onesie with the duck on it.  I used the Cuttlebug "Thanks" A2 folder using my Sizzix Texture Boutique Embossing Machine for the embossed background.  And then just layered the blue underneath to make it all kinda pop out.  I made about 20 of these ones, there are 5 layers to the onesies so that took awhile.

Congrats! Baby Green/Purple

One of my former coworkers has a daughter that had a baby recently.  I made this card for her to go with her baby shower gift (her nursery colors are purple and green).  I LOVE having a reason to make a card.  I'm going to have to get a bit better about thinking about the any reason kind of cards.  I'm not accustom to sending them, our generation does so much electronically that I have a hard time remembering you can send things out just because. 


For this card I used the card option off the Life's a Party cartridge.  I also used the same cartridge for the congrats that is inside the card.  The Congrats! was a pain to do, it kept wanting to cut extras and stick to the mat and all in all that took so many tries it wasn't even kind of funny.  But I was happy with how it ended up in the end so it was all worth it.  I took one of the onesie cut outs from the front and put it on the back with my stamp.  Cute Cute!

Pram Thank You

The second Thank You cards I made to send people for baby gifts is this one with the Prams.  The Pram and the Thanks both came from the ZooBalloo Cricut Cartridge.  This was my first time putting ribbons on cards, I didn't do it quite the way I probably should have, but it worked okay.  I've seen easier ways to do this in the future. The colors are a bit washed out in this picture, but you get the idea.  I'll have to make sure I have better photos in the future I suppose.

Happy Valentine's Day

I went to the store and picked out a lovely card for Richard, when I got home with it I said to myself; WHY in the world are you buying a card for almost $5 when you have all this card making stuff and are supposed to be tinkering with card making?  I returned the card to the store the next day.

So over the next few days or weeks; I picked out the colors, embossed the card (first thing I've ever embossed), printed out the saying that was in the store bought card (I liked what it said, what can I say), used design studio to put the I Love You together and get the heart the size I wanted, stuck it all together and tada, I have a Valentine's Day card for Richard.  I was cutting it pretty close though, getting it done before he got home from work each day makes things a little more difficult.