Birthday Weekend

I had a birthday cake to make this past weekend....first one to be a non-dinosaur.  It was a good friend of mines grandson's first birthday!  Her daughter-in-law wanted to have a "Curious George" cake.  I may not have a cricut cake, but was able to make this cake and was so proud of it. Hope you like it!!!
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Bank Block

It has been awhile since I have posted or been able to craft anything. A friend of mine at work had a baby in July and I have been wanting to make something for her.  Well I had all these blocks I stocked up on after Christmas when they were on clearance.  So I decorated one of the blocks for a bank.  That it is the great thing about these blocks, they came with different plugs with them.

I decided to do something different and ectch on them first to give them a frosted look. I taped the edges off to make it more squared off.

Here is what it looked like after doing the etching.

Here is the final block.  I used pink vinyl for her name and using the Cricut American Alphabet to cut everything out on the Cricut2.  I really liked these letters because they looked very elegant.  Then I used the printable vinyl on the imagine using the Nursery Tails Cartridge for the Butterfly Kisses layered and used silver vinyl behind it to make it stand out more.

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Happy 4th!!!

June has came to an end already.  Where has the time gone, so hard to believe it is July 1st already.  I made a quick project with  my E2 and vinyl using the Cricut Essentials that came preloaded on the E2.  My mother-in-law loves lights.  So I had some blocks left over from christmas and decided to make a 4th of July Block for her and one of her friends.  I used red, white and blue vinyl cutting out the star in different sizes and using them all scattered on the block.  Filled them with white tissue paper and white lights.  It was daylight when I made these so I only took a picture of the blocks without the lights plugged in.  Enjoy your holiday and wishing all of you a safe and happy one with your friends and loved ones.

Grandparents and the Imagine

I just got the country carnival imagine cart from cricutmachine.com on  when it was on sale.  I was very excited about this cart, I had been bidding on it on eaby with no luck.  So I was so excited when I seen it on cricutmachine.com for sale!!!  I love sales!!!

This is a picture from 1943 of my grandparents. My grandmother passed away 12 years ago this June 17th my grandpa will be celebrating his 93rd bday in August. The beads I used are from my grandmothers stash of craft items I have and then I added some glitter and bling to it. I will probably add a little more stuff but had to show you so far what it looked like.  My grandmother was my very best friend there isn't a day goes by that I do not think about her.  I know she is in a better place but I miss her dearly. 

Crafty MOM Contest

I have entered the Crafty Mom Contest on the Cricut page on Facebook.  I may have two boys but I try to do FUN things with them in the craft world.  Last year over the summer we went to Anna Maria Island, Florida to see my brother.  I had never seen where my brother lived and it was absolutely gorgeous!!  Now I know why he doesn't want to move back to Indiana...heck I wanted to move to Anna Maria Island after I seen where he lived.  Well back to the point of this post.  My oldest son and I got up a couple of mornings and went out to collect shells because my brother told me that is when the best shells are up on shore.  So we collected LOADS of shells.  I came home and made a few things with them, but the one I entered was this. 

A Wind Chime, I cut vinyl and placed on some of the shells, painted on some of them then drilled holes in them and used fishing line along with some gold beads to give it some bling.  Please go vote for me if you have a facebook account.  I would love your VOTE!

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Wind Chime

I WON I WON!!!! 2X!!!

So I helped my BFF friend and her family move today.  It rained on us a few times but we were able to get everything moved that we needed to.  Well I get home and I WON my ebay item....guess what it was!  THE E2!!!  OH YEAH DOING THE HAPPY DANCE!!!  So I figured I would go check things out on the cricut messageboard see what was happening.  First place I went was the cricut chat room, seen the sticky about the cricutblog.org and thought oh yeah what is happening there.  Guess what!  I WON a $100 gift card to the cricut.com!!!  HOW EXCITING!!!!  So I won my E2, won $100 ....  good thing I bought that lottery ticket today!  lol  Anyway hope everyone had a great day!!!

See check it out... THAT is ME!!!

http://cricutblog.org/ day 3 Winner!!! 

Baby Shower Your Story Book

My cousins wife had a baby shower some time ago and I decided to make her a small little Your Story book from her baby shower pictures I took..  I did everything with the imagine.  Even the paper I colored and I used a textured paper in the imagine to give it more depth.  I even gave it some "bling."  I used the Nursery Tails cart for the Imagine.  I also layered the pages and I have to say I just love the scoring blade that came with my big YourStory cutter.  That is totally "WICKED DUDE"  thanks for looking and have WONDERful day.