Busy Bee Thank You

My DD just completed her last Tiny Tots class on Monday.  She has been taking classes every Monday with Miss Linda for about a year or so.  DD absolutely loved her Tiny Tots class and her teacher.  I must say, I loved Miss Linda too!  She is such an excellent teacher, always coming up with creative projects for the children and keeping them engaged along the way.  

So I wanted to give Miss Linda a little something from us to show her how much we appreciated her.  I made her this tissue box cover (got the instructions here) and a little card for my daughter to write a little "thank you" note in.  I added a GC too just for a little something extra.

Used my Create-a-Critter cartridge for this project

All of the images are from the (CAC) bee button selection

I thought all of these images kept the box bright and cheerful

Miss Linda is definitely a Busy Bee...she's always on the go and even makes sure to start each class off with some exercises for the kids!

A quick and simple card to go along with Miss Linda's gift.

I can't believe that my DD will be starting kindergarten in a few weeks (sigh)!  Time surely has gone by too quickly!  I sure hope she does well and I can adjust well to not having her at home with me!  LOL!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! Quick post...here are some goodies I made for my kids teachers this year. A while ago I was surfing the web and found this cute little origami box tutorial and thought I wanted to give it a try. Well I finally got around to trying it out and I must say they were really quick and easy to put together. I used my favorite Create a Critter Cricut cartridge for these...I love that cartridge! Anyways, hope your heart day was full of love and happiness! :-)

Quick Christmas Gifts

I am getting together with some of my high school friends for our annual Christmas party today. It's amazing that we are still holding strong to our tradition some 20 years after we all graduated. Although our group size has gotten smaller with people moving away and such, our overall size has grown with the many blessings that we have created. It's nice when we get together and are able to catch up like old times and now watch all of our children play together.

Anyways these are what I made for my girlfirends this year...quick little notebooks that I made from file folders. I made 8 of these in no time using the tutorials on SCS and Craft Project Centrals. I used my Cricut to cut out the letters and Hello Kitty's. They're cut from vinyl which made adhering them to the notebooks quick and easy. I must say that I love working with vinyl!

I hope you are having a fun weekend! Thank you for stopping by!

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End of the School Year Gifts

I got my "Create a Critter" Cricuit cartridge around the same time that I was trying to figure out what to make for end of the school year gifts for my son's preschool teachers. I just fell in love with that cartridge from the time I started seeing sneak previews of this cartridge on other blogs. So of course when I finally got it, I just had to start using it!! I decided to make a set of cards for my son's teachers. And then I was trying to figure out how to wrap them up when I stumbled across Joy's Mother's Day gift post and my problem was instantly solved...thanks Joy!! :-)

I decided to add a laminated tag to the totes to add a personalized touch to their gifts

Each of the totes contained 6 (simple) thank you cards and envelopes

The inside of the totes were plain, since I used one sided DP, so I decided to use DP for the the pockets

I can't believe my son is graduating from preschool already...he's going to be starting kindergarten soon!!! (sniff, sniff) Man, they really do grow up SO fast!!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope your week is off to a good start!!

First Communion Card

I finally dusted off my Cricut to make a card for my niece who will be receiving her First Communion next weekend on Kauai. I decided to make an easel card for her since I really enjoy making them.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Hello Kitty Gift Set

My cousin's birthday was a few weeks ago. She loves Hello Kitty stuff too so I made her a little drawer, pen, notebook, post-it holder, post-it keyring and card all using some Hello Kitty paper that I had for a while now. I also picked up a Hello Kitty lanyard and a monogram Hello Kitty sticker and placed them in the drawer. She's going to school at UH now so I think she'll be able to make use out of this gift set. Thanks for stopping by!

Strawberry Invitations

My DD will be celebrating her 3rd birthday in a few weeks. She is so into Strawberry Shortcake now. I searched and searched for a Strawberry Shortcake stamp but could not find one anywhere. So I came up with these, using my handy dandy Cricut, for her birthday party invites. I made about 25 of these in a couple of days (in between finishing up my MIL's Thank You cards)!! Thanks for stopping by! :-) I attached a small Strawberry Shortcake picture that I printed off the computer to the inside. I cut a little pop up slit to mount it on.

Binder for Preschool

It's my son's last year in preschool and he actually needed a 2" binder this year. Since he's still too young to be embarrassed by me decorating his school supplies, I jumped at my chance to spruce his binder up a bit!! hehehe! I know the size of everything is a bit big but I was putting this together the night before we needed to take his school supplies in and I just didn't have time to play with the sizing of everything. I just "guesstimated" the size on my Cricut and ran with it...

A Baby Gift

Okay, so I've been a terrible friend to my GF Brenda. She had her 4th daughter on April 1st and I only recently gave her her baby gift. I made her daughter a personalized onesie and burp cloth using the freezer paper method and my Cricut! I really love making these. So sorry it took me forever to get this to you Brenda!!

I placed them in this gift bag that I made after seeing a tutorial of it on Becky Roberts' Inking Idaho blog. I also made her a gift card holder that held a gift card for Target

Thanks for stopping by and checking this out. I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog!

Mom's Gift

So today is my mom's birthday and I totally forgot to wrap her present!! So when I got up this morning the first thing I thought to do was to make one of those card holder's from Teri's tutorials that I had so much fun making. I had to alter the dimensions a little to fit mom's gift in there but it still came out looking pretty cute I think! :-) Thank you Teri for such great step by step tutorials!

Birthday Card for Mom

My mom's birthday is on Monday. I came up with this quick little card today. I used my Cricut for the cupcake and the scalloped circle...I love my Cricut! I added some pearl beads to the scalloped edges and used my one and only bottle (ha!) of Stickles on the frosting and the flame of the candle! Yup, I must admit, I am loving the Stickles and am definitely going out to buy more! :-) Oh, and I used my Marvy Uchida Corru-Gator Paper Crimper to give the base of my cupcake a more authentic look!

Blue and Yellow Graduation Card

Here's a card I made recently for my cousin's high school graduation. Blue and gold are the school colors (but yellow is always substituted...I'm also an alumni from the same high school). I had difficulty finding graduation paper at my local craft stores so I made my own (personalized) paper at home. I got inspiration or this card off of the Cricut MB (thank you!).

I would have liked to make the cap blue or some color to stand out but the high school graduates in white caps & gowns (and I wanted to stay true to that so it's a bit more personalized)

(the little pocket is for a monetary gift)

Thank You Gift w/Card

Here's a thank you gift and card I just made for one of my mom's co-workers who has been generous enough to pass a lot of her scrapbooking supplies on to me! I am so extremely grateful!!

I couldn't find a small flower pot that I liked in any of the stores here so I decided a coffee mug might work...and she can use the mug too!

I LOVE my new kokeshi doll stamps

Graduation Card

We had a graduation in the family recently...we have another teacher in the family now!

Sweet 16 Gift

A family member turned 16 recently and wanted a Sweet 16 party. Her color scheme was purple and green. I got the instructions for the card off the Splitcoaststampers website (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/joy_fold_card/) and scaled it down to fit the 4x6 clear pouches I use to put my cards in. I used my Cricut to make the matching gift bag.

Thank You Floral Arrangements

I got the instructions from Sandy Windsor off the Cricut MB. These are my interpretation of her wonderful arrangments. I made these for my son's preschool teacher and her aide at the end of the school year! They loved them!! The little message marker says, "Thank you for helping us grow!".

DVD Sliders (with Matching Cards)

Well I made some candy sliders a month or so ago and thought I would try the idea out on some DVDs that I made for my son's preschool teachers! It actually worked out pretty well!

Paint Pails

Well with all of the fabulously, crafty clear paint pails out there, I wanted to try some of my own. Again, I made these for my son's preschool class...Mickey for the boys, Hello Kitty for the girls!(I did end up changing the top of the Mickey pail so that the initial was in white & stood out more)

I placed the freezer paper tees in the pail and passed them out on the last day of school!

My First Freezer Paper Tees

After finding the instructions through a link on the Cricut MB (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRyXlSTtHPA) , I was eager to make some freezer paper tees of my own! I made these for my son's preschool class.(I cut out a little matching tag, using my Cricut, and placed the washing instructions on it)