My Busy Week

Last week was our spring Book Fair at school. This time around, my two Book Fair co-chairs and I decided to tackle the Spare Change contest along with the Book Fair. We actually held this the week before the book fair. The idea is that the kids bring in their "spare change" and at the end of the week we add up all of the different classes and the top classes get a gift certificate for a free book to the fair. 
Since the theme of our book fair was the Book Fair Diner, I used my cricut to cut out these ice cream scoops to show our progress all week. Every day we earned $100 in spare change, we added a scoop to our cone. If we made our goal of $1,000 for the week, we got to put the cherry on top. As you can see by the picture below, we made our goal!!! 

I cut all of the letters and the scallop border around the window out with my cricut too. And now that I'm looking at the picture, I can see that we forgot to put how much we collected for Free-For-All Friday. We were also setting up the book fair on Friday, so I think that got lost in all the other things going on by that time. Oh well! 

This spring fair went much smoother for us than the fall fair. The fall fair was the first one for the three of us and was a huge learning experience. We were like pros this time around! 

The picture below shows Spencer shopping with his class at the fair. The picture isn't the best, but it is the only one I have. 

I forgot to get a picture of Connor shopping. :-(


I spent pretty much all of last week at the school. So I haven't been able to do much creating lately. I hope to get back in the swing of things soon. I have some birthday cards to make for this month. Plus one of the message boards I visit is holding a Scrap Olympics this month. I already missed the first week of competition, but I'm hoping to enter a few events. Since I was the big loser in our family Olympics the boys held here last week, I'm hoping to redeem myself in the Scrap Olympics! 


Thanks for visiting me! 

Spongebob Valentine's Day Boxes

I love my Cricut. Love it! I recently purchased the Spongebob Cart because I have two Spongebob loving boys and I thought they would have some fun with it. Who knew I would have so much fun making Valentine's Day boxes with it!


First up is Connor's Box. He wanted Spongebob's Pineapple house. I plugged in my Gypsy with the Spongebob cart loaded in and started cutting out my pieces! Easy Peasy! 

I think it turned out so cute! I painted a shoe box black and then added my cut pieces to it. 

The heart was cut from the Gypsy Wanderings cart already loaded onto the Gypsy. I then just stamped the Happy Valentine's Day to make Spongebob a

little sign. 

The door opens and that is where the kids can drop their valentines for Connor into it. 

Spencer chose the Krusty Krab for his box. This wasn't quite as easy. There are lots and lots of pieces to the Krusty Krab. It was like putting a puzzle together after I cut everything out. 

And I made a Valentine sign for Mr. Krabs too. The hole is on top of the box for the kids to drop their Valentines in. I was afraid the doors to the Krusty Krab would be a little too small to accomodate the Valentine treats Spencer will be getting. 

I have been busy all week making these boxes and a few cards. I will post the cards later this week or weekend. I have to wait for the recipients to receive them first! 

Thanks again for visiting me! And Happy Valentine's Day! 

Super Easy Holiday Wall Art

So last week I was sitting in the doctor's office waiting room (just a check-up), when I picked up a copy of Southern Living magazine. I've never really looked at this magazine, but as I was perusing through it I came across the cutest idea.  Now I have looked all over their website for the instructions but I can't find them anywhere. And I didn't want to buy the magazine, so I just decided to improvise from my memory to make it. 

These are the supplies you will need. Three embroidery hoops (I have one 10" and two 14" hoops, orange felt, some buttons, scissors, hot glue gun, a scarf, and some fabric. I happened to have an old sweater set that was in my "to be donated/garage sale box" that I used. So this whole project cost me $5.16 for the 3 hoops and piece of orange felt since I already had everything else. Can you guess what I'm making? 

Lay your hoop over your fabric of choice

 and cut it out. 

You will end up with your three hoops

 looking like this.

Next I cut a long triangle out of the felt. 

To keep the edges of my fabric from fraying and showing, I hot glued them to the hoop. 

So your three hoops end up looking like this. 

Then lay out your face on the smallest hoop 

and hot glue them down.

 This is a no sewing project which I love!

Then hang the hoops up on the wall and you have a 3-dimensional snow man! 

I tried to use the wacky tac stuff to hang my hoops but it would not hold the larger hoops. I ended up just using a straight pen. For the scarf I hung it on one of those 3m hooks and then used a few straight pens to anchor it better too. 

Here is a side view. Now you could paint the hoops white if you wanted, but I like the look of them as they came. I added the vinyl hat and snowflakes. I cut the hat by hand, and used my Cricut for the snowflakes. 

The project was super fast to do. The actual snowman probably only took me a little over an hour to put together. The only thing I would have liked differently is to have the middle circle smaller than the bottom one. When I went to buy the hoops at Michaels, they didn't have any of the 12" size in stock. And I didn't want to drive all over the place for that size, so I just went with what they had. 

I hope you like my super, fast, easy, (inexpensive) Holiday wall art project!  Thanks again for visiting me! 

Halloween Cards

I signed up on the Creating Keepsakes message board months ago for a Halloween card swap. I love doing these swaps because it is so much better to get a bunch of creative cards in the mail than bills!

And as anyone who knows me well will know, I tend to wait until the last minute to get things done. So I finished these up last night. And I have a week to spare. Not too bad for me!!!

I used plain black card stock and the Cuttlebug Spider Web embossing folder. I lightly misted the front of the cards with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Glacier. You can't really tell in the pictures, but the glimmer mist gives the webs just a little bit of an iridescent look.

The spiders were cut on a Cricut with the Doodlecharms cart. I then embossed them with some silver to make them stand out against the card. The eyes are Orange Stickles. I put the spiders on the front with a pop-dot and then kind of bent the legs up to give them a 3-D look.

Thanks for looking at my first creative post on the blog!