Co-Worker Birthday Card

(Sorry for the pics...my camera is not working so I took these with my phone)



This is my first attempt at card making!  I made a birthday card for one of my fellow co-workers whose birthday is this Saturday!  I hope she likes it.  I'm also entering the card in a few blog challenges!

The first blog challenge is from the Mojo Monday Challenge Sketch Challenge: Mojo Monday 206 Round or Square?  and they gave me the idea for the shape and layout of the card.  Don't you just love it?

The card base is cardstock from DCWV Pocket full of Posies Stacks as well as the yellow-orange tag. I can't remember where I got the brown and pink-striped paper from (those came from my stash as well...see challenge below). I ribbon I used is left over from a onsie I made in July that I bought from my local Hobby Lobby store.

The second blog challenge is from the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge: Challenge Me Monday #75 - Use the color yellow in which I was to use the color yellow in my design.  As you can see there are many accents of yellow in almost every part of the card!  I used Recollections brads that I bought from Michaels ages ago as well as the yellow gems.  I can't even remember where I bought the other 3 stickers and the one inside the card!  That's how long they have been in my stash (see challenge below).
I used my Cricut Expressions machine and selected the scalloped circle from the Essentials cartridge as the base of my card.  I cut two at 5.5 inches and inked the edges with yellow.  I also used the cartridge to cut out the inner circles from the blue, yellow, and brown paper.  I used sandpaper to distress the edges of the blue circle and inked the two half circles with blue.  Then using my American Crafts Memory Marker in Denim I added some faux stitching around the two halves and wrote "Beset Wishes". 

The third blog challenge comes from the Just Add Ink Challenge: JAI 82 - Just Add...Something from your stash! in which I added the ribbon and embellishments from my stash!  I have had them for ages and was excited that a blog challenge had me looking through my things to find just the right finishing touches!

The fourth and final blog challenge is from the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: CFC17: Use Stickers in your Clean And Simple design.  We just had to use stickers in our designs for this challenge and I used several birthday themed 3D stickers: cupcake, piece of birthday cake, and party hat! Such fun!

Back-to-school Survival Treat Bags

So my summer break is officially over after today! :-( 

In preparation for returning to work, I made these SUPER cute back-to-school survival treat bags for the other VI staff that I work with. 

(Sorry about the pics...having trouble with my camera so I took them with my daughter's iphone.)

I got the idea from SVGCuts.com.  They have some excellent SVG files for your cutting machine/software.  I filled small treat bags with an assortment of chocolate (everyone needs chocolate the first week back to school). 

Then I used my Cricut to cut out the treat bag covers from this REALLY cute paper pack from DCWV (Die Cuts With a View) called "The Grade School Stack".  I cut the cover 5" x 11" with an apple cut out in the front so you can see what is in the treat bag.  Then I cut out the top 5" x 5" with a cute decorative edge on one end for the front of the treat bag. 

Here is the part I am REALLY excited about!  I found a cute apple clip art image in MS Word and printed them on Shrinky Dinks for Inkjet Printers (got it at Michaels) and made these really cute apple charms!

Then I stapled the pieces together (making sure the treat bag was sealed as well) and then attached matching ribbons/fibers...so cute!  Then I used the apple cut-out as the gift tag!

Here are a few pics of each treat bag!