Piece of Cake...

I have an exciting announcement.... I got the Expression!!!!(go to Hallmarkscrapbook.com~they have the BEST PRICES!!!) Now I feel like I have doubled my cartridges because I can do cuts that are too small for my baby bug (but I still love her!) I was dying to make things out of Tags Bags Boxes and More that were bigger than an inch when completed!!! I decided to make the cake box cut for my sister for her birthday. (Carrie if you are reading this before you get the package....SURPRISE!) I would have waited but I love the way it turned out! I used the fabulous Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Punch. I love the look of this punch! I even sewed on my ribbon and pulled it so it made my "whipped cream". My kids couldn't put it down and they want me to make them their own cake! I can't wait to make all of the purses, bags, envelopes, etc that I have been dying to make for 2 years!!! So hopefully there will be a lot of posting in the next little while!

I am not really sure what this new trend is of adding buttons to your pictures but I thought I would try it out.... still not real sure what all of the woopla is about but there it is... If you know the inside track of the picture embellishment let me know!

Thanks for stopping by! ~ Jenny

Baby Boy Card~ Silly Monkey

I LOVE the monkey from New Arrivals. He is so cute! I wish I knew what to do with the eyes from this cart (like the elephant, giraffe, duck, etc.) so if you have ANY suggestions PLEASE let me know. The google eyes were OK for this one because I wanted it to be a little silly but I am not a big fan of google eyes.

This is such an easy card because I used the creative feature CARD 3 key and it makes the card ready to go with the scallop edge! So easy but so very cute!!!! I knew that I wanted to see the inside of the sewing so I put brown on the bobbin so that I could put my nephews name in the inside the stitched part of the card.

Let me know of your EYE SUGGESTIONS!!!!!!

Thanks,

jenny

Onsie Baby Card

I love New Arrivals. There are so many cute cuts in this cartridge! I have a some new nephews born and we found out my sister is having a boy too! So with all of the new boys in the family I need boy baby cards. (On my side of the family I am the only one with girls!) All of the paper is from DCWV Nana's Nursery mat stack. I love that the paper says "onesies and blakets and diapers, oh my!" Welcome is a stamp from stampin up that I am borrowing from a friend(thanks Michelle!) The onesie is on pop-dots. I love those things!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenny

Not scrabooking but still fun!

I am in charge of a cooking group for church. Once a month we get together and we have a theme picked out such as salads, chicken, etc. and then everyone brings a dish to share and we have one person demo their specialty. Then everyone emails me their recipe and I put together an electronic cookbook and send it out. It is A LOT of fun and it is always a great night. On Thurs. our theme was DESSERTS. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! I wanted to bring something that I am thinking about bringing to the OCT. SWARM (which I can't wait for!!!!) so here is my dessert. They are cupcake pops and they are TASTY! And I think they are so cute! I got them off of this blog http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/04/make-your-cupcakes-pop.html. She has awesome instructions. They seem a little labor intensive and they were until I just got rid of the step with the cookie cutter. I just made 2 balls out of the dough and flattened the bottom ball, dipped that in chocolate and squished on the top ball and let it dry and then dipped the top and decorated. Anyway they are delicious and cute!

jenny

AND THE WINNER IS.....

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So it looks like the winner is Momma Twitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!! Send your address to jennytitus@gmail.com and I will get you your fun goodies!!!!

Thanks everyone for playing and I LOVED reading about all of the things that we all love!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
Jenny

"PAY IT FORWARD" BLOG CANDY

Blog Candy Fun

It is finally time for my 1st BLOG CANDY give away! I am calling it the "pay it forward" blog candy because I won Grammas house of cards blog candy and I wanted to pay it forward! By the way, go and check out Grammas house of cards blog...it is AMAZING!

I am giving away....

6 bags of skittles in assorted colors.

1 8x8 paper blog by Provo Craft (one of my favorite companies!) there are 90 sheets in the pack

15 Sheets of Alphabet Stickers from Provo Craft

3 12x12 Page Kits from Top Line Creations (Laugh, Life, and 10 Things)

In order to win you need to leave a comment about something crafty that you could NOT LIVE WITHOUT (like for me it is the Cricut :)

I will use Random.org generator to pick a winner on Saturday Sept. 13.

*If you would like to put the word out on your blog that would be appreciated! Can't wait to see your what your favorite things will be!

Birthday Card

The outside
The inside We are going to Southern California this weekend to visit my family and we are celebrating my moms and my nephews birthday so I made my mom a card with Storybook. I LOVE this cartridge! There are so many fun things that are on it! All of the cuts are from storybook and I used the fabulous Martha Stewart punch (this is something that I find myself using on all of my cards lately!). The cockatoo is popped up with pop dots. I made a rub-on for the Happy Birthday Mom. I think she will think it is a fun card. She has a cricut but she is not even close to having the obsession that I have with mine. (which is probably very healthy)

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend and look for some BLOG CANDY FUN coming VERY SOON!!!!!!!!!

Much too long

I have been going crazy getting the kids ready for school and I am also in charge of our "super Saturday" at Church and so I have been making several different crafts like CRAZY! Unfortunately I did not take pictures of any of them (yet). They are at Church for the next 5 week so that everyone can sign up but when I get them back I will post. BUT FOR NOW I made a few thank you cards and I did get a picture of one before they all went out the door.

It is a simple card made with Mini Monograms cart and swiss dot and thank you cuttlebug folders. I have been borrowing a sewing machine (thanks Valerie!) and so I have been sewing like crazy on all of my projects! It is so much fun!

I am going to announce my PAY IT FORWARD BLOG CANDY in the next few days!!! I am seriously behind in getting this out but now I can think and I wanted it to be good Candy fun! So stay posted!

1st Day of School Crayon Wreath

I wanted to make decorations for the back to school lunch and so I made these VERY EASY wreaths.

I used the middles of 2 embroidery hoops. The big one is 12 inches and the small one is 8 inches.

I used almost all of the 64 pack of crayons to hot glue around the hoops.

I used LOCKER TALK to cut out the scissors at 5 inches and then embossed the bottom of them with silver embossing powder.

I used my black cricut marker to draw my ruler at 3 inches. Then I changed back to my blade and cut out the ruler.

I used the marker again to draw the Report card at 5 inches and then cut it out.

A+ was cut at 1 inch

The word "Trajan" (my children's school) was cut using All Mixed Up with the Design Studio software so I could weld parts of the word and make it smaller than 1 inch.

"Elementary"is Alphalicious.

The apple was cut out with Doodlecharms at 2 1/2 inches.

I glued the things that I had cut onto the wreath and added some curling ribbon and glued the scissors on top of that. You could put your child's teachers name on it instead of the schools name for a really cute 1st day of school gift. I usually give these to my kids teachers at the end of the year but I was not prepared last year so I am doing it now... Better late then never right?

Wall hanging~ BBTB contest

I really loved the inspiration magazine ad that Regina picked out at BBTB. I decided to make a wall hanging for the family room with Home Accents. I used scalloped chipboard frames and inked them dark brown and then added all of the fun embellishments. Home Accents has all of the swirls and beautiful sayings so when I saw "live, laugh, love" I knew that that was the perfect thing that I needed for the wall. The W and M are Heidi Swapp chipboard letters and the off white lettering is Making Memories rub ons. I used pop dots under live, laugh, love to help give it a little depth. Thanks for looking and wish me luck...

Sadies Birthday presents

Sadie just had her 3rd birthday! VERY LAST MINUTE I decided after I had wrapped all of her presents at midnight, that they were too plain and she would LOVE some cricut love on them! So I whipped out Happily Ever After and because it was so late I thought that I would just keep it really simple and just do some of the shapes! But then I thought that they were too plain and so I had to whip out the stickles and decorate them up! I should have just made the princesses! Sometimes (and this time I am blaming it on total lack of sleep) I just don't make very smart decisions! With all that said, it was a fabulous birthday and she loved all of the gift wrap ALMOST as much as she loved the presents! She did not rip one of the things that were on her presents. She would take them off and hand them to me! She knows what is important to her Mama!

Shannon and Jerry LO

This is my friend Shannon with Jerry when he was a baby. Time has flown by way too fast! I used flowers and ribbon even though it is going in Jerrys book... I just have to be me.