Baby Shower Centerpieces - Cans

Hi everyone! These are pictures of baby shower centerpieces that I just got done making. They are going to be filled with flowers and placed on the tables and around the room. The picture at the top (of the monkey) is being placed on a pick which will be inserted into the flowers so that he'll be sitting on top of it all eating his banana. :) They were made to match the invitation (pictured on the left in each picture).

Materials Used:

• Empty Gallon Can
• Light blue paper
• Close to my Heart Ink - #Z2145 Ponderosa Pine
• Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps - #SSC160 Changito DOS (Vine used)
• Cricut Cartridges - Doodlecharms (tree), Animal Kingdom (monkey, elephant, giraffe)
• Cardstock - Brown, green, gray, white, yellow, cream, tan
• Martha Stewart Glitter - Crystal fine, Golden Beryl, Peridot
• Coloring pencils, crayons, markers
• Adhesive
• Pony beads (for handle)

Froggy Thank you Card

This is a thank you card I made for my friend Lynn for her kindness and brain. She showed me this great technique for coloring the little plastic "beads" with alcohol inks. :P

Materials Used:

• Black, Violet and yellow cardstock
• Nestables templates
• StayzOn Ink
• Frog Stamp
• Thank you stamp
• Prismacolor pencils - #PC912, PC956, PC932, PC909 and yellow
• Alcohol Ink - Purple
• Colorfill floral beads
• Adhesive

Frog Kiss Tag

Hello everyone! I spent the day yesterday with my friend Lynn helping her with her daughter's wedding invites. In return, she not only gave me more things than I will know what to do with, she introduced to me to a whole new world of blending! I made this cute little guy just because I really like frogs. I had 10 minutes to cut, edge, blend and glue before I HAD to run out the door in a whirlwinds of hugs, thank yous and paper, to get pick up hubby from work! Thank you for SUCH a wonderful day Lynn! (And thanks for all the new "toys" to play with!)

Materials Used:

• Blue cardstock
• Dark blue cardstock
• Green cardstock
• Nestables template
• White cardstock
• Primsacolor pencils (I'm sorry, I don't have the color numbers for you. There just wasn't time.)
• Terponoid (love it!)
• Blendy pens (I'm sure there's an official name for them)
• Adhesive
• SCAL software
• FrogKiss template
• Cricut (for cutting)

Cream, Shimmer and Brown Wedding Invitaitons - Registry Card

Hello, still or again. LOL. The last picture of my wedding invitation series. I used the shimmer paper to print out the couple's registry information. They had asked to have Home Depot cards listed also since they have just purchased a house together and wanted to be ready for anything.

Materials Used:

• Shimmer paper - Champagne
• Font - Harrington

Cream, Shimmer and Brown Wedding Invitations - Response Cards

Hi all! My friend Jill used this cute tag idea on her daughter's response cards I fell IN LOVE!! So, I used them here. To tie them into the invitations, since I couldn't make them inside a sleeve as well, I used a lighter colored paper to make the envelopes to represent the shimmer paper, the response card is the same paper as the invitation and the shimmery brown ribbon not only represents the brown bow on the invitation, but, also the glitter of the monograms.

Materials Used:

• Cream paper
• Ivory paper
• Shimmer ribbon

Cream, Shimmer and Brown Wedding Invitations (Sleeve)

Hi everyone. Here's my latest creation! A monochromatic invitation with a splash of brown. :) The sleeve is the shimmer paper and the invitation slides out and is a bi-fold. Hope you like it!

Materials Used:

• Cream colored paper
• Shimmer paper - Champagne
• Brown ribbon - 1/8"
• Cricut Cartridge - Base Camp
• Martha Stewart Glitter - Brownstone
• Adhesive

Give a hoot!

Hello out there! My friend and I went to a Cricut demo at Costco yesterday where they were having a GREAT deal on cartridges - three for the price of one! So, my most wonderful friend got the three carts that I've been wanting to have! Woo hoo! SCORE! Time for a cartridge swap! :D

I was playing with the Wild Cards cart and I made this totally cute little guy along with his envelope. Still not sure what to do with him, but he is sooo cute!!!

Materials Used:

• Cricut Cartridge - Wild Card (This card and envelope were made on 3.5 dial size)
• Brown textured cardstock
• Blue textured cardstock
• Green cardstock scrap
• Cream cardstock scrap
• White paper (for inside of card)
• Googly eyes
• Orange marker
• Glue