January's Kids Card Kit

This month for the kids card kit we are looking ahead to Valentines Day!
Each kit will contain all the pieces required to make the cards in the pictures plus envelopes so that the cards can be mailed or given to someone special. 
Please feel free to change up the cards any way you feel like. The pictures are just an example of how the cards can go together, add anything you may have at home to the cards or alter the pieces anyway you like :). Colour in the backgrounds, use your favourite scissors or add your special blend of glitter to make the cards your own.

Here are this months 5 cards:

Card #1:

Above is the finished card and below is all the pieces you need to make this card.

Here is a video of me putting this card together:

Card #2

I just love this cute little bee card! The above picture is the completed card and below is all the pieces needed to make it :)

Here is a video of me putting this card together: 

Card #3

This great card is perfect for those guys in your life. The above card is the complete card and below are all the pieces need to make it.

Here is the video of me putting this card together:

Card #4

This is another fun card that would be great for those guys in your life, Dad, Grandpa, brother, uncle...

Above is the complete card and below are all the pieces you need to put this card together. 

Here is a video of me putting this card together:

And finally Card #5

This fun interactive card is so much fun! When opening the envelope for this card please be careful for all the little pieces. Above is the completed card and a picture of it and of it open :)  

below are all the pieces needed to make this card.

Here is a video of me putting this card together:

I hope you have a lot of fun putting your cards together and mailing them off to friends and family!!

Thanks for stopping by,

                                          

Cheryl

One Snowflake 3 Cards

Well it's been a couple of weeks now since Christmas and I thought that it would be nice to send out some thank you notes to our family for their wonderful gifts that our boys received this Christmas.

I have always liked the 'thank you Snow much' sentiment and I love snowflakes too so I thought that I would make some pretty cards this year. 

I recently got a new Cricut machine and I thought it would be nice to use the Cricut markers for the sentiments and an image from the Winter Lace Cricut cartridge. I used one snowflake image for all three cards.

I also decided to use my Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder on one of the cards for snowflakes overload...lol

The snow globe was cut from a PaperTrey Ink die. The label tied to it with the sentiment is from the Cricut Forever Young cartridge and the background stamp on the small square card is the wood grain background stamp from MFT.  It was inked up with the SSS Dark Chocolate ink. 

The backgrounds were created with some distress inks, Broken China, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch and a mini distress blending tool.  

Now for the hard part, to get my boys to fill them out and get them into the mail!! 

Thanks for stopping by,

 Cheryl

Kids Card Kit

Hello!! Today I am here with something very exciting. I have been working on something fun over the last couple of weeks and I am pleased to share with you my Kids Card Kit :)

This kit is designed for your children to do with you or independently, depending on their age. This is something fun for all those who love to craft!!

Each kit will contain all the pieces required to make the cards in the pictures plus envelopes so that the cards can be mailed or given to someone special. 
Please feel free to change up the cards any way you feel like. The pictures are just an example of how the cards can go together, add anything you may have at home to the cards or alter the pieces anyway you like :). Colour in the backgrounds, use your favourite scissors or add your special blend of glitter to make the cards your own.

Each kit will cost $10.00 with free delivery if you live in the Kingston area. If you require your kit to be mailed to you I will need to get back to you with shipping costs. Please just let me know where you are in the comment section below.... And now on to the kit!!!


Five cards and six little yellow hearts for embellishing your cards:)

Card #1

Above is the finished card

and below are all the pieces to make that card

Here is a video of me putting together this card:

Card #2

Above is the completed card and

below are all the pieces to complete this card

Please know that you will get only one circle with the stamped superhero, it is stamped on both sides. For the picture I stamped two circles so you could see them together :)

Here is a video of me putting this card together:

Card #3

The first two are of the completed card and 

below are all of the pieces of this card

If you would like some help putting it together watch this quick video:

Card #4

Above is the completed card and 

below are all the pieces to create this card. 

I know this card is more feminine than the others but it can always be sent to an auntie or grandma :)

Here's a video of me putting this card together

Card #5

Above is the completed card and

below are the many pieces for this cute card :)

Here is a video of me putting this card together:

I hope you have a lot of fun putting your cards together and mailing them off to friends and family!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Craft Room Updates

Well it has been hot hot hot over the past couple weeks and I haven't had a lot of time to craft but I did have some time to do some craft room reorganizing :).
My craft room organizing was nothing big but I did reorganize a closet in the back of my room that was full of clothes and boxes from our move from four years ago which I finally pulled  apart and dealt with.  It turns out that most of the stuff in the closet was able to be donated which freed up a lot of room for me and  my craft stuff...lol   
There were some boxes that did remain so I stacked them on the left side of the closet which freed up the remaining middle and right side!  We had a broken shelf in the garage which was going to go to the dump, so I brought it in and fixed it. Now it is sitting in my closet holding a lot of the stuff which was jammed in amongst everything else in that overstuffed closet .  I wish I had a before picture but I do you have an after picture, I have just been in love with how the closet has turned out!!

Another area of my craft room that changed last week was my cubed shelving. It previously held our printer on the top of it which has now been relocated my husband's portion of the downstairs, which has left it free for me to pull out my beloved Cricut machine. 

Over the past two years it had been on a shelf and was really difficult to use but now that it's out and ready,  I can't wait to get using it once again.  I also took some time and rearrange two shelves so I could reorganize all of my Cricut cartridges in a way that I can see them and have them ready and on hand :)

One great final edition has been this car air freshener from Bath & Body Works. I really love all their candles, hand creams, soaps and well just about everything...lol.  I went there looking for a small candle for in my space but I have always been very cautious about candles so I was really happy when I stumbled upon this cute little thing:

It smells just wonderful! Our whole basement smells just like Sweet Pea... It smells just like the candle without any of the danger ;) (I'm just really worried that I'll forget to blow a candle out)

Thanks for stopping by,

 Cheryl

A Festive Evening

Today was another busy but fun day. Matthew, my oldest son had his youth group's Christmas dinner at church tonight. He has been really excited about tonight and had been planning everything out all week...lol
He had asked me to make a card for his youth group leader and a Santa Chocolate bar.
Here is what I made:

 

 

For the Santa bar I used my Cricut for the little buckle, everything else was cut with a punch, my paper cutter or ripped against a ruler. I used some wink of Stella on the black buttons for some extra shine :)

 

 

For the card I used my Distress Inks to create the background, the Santa and the houses were cut using  my Cricut. I used the Christmas cartridge for the Santa's sled and the Winter woodland cartridge for the houses. I layered some white paper that I ripped along a curvy ruler to create the snowy layers, some silver Color Box ink and a star stamp to finish off the card!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Ho Ho Ho - Santa Card!!

Last night Mike and I spent a good part of our evening filling out our Christmas Cards and addressing all the envelopes. I dropped off  all of the cards at the post office this morning and I am happy to say they are on their way to our friends and family!! :)

This is one of the Christmas cards that I mass produced this year, it was a lot of fun to make and I think that Santa is so cute...lol
I posted a video to my YouTube channel describing the process of how I made it, so I thought that I would share it here too:

 

 

 

I Hope that you had a great Monday, I feel like this week will be really busy with 5 days of school left for my boys until their Christmas break. I was out running errands today with a good friend and felt like I got  lot accomplished (Yay!!), which was a great start to my week...lol

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

 

My First Christmas Card for 2014

I am really getting excited about Christmas, I have been listening to Christmas music for a little while now and I have begun to pull out a couple of our decorations!

Over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking of Christmas card layouts and Sunday I had the chance to spend some time at my desk creating them!! I made two Christmas cards on Sunday and yesterday and today I edited the video for the first card I made :)

Here is the video that I shared on my YouTube channel:

If you have the chance to watch my video, I would love to know what you think of my voice over/new format of my videos. The beginning was a little rushed but the rest I thought went ok... If you could leave a comment in the comment section below that would be great!



I am really happy with how this card turned out and I really love that Hero Arts background stamp!!! I have some more cards in mind for that background stamp coming soon :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Fall Cards

Today I finished the last of my fall time cards. I have had fun creating these fall cards this year, for each card that I shared I made two of them to send off to different family and friends.
I have some of them in the mail already but I still have many more to fill out and send off which I am hoping to do tonight :)

Here is my YouTube video of my final card:



This week has been full of fall card making... I am a leader of a girls group in my church and this week we also made some fall/ Thanksgiving cards. Each girl made two cards, this way they could write letters for two special people in their lives and tell them how they were thankful for them.

Here are the "kits" I prepared for them:



The turkey, pumpkin, and speech bubble are all cut from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge. The leaves are cut from the Doodle Charm and the Flower Shop cartridge. The pretty label was cut with a Papertrey Ink label die and finally the kraft paper was embossed with the Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots.

The stamped sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp set Lots of Thanks and the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment is stamped with a My Pink Stamper stamp from the Happiest Moments stamp set.

One of the only non fall/Thanksgiving card I made this week was for my niece. I have been dying to make her a shaker card ever since I received my Papertrey Ink shaker kit and then Sparkle and Shine stamp set.



I feel like I am addicted to making shaker cards...lol I cannot begin express how much I love this kit, I have had so much fun creating all these shaker cards :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Happy Fall

With this being the last weekend of summer I am looking forward to fall. The leaves have started to turn and the colours are just beautiful.
This time of year I love to send out fall cards, I get so inspired by all of the beautiful colours around me and it's a great reason to say hello to family and friends :)

Todays card is a layered card with lots of colour!

I started off with some water colour paper and distress inks. I grabbed my Fire Brick red, Mustered Seed yellow, Wild Honey orange and Peeled Paint green. I water coloured all the colours all together for the background and then layered some vellum over top to soften the colours up a little.

I cut this cute little tag from my Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolhouse and stamped the sentiment from the Papertrey Ink stamp set Falling Leaves. The yellow, orange and red leaves were cut with my Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and inked up around the edges with the same colour distress inks as the background.

I had a lot of fun creating this card and I hope to make a couple more through the week :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



A Card For a Friend :)

Well here we are at the end of another week and I am really looking forward to the weekend!! We don't have any real plans but I have a couple of things that I would like to do :)

I have not had much time at my craft table this week but I did manage to make a card the other day. I made this card for a really close friend, who has been very busy at our church getting things organized and set up for a lot of our children's groups. I know this can be a very busy and overwhelming task, so I wanted to make a little card to show her some encouragement.

I used my Cricut and Plantin Schoolhouse cartridge to cut out the heart and put some watercolour behind. I used three distress markers to paint the background on the watercolour and then splattered the front of the card with the remaining colour. The sentiment is from a My Favorite Things stamp set, Cheerful Blessings. 

I love how this card has turned out and I really love that stamp set. I have had a chance to play with it over the last couple of weeks and cannot wait to share what I have created :)

I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Trampolining...

It's been a really busy couple of days here for me, the weekends seem to just fly by!!! My oldest son was away on a sleep over and I had a bus
y day on Sunday at church.

About a week ago our neighbour gave us their trampoline that they were no longer using and our boys have just LOVED it!! They have coined a new term when referencing our new trampoline: "Hey mom, can I go trampolining"...lol

 Here is Bobby showing off his moves for me, so I thought I would grab my camera... I'm glad I did because what a fun shot!!! :)

I was humming a hawing about what to do for out neighbours to say thank you and a friend suggested I should bake them some cookies, so that's what I did!! I made them this card to go with the cookies:

I used my Create a Critter Cricut cartridge for the two houses and a Papertrey Ink stamp set for the thank you sentiment. I wasn't sure about the thank you neighbour part because of the spelling but in the end I thought it was to cute to pass it up and it fit my thought exactly!!!

On a much different note I thought I would share another picture of Bobby with on of his favourite things, a Tim Horton's smile cookie! He has loved these cookies for the last four years and today Mike surprised him with one after supper :)

I had a nice surprise today too, I had some happy mail!!! When I got home I had these lovely crafty goodies waiting for me in my mail box:

On September 1st Simon Says Stamp started their Stamptember and released a lot of new goodies. I have yet to decide what to order but I did know that I would love to have a nice new yellow ink. I know that is a rather odd thing to order on its own but I only have two dark yellow so this would be a welcome addition and by ordering the yellow ink I received these balloon dies for free!!! I cannot wait to play with my new goodies tomorrow and test out this yellow :)

Well I hope that you have had a great day today!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl