Pumpkin Card

During Ladies Night Out (an event for the women while the men go to Priesthood Session for General Conference) at our local far away Roberts Crafts, my mom and I took my kids to do some make and takes and play games to win some prizes.  We didn't win anything {boo}, but we had fun making some cute and fun things.  One of them was a card.

It is a lot simpler than it looks.  It is a rectangle that has been scored into some diamond shapes and then folded to create the main diamond shape in the middle. Then a pumpkin was cut out {I assume from a Cricut} and we layered the image onto the card.  The sample at the store showed putting the orange vines on the bottom two corners. I didn't like that so much, so I left mine as is.

If you are still a bit lost, I will put up directions in a later post.


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2x4 wood pumpkins

My favorite medium to use is wood.  My brother works for a window and door company and he has access to free 2x4's which he cuts down and gives to me to finish.  Here are a few pumpkins I have made using 2x4's.  Enjoy!
For this first project, you will need the following:

2x4's {mine are 6" tall}, mod podge {I love this stuff}, wood stain, and your favorite paper {I love using Basic Grey} Not shown: twig, fabric scrap, hot glue and buttons. Cut the paper and mod podge it to your wood. Then stain the whole thing {I use Minwax in dark walnut}.  Once the stain is dry, glue your twig, fabric and buttons.  Then sit back and admire your work.

This next one uses 4" 2x4's, 1" wood squares, and raffia.  This one is pretty simple. Just paint and sand your wood, then glue the 'stem' and raffia.

And, because Halloween is right around the corner, I had to make some Jack-o-Lanterns.  This is still using 4" boards. I also used Pumpkin Carving Cricut cartridge. Again, just paint the wood, glue the stem and attach vinyl.

{prices are shown on them because I recently had these at a local boutique}

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Countdown to....

The other day, we were driving down the road when we passed my son's school and he got really sad and said that he missed his school he wanted to go back. I love that he enjoys school so much and that he does well.  It would be so much harder to handle if this weren't the case-he is in Special Ed-he has High Functioning Autism.  So, awhile back I made a back to school countdown and I have had to break it out recently. 

I know, it's barely summer and I am already doing a back to school countdown.  But, wouldn't this be fun for Birthday, Vacation or any special and/or fun occasion.  I just used an 8.5x11 cardstock.  I cut the school bus and numbers from the Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge, laminated everything then I attached a strip of velcro to each side of the sheet and to the back of each number using E6000-love that stuff! I also glued some velcro to the center of the sign to attach how many days are remaining.  And, I use the 6 and 9 interchanably so I only had to cut one of them.

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Today's Creative Blog

Easter Cards

This year for Easter, I made cards for all my nieces and nephews using the Stretch Your Imagination Cricut Cartridge. I pre-cut everything to take to the midnight crop at the Original USA Scrapbook Expo. I spent a good portion of the night assembling them (I have 7 nieces, 6 nephews). Here is the finished project. I ended up putting a tag on the front that said, "Got Eggs?" I know, really original. I liked the end product, and the kids LOVED them.



Products used: cardstock-Bazzill, patterned paper-Basic Grey Lily Kate Collection

Amazing Talent

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of being part of a Talent Night that our Relief Society's Enrichment committee did for our quarterly activity. It was a night to celebrate every woman's talents-no matter how small they believe their talent to be. We asked the women to bring items to "show-off" on display tables. We had everything from artwork to digital scrapbooks. We also did a talent show for those who wanted to "perform" their talent. We had two women play piano, three danced, one did a poetry reading, one showed how to decorate a cake using fondant, one showed a quick and super-cute up do and one showed how to accessorize their wardrobe to create a whole new look. I am so amazed by the incredibly talented and beautiful women that were in attendance that night. I am passionate about those who find, develop and share their talents. The theme was that not everyone can be a star. There was only one Beethoven, Monet and Pavarotti. Some women's talents are being the supporting act. And, you never know when your seemingly insignificant talents will help someone else out. I would like to share some of that talent with you now.

I love to create

For as long as I can remember, I have always loved to create. I owe this to my mom. I don't ever remember a family trip (only camping) when she didn't take her sewing machine. It has even gone to Tennessee! She was always working on some type of project. Whether it be sewing, plastic canvas, or crosstich. It wasn't until just a few years ago that I was able to repay the favor and teach her how to create scrapbook pages and other paper crafting items. Now we are both on the search for new and creative ideas to show each other. So, thank you mom for instilling this love for creating. Enjoy a few pictures of things that I have made recently.

Pic #1: a fun garbage can I made for my scrap room. Pic #2: a card and matching gift bag for my niece's Dora/Snow Fairy themed birthday party. Pic #3: a company sign for my car. Pic #4: sampling of cards I came up with for our Enrichment Craft group. Pic #5: A framed poem I made for a Super Saturday project. Pic #6: A countdown for my son so he doesn't wake up every morning asking if he can go on the bus today. Pic #7: a goodbye/thank you for my hubby's previous job. He requested that I make them very simple-I did his version of simple, not mine ;}