Caden's 4th Birthday Invitations

Well, it is hard to believe that my nephew, Caden, is going to be 4 years old already. Of course, I was asked to make his birthday invitations, which I thoroughly enjoy! These were super fast and easy cards!





Recipe:
A2 card
Monster Truck - 3" - Boys will be Boys (page 75)
Diamond Plate Cuttlebug Folder
My Pink Stamper stamp set - Fancy Phrases

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Candy Corn Treat Boxes

This adorable Candy Corn Treat Box is a scraplift from the My Craft Spot blog. Kimberly cut hers from orange cardstock and created a ribbon handle. Since I plan on making alot of these, I nixed the ribbon handle and I used white cardstock instead of orange.




Recipe:
Cake Box - cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More - cut at 8"
Triangles - cut from Cricut Classic Font - cut at 3.2" x 4.55"
Faces from Peachy Keen

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Candy Corn Halloween Cards

This is another scraplift from the Nothin' Fancy blog (she has some really GREAT ideas).

I had to cut the entire candy corn in each color, trim them, chalk them, I then added some faux stitching (which I'm not very good at), and then stamped them with the cute little Peachy Keen Stamps. The wording I created in WORD.




Recipe:
A2 Card
Candy corns - cut at 9" (with all the other candies hidden on the Gypsy)

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Frankenstein Treat Bags

When my daughter saw the Frankenstein cards she said I HAD to use the same pattern for my Trick or Treat bags this year. I live in a very small town and don't get many trick or treaters, so it isn't a huge undertaking.



Again, this idea is a spin off from Wednesday's card and from the Nothin' Fancy blog.

Recipe:
Treat Bag - Wrap It Up (button 49 with the witch hidden) - cut at 6.6"
Green cardstock - cut at 3" x 4"
Eyes (green & white) - punched at 1"
Eyes (black) - punched at 3/4"
Hair - created on Gypsy using a rectangle & triangles from Cricut Classic Font
Xyron

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Frankenstein Halloween Cards

I absolutely fell in love with this card when I saw it on the Nothin' Fancy blog.

I am all about how to make things easy and in mass quanities quickly. I created the "hair" on my Gypsy so that I didn't have to free hand each one. I ran all the pieces for the eyes and nose through my Xyron.



Recipe:
A2 Card
Green Cardstock - cut at 4.25" x 5.5"
Eyes & Nose (green) - punched at 1.25"
Eyes (white) - punched at 1.25"
Eyes (black) - punched at 1"
Hair - created on Gypsy using a rectangle and triangles from Cricut Classic Font

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Graduation Cards

I really couldn't come up with any ideas for graduation cards this year. I had tried to get the new "Happy Graduation" cartridge but wasn't able to find it. I decided to go with the graduation card on Wrap it Up. I decided to make each card according to each graduates school colors. These were fast and really easy.



Recipe:
Card - 5.64" x 4.25"

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Vinyl Picture Frame

I made this for my Aunt for Mother's Day. Her house is done entirely in a "western" motif. The frame and lettering is all from Old West. Though I did have to find an "alternate" way for the slits in the barbed wire so that there was more of a space between the "wires".

This was a "two man" job to place the vinyl on the glass. I luckily had my daughter close by helping me, otherwise I'm sure it would have been crooked and there would have been a bunch of air bubbles in it! (LOL)



Recipe:
11" x 13" Floating Frame
Black Vinyl
Barbed Wire Frame - 8.83" x 11"
Initial - 3.24" x 6.44"
Last Name - 6.60" x 1"

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Easter "Chick" Easel Card

I can't seem to find my "notes" on these cards accept that they are A2 Easel cards. I can't remember if I scraplifted this from someone of the messageboard or not. If I did, I can't seem to locate the post that I normally print out.

I remember gluing these together by oil lamp sometime before Easter 2011. We had lost power and my dear husband was out trying to get our generator running, so I sat at the kitchen table with the oil lamp gluing all my Easter cards so I could get them mailed out the next day. I was so afraid that when I looked at them in the "real light" that they would probably be a huge mess, but they turned out GREAT!



Recipe:
Card Base - 4.24" x 11"
Score at 5.5" & 3"
Peachy Keen Stamp Set = PK-520 Winter Face Assortment Package
The chick & nest was cut from Create a Critter, but I don't remember what size they are.
Cuttlebug - D'Vine Swirl embossing folder

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Grand-daughter's First Birthday

My grand-daughter is a St. Patrick's Day baby (just like her great-great Grandmother). We had a HUGE 1st birthday party for her at our community center. With trying to get everything planned & decorations made, we went really simple on her birthday invitations.

Of course we had to make a "play" on her being a St. Patrick's day baby and have a shamrock on her invitation and in her decorations.



Recipe:
Shamrocks - 4.73" x 5.15" - Designer's Calendar
Ladybugs - 1.81" x 2" - CM Cheerful Seasons

5.75" x 5.75" - light green cardstock
5.5" x 5.5" - white cardstock
5.25" x 5.25" - lavendar cardstock
5.5" x 5.5" - white cardstock (back of card)(ran through printer with party details)

Thanks for looking,
Melissa

Pray for Cindy window decals

There is a very sick young lady in my community. They determined that she had encephalitis. She was airlifted to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Many in the community have come together to raise funds to help the family with expenses while she is in the hospital. I wasn't able to help out with much of what was being planned, but I knew that I had to do something.

I created this window decal on my Gypsy to help with the fund raising that is being done.



If you would like more information about Cindy she has a Facebook page: "Keep Up The Fight Cindy".

Thanks for looking and PRAY FOR CINDY,
Melissa

Toy Story on Ice "Admit One" Ticket

I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything, but life seems to have me meeting myself coming and going.

Anyway, I have still been crafting (a little). Here is the first post of some of the things I have made over the past 9 months.

Ok, my cousin and his wife "commissioned" me to make a card to give to my nephew for his birthday. They decided for his birthday this year they were going to take him to see Toy Story on Ice. He loved it!!!!





Recipe:
Ticket - 2 @ 8.94" x 4.5" each (welded on the Gypsy) - Mickey Font
Black box - 1 @ 7.54" x 4.2" - Gypsy Wanderings
Numbers - 2 @ 3.94" x 0.64" Cricut Classic Font
Admit One - all letters at 0.80" height - Cricut Classic Font

Inside:
TOY STORY cut @ 4"

Thanks for looking,
Melissa