OMG! I am back!. I have been away for quite some time. New job, home improvements, and new cutting machines have kept me quite busy. Well, all is not lost as I have an overdue for some crafting; especially now that I have added a silhouette (Thanks Kyla), and some other neat crafting gadgets to my new crafting space.

So stay tuned as I unveil some new projects, and start to combine many of my machines and gadgets to make great gift ideas and other projects.

Halloween Treats

Well, I have been very busy making over 100 Halloween goodies for my daughter, nephew and my BF two children. I enjoy creating things for their classmates. I try to do something for each holiday. For the younger children, I made decorated some small treat bags that I found at Michael's with Halloween patterned paper and cuts from the mini monster cart and wrap it up.

For my daughter, I decorated pillow boxes and filled them with candy. I used some spider and potion stickers from Michael's. The boxes were wrapped with orange ribbon. Then I made 25 tombstone shaped cards to go with the boxes using the Life's a Party cart. She is ging to write a spooky poem for the inside.

Finally we could not forget the teachers. So for them I used a Hot off the Press stencil to make picnic baskets out of card stock . They were filled with candy and wrapped in clear bags. I used the wrap it up cart to make name tags for the baskets.

Celebrate the Occasion

I decided to make a card for the Celebrate the Occasion challenge. I used the Best Friends Imagine cart to make a quick doll and the challenge had to include ribbon. I just punched the side and threaded some teal ribbon through.

Clown B-day

Here is a quick card, I made using the paper doll dress up cart. Some balloon stickers from Hobby Lobby,  and card stock from Michael's. Clown was printed with the Imagine.I will be entering this on the Die Cuttin Divas page.

I'm BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my where has the time gone. Well, I was away for a minute because I had a ton of events to get ready for. First, I graduated Aug. 13 with a Master Degree in Health Administration. So glad that is over, and I am proud to say I obtained a 4.0 GPA. Next was back to school for my daughter. She is in the 8th grade this year and in all double honor courses. So, we had to design her book cover, notebooks, and folders. Not to mention she is also a very talented flute player. That means more lessons and fundraisers. Finally I had to reset my mind to get ready for health information manger course work for the next 6 months to get my certification.

Crafting was my relief from all of that. I just forgot to post what I had been doing still getting used to this. So, I am back with lots of craft projects and some new machines and items that I received for graduation, ( Cricut Imagine and Cinch Binding Machine to name a few.

M.A.G. Challenge 40

Another challenge with M.A.G. this week and it is another cart that I have but haven't really used. So this was a bit of a challenge. I decided to make a 8x8 layout using the shadow piece and the back drop for my picture.

Back to School

Here is a quick card, I put together using the 3 Birds on Parade cart and an image from my new baby the Cricut Imagine. I made these cards for my daughter, nephew and nieces who are returning to school this week. I plan to post more of the back to school projects I have made in the last week like book covers, notebook covers, and book marks.