SCAL and Stampin' Up!'s Vinyl

I have recently discovered the joy of owning SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot). SCAL connects your computer to your Cricut so you can virtually die cut any font or image you can find online. It is AMAZING! So I've been playing with it a bit this week and altered these fun plates.


The plates already had the flowers on them, and I just loved them. So I thought it would be cute to add a fun word to them. Using my SCAL and the Lucida Handwriting font, I cut these words on black vinyl and they turned out pretty darn good.


What fun, plates like these would make for unique personalized gifts! By the way, the plates were purchased at my local Home Goods store for a $1.99 each! The vinyl is from Stampin' Up! which you can purchase through my website and it comes in a ton of great colors!

The ENJOY plate is for my Aunt. She wants to use it as a cookie plate for her Bridge club ladies. Great idea!


Thanks for stoppin' in today! Blessings!

St. Patrick's Pots of Gold

I just wanted to share these very fun little 'Pots of Gold' I gave out to my boys' teachers and all my neighbors.

These are so sweet and lots of fun to make. I painted a 3" terra cotta pot with black craft paint and then did a 2nd coat with a metallic black to give it a bit of a shine. Don't you think the Leprechauns pots of gold have some shine to them? I think they must. ;)


Then I hot glued some random different green ribbons to the rim and added a button shamrock and a little tag that I created with The Print Shop.


Inside is some gold shredded paper filler and 3 gold hershey's nuggets and a chocolate gold coin. Are you aware that it is darn HARD to find those silly gold coin candies!!?? I went to 8 stores not to mention, the dozen that I looked at on line to find them! That is a little obsessed I know, but the pots HAD to have gold coins!! ;)


I wrapped them up in cellophane a tied them with a sweet Irish Blessing that I found online. My kiddo's had a lot of fun handing these out to their teachers and knocking on ALL the (18) neighbor's doors to wish them Happy St. Patrick's Day. That's the best part. It's so fun for me to make these little goodies and then it's so fun to surprise people and give them a little something that they totally didn't expect!


Thanks for checking in with me today and May God bless you and fill your home and heart with gladness and cheer! ;)

Oh ~ I'll be posting my April class soon so keep checking back!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Today I wanted to share with you a little whim I had last week. I don't really know why but I have been really wanting to decorate for St. Patrick's Day this year. I also did a little research on line and found out more about the holiday and about St. Patrick. It's pretty interesting stuff! ;)

However, it is pretty difficult to find nice and inexpensive decorations for St. Patty's Day. So I decided I'd make something of my own. It's not like I don't have enough supplies around anyway, right?!

I grabbed some Wild Wasabi, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White card stock and sat down with my Cricut and the Storybook cartridge. I made the banner out of 3" Wild Wasabi kinda rectangle scallops, then the Whisper White is 2 1/2" rectangle scallops. The letters are made with Pear Pizzazz card stock at 2 1/4". Then the flourish is also Pear Pizzazz at 1 1/2" and I shadowed it with the Wild Wasabi.
For the crown I used the Home Decor cartridge and made it at 1 1/2" with the Pear Pizzazz and Wild Wasabi shadow combo. The ribbon is a fun green with gold edge I had picked up at Michaels at some point.

I hope you enjoy my little project. Thanks for lookin'!

More Flower Fold Dies

Here are some more pictures of fun ways to use the Flower Fold dies.


See the post below for more info. Have a blessed day and add a little bling! ;)

March Flower Pin and Card Class

Is that FABRIC? Why YES it is! lol! This is the new Stampin' Up! Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric and it is darling! In my class this month you will have the opportunity to view this in person and get your hands on it!


In class we will also create this coordinating card to use to give our pins as a gift. If you can part with them! ;)

The Flower Folds die actually has 4 sizes and this is the smallest size flower on one of my daughters little beanies. But think of hats, purses, handbags, t-shirts, headbands! Just think of all the endless possibilities for these sweet little guys!

EDIT: Class is full! Thanks ladies!!

Class will be held at my house on Friday evening, March 11th at 7 pm
Cost is $12 all supplies included. If you bring a friend who hasn't been to one of my classes before then the cost will be dropped down to $10 for both of you! And if you place a Stampin' Up! order with me I will drop your class cost down to $8!

Please call or email me ASAP to sign up and reserve your spot, I only have 6 spots available!

Oh these are so so so so Fun! My wheels are turnin' with all the ideas for where you can use these! Where will you use yours?!

Don't forget Sale-a-bration is still going on! With every $50 purchase, you get to choose a FREE Sale-a-bration item!

Kids' Valentines

Here are the pics I promised last week. They don't really show but each one has a tie at the top for the tag and holding it together. These are really fun and easy to make ~ believe me, I've made a bunch! lol!

The original idea and pattern comes from Becky Roberts and her 12 Days of Christmas Tutorials 2009. And I've just tweaked it some to fit my needs. ;)

Valentine's Mini's

Okay, so it's totally like me to try to be in two places at once. Especially when it comes to my kiddo's. Both of my boys have their class Valentine Party's on the same day, of course, but also at the same exact times! And no unfortunately they are NOT in the same school yet. One's in First grade and the other is still in Pre-School. So that is my dilemma this week. Hmm...



These little treats are made with Papertrey Inks Tiny Treats: Valentines. I loved these so much but they sold out last year so I couldn't get them until after Valentines Day so I HAD to use them this year! lol! I totally copied this layout from the gallery on Papertrey's blog. So cute and simple. Love it.


I am going to use these same little stamps for both my boys' classes but they want to give M&M's with their Valentine's so I'll show you later this week what those are gonna look like. So fun!