Hello Kitty!!!

Hi bloggers,

Thanks for stopping by!!!

My little cousin is graduating from high school this weekend and heading to Temple University in the fall... we are all soooo very proud of her.

Rach, loves Hello Kitty so as a congraduation gift I decided to make her a custom Hello Kitty car decal and tumbler in Temple colors of course!!!

Tumbler and car decal

Car Decal



Tumbler front and back



I created all the images using MTC and oracal 651 vinyl... The car decal is about 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches.

2011 Teacher Appreciation Gifts

Hi Bloggers,

The past week I have been super busy preparing teacher appreciation gifts.

This year my kids have a great group of teachers who deserve to be appreciated daily.Our teachers do an amazing job and I cannot thank them enough!!!

 I wanted our TAP gift to be useful and something that the teachers would enjoy. My ideas were all over the place and I couldn't seem to focus on a central theme ( that's what I get for blog hopping). Anywho, using the ideas from several blogs I was able to put together a few items that I hope our teachers will enjoy. In total I created 15 TAP gifts ( not all teachers received a gift basket).

Thanks for stopping by!!!



Acrylic post it note frame, altered binder clip, smores, altered scissors, and hand sanitizer



5x7 Acrylic Post it note holder with altered pen and binder clip

Altered hand sanitizer ( file found here) and altered binder clip

Smores gift packet and altered scissors ( idea and files found here and here). I copied the smores image into MTC to change the colors and font...

Teacher t-shirt, I added the name on the back

Gift basket

Completed teacher appreication gift

Once again, thank you to all the teachers who give so much of their time, energy, and love to our children!!!  

Paper Bag Mini Album..

Hi Bloggers,

Long time no chat... I'd like to apologize for the absence, once again life got in the way and I haven't had any free time to enjoy my hobbies... Anywho, Island V over on the SST forum of the cricut mb started a mini album swap ( thanks Island). The mini was supposed to be a love theme and specific to our swap partner. Now, I've only created one other mini before and it was very basic (not swap worthy for sure) soooo after hours of blog hopping and checking out tutorials I settled on a mini album tutorial from Kathy @ Paper Phenomenon  . Why on earth I choose this mini out of all the mini's that I came across is beyond me... I think I let my Sistas ( you know who you are) hype me up into thinking it would be a breeze:-). So here it is, I didn't take pics of every page or of all the interaction but you will get the jest. Thanks for looking!!

Cover

Inner page with tabs

Inner page w/ pockets

Spine

Mini Magnet Board

I used Echo Park PP for all the pages, ribbon from M's, & various embellies,

Tonya ( Bulldog Mommy), thanks for being so patient with me!!!

Basketball Mom Car decal

Today while going through pictures of projects that I have recently completed, I realized just how much I've been focusing on vinyl related projects. Don't get me wrong, I love vinyl but I remember a time when I also loved to papercraft!!! Sooooo for the next week I have decided to "push" my beloved vinyl to the side and focus solely on some paper projects that I have wanted to complete for some time... Bloggers, please wish me luck as I have a mini-album swap that is due on the 28th!!! 

Anywho, my family is a huge sports family so I created a car decal with my son's AAU Basketball team logo... I've been getting tons of requests for decals but they will have to wait until my self imposed vinyl ban is lifted... LOL 

I used MTC and outdoor vinyl

Personalized Piggy Bank

Thanks to alsperkins over at the Smartbuygal forum, I think I have found the perfect baby shower gift!!!

This adorable little pig started out as a blank ceramic bank and has been transformed into a super cute personalized gift.

The pig was purchased from AC Moore and I used the My Vinyl Designer alpha 6 for the split letter, Times New Roman for Hunter and 2 Peas Mr. Giggles for "Baby's First Bank". I used indoor vinyl and MTC.

Sports Tumblers

Happy Valentines Day bloggers!!!

I hope that you all have had a wonderful and relaxing weekend... This weekend was really low-key and I did a bunch of lounging and movie watching... so all is good in my little corner of the world.

Last weekend my cousin requestd a couple tumblers. I found the svg for each tumbler on google.com and used MTC and Oracal 651 to create the look...



Sorry for the bad picture...



Steeler's Beer Mug

Hi bloggers,

I wanted to drop off a Steeler's beer mug that I created for a neighbor for the Super Bowl. Although the Steeler's couldn't pull off a win he still LOVED his mug!!!

Excuse the poor photo... I forgot to take a pic before delivery