Cooking With Cricut, Challenge #105 Apples or Honey

Hi everyone! I am very excited for this challenge!  I can't wait for you to see what the design team has "cooked" up with their apples and honey over at CWC:-).  For my project today I had a little help from my kids. I knew I wanted to make a sign for them for the first day school back in August and thought they might like to help with that so I picked up this plain wooden board from Hobby Lobby along with some chalkboard paint so that we can use it over and over.  My daughter was all about it!  She loves to paint and loves helping.

Here is the finished product.

I love how it came out.  I added the apple from the Imagine Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  Apples to me always symbolize school and I thought it would be the perfect addition to this sign.

 Here is my daughter painting the sign.  I love how she sticks her tongue out when she is really concentrating!

 Here is my daughter on the first day of school.  She was so proud of the sign!

 Here is my son.  I was just happy he posed for pictures!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to submit your entries for this fun challenge over at Cooking with Cricut.

CWC Challenge #84, Teacher Appreciation Day

Hi all!  Today the challenge over at CWC is Teacher Appreciation Day.  My daughter has just entered kindergarten this year and has the most AMAZING teacher!  I feel like I really need to do something special for her sweet teacher.  This project is something I have been thinking about for a while.  I bought the base of this little wooden box last year at the Scrapbook Expo and knew then I wanted to use it for a teacher.  I just finally got around to putting it together thanks to this challenge!

I used some old apple paper I had to cover the little box, I just traced where it needed to be and sanded off the edges. I used red for the sides and the bottom.

 The apple and worm are both from Create a Critter, along with the book. I used a Stampin UP letter set (Just Perfect Alphabet) for the teachers name and some Peachy Keen stamps for the face (Boy Mates).

 Here is a side view of the box. I put the apple paper inside as well.

 I then made this cute little card for her by welding two of the apple shapes together on my gypsy. The Thank you stamp is a CTMH stamp from the 4 My Friend set.  I also made 10 more of these cards to stick inside the box so she could have them to use for herself.  

I am hoping to get another project made for her soon, when I am done I'll be sure to post here!  I can't believe school is almost out, didn't we just begin?  Anyway, thanks for stopping by and if you would like to play along, link up your project to http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/.  You may also want to stop by there for inspiration, the design team came up with some pretty neat things!