CWC Challenge #107, I Feel the Love Project

Today's post is a card I made for the latest I Feel the Love Project over at Madison's blog, Funky Cards. For October, she will be collecting Thanksgiving cards to send to the elderly men and women who reside at the Surrey Place Care Center in Florida.  You can read more about the project and how you can help out by making a card, here.

Here is my card, I used my Imagine and the Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  This is my go-to cartridge lately.  It has so many great images on it!  I also used The Spring Chic cartridge for the orange chevron paper.  This card was created using the latest Mojo Monday sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!!  I hope you are able to participate in this challenge this week, you can link up your card here at the Cooking with Cricut blog.

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.

Cooking with Cricut, I Feel the Love Project

It's time for another I Feel the Love Project with Cooking with Cricut.   For this months challenge, Madison has tasked us with making cards for a wonderful organization called Casa Pacifica.  You can read more about the challenge and the organization at Madison's blog.  We are making cards for all the kids for their annual Halloween party.  The task is to make something fun, but not scary.  Whenever I think of Halloween, I mostly think of crisp, fall days and pumpkins!  Fall is my favorite season, hands down.  Living here in the midwest all my life, it is truly a joy to watch fall come and the beautiful colors all around.

So here is my card for the challenge.  I used the Imagine Enjoy the Seasons cartridge for the leaves and the pumpkin.  The swirl is from a die I have and all the paper is DCWV Halloween and Fall stack.  The Happy Halloween stamp is from Stampin UP, Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I also used this weeks Mojo Monday sketch to create this card.  Madison has a goal of creating 70 cards and she already has a bunch linked on her website.  I made two of these cards to send, hopefully you will join us and send some as well!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to hop over to the Cooking with Cricut blog to enter in your card.

September Calendar Page

Happy Tuesday!  Here is my Calendar page for September.  I used the Stampin UP set Autumn Splendor for the leaves and acorns.  I used the CTMH typewriter keys alphabet set for the title.  The two background papers are from the DCWV Halloween and Fall stacks and the calendar page is from the Teresa Collins Recollections kit.

Thanks for stopping by!

Pinterest Inspired Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the Pinterest inspired blog hop!  Are you on pinterest?  It is soooo addicting.  I sometimes have to force myself not to get on it for a few days because once I'm on, I can't get off:-)  Anyway, if you came here from Liz over at Scrapilicious Life, then you are in the right spot!  If you want to start at the beginning, head on over to Ashley's blog at her blog, the blog hop princess. 

My project for today is something that I saw a while ago on a blog then I kept seeing over on Pinterest, it's a crayon wreath.  My pin was originally from here.   Isn't this so cute?

I loved it and knew that I wanted to make it for my daughter's teacher.  This blog hop gave me the perfect opportunity to do it!  Here is my finished project.  

I love this and how it came out, although I know I can do much better:-)  I see a few things that I should have done, the crayons are not all lined up perfectly and the circle in the middle is a little off.  I have to make another one for son's teacher so now I know what to do!  I also might make more accessories to go on it or make the apple bigger.  I'll post photos of my new and improved wreath once I finish it.

Here is how I made it:  Most websites that I found called for using embroidery hoops for the base but I didn't like that idea.  I was just going to cut out my own base out of cardboard but I found this cool circle base at Michael's for 1.99 and decided to use this.  Here is a photo of it with half the crayons on.

As you can see, I hot glued the crayons on.  (Next time I will be sure to line them up better!)

I found this amazingly cute ribbon at Michael's as well to use to hang up the wreath.

I then used my Imagine to print out these images using my Cricut Recess Lite cartridge

Thank you so much for stopping by our hop today. I hope you got lots of inspiration!