Valentine Banner

Well Valentines Day is right around the corner and I needed to put something festive up since all but one Christmas decoration has been put away. The house looks so barren with all of that stuff put away until after next Thanksgiving.

 I was going to make a banner with heart shapes, but I decided on using this one sheet of paper that had some of the cutest little pictures. The paper was 12x12 and was divided into 24 rectangular pictures, they almost looked like they were meant to be cards. At first I thought I would make a matching game, I got that idea from my friend Meagan she has a shop on facebook called the The Girl Next Door, but not all of the pictures were duplicated.

 I cut out all of the pictures and matted them with a pinkish/lavender card stock, and tied them off with some pink and white bakers twine. I have been dying to use the bakers twine for a project. They came out cute, they look a little small over my back door, they may look better in a smaller room.

It's been a banner few days.

One thing I love to do is make pretty or fun or pretty fun things out of paper, that is how the whole banner thing started.  My first banner was for a baby shower and it has just grown from there.  Birthday's, holiday's and now most recently a business name banner for a craft fair.

This banner was made for a friend's business Shabby By Chic, she sews some really nice creations.  She is going to use the banner at craft fair before the holidays.  I know she is going to do great there, her stuff is so cute.

One of the other banners I just finished up was a banner for a Sweet 16.  This one was a little more of a challenge as they wanted pink and black with a Halloween theme.  With the help of a fellow crafty friend and her cricut cartridges I cut out some "girly skulls", spooky and fun. to jazz up the banner.

Last but not least was a banner for a first birthday party that I finished up a couple of weeks ago but never got around to posting some photos here.  Lots of times I use the cupcake die cut to accent the birthday banners, but I just love the party hat to I did a combination of the two.

Disney Countdown

First off I want to say I know it has been a while.  I have been crafting but not blogging about my projects. With the kids starting school this week I should find more time to work on that.

I have been receiving personal requests for different projects.  Most recently I was asked by a fellow member of my mom's group to create some sort of countdown to Disney calendar.  I had never made one before, but I knew it was something I could do.  So without hesitation I took on the challenge and went full steam ahead.  With a little internet search and a browse on my new favorite website, Pinterest, I came up with some rough ideas.

It was only a matter of finding some quiet time to put ideas into reality.  With some fun paper, bright cardstock, ribbon and my cricut expression I was able to put together a cool countdown calendar that any child would look forward to ripping off the next number as there vacation got closer.

Disney Autograph Albums

I have been making Disney autograph albums for sometime now.  It started with albums for my boys, then friend's children, then a little etsy shop.  The photos above are the original albums I created.  I have had people inquire about Minnie albums so I made some "prototypes", and just in general I wanted to come up with some new creations.

Here they are.

These are more Minnie's dress album, I am going to be working on one with Minnie's head with her bow.

There is a Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto and Mickey glove page.

In between the character pages, each page is accented with a Mickey head cutout.

So far the Minnie and Mickey albums can be found in my shop at etsy.com.

How cute are these?

This past Saturday I attended a fundraiser crop at the Goshen firehouse. Fun time for a great cause. Usually during the crop some of the vendors will have a "Make & Take" to show off some of their products. The Stampin' Up vendor had a great Make & Take that I had to do because it was so cute. It is a gift card holder made out of a regular envelope. I thought it was such a great project that I immediately decided to share the idea with the mom's group during a "Get Your Craft On" night.

Here are a few of the Christmas gift card holders I did. I know Christmas is a few months away but it's never too early to get started.