halloween gifts

my bffs at work, nye & mia, recently went to the east coast. they brought back a lot of souvenirs for me from 5 different states! so i thought i'd make them some thank you gifts, along to go with the halloween theme. i went to dollar tree/99 cent only stores to get some halloween decos. i also bought a cheap photo album but i altered it and put "friends" on it. lots of candy of course.


nye


mia

this has nothing to do with the halloween theme, but i've been reading on the cricut mb about people doing monograms with tile pieces(i went to home depot to get some 4x4 tiles and they looked at me like i was crazy) but i couldn't' find any so i thought i'd try with some paint canvas i already had. painted it with acrylic paint, two shades of blue, and then i used my cricut to cut out some letters on black paper. then used the sparkle mod podge to seal it. personally, i'm not liking the sparkle mod podge... i like the matte one better. i think i'm going to try the glossy one next

nye, i didn't like this one as much because the "y" made it look uneven.


mia, this one turned out much better!

10 year old with a wish

I am reaching out to all of you regarding a simple, but rewarding cause. Danielle Bartlett, a 10 year old girl from Richwood, West Virginia, is enduring a very critical stage of cancer. Although she could have wished for anything, her one wish was to receive 1,000 get well cards. This is something small that would mean the world to this little girl. If any of you are interested in contributing, please make a card and mail it to the address below.

Danielle Bartlett
260 Country Club Road
Richwood, West Virginia 26261

LAMINATED bookmarks!

i read lot of blogs and i always read about women writing about their husbands and how lot of them support their crazy cricut hobbies. WELL! i'm not married but i do have a wonderful boyfriend who does support my crazy cricut hobby too. he even takes an intrest in it and listen to me talk about it ANDDDD he bought me a YOURSTORY hehe and george and basic shapes cartridge (since i have the expression i didn't have the george cartridge) i was talking about how badly i wanted the george cartridge and since it was such a rare one, i didn't want to buy it for such an expensive price BUT he went and got it for me(even did his research on ebay). AND i'm hoping the gypsy on his christmas list for me... hehehe ANYWAY...

so with the flashcards i bought, i made some bookmarks by covering it with some pretty papers. a couple of months ago my co-worker cecilia got me the tinkerbell and friends cartridge and i never got to thank her officially for it! and since she reads(big twilight fan like me!) so i thought i'd make her some bookmarks with the tinkerbell and friends cartridge.


"brilliant"


"beautiful"


"a little sparkle"


this one isn't exactly with the tinkerbell and friends cartridge but i thought she should have one with her name on it


this one is for me! i started reading vampire diaries since i'm watching the tv show.... book is slow not as exciting as the tv show!

anyway all the bookmarks were laminated with the yourstory mike got for me! turned out pretty good! thanks baby you're the best!

altering flashcards

so today is columbus day and i had the day off. i wasn't as productive as i wanted to be. i wasted it most of my day. i ate brunch at 1oish and went back to sleep at 11:30! i didn't wake up until 2 and finally got to my playing time...

i subscribe to paper crafts magazine and i always love reading the technique sections, because they always have some new ideas to alter something. i read an article where they were altering some playing cards. so i was at the dollar store and i saw some flashcards for children. i thought "hey i can alter that!" so i bought one box of flash cards for $1! i dont know exactly how many? but there was a lot.


the box of flashcards i bought and a couple of them out.


but i covered up the flashcards! i made a mini scrapbook for my co-worker hilda's son daniel! she gave me a couple of pictures of him when he was younger.


dad and son at the hospital; daniel and his older brother


baby's 1st christmas with daddy and uncles; a couple of pictures of daniel


i thought this picture was the cutest! look at danny has his arms around his lil buddy!; danny's 1st birthday


la familia at the park; with grandma

paper steals!

so i took my mom to ross today (she doesnt like to drive) and the last time i was at ross, i found a 200 pack scrapbook papers for only $7.99! who knew ross sold stuff like that?!



anyway when i went to ross today they had...!

its a 5"X7" mini scrapbook kit for only $2.99!


and a 36 page scrapbook paper pack for only $3.99! i was so excited. idk if it's only at certain rosses or at everyone, but go ross!

simple cards

cards i made a couple of mos ago. i had disney mickey and friends cartridge for so long, but i finally used it. i must say i was impressed! it came out very cute. the only thing was, the smaller pieces were such a hassle. it was crazy to put together.


for my oh so wonderful boyfriend! hehe i gave it to him with a bag of peanuts.


made this for someone nye was dating.

tiffany's birthday

my cricut buddy at work, tiffany, her birthday is today! but we had celebration thing for her yesterday


her desk, princess and the frog theme. it was very cute and different.


made a balloon colum


more kool water bottle tags


some signs made with storybook cartridge.


to go with the fairy tale theme.


chocolate drilzzled pretzels!

hildas baby shower

Hilda's Baby Shower was on July 28! She had her baby boy Nathaniel on September 15. My friend Cecilia and i planned this shower for like 3 mos. we were all teammates for about 7 mos until our team got "dismantled" lol but! here are all these pictures from her beautiful shower.


i made invitations for almost every single girl in our dept. made with new arrival catridge and embossed with swiss dots. the theme was sweet pea. she loves green, it was nice to incorporate that in.


hilda desk beautifully decoarted by nye with our signature balloon arch.


the closest empty manager desk decorated to put presents, food, drinks, prizes, and etc.


cecilia cut baby footprints leading from hildas desk to the manager's cubicle.


cecilia's signature of putting together two plates using tissue to make it pretty.


hildas first present of the day! i bought the photo album and put baby nathaniels name on it.


the details on the steamers, peas!


it's a boy!


"welcome baby nathan"


more water bottles with cool aids!


hehe with peas!


the prizes we gave away for people who pariticipated in the shower games.


it has like the necessary for our desks, like antibacterial wipes, pens, post its, air freshner, snacks, and stuff like that.


i bought some green cups and put forks on it. haha


i made chocolate dipped pretzels


individually wrapped


cesi made marshmellows dipped in coconut shavings, it was so cute.


and cesi made some REALLY cute cupcakes! with blue frosting and i thought she did a real good job drawing the peas!


all the presents hilda got!


the three off us

nye's birthday

my very best friend at work nye turned 25! we're the "birthday divas" at work. lol we decorate all crazy and go all out. we're always coming out with new and better ideas to top everyone else. it's defintely a comeptition!


nye's desk, my little pony theme. i did a pretty good job decorating. lol. with our little signature balloon arch.


a basket full of brownies that i made and our favorite rockstars, fruit puncH!


we set up on next to some empty desks near us.





nye looking cute with the money lei i made for her.


i had read this one someone's blog, i believe it's okielady or something like that? it's made with tags, bags, boxes and more. it's a door hanger but mirrored and glued together to make a pocket. with kool aid pockets. this took me forever though, i even put mike to work!


brownies with powdered sugar, indiviually packaged. i'm loving my euro sealer!

her birthday was an absoutely success! we put a lot of work into it