Saturday, September 18, 2010

An interactive seasonal poster

A preschool idea for this week's My Sheri Crafts Autumn challenge! My youngest daughter's daycare is always looking for posters and things for the kids, and this month they requested autumn and trees. Wow, I had no ideas, until I thought of making them an interactive poster. Here's what I came up with:







The poster is 24" x 36" poster board. Everything is laminated, and the leaves/blossoms/snowflakes have a piece of velcro attached to the back. There's small strips of the matching velcro on the poster. DD is almost 3, and loved to pull the leaves off and replace them with another season. The season title is slid into a pocket cut in the laminate at the bottom. All are cricut cuts and regular school-grade cardstock, but boy does my mat now need a good cleaning!!!!

Apologies for the glare: laminated cardstock does not photograph with a flash too well :-)

Make sure you check out My Sheri Crafts for this week's challenge: Autumn! Hopefully I'll get the girls playing tomorrow with the poster, so you can also see it in action! Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Duplo fun!

A simple LO, but a cute svg for the LO -- Duplo!




Supplies:

Duplo.svg (see below)
Martha Stewart Playground paper pad
Yellow ribbon



Friday, September 10, 2010

Thinking of You

My very fabulous and great good friend and colleague is undergoing treatment for Melanoma. I desperately hope for a good outcome for her! She's such an inspiration to me with her quiet grace, dignity and faith. This one's for her:







Now, hop on over to MySheriCrafts blog and post your "thinking of you" creation for a chance to win!

Supplies:
Both Sentiment and Loopy border from Bird's Cards
Nestabilities Scalloped Square, Circle and Petite Scalloped Circle
JustRite Stampers: 1 3/16" Tiny Words Borders & Centers Set
Colorbox black inkpad
Pebbles Ink Chalk Shimmer
Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder
White cardstock
Pop Dot adhesive, ATG adhesive

Instructions:

1. Trim cardstock to 10" x 5". Score at 5" and fold to create card.
2. Cut one 4.5" x 4.5" white cardstock and emboss with Swiss dots folder. Adhere to base card.
3. Cut Loopy border 4.25" square. Adhere to base with pop dots.
4. Print sentiment on cardstock. Cut with square nestabilities. Adhere to Loopy border with pop dots. Colour Cala Lily with Pebbles chalk.
5. Stamp interior sentiment with JustRite stampers. Cut with circle nestie. Cut coordinating petite scalloped nestie. Chalk edges. Adhere together and to interior of card.
6. Enjoy!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

How do I love thee? A sonnet to Picturesque

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love your beautiful images as I hit preview
My soul reaches for you, when nothing else will do
For the beginning to end of my cropping days

I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and OTT-light.
I love thee freely, as I crop each night;
I love thee purely, as I enter my scraproom to play.

I love to cut your butterflies
Whether in a tag or floating free
My admiration I cannot deny

You're my newest friend, last to join gypsy
A variety of elegance, on you I rely,
I shall always love you, signed your devotee.

The original: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And the LO:








Picturesque arrived mid-week, courtesy of my friend Allison from the Circle. The tag and butterfly is from the cartridge. The font is Edwardian Script ITC.

Splash! A swimming LO

Here's my entry for this weekend's Cricut Circle Challenge! The contest is to create a LO in celebration of Labor Day activities. Well, our family loves to swim! Here we are at the local pool, which thankfully has a little wading pool for the little people!

Wish me luck!!











Supplies:

paper: DCWV Summer Dream
Cuts: all from Cricut: Once Upon a Princess
Memento ink for the edges
Circle cutter

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Happy Labor Day!

For My Sheri Crafts Labor Day Challenge , I made a gift for some of the hardest workers I know: my aides! I've also always loved those little cupcake wrappers, but since Canadian Walmart only carries four of the Cricut Lite cartridges (and at $50!!! Crazy!!!), I made my own svg to share with you! You can cut this with SCAL, SCAL2 and MTC, and if you don't want the "thank you" text to show, choose "blackout". You'll also need a pair of fuzzy socks to roll into a "cupcake". Enjoy!







So, hop over to My Sheri Crafts blog and enter the challenge for a chance to win!

Friday, August 27, 2010

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #20

This week's theme at My Sheri Crafts is Baby! You'd think that'd be an easy one, but I ended up with three LOs that I just didn't love. Finally I made this simple design of my mother holding her first granddaughter. Hannah is 9 days old here, and she's wrapped up in my baby blanket.



Supplies:

Papers: DCWV Whimsy stack, light pink cardstock, light peach cardstock, pink vellum
Circle Cutter
Fiskars Sunburst border punch
Corner Rounder
Pebbles chalk Pearlescent jewel tones
Basic Grey Wholy Cow! rub-ons #293
Spellbinders Nestabilities: Circle LG and Scalloped Circle LG
1" wide lace ribbon
Adhesive

Instructions:

1. Round corner on picture, then mount on light pink cardstock. Round cardstock corners.
2. Cut a 7" diameter circle in pink vellum.
3. Cut one strip of 1" x 10" light peach cardstock. Punch one edge. Chalk punched area.
4. Cut one circle using nestabilities in light pink. Cut coordinating scalloped circle in light peach. Emboss edges. Chalk edges. Adhere together. Apply rub on.
5. Cut lace ribbon to 10".
6. Layer and adhere from the bottom up: vellum circle, mounted photo, sentiment. Adhere to base paper. Adhere punched strip and ribbon as shown.
7. Enjoy!



Make sure you check out My Sheri Crafts and enter this week's challenge! You could win a $25 gift certificate!