Baby shower banner

I have continued the decorations for my friend's baby shower which is this Saturday. I did 3 centerpieces in the zoo animals theme all together and then the banner. I LOVE THE BANNER!! It is so stinkin' cute....This is my first banner so I am very proud of it! I then realized that my banner qualified me for the current challenge at FCCB...use the color green and a circle....the scallop circles hanging from the pennants spell out welcome. The green is in the jungle patterned paper from Stampin Up that is behind the zoo animals in the banner. I may be stretching it but hey whatever works right? LOL.

Zoo animals centerpiece

Yesterday I worked on this centerpiece for a friend's baby shower. She is doing zoo animals as her baby room theme so this will be perfect for the shower in a couple of weeks plus it will go nicely in the baby's room afterwards. The animals are from the Animal Kingdom cartridge. I love that cartridge and have already used it many time for barn animals, zoo animals and others.

Busy, busy, busy weekend!!

I had a lot of projects to work on this weekend. Just finished at 9:15 Sunday evening and now a few minutes of R&R before the busy week of work....

Here are the projects that kept me busy!! (Minnie Mouse is an old picture, forgot to take a picture of the new one but it was exactly the same!!)

Sports themed project!

Emma at My Creative Time has a sports project challenge this week. I created one of my famous centerpiece party bouquets with a cheerleading theme for Oklahoma State. This centerpiece is being used at tailgate parties at OS...GO POKES!!

Another gift box purse

Today I made another of the gift box purses to take to my sister this week when we go to visit. She loves purple!
This was the easiest purse so far because I have perfected the technique some...first of all instead of cutting and measuring I made a template for the purse shape out of chip board and just traced it.
Second, I found a sizzix dye to use for the "pocket" on the front of purse so I don't have to measure, cut, score, and assemble my own version and I love it because it puts all the scores and cuts in one step Great when I am ready to mass produce some of these.
And finally, I bought a score board. Never thought I needed this tool but my goodness it is wonderful. I have already made envelopes on it and now I was able to score my box for the purse middle in seconds! All you do is cut your cardstock to size and score the sides at the correct dimensions in one swipe of the bone folder!! The sunglasses pattern and the tag came from Forever Young Cricut Cartridge...The pattterned paper and cardstock are Stampin Up.

Vinyl craziness

I got carried away with vinyl projects last night! Actually they were on my to-do list and now I can cross them off but when I started, I just couldn't stop...hey as long as the deep cutting blade was in the machine right?

Anyway, I haved posted the keys of my front door before but I finally got the grey/silver vinyl to do the keyholes for teh opposite windows and I love the final effect. It makes for such a decorative entry way to our home.

I also got my pumpkins vinyl'd. I have had these pumpkins for a few years and put them on the porch but after getting hooked on my cricut and vinyl, I decided to dress these fellas up a bit this year. We have a new front porch this year, a park bench by the front door, and a railing so I can't wait to get festive out there!!

My Husband's work

Today I wanted to share some of my husband's work with his cricut cake! We are trying to coordinate projects and have available complete party decorating packages. So far we have coordinated Olivia the Pig, Sesame Street, and Minnie Mouse. He is a pastry chef so his work is phenomenal. I love what he has come up with and could't wait to share! I do the banners, invitations, and centerpices and he does the cake/cupcake toppers!