Thanksgiving Treat Bag Toppers

Good morning! I hope you are all looking forward to a peaceful & festive Thanksgiving week. During this Thanksgiving, I wanted to make a little something for my kids' teachers, school secretary, and administrator as a small demonstration of how much we appreciate them. Each one of them is such a dear soul, and we are so grateful for their dedication and the sacrifices they make to work at a small, private, Christian school.

Yesterday, I baked up some batches of sugared pecans. Oh, they made the house smell so good! Then I put them in this little treat bags (from Wal-Mart's cake decorating section in the crafts department) with these bag toppers.


Here's a close up of the toppers:



Details:
Cricut cartridge - Celebrate with Flourish
Stamps - Crafty Secrets - Thanksgiving set
Ink - Ranger Adirondack - Espresso; Memories Direct - Ink Daubers
Patterned Paper - K&Company
Cardstock - Core'dinations

Wishing you a lovely Monday!

Hugs,
Marcy

Cricut Forever Young Invitations & Thank You Cards

We celebrated Shannon's ninth birthday in October with a salon party for the girls in her class. They each got to have their hair styled and their nails painted, then we all walked across the street to our favorite coffee shop for hot cocoa and cupcakes. It was such fun to see the girls so excited about getting all fancied up.

I made her invitations and thank you cards using my Gypsy, Cricut Expression, and the Forever Young cartridge.

The invitations:


Details:
Cricut Cartridge - Forever Young
Patterned Paper - K&Company
Cardstock - Core'dinations
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug - D'vine Swirls
Adhesive Rhinestones - Miss Elizabeth's

The thank you cards:
Cricut Cartridge - Forever Young
Patterned Paper - K&Company
Cardstock - Core'dinations
Stamps - SU! (sentiment)
Foam Dimensionals - Darice
Adhesive Rhinestones - Miss Elizabeth's
Seam Tape Ribbon - Rebecca Sower Designs (not sure why the color is so off, it actually matched the dark pink cardstock layer.)

The birthday girl!

Fancy hair:


Hope you have a wonderful day ahead of you!

Hugs,
Marcy

Crafting with the Kids: Handmade Critters

At school the other day, the kids had free drawing time in art class, and Shannon came home with a drawing of a neat little critter. It reminded me of the kids' Ugly Dolls (love them!), so I suggested we make a stuffed friend for her using her drawing as a pattern. Of course, Ronan wanted one too and quickly drew one up. Look at that smile - seems like a bit of a self portrait to me!

(Ronan with "Venus" and Shannon with "Blurg")

It didn't take long at all to translate their drawings into these stuffed critters, but I did learn some tips along the way:

*Have the kids draw their picture, including any appendages, as large as possible - even after you add a seam allowance, once you stitch and turn any arms, legs, tails, ears, etc. they can be pretty small
*Use a low-pile (micro) polar fleece that won't shed too much
*Let the kids have a say all along the way - have them pick out the colors & any embellishments that are added

My kids were so proud of these creations. They couldn't wait to show them off at school!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs,
Marcy