Birthday Banner

I decided to make a happy birthday banner for my son's 4th birthday.  The theme of his party was none other than his absolute favorite, Lightning McQueen.  I was trying to do this one a budget, since we are getting ready to move and add multiple updates to our new house.  I purchased all of my paper, cardstock and ribbon from Hobby Lobby (love that store!).  First, I cut out the banner onto blue cardstock.  Then, I cut the pieces for the road, the circles, scallops, Lightning McQueen and letters with my cricut.  To make the accordion circles, I cut 1.5 in x 12 in strips with my MS paper trimmer.  Then scored the strips at 1/2 in apart.  Then, I assembled all the parts, strung it up on some red ribbon, and voilà, a cool bday banner.

Carts used:
Straight From the Nest
Disney Pixar Cars
Plantin Schoolbook
Mickey Font

Other supplies used:
Martha Stewart paper trimmer
Martha Stewart scoreboard
Pink ATG
Pop dots
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive
Hot glue gun
Zig pen
Red ribbon
Crop-A-Dile Big Bite

Birthday Invitations

It may not look like it from the pictures, but I put a lot of work into these invites. So after cutting out and assembling Lightning Mcqueen at 3 inches eight times, my eyes were crossing. However, I do believe my little guy's invites came out pretty cute (or cool as he would say)!! I pretty much spent an entire weekend designing, cutting, embellishing, and gluing these invitations. But, it was a labor of love! :)

Carts Used:

Disney Pixar Cars

Simply Charmed

Mickey Font

Other supplies used:

Glossy Accents on balloons

yellow stickles on the number four

memento ink in london fog around sentiment

white gelly roll pen

brads

pop dots

pink ATG

Zig pen

stamps

red colorbox ink

Fall Sign

I haven't had much time to create lately, but did have a chance to make this sign for my mom's door at work. She wanted something fall like, so this is what I came up with. Hope you like it!

Carts used:

Simply Charmed for tree and scarecrow

Plantin Schoolbook for grass

Create a Critter for clouds

Gypsy font, Plantin Schoolbook, and Songbird for font

Sorry can't remember what cart I used for leaves

Other supplies used:

Tim Holtz distress ink in spiced marmalade, barn door, and walnut stain

chalk

Pink ATG

Pop dots

Cuttlebug

White Gelly Roll pen

Copic markers

Crop-a-dile Big Bite

Orange ribbon from M's

My First Post!!

This is my first post! I've been working on creating a blog for months. Between moving from North Carolina to Indiana, and all the headaches that come with moving, I have not had much time for creating. I decided to break my cricut out from the moving box and make a card for my friend who recently had twins.

I used ACY for the card base and sentiment, NA for the sweet peas, peachy keen Just Baby Faces for the babies faces, and I inked the edges of the card and cuts. Not an elaborate card, but I think it turned out cute.