Hershey Kiss Treat Box DT Post!

Hi Everyone!  I can't wait for you to try out this adorable box from The Cutting Cafe I LOVE, LOVE it!  I think I am going to mass produce these for my students this year.  :)  Here is a link to Hershey Kiss Treat Box  Here are some more pictures along with a video:

Cutting Cafe Files that I used
Hershey Kiss Treat Box
Hershey Kiss Shape Card
White Signo Gel Pen
DCWV Metallic Stack for the silver paper
Kraft Cardstock
Stampin' Up Supplies: 
Paper:  Chocolate Chip,Whisper White, Creamy Caramel (R)
Scallop and Oval Punches
Double Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon (R)
Snowburst Embossing Folder

My First Cutting Cafe Design Team Post! :)

Happy New Year!!  I am really excited about today's post as it is my first post as a Design Team member over at The Cutting Cafe .  My project is made with the Loopy Loopy Bow Flower that you can find HERE .  I had such a fun time working with the Loopy Loopy Bow Flower.  It is so fun and easy to use.  Here are a couple other views of it and a video to go along with the project! :)

• Cutting Cafe:  Loop Loopy Bow Flower and Something old, new, borrowed, blue
• Stampin' Up:  Cardstock:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Crushed Curry Ink:  Basic Black Craft Ink  Owl Punch  Big Shot   Scallop Square Die
• Designer Paper is DCWV Lemon Flower Stack
• Glue Gun
• 1 1/2" Circle Punch
• Nestabilities (Circles)
• Craft Wire

Thank you so much for stopping by my very first post with The Cutting Cafe I want to thank Regina for having me on the team and I am so excited to work with her and the other DT members!!  Have a great day!



Merry Christmas and an Announcement!

Merry Christmas!!  I hope you all are having a great Christmas like we are.  This Christmas means the world to me and my family.  Aiden has had such a great first Christmas and we are all so thankful! Having him here with us is the best gift!! This is a picture of him leaving cookies and milk for Santa and a few carrots for Rudolph! :)

Now for an announcement!!!  I have been wanting to post this all week, but we have been gone most of the time visiting family so I am so excited to share this news with all of you!  I am now a design team member for The Cutting Cafe  !! I want to thank Regina Easter and tell the rest of the design team that I am so excited to work with them. If you have never been to The Cutting Cafe click on the name or click here .  I have enjoyed this site for a couple of years now and to be a member of the design team is an honor and I can't wait to get started.  :) 

Have a very Merry Christmas and see you all soon!
Hugs,

Aiden's Calendar Continued...

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I am working on a first year calendar for Aiden.  I already posted the October page....here is August and September.  I am having such a good time making this but it is taking me forever!! :)

I don't know if you can see it in all the Aiden things I post but I have a stamp set from Stampin' Up! called Best of Everything.  In that set there is a stamp that says "All I want for you is the best of everything".  I have used that stamp on everything that I craft for Aiden.  Sometimes it is hidden a little and sometimes it stands out.  I just think that stamp says everything!  As always I am going to end this post with a cute picture of my little guy!  He is such a mini me of my husband!  They are both too cute!

Thanks for stopping by today!

My Cricut Cartridge Holder

Hey everyone!  Last week I took a couple days off of paper crafting and did some wood crafting! I was running out of room to put all my cricut carts so I decided to build a shelving unit that would hold them all with some room to grow!  Each shelf will hold 16 carts.  Here is a view of it hanging on the wall next to my cricut table.

The cartridges used to line the back of my cricut table but soon were stacked every which way so I knew I needed more space.  So while I was at it I also built this wall shelf.  I am running out of room to put all of Aiden's pictures! :)  I really liked how this shelf turned out.  I am doing my best to cover the 1970'swood paneling in our basement.  I told hubby that we should tear it all out and dry wall it so I can paint.  He looked at me like I had lost my mind so I am trying to make the wood paneling work! LOL!

If you click on the picture it should enlarge enough for you to see the pictures of Aiden on top.  Now I can't leave you all without a picture of my sweet little guy!  He has the most adorable pouty lip there is.  I am going to be in REAL trouble when he gets older.  I doubt I will ever be able to say no to him! 

I also would like to ask that you all send out some prayers for my friend Stacy . (If you click on her name her blog should come up.  I also have a link to her on the right side of my blog, she is "love that bug".)  Her grandson was born prematurely  at 26 weeks and he is struggling.  She posted the sweetest video of him and I know all of our prayers will help.  He is absolutely so adorable and he looks like a strong little guy.  Thanks and hugs to you all!

One Last Halloween Post! :)

Happy November!  I can't believe how fast time is flying by!  Aiden is now 12 weeks old.  I really hate how fast time is flying because that just means my maternity leave is going to end.  How do all you mothers do it?  I just can't imagine being away from my little guy all day.  I miss him when he takes a nap and am happy when he wakes up.  I'm going to have a terrible time when I have to leave him.  :(  But I am sure thankful for the time I have had at home with him.

 Below is one last Halloween card that I made.  This is a shape card that I made in CCR using Paper Doll Dress Up.  The card is cut with the blackout.  I made the circle text in Word.

Hope you all had a super Halloween and that your November is off to a great start!
Hugs,

Cutest Pumpkin in the Patch!

Happy Halloween!
Right now (among a million other things) I am working on a "Baby's First Year" calendar for Aiden.  So far I have done the first 3 months and I was going to show you August first but I just loved the October page so much I had to show it first.  You will notice that the candy corn card was what I made last week.  I decided to use it on this layout along with the Petities Pennant builder punch from Stampin' Up to do the "Boo".  I used the owl punch to make the owls.  I just had a blast making this.  Fall is my favorite time of the year not to mention my little guy is just the cutest pumpkin that has ever been in the patch!  We had so much fun dressing him up and taking his picture.  He was really smiling and having fun!  Thanks for stopping in!