Get Whale Soon

Hey all!

Hope you all are enjoying your midweek.  It's ALMOST the weekend!!  I have been SUPER busy making 4th of July stuff.  I promise to post pictures as they are done.

Today I am finally posting a card I made for a friend who was a little under the weather.

I LOVE this whale!  I also love the fun my Peachy Keen Stamps make for the face!!  They really bring your critters and other objects to life!  You can find them HERE.  

To make this I used:

Cart~ Create a Critter

Misc ~ Twine from the Twinery; PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment stamp; Sentiment is from K Andrew Stamps  Splashtastic Summer; White gelly roll pen for eye detail; Divine Swirls embossing folder for background.

Hugs and Happy Crafting!

Banana Bread...Thanks a Bunch!

Hello and welcome to Michelle's Crafty Creations.

Today I wanted to post a picture of a thank you card I made and the BEST banana bread EVER!  I would totally share with you all the recipe, BUT it is my nana's recipe thus it must remain a secret!!  

My daughter has perfected this recipe...I will say that.  She is a baker and loves to cook...just like her mama!  This makes wonderful thank you gifts, and that is exactly what we did with this yummy loaf and card! (pictures to come of the bread too!)

I made this cute banana shape card.  I thought it was so appropriate for the gift!  Next time I will use a bag and make it as a tag. :)

Peachy Keen stamps make your projects so much cuter!!

YUM!

To make this card:

I used my Gypsy to size the banana.

Carts~ Create A Critter for the banana and layers including shadow feature for the base.  That was welded on my Gypsy as well.

Paper ~ Colorbok solid 

Misc ~ PKS Wide Eyed Kid assortment stamp; Ranger Distress Ink Tea Dye for inking; White and brown gelly roll pens for doodling; Chalk for the cheeks.

I am linking this to:

Jills Sundays Are Lovely #9 + Giveaway

Today's Creative Blog Get Your Craft On

I Heart Naptime Sundae Scoop Party

Hugs and Happy Crafting!

Moo Cow..and blog candy winner!

Hello and welcome to Michelle's Crafty Creations!

I just HAD to share this card and short story with you all!! :)  My son's birthday is this Saturday.  He will be 19 and currently away at college.  I wanted to create a card for him that SCREAMS Chris. Well, when he was little, he LOVED animals.  Any animal we drove by, which usually were cows, he would constantly ask us the same question over and over again.  My sister, Jenn (whom he affectionately called Jenny) lived by a farm.  EVERY time we drove by the farm he would say, "Dat a moo-cow auntie Jenny? Auntie Jenny, dat a moo-cow?"  HAHAHAHA!!  So of course I had to make him a cow card for his birthday.  Something to make him smile and nostalgia for me! LOL  So heres the cow- helooks HYSTERICAL!!!

Is this face not funny??!!  

I was giggling the whole time I was constructing this!!

The inside

The BEST part:

I put him on an action wobble!!

To make this card:

Cart: Create a Critter designed on my Gypsy

Paper: Colorbok

Stamps: PKS Cornies face assortment

Misc: White gelly roll pen for eyes and teeth, black pen to outline stamp face and nose; Inking from Ranger Distress Ink Tea Dye; action wobble to make it come alive!

Now for the blog winner from this past weekend's blog hop goes to....

Heather P said...

Hi Miss Michelle! This is so clever, I love it! I have been wanting to do something with that cool chalkboard paint- so great to see it in action, lol! Thanks for the great idea!!
Hugs!
Heather :)

APRIL 21, 2012 10:18 PM 

CONGRATULATIONS Heather!!!!

Hugs and Happy Crafting!!

Linking this up to:

Jill's Sundays are Lovely #8 + Giveaway

Wobble Wednesday's  #6 Pet Challenge

"Me Ridin' My Ho-see"

You're probably wondering....what is up with the title!!  Well, it goes with my son's birthday card!!! :)

When he was little he LOVED to pretend to be a cowboy.  As a matter of fact he liked to be "Wahkah Teckas Waynja"(his title exactly) 

One day, when he was about 3 he was "riding" his pretend horse up and down the hallway.  I got out my video camera to just collect some common days on video.  Well, he makes this horse noise and stops by the "camera" to say hey.  I say, "Hey, Dustin, Whatcha doin?" He says, "Me ridin my Ho-see." I say, "Ohh, what is your horsie's name?"  He firmly replies, "Cow."  I then say, "Ohhh, what sound does a horse make?" He says, "Moooo." Makes a horse whinny and rides off into the "sunset"!  I don't think I laughed so hard...oh my..he was a funny child, and super funny 18 year old! :) Enjoy the pictures!

Makes me smile!

I fringed his chaps!

My little sheriff!

To make this fun shaped card I used:

Carts ~ Create A Critter for the horse and sheriff badge; Paperdoll Dress Up for cowboy, fence, and grass; Plantin Schoolbook for rectangles.  Everything was created on my Gypsy.

Paper ~ Colorbok

Stamp: PKS (PK-490) Everyday Character Face Assortment for boy and PK- 754 Critter Faces Set A Medium for horse (nostrils were drawn)

Misc ~ Ranger Distress Ink: Tea Dye; gold and white gelly roll pens for doodling and outlining; Sentiments are handwritten.

Hugs and Happy Crafting!

I am entering this into:

Jills' Sundays are Lovely #8

Pile it On Challenge #14 Create a Scene

Little Darlings Challenge "Outside"

Party Time Tuesday #61 Anything Goes

Throwback Thursday Challenge Episode 366 Your choice

Here Comes the Sun

Hey all my crafty friends!!  Welcome to Michelle's Crafty Creations!!

It has been AGES since I have made anything AND posted!!  I had been busy moving my craft stuff into it's permanent home.  Let me tell you it has been a CRAZY time trying to get everything JUST so!!  BUT, I am thankful for my new craft room!!  Okay okay...onto the project....

Over at Cooking with Circut we were challenged to create a project using a spring song!  I LOVED the idea and knew right away which song I was going to use.  "Here Comes the Sun" is a song my friend had me listen to when I was about to face some serious challenges in my life.  I LOVE this version of it....

Isn't the cello BEAUTIFUL??!!!  

I knew WHAT I wanted to do, but I needed a sketch to go by for inspiration.  I used Sketch #12 from Freshly Made Sketches.

I made this card with my dear friend in mind.  I want to send some sunshine her way!!

I LOVE how this came out!!!  Every time I see it, it makes me smile!!

To make this card I used:

Carts ~ Create a Critter for the cloud; Simply Charmed for the sun (all sized on my gypsy)

Stamps: K. Andrews sentiment from Splash-tastic Summer; and PKS Cheery O's Face assortment(they have a sale going on now through March 31st)

Misc: Pea Pod twine from The Twinery; Divine Swirls embossing; sticker from stash; SU ink for embossing, and white gelly roll pen for doodling.

Now it's your turn!!  

 Link up your project to the Cooking With Cricut challenge post.  There are some guidelines.

1.  Must follow the challenge topic.

2.  Must be a new project for this challenge

3.  No back dated posts please

4.  Must have a link back to this post on your blog

5.  Must link your project post through Inlinkz and not just your blog

6.  Must use your Cricut in some capacity

7.  Gotta HAVE FUN!!!

8.  You may combine challenges...we like to!

Happy Birthday Cupcake!

Hello my crafty friends!!  Welcome to Michelle's Crafty Creations.

Today at Cooking With Cricut we are cooking up something sweet for birthdays.  Our designers Mindy, Jenny, and Debbie challenged us to create a project that has a birthday theme plus a cake, cupcake, or balloons.  Fun stuff for sure!!!

Today I made a cupcake shape card....I LOVE shape cards!!

I LOVE using PKS faces on my projects...they make it come to life!!!

Here it is closed

Opened

To Make this card I used:

Carts ~ Plantin Schoolbook, Sweet Treats for cupcake and sentiment Gypsy to weld the cupcake and rectangle

Paper ~ DCWV (can't remember the name!) and Colorbok solid

Stamp ~ PKS and SU

Misc ~ white gelly roll pen for eyes and doodling, foam sticker to pop the flower out.

Now it's your turn!!

 Link up your project to the Cooking With Cricut challenge post.  There are some guidelines.

1.  Must follow the challenge topic.

2.  Must be a new project for this challenge

3.  No back dated posts please

4.  Must have a link back to this post on your blog

5.  Must link your project post through Inlinkz and not just your blog

6.  Must use your Cricut in some capacity

7.  Gotta HAVE FUN!!!

8.  You may combine challenges...we like to!

Hugs and Happy Crafting!!

I am linking this project to:

My Craft Spot's Challenge #45 Birthday Shape cards

I love you...love bug

Hello all my crafty friends!  I was hoping to this posted earlier today, but life happened!! LOL

I created some Valentine Cards for my nieces and nephew.  I wanted to encourage them while their daddy is serving in Afghanistan.  I think these will put a smile on their faces!! (I made the same kind for my own kids...they just don't know..hehehe...)

Love BUG!

Younger love bug!

RAWR

Love shaker cards!!

Open card

Aren't they SOOO cute??!! ;)

To Make this I used:

Cart ~ Gypsy Wandering (bug base cards), Create A Critter all sized with my Gypsy

Paper ~ K&Co Circus Valentine and DCWV solid Princess 

Stamp ~ PKS Everyday and Wide eye assorted

Ink ~ Memento

Misc ~ heart confetti for shaker card, white and red gelly roll pen for doodling, chalk for cheeks on bugs,   red stickles for heart on bugs, and ribbon from my stash.

Hugs and Happy Crafting!!

I {heart} you

Hey crafty friends!  Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!!  I am sure we have all been busy trying to get our Valentines gifts ready! ;)

I made these cute little goodie bags for the kids in my Sunday School class and two extras for "best boy" and "best girl" in Jr. Church.  I have been challenging myself to make things more frugal and use whatever I have on hand.  Today it was lunch bags.  For whatever reason I could NOT find white paper bags, so I had to use brown....oh well!  They came out cute anyway!!

I stuffed these cute baggies with a Little Debbie heart cake and Fun Dip! Sweets for some sweet kids!

To Make this I used:

Cart ~ Doodlecharms for the heart sized with my Gypsy

Paper ~ K&Co and DCWV

Stamp ~ PKS

Misc ~ Paper bag for the goodie bag, ribbon from my stash, pink and white gelly roll pen for doodling and coloring the eyes, Heart tissue paper for the gift inside, and hole puncher for the ribbon.

Happy Crafting!

I am linking this up to the following Challenges:

My Craft Spot: Valentines!  (make a Valentine card or treat packaging)

Scrappy Mom Stamps: Hearts Galore

FTTC: Challenge Me Monday #97 Love is In the Air

Jill's "Sundays are Lovely at Jaihart"

PKS: Photo Inspiration #4 (I thought of the fruit as sweet and the goodies in the bag are sweet!)

A Little Thank You

Hello Crafty Friends!  I hope you all are having a wonderful New Year!

Today I wanted to make a thank you card for a sweet little girl who gave my husband a present.  She is such thoughtful young girl.  What little girl doesn't like pink and kitties?!  :)

I LOOOOVE how this card came out!!

To make this card I used:

Cart ~ Create a Critter 

Paper ~ Mariposa

Stamps ~ PKS for eyes

Ink ~ Ranger Distress Tea Dye

Emboss ~ Argyle for pillow

Tools ~ SU paper piercer

Misc ~ Stickles, gelly roll pens, ribbon from stash

I used my gypsy to weld the cat and pillow accessory for base; hide contour for the cats face and some of the tail for the base.  

I am linking this up over at Jill's link party.  

I am also entering this into RRR's Challenge #39 "Sparkle and Ribbon"

Happy Crafting everyone!!

Christmas Crafting Fun ~ Day 18

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Michelle's Crafty Creations.

I hope you have been enjoying the 25 Days Of Christmas Crafting Fun over at Cooking With Cricut and checking daily for your free digi stamps and cutting files!  It has been SUCH a great time and the ladies on the DT are so talented.  What an honor to work with them!

The theme for today was Nativity, Angels rejoicing the good news, etc.  Of course with Christmas around the corner we are all preparing our house for guests, hopefully done decorating the house ;), sending Christmas cards, buying gifts, etc.  the list is truly long.  However, there is so much more to Christmas.  Christmas is all about Christ.  We focus a lot on His death, for without it we would have no salvation.  But without his birth there would be no death.  Jesus Christ left His home in glory, as a King, worshipped by angels, cherubims surround His throne singing, all to come to earth, in a lowly manger, with much humility, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and placed in a trough....for me...for you...for everyone!  his birth indeed was miraculous.  What a wonderful time to reflect and remember, let's just not forget to remember that more than once a year.  So with that said, I decided to make a card reflecting the stable scene.

Stair Step card

To Make this I used:

Cart ~ Paper Doll Dress Up.  I used my gypsy to size the people, animals, and manger.

Paper ~ Colorbok

Stamps ~ Misc stamp set from Hobby Lobby, Sentiment from Hobby Lobby, PKS for face

Ink ~ Colorbox chalk ink: chestnut, Ranger Distress: tea dye, Memnto black 

Misc~ gold distress stickles, MS pen for doodling, White gelly roll for eyes, black enamel paint, recollections brown and white flock, pink chalk for lamb, raffia for straw.

Don't forget to become a follower of Cooking With Cricut and leave at least one comment during the 25 Days for your chance to win some pretty awesome goodies!!

Happy Crafting!!