Last Cards of the Month!

We've reached the end of the crazy month filled with birthdays and anniversaries!  I have two last cards to share today.

The first is a birthday card I made using the current sketch at Cardabilities.

I stuck very close to the sketch, using Echo Park For the Record 2.  I am really loving the colors of that collection! I fussy cut the doily and the scallop border.  The border was actually cut from the cut-off strip that shows the pattern on the other side, it was the perfect size!  The flowers and the pearl were the last of the package- woo hoo for using up product!!

For the second card, I used this week's sketch at Unscripted Sketches to make a card for my son who turned 3 today!  

My son requested a "lion eating a zebra" for decorations on his cake this year.  He has been obsessed with that subject for quite a while.  He is really into animals in general (he spends a lot of time acting like an animal too), so I went with that theme for the card (as did a few others who made homemade cards for him). :)  The Cricut cut is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.  I used some Core'dinations cardstock behind the lion boy and dry embossed it and then sanded it to reveal the inner core.  The sentiments down the side are rub ons that I placed on circles I had cut from cardstock.  

In case you were wondering, this is how I decorated his cake.  :)

Happy 4th Birthday...

To Miss Addy! While today is her actual birthday, we celebrated on Saturday with family.

 As we were planning for the party, she kept saying she wanted Tinkerbell on her cake. I was fine with that, but she had had a fairy cake last year and her sister had a Tinkerbell cake a couple of years ago. When it came time to actually decorate the cake and I was looking for a coloring book picture of Tinkerbell to work from, I came across some of the girls' Strawberry Shortcake coloring books and and said, "Strawberry Shortcake would also be fun on a cake..." Addy said, "Yeah, I want Strawberry Shortcake!" And took the coloring books and started looking for a picture for me to duplicate. She ended up selecting a picture of Lemon Meringue for me to base the cake decorations off of.

We started a tradition when Ellie turned 4 of bringing the kids to their first movie in a theater as their gift. Rick ended up finding a "cheap" theater that was still playing "Brave" and took her to that. We thought she would enjoy "Brave" more than the current kids' movies out in theaters. Addy really enjoyed her first movie theater experience and kept talking about how big the screen was.

I made a card to give her at her party yesterday using the current card sketch at Stuck on U Sketches.

The cute fairy girl is a cut from the "Playtime" Lite cartridge. I decided after I had cut out all the pieces that they needed some definition so I ended up going around everything with a pen, which was a bit tedious, but I am happy with how it turned out.

Materials-

Patterned Paper- Cosmo Cricket, Provo Craft

Cardstock- Bazzill

Ink- Color Box

Pen- Marvy, Creative Memories

Stamp- Close to My Heart

Punches- McGill

Felt Trim- Michaels

Die Cutter- Provo Craft

Cartridges- Playtime, Live Simply

Glitter Glue- Ranger

Happy Birthday Will!

Will's 2nd birthday was Monday, but we are celebrating with family today.

 I made a card for him using this week's Mojo Monday sketch. I made two so that I could contribute one for the "I Feel the Love" project this month which is to make children's birthday cards for Sheffield Place which is a shelter for homeless women and children. Each month the staff throws a birthday party for the kids there. If you want more info, click on the link above. The Cooking With Cricut blog's challenge this week is to make a card for the IFTL project, so I put my Cricut to work. I used papers from Echo Park's Little Boy collection (with the exception of the green polka dot paper, that is Doodlebug) and my "Boys Will Be Boys" cartridge. I switched the side of the sentiment and thought it would look cool as a flag so I added a toothpick as the pole.

We had a water play date with some friends on Monday. We had much and Elmo cupcakes. Here's a picture of the cupcakes.

 For his cake for his party today, Will wanted a tractor. So I went online and we picked a coloring page of a bull dozer. Will is also a big fan of M & M's so I decided to incorporate those as well.

Photo Scavenger Hunt 10-23-11

I managed to pull together some photos for this weeks Photo Scavenger Hunt at Ramblings and Photos. A couple of the photos are from a couple of weeks ago. I've realized I may need to get the camera out a little more again!

Words
Addy's birthday cake for her party today. I have to say this is the best my "writing" has ever turned out on a cake!


Under
We spent some time at the zoo on Friday. The Amur leopards are my favorite!


Orange
This one is from our trip to the pumpkin farm a couple of weekends ago, I love how excited Will is!


Fly
They may not be in flight, but they do fly... This is from the marina in Lake City a couple of weeks ago.


Always Look on the Bright Side
Addy getting ready to blow out her candles!

Surprise!!! Party

I haven't had a lot of time to scrapbook in the last couple of weeks because I have been working on another very important project: a surprise birthday party for my husband! It has been one of the most stressful things I have ever done! It is really hard to hide something like that from your spouse! Yesterday was the party and it went great!

My husband is really into board games and one of his favorite games is Carcassone. I decided I wanted to make his cake based on that game this year. I ended up searching the internet for ways to make the "meeples" out of candy. I ended up finding a couple of tutorials using different products. The first was using a product called Plastique, which ended up being a little more expensive than I wanted. So I went in search of another option and found this video using a product called Amazing Mold Putty that was much more reasonably priced.

Here is the result:


And a shot of the birthday boy's face when looked into our living room and say the faces of about 40 friends and family!