Day 39 of 100 Day Blog Challenge - JEEP Card

My Dad's Birthday is just around the corner on Thurs., so I plan on making his card tomorrow.  In the meantime, I'd like to share this card I made for him last summer. Both of my parents love their Jeep! Some of the pieces on this card were a bit difficult to cut due to their teeny tiny size.  But it came out great!

 

~ Shelly Lynn ~

Day 30 of 100 Day Blog Challenge - KC Royals Baseball Card & Hat

Way to go Royals!!
You may not have won this season,
but there is always next season! 
I hate to admit it, but I never really
watched much baseball before...
actually have been to only one
Royals game in the past.  This season
has really sparked my interest, though. 
So the Royals have gained a new fan
and I'm sure many many more after this
World Series!  Thank you Royals for the
EXCITING season!

Even my little Olly is a fan! 
The hat pattern came from
deviantART.  John converted it
into an SVG File for me and created
the KC svg.  I added a small white brad
to the top of hat to help hold it all together.

And here is a Royals Card I made using
the Take Me Out To the Ball Game svg
file from PPBNDesigns.

~ Shelly Lynn ~

    

Day 19 of 100 Day Blog Challenge - Haunted House Box Card

So excited to start making Halloween
paper crafts!! Halloween is one of
my favorite holidays.  Here is a box card I
made from SVG Cuts Fright Night Collection.
I added sparkly stickles onto the spider webs
and inked the edges of the gray pieces with black
ink.  I also add a touch of orange stickles to the
BOO wording and the Jack-o-lantern's eyes.
     

   

  

~ Shelly Lynn ~

St. Patrick's Luck Day Blog Hop - March 17th & 18th - Day 2

Welcome to our Lucky St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop - Day 2.
  

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.–Irish blessing

  

You should have arrived here from Michelle's blog... http://craftychelle.blogspot.com/

If you just happened to stumble upon this hop,
please be sure to go back to Angela's blog at http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com
to start at the beginning.

For my projects today, I created several more cards.

A tri-step card for a dear friend of mine.
I had a very difficult time finding much St. Pat's
paper this year.  But I just love this polka dot paper. 

    

   

  

I used an action wobble on the leprechaun below.
The leprechaun is a svg file that my hubby created.
I will post it as a FREE SVG file on Tuesday
win I announce the winner of my blog candy.

   

   

Here is the card that my husband made for me.
He used svg files and pop dotted the little shamrocks.
I love receiving his homemade cards.

    

   

And here is a card that my dear friend and fellow blogmate
(Kitty) made for me.  She used the Birthday Anya stamp from
The Greeting Farm.  To cover the birthday hat on Anya, she
cut out a little leprechaun hat to place on her head.   Super
creative Kitty!!  I love the Anya stamps so this card is perfect.

      

    

   

 

Here is another card made by Kitty.  She used one of the
SVG files that my hubby made.  You can find the FREEBIE
at the top of the page or scroll down a little ways to that post.
Kitty and I both had a difficult time finding greens that matched. 

 

I made some goodies for some little friends of mine.

     

One of my past students came over last night to visit. 
He is in 5th grade now.  So it was a lot different than
the Preschoolers that I am used to.  But we performed
several science projects, had a picnic at the park, made
homemade play dough and goop.  The pictures below
are of the GOOP.  If you have never tried this with
your kid(s), you should.  Unless your kid doesn't like to
get messy, he or she will LOVE this.  I have done this
in the past with my preschoolers and it is always a
hit with the little guys and even the big kids love it.
The actual recipe is below.  To find more fun kid friendly
projects, check out my pre -k website at www.prekfun.com

  

Homemade Goop Recipe

(Makes enough for 1 child.)

1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup water
small bowl, tin pie plate, etc.
cookie sheet or pizza pan
more water
Food coloring (if desired) 
We added one drop of green to make it the pale green in the pic.

Add the water to the corn starch in a bowl,
tin pie plate, etc. Mix it together using your hands.
If you need to add more water, add just a couple of drops
(especially after playing with it for awhile).

Ask your child questions like:
What does the corn starch smell like?
How does it feel?
What is it doing?

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Remember if you leave a comment on both days of this hop
and become a follower, you have a chance of winning some green.
  Sorry it's not the green you are probably thinking of nor is it the
gold at the end of the rainbow... but it's a few little green goodies.
   I bagged all the little goodies in the pic below into a small green
organza drawbag and will be mailing it out to one LUCKY winner.I'll draw the LUCKY winner on Tuesday, March 20th.

    

   

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
   ~Irish Blessing

 

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed your visit.

Your next stop is....

Anita from

http://anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/

 

~ Shelly ~

 

Feb. Cuts for Cut Swap

Here are my cuts for the Feb. Cut Swap. 
The letters are cut large enough for a 12 x 12
layout and the small heart with flourish is
perfect size for a card or a layout.

If you are interested in joining our monthly cut swap,
please let me know.  It is on a month to month basis...
so you are NEVER required to participate. 
We do a roll call at the end of each month for the following month.
Requirement is to cut TWO cuts for each person in your group
(only 6 people in a group) so you make no more than 10 cuts.
Your cuts can be from any diecutting machine....
but we ask that you paper peice them and embellish them.

~ Shelly ~

 

Christmas Layout Challenge

Here is my layout for our first challenge
on the KC Croppers Cut Swap group... 
The challenge was to make any size
Christmas layout... so I chose to make
an 8.5 x 11 double layout. 

~ Shelly ~

January Cuts for the Cut Swap Group

Here are my cuts for the January cut swap...
with the KC Croppers Cut Swap group.
They are svg files from www.letteringdelights.com

If you are interested in joining the swap with us,
we are currently taking new members for next month.
Just shoot me a message over on facebook... my fb badge is below.

 ~ Shelly ~

     

Festive Friday: Halloween Mini Book

TGIF!

Today, for Festive Friday over at My Cricut Craftroom,
I am sharing my mini book that I created using
Halloween cuts from two different cut swap groups
that I participated in during October. I challenged
myself to use as many of the cuts as possible...
some I used on Halloween cards but most of them
I used in this book. It was a lot of fun and I am very
happy with how it turned out. Thanks to everyone who
swapped cuts with me!! I couldn't have done this
book without ya! I apologize that I can not be more
descriptive about which cartridge every cut came from.

The front cover includes two pull out tags.

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On the inside cover is a spider web photo frame...
a photo slides behind it. To get a better look
at each page, you can click on it to enlarge it.

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The flag banner in the middle of the page
(on the right) is velcroed and opens up to more
pages... as you can see in the next picture.

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Each of the flaps that open have two tags that pull out.

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This is a pic (above) with both flaps open.
They close like barn doors and velcro shut again.

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The yellow photo mat (on the right page) opens up
(with velcro underneath) and the Dracula stamped image
on the right is a pull out tag that pulls out upward.

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The black photo mat also opens up... or shall I say
opens downward... as you can see in the next pic.

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Ta-Da... three more photo mats!!
It's very difficult to show you the full effect of this
album in photos... a video would have been much better.

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The Trick-or-Treat page (on the right) opens up.

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And another flap on the bottom right side
opens downward. There is also an orange ticket
tag that pulls out from the Too Cute To Spook
Stamped image. I thought the backside of the
tag would be perfect for a little bit of journaling
with my white gel pen... bc the backside is black.

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Near the purple ghost on the bottom flap
is the back of the orange ticket tag.
And the center is a polk-a-dot photo mat.
So there are plenty of spots for photos.

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Above is a close up of the ticket tag... it
slides in and out of a little "hidden" pocket.

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Both of these pages are flaps that
open to the left and right. And there
is space to add a photo under the
HALLOWEEN cut on the left page.

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In the above pic, the left flap is
open and the right flap still closed.

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Here is a closer pic!! Ya Gotta
LOVE candy corn!! YUM! YUMM!

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Now both flaps are open to reveal more photo mats.

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Here is a close up of the right page
once it is opened up. The stamped skeleton
image is another tiny tag that slides in
and out of the pocket underneath.

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Above... There are 3 flaps (on both sides) that open
up to more pages. The first two flaps on top are
just decorative with cuts... then when you open
those to the left and right... you will see (the next pic)...

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After opening the spider and jack-0-lantern
flaps above, this is what you will see... room for
2 more photos and some journaling on the right side
next to the tonic tag. Then you open these two orange
flaps to reveal the last photo mats in this section.

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Space for 2 more Halloween photos!
I added a little bit of green stickles on the jack-o-lantern's
leaf to give it a little bling. The spider has bling on her bow.

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Such a cute Jack-o-lantern! I love it!

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The polk-a-dot mat on the right opens up to...
can you guess... more photo mats!!

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Under the ghostly gathering square are 3 pull out tags...
more for journaling. And room for 3 photos on this spread.

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The witch flap opens up (as you can see in the next pic)
to the Pumpkin Patch section of my mini book.

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You can't really tell in this pic but the orange
photo mat is embossed and it
opens downward for more photo mats.

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Once the top and bottom flaps are open...
you see two more flaps.
These flaps open to the left and right.
Photos can be added to the polk-a-dot flaps.

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Once all four photo mats are open... you see four
pumpkins and a place for a pumpkin patch
photo in the center. Remember... these are all
cuts I received from others! :)

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The last two pages are more flaps that open up.
I added two buttons on each section and wrapped
embroidery thread around them to keep them in place.
To open the flaps, you unravel the black thread on one side.

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Here is a close up of how I closed these
flaps instead of using velcro again.

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When you open the first two flaps (on the left)
here is what you'll see... and the
RIP cut is a pocket for another tag.

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On the inside back cover... DEAD END!
But room for two more photos on the
inside of the left & right flaps!

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Uh-oh.... my book will no longer close!
LOVE IT!!

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Here is the completed book... as you can tell,
it no longer closes correctly.
It will just have to sit on my shelf like this!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE creating mini albums!

Be sure to check out the Festive Friday projects
from the other Design Team Members over at
My Cricut Craftroom.... oh, and be sure to stop
in this weekend.... we are having another
100 cartridge blog hop going on!!

Happy Friday!!!

~ Shelly ~