Welcome Home......

Happy Saturday all! 

After a work friend of mine saw the birthday banner I made, she asked could I make a Welcome Home banner for her son. You see her son joined the US Army when he graduated High School. This will be his first holiday home as he missed Thanksgiving, Here is the banner I made:

It is a little cockeyed as I am much shorter than my son who was holding the right side. Welcome home David. We are all so proud of you.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will come back tomorrow for another project. Until next time.....

School days, school days

Dear old golden rule days

Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic

Taught to the tune of the hickory stick

You were my queen in calico

I was your bashful barefoot beau

And you wrote on my slate"I love you, so"

When we were a couple of kids

The three Rs, a widely used abbreviation for the basic elements of a primary school curriculum: reading, ’riting (writing), and ’rithmetic (arithmetic) which is what the theme is for this month's Her Craft Kre8tions challenge!

Each Design Team member has received a piece of chalkboard paper approximately 6 x 6-inches. Now, where the challenge lies, is Design Team member is to create a "school" type theme whether it be a class lesson or something that their beau or them could have written on their slate. We're going to see how creative this piece of chalkboard paper can be made into with their "School Lesson" of "readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmatic.

We have a great line-up of super creative talent along with our Design Team Page:

1. Her Craft Kre8tions ~ http://her-craft-kre8tions.blogspot.com/
2. Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com 
3. Lisa W.~ http://mycraftyspace.blogspot.com/
4. Rachelle~http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
5. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com 
6. Janet ~ http://www.ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/ 
7. Colleen ~ http://www.cbcscrapbooking.blogspot.com
8. Susan ~ http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/
9. Lisa ~ http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

I decided to make a scrapbook page to commemorate my youngest son's entrance into High School. I cannot imagine where the time has gone. I made the page using Cricut Craft Room and the My World cartridge that was free to play with. I also used my Winnie the Pooh cartridge for the chalkboard frame. I wish the pic was better. One chalkboard says, "Welcome to the Class of 2016" and the other "Welcome Freshman 2012". Here is my page:

There will be some super blog candy for one lucky winner that posts on each post along the way including the Design Team blog. Please make sure you stop by http://

her-craft-kre8tions.blogspot.co
m/. Until next time...

Christmas in July

Today, thanks to some wonderful crafty friends, I got started on some Christmas Cards. The idea started from some Christmas tags my friend Deneen was making. I thought, "What a great idea! Wouldn't it look great mounted on a card?" And then an idea was born. With my Gypsy and George and Basic shapes I set up the tags. The Christmas motifs were a free cartridge from Cricut Craft Room this weekend. Here is the result:

And here is the closeups:

This was my first time using Cricut Craft Room and I am not exactly sold yet. I still love my Gypsy and was a bit disappointed that I could not link my cartridges since I have them linked to the Gypsy. I will have to play with it more to see how I like it. 


Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful week. Until next time....