Door Hangers

We had a party for my daughter's first birthday. It was a family party with all her cousins from both sides of the family there.   Most of the cousins are much older and the typical "treat" bags just don't work for them. I wanted to do something different.  I found these foam wavy door hangers at Walmart.  They come 9 to a pack.  I can't remember the price but they are really cheap. So I made one door hanger for each of the kids and decorated them specifically for each of them.  I apologize for the picture quality. I was in a big hurry when I took the pictures so there's a lot of shadow.  

I used my cricut machine for most of the images. I used the Create a Critter, Nifty Fifties, & Graphically Speaking cartridges.  The papers were from my scrap stash.  I used some stickles, some liquid pearls, some stickers and some gems.  Some of the letters for the names are rub ons; some are pre-cut, some are stickers, some are from the Cricut Cartridges.   I think they were well liked by all that received them.

Thanks for taking the time to look. I'd love to hear your comments. Do you have a favorite?

Hero Arts November Contest

Ok, so today Hero Arts started their November Contest.  You can check out the details HERE.  One of the options is to make a card with bling.  I LOVE BLING!  So I was very excited to see what I could come up with.  I had it in my head that I needed to make a card for a relative that lives far away to send her for Thanksgiving. This is what I came up with.

It's so hard to capture all the sparkle in pictures, isn't it?  

I haven't decided on the inside sentiment yet.  I'm thinking either "we're part of the same family tree." or something simple like "for you." 

Here's the details. I used DCWV papers. The striped background paper is from the "Green Stack."  It doesn't come with the glitter on it.  I wanted to make this card with extra bling, so I used my atg gun to run glue lines along the card and then covered them in glitter ( Barbara Trombley's Original Art Glittering System, Ultra Fine Nirvana Transparent...to be exact.)  I cut the tree from the Cricut Alphabet cartridge that came with my Expression 2. I added lots of Hero Arts bling with the blue gemstones and used the Hero Arts Fanciful Swirl Alphabet stamps to make my sentiment.

Thanks so much for looking. I'd love to hear your comments. 

You Rock

Today's card was made using my new Cricut Expression 2.  It came pre-loaded with a cartridge called "Cricut Alphabet."  There's so much stuff packed into this cartridge. It's so cool!  I chose to use the "You Rock" sentiment because I love how the shadow of it has the guitar.  What a fun graphic!  I've been reading on a lot of other people's blogs lately that they are using up their scraps and was inspired to do the same with this card.  All the papers are from my scrap box. I think that, with the exception of the blue background and the card base, the papers are from We R Memory Keepers White Out collection.  I love how the torn edges of the blue background paper give it an "edgy" look. I had fun with this one. I'm looking forward to exploring more of this cartridge.

Thanks for looking. Have a blessed day.