One Scrap at a Time

TGIF!! This has been one long week but my work week ended with a bang yesterday..... Let me explain. Last week we got a call asking if we could help make a banner for a Baby Shower based on a banner he (yes, I said he) saw on Etsy (you can see it " here "). I told him over the phone that I could. After I saw the banner on Etsy I asked him if I could take some creative direction with his banner.  I knew it was for a baby shower and the theme was butterflies - elegant with a rose pink, sage green and cream. I asked his budget and we agreed on about $25 dollars (he provided the rose paper from another store). BIGGEST compliment - He loved it so much that instead of paying the $25 he paid $30 - MADE my day! PLUS, I had the banner on the craft table at the store and got TWO other customers hire me to do banners for them as well.... I love it when a customer puts their trust in me.... What's sad is these pictures do NOT show how elegant and beautiful this banner is i...

I had a customer who came into the store with a picture of a banner she saw somewhere online and wanted to see if we could make something similar. Here is the banner hanging at the customers home (I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it to her).   I had a heck of a time finding red bandana patterned paper so I bought a fairly inexpensive digital paper pack online (etsy), loaded the jpg of the red bandana on my thumb drive and drove it to Staples to have it printed for $3.20 for 6 8x11 on cardstock. I only ended up sing 5 of the 6 sheets. Cricut Cartridges used: Create a Critter, George Basic Shapes and Birthday Bash. Thanks for looking ~Tee

Each week I do a Cricut class at my LSS and need to come up with a project that can be easily recreated by 55 to 60 Students that teach them new techniques using the Cricut. This week I am teaching them how to FLIP - I had a tough time coming up with a project so I decided to make a birthday card with a window cut out of the center and make the Ice Cream twice (one flipped, so it would be a mirror image) and glue them back to back so you have the ice cream on the front and inside.... Not the cutest project I have ever made but it works! ~Tee

I had the honor of making the cake and some decorations for my niece, Marissa's, baby shower. Her theme was Safari which was so much fun to work with. Here is what I came up with. This is the cake that weight a hundred pounds. The animals were made with fondant/gumpaste mixture. Look at those cute booties made from SVG Attic's Baby Boy collection. eeekkkk - are they not just toooo cute? We intended to use them for nuts and candy on each table but no one wanted to put food in them in and risk ruining them. I also made a mobile for each table using SVG Attic Baby Boy and Create a Critter cartridge. Each table was a different animal. I used Birthday Bash for the banner.... What do you think? Did I due well for my niece?