Still Crawling... birthday cupcakes with a surprise!

My mother in law has got to be one of my biggest fans, every year she asks me to make nearly 200 cards fro all her nieces and nephews and well... EVERYONE! This is what I came up with for her to send to her kids and grand kids.. cupcakes! Not just any cupcakes but cupcakes with a fun little pocket to hold some $$, this would make any kid or adult smile :) I used the Sweet Treats cartridge and cut the cupcakes out at 4 inches on some CTMH Chocolate cardstock then I cut the cupcake wrapper out on DCWV paper. I only adhered the sides and bottom of the wrapper. Then I used a white gel pen to highlight the cherry on top. The stamp is from CTMH as well. Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to check back tomorrow... there will be a giveaway :)

Fantabulous Cricut "Button Up for School" Crawl

Hello Everyone and welcome to Cute Cards and Crafts By Jamie! and the FCCB "Back to School" Crawl. Thank you for stopping by on this fun blog hop. You should be joining me from JOYCE, AKA "Passion For Paper" if you just popped on my blog and want to play along you should start at the beginning which is the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog HERE.

In honor of Back To School time, we're calling our second Fantabulous Cricut Crawl "Button Up For School"...

Each  DT member will feature an original project that has to include a button AND a Cricut cut somewhere on their project. Make sure to check out each member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be prizes along the way at our DT members' blogs, AND there will be a grand prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a project meeting the the "Button Up For School" challenge criteria!

How fun is that?

So here is my project...  I found this cute printable saying from HERE and down loaded it, I printed one sheet which gave me 4 and that's exactly what I needed :) Then I had my kids sign their names and got busy putting them together. I used Doodlecharms for the apple and bus adding buttons to the wheels. I also used my EK Success punch to make it look like it was from a notebook and found some fun school themed paper out of a Die Cuts With a View stack.

I added a few other things to my bags before I tied them up like a Reese's cup and some Hershey's kisses and then of course my cute calculator I found at the store for $1.00. I also punched a whole and used an eyelet to thread my hemp through and tie on my tag.

I am offering some blog candy today... For today's prize Scrappy Mom's Stamps has graciously donated a set of their totally awesome stamp sets, the one you can win is called "The Charmed Life." They have 5 other great stamp sets available right now too, you can see them all HERE. Thank you so much to Scrappy Mom's Stamps for sponsoring me! OK, so you have 2 chances to win... If you leave a comment that's one and if you decide to follow me and leave a separate comment that will be two! Easy enough huh?! ;)

Now it's your turn to see if you can incorporate a button on your own "Button Up For School" project. Make sure to include a Cricut cut somewhere on your project!

Your next stop is the Fantabulous... Candace @ Paper Crafts By Candace. Go see what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!

Be sure to check back all week for some other great projects and card ideas and you never know when there will be another prize up for grabs :)

Happy Crawling!

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Here is the screen shot that Celeste sent me... THANKS for doing that :)
Also get ready for Monday's blog hop with FANTABULOUS CRICUT CHALLENGE BLOG! We are having our "Back To School Crawl" all week long. I will have some projects to share with you and definitely some blog candy to giveaway on a couple days, you wont want to miss it :)

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Sweet Baby Girl- shower invites

I made up a bunch of these a week ago for a friend that is hosting a baby shower. I cut the horse and horse shoe at 2-3/4 and the star at 1-1/2. The stamps are all individual words from CTMH. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the green "grass" paper and then tied some crochet thread around the bottom. I used CTMH chocolate ink to stamp with and bamboo on the edges.

Ladybug - feel better, just because, hello, miss you

I made some of these about a year ago and had lots of compliments so I decided it was time to make some more. You get 2 of the same die cuts and cut certain areas out, then you adhere that part on top of the other die cut with pop dots to make your own 3-D sticker. The frames were also included with the die cuts. I added some ribbon on a few of them and all different sentiments from Papertrey Ink and CTMH. Thanks for stopping by :)
 
showing you the dimension on this one

Special Wedding Card- Together Forever

I was contacted by someone who needed a wedding card for a family member. Her niece is getting married in the fall and she wanted a certain saying on it so she asked me if I could help her out... of COURSE! I used the Wedding Solutions cartridge and cut the silhouette at 4-1/2, then I added some Kaiser Pearls to her head and waist. She is adhered with pop dots but I just used Tombo on him so the bride is the star :) The tree is from Stretch Your Imagination cut at 5-1/2. The card measures 5.75 x 5.75, the red and yellow are both Bazzill cardstock. The ribbon is Offray and matched perfectly! Stamps are My Pink Stamper.

This is the saying she wanted on it, I really wanted to get this on the outside but it just wasn't working so I decided to mat it with Yam and add some more pearls and put it inside.

Fantabulous Cricut #26- Labor Day

Hi Everyone this weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut was to create something with the Labor Day theme, this could include work or a job, congrats on promotion, retirement etc... all I could think of was Labor though... might be because I have been through it 5 times! Anyway I cut this from New Arrival at 4 inches on blackout, I used a Martha Stewart punch and some old Provocraft paper that is about 5 years old. The stamp is from Studio G. Be sure to check out the other DT projects and if you make your own be sure to link it up for some great prizes this week!

Video tutorial on how to make Folded Flowers!

I finally got around to making a tutorial on how I made these cute flowers, if anyone knows what they are called please let me know! Thanks for stopping by today.

This is a close up of the cards, if you click on it, it should enlarge to get a better view!

Happy Anniversary- red, white and black... again!

I love these colors together... if you cant tell. They are so elegant together and make for great wedding or anniversary combos. The white cardstock is from DCWV it comes embossed so I just used my platinum planet ink and drug it over the raised edges for some shimmer. My stamp is an old Stampin Up! brads I found at Big Lots for a 1.00, and ribbon is black satin from Offray. Thanks for stopping by today! I am entering this in Made by Momo's Tuesday Challenge :)