I've been Missing, but I need HELP!!! Calling all CRAFTERS

Hello lovely ladies,

As I mentioned, I've been missing lately. I've still been crafting, but more for just myself and family. No pressures or deadlines, but now I need some help. I am President of my daughters PTA or Parent Council, and right now, we are concentrating on Halloween and the dance we have, but knowing that I have little time, I have to get started on the Christmas party. The plan we have right now is to have a Santa pancake breakfast. With this, I want to give each Family a little take home gift, and thought I could make a Christmas tree decoration....but thats where I got stuck...What kind? I've hunted Pinterest and have a few thoughts running through my over crowded head, but none that jumped out at me as "thats it". My thoughts are maybe my crafty peeps could lend me a hand.....what should I make? I don't want to spend alot, because, well, I have to make about 150, so, haha, it has to be cheap AND easy. Send me some ideas guys. If anyone can, I know its YOU! :)

Theme Day Thursday- Halloween Decorations

 Good day everyone. Happy Theme day Thursday. Today the ladies of My Cricut Craft Room had the pleasure of making something used for a Halloween Party. But don't forget the catch....in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month next month, we have gone pink. All of out projects have to have pink somewhere on it.

  I don't have a Halloween party, but I do have 2 girls in school that have a Halloween dance. So I sat down and got to work. Here is my project:

I cut this frame as large as I could at 11. Because it is not square I could not go the full 12. I found this frame on Happy Hauntings. It has 4 cuts to it, the black web, the orange background, the black backing and the stand part.

For the life of me, I could not figure out how the stand part was attached to the frame, there are little slots on the backing, but it just didn't make sense, so I did the only thing I could figure out, I got out my trusty ATG gun:) I also should note, I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with my frame when I started to I cut the stand twice and glued them together to give it some extra strength.

I love using purple for halloween, so I made sure to shadow the saying in it. This saying was from Happy Hauntings as well and it is cut at 3'. I pop dotted it up to give it some dimension. I will be making a twin to this one, only I will use it the display the entrance fee of the dance. One will go on either end of the entrance table:)



And the pink? well, its right here:

I added a little pink spider to the back. He was from Artiste and was cut at 2'. He's a darker pink then he's showing up too, he looks white here, but he's really not.

With Halloween just around the corner, are you thinking of having a party? well head on over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what other ghoulishly fun Halloween decorations they came up with

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Happy Hump Day! Wonder why it's ^^ Pink? We Erica has asked us to go pink for Octobers Breast Cancer awareness. All of our projects will have pink on them somewhere, and our heading will be Pink too.

 So, as a recap, What is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday? It is when you use a cartridge is a way you wouldn't normally. Like not using the main cuts on the cart...usually whats on the plastic overlay. Why the little recap? Well, this week Erica threw in a challange, we were to use as many cuts or cartridges as possible. I was so excited, I jumped at the chance to have this day. So, as usual, life got in the way of crafting, and I got behind. I started my project last wednesday. That gave me 2 days to finish before my due date and I didn't have a clue on what to do. Well, finally I figured it out and got to work.

  I finished it with about 7 hours to spare, when someone says "Are we still supposed to follow the WYEGW rule of no main cut?" D'oh!! What? I had made my whole layout and I couldn't remember my cuts. I use my gypsy everytime, and its just second nature, I don't even think. Well Here's my layout, and I'll tell you after if I followed the rules:

So, I have 4 trees,1 boat with 1 layer, 1 birdie with 1 layer 2 waves welded together, and Summer, cut twice because there was no shadow feature ( I did copy Erica's time about off centering if something doesn't have a shadow feature)

  tree, and the boat are pop dotted, but these pics, you can't tell

 And here is my bit of pink, a heart with the year:)

So did I follow the rules? Nope, not really. The only NON feature cuts are:

Trees- cut @4 Every day Paper Dolls

"Summer" cut @ 2 Phrases

The boat cut @ 3 and the waves welded together cut at 2 are from Life's a Beach

and the Birdie cut at 4 from Straight From the Nest are MAIN feature cuts:(

Ah well, no prize for me. Next time I better think more. To check out who made the same mistake as me, and who didn't (but did an amazing job regardless) head on over to My Cricut Craft Room

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 Good Friday morning everyone. We are finishing up our first full week of school here. I`ve struggled to get back into the swing of things, but hey atleast the kids got to school on time, with lunches, fully dressed:)

  Todays theme at My Cricut Craft Room is a layout with 4 pictures. Easy peasy!! My favorite too:)
Here`s my layout:

(Excuse the picture, for some reason, my camera was acting up)


 I used the Everyday Paper dolls to make this layout of my kids playing mini golf. My In laws came a few days this summer to take the kids on special outtings, and mini golf is one of there favorite activies.

 Everything is cut at 4` except the clouds with where 2. They were too big at 4. I popped 1 layer of the grass, and the clouds are popped on top of a flat cloud to give it a fluffy effect. You can`t tell in the picture though. I added silver pearl stuff around the tires and on the flag pole (what is that stuff called, for the life of me, I can`t think of it) and I used orange stickles on the flag.

 As I write up this post, I`m thinking I need a title, so I might have to go back and do that. What do you think? Title? No Title?

 I`m off to start, and finish 4 cards for this weekend, and my project for next week lol, but if you need some more inspiration, head over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the rest of the ladies whipped up.