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Monday, October 27, 2008

More Halloween Party Treats

You might have seen the Halloween Treats that I made for my daughter's Halloween Party. If not, click here to see them.
Well one of the room moms called me to ask if I could bring favors for the party. So this is what I made. I adapted this from Dawn's Frankie Card.

I just made flat faces & adhered them to a paper lunch bag & filled with candy. For the hair, instead of cutting out the jagged edge, I used the MS Drippy Goo Punch. I thought that added a little different touch. I used CDS to cut all of the circles & welded the white parts of the eyes together. I cut the circles at: white 1 3/4", green 1 3/4", & black 3/4". I used George & Basic Shapes for the circles & Opposites Attract for the bolts in his neck (T). I used my white Gelly Pen for the accents on the eyes. I inked over the hair & around the face with purple ink & with green ink around the eyelids & noses. I did the mouths & scars freehand. I also mage all of the face look a little different. The stamp is from the dollar bin at Target. Thanks for looking. Comments & questions are always welcomed.

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Sour Cream Container Halloween Treats

I made these sour cream containers for my son to give to the bus stop kids & his bus driver. They are all between 12 & 14 years old & will probably think I have lost my mind. But, I'm sure they will still like the candy inside. He will give them out on Halloween morning.
I used misc. orange cardstock 5 1/2" x 6". I stamped them with halloween stamps that I found in the dollar bin at Target. I punched a hole in some extra scraps of the orange cardstock & attached with a ribbon before sealing up the top end. I used my crimper on the ends & I used the Terrificly Tacky Tape (Red Sticky Strip) to seal them. I stamped "From:" with a Stampin' Up Stamp on the tag & my son will write is name.
For instructions on making them go to: Splitcoast Stampers
Thanks for looking. Comments & questions are always welcomed.
Lori
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Jason is 6 Years Old!!!!


This card was made for my nephew, Jason. He just turned 6 & was so excited about it.
I used a sketch from Card Maker's Sketch Book for this card. It was so much fun to make & really quick. I cut 2 tags freehand. added 2 star eyelets using my Crop-A-Dile, & misc. ribbon. I used the MS Drippy Goo punch for the layered base for his intitial. Sentiments stamps set is from Stampendous, on the bottom (it isn't showing too well) says, "to wish you a" & on the inside it says "happy birthday". I can't remember the stamp set for the "J". I used heat embossing on the initial.
Thanks for looking. Questions & comments are always welcomed.
Lori
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Lime Light - 1st Task Cards for Marines

Well this is my contribution to our first task. We each made between 5-10 sets of cards and bookmarks. I made 7 sets of cards & 7 bookmarks. One card is going to the Marine (with a note of gratitude from me), one card is for the Marine to send home, and the bookmark is for the Marine to use or pass along. It had been mentioned that the troops are always looking to things to use as ornaments during the holidays. So, I kept that in mind when making the tags on the packages. I really hope they enjoy it all. Please visit our site, The Lime Light to check out everyone's work. You can also see the cards unbundled & more details on the site. Please stop often to see what we are up to.
Thanks for looking. Questions & comments are always welcomed.
Lori
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Lunch Bag "LSU Birthday Card"


This is the first luch bag card that I made. I got the idea from thriftygranny on the Cricut Message Board. Click here for her blog. She gives instructions here too (post #20).


This card was for a very good friend of ours. He is a very big LSU fan, so I knew this would be perfect. Happy Birthday Sean!!!!


This is the front of the card. I used OA for the letters & LITW punch.This is the front & pull-out . I used george to cut circles, then cut them in half for the border of the pull-out. I can't remember the name of this stamp set.
This is the back of the crad. I used the LITW punch & George with CDS to make the football. I also embossed the football with the CB using the Swiss Dots folder. I used a brown marker to color the dots.

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Lori
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Kids' Birthday Cards

I made this card for my niece's 7th Birthday. I made a flat card & put her birthday message on the back. I made it into a doorhanger & hung it on the handle of her gift bag. She absolutely loved it & so did the rest of the girls at the party.
Details:
The name & frame were cut out as one piece. Then I cut the name in purple & layered it.
Cricut Design Studio to size & weld the name & the frame
Tear Drop for the name
Stetch Your Imagination for the frame - blue flowers were cut from the corners of the frame
George & Basic Shapes for the purple flowers
Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel with a heat gun was used on the flowers then layered
Crop-A-Dile for setting the Making Memories Eyelets
Misc. Ribbon was used for the hanger

This card was made for the son of some very good friend's. It was for his 5th birthday.

Details:

The name & frame again was ust all in one piece. Then I cut the name in red & layered it.

Cricut Design Studio to size & weld the name & frame

Opposites Attract for the name

Stretch Your Imagination for the frame

Misc. Ribbon

Thanks for looking. Comments & questions always welcomed.

Lori

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Halloween Treats




I made these treats for my daughter's Halloween party at school. Each child (11) will get a spider pencil, a boo/ghost bookmark, & a pumpkin/ghost cakebox necklace filled with a halloween marshmallow (pre-wrapped) candy. Each cakebox was sponged with a cottonball & black Staz On ink. They all have a ghost on one side & a pumkin on the other. On the bookmarks, I used the Cuttlebug with the Spots & Dots folder. I wanted to do that on just the base, but I forgot to. I did one after the entire thing was made & my DD loved it, so I did them all.
I have to look up all of the details & will post later.
Thanks for looking. All comments & questions welcomed.
Lori
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Making Your Own Patterned Cardstock

I forgot how I came across this blog, but it is wonderful. Please check out http://michellesrubberroom.blogspot.com/.
The project that caught my eye was her Paper Napkin Transfer tutorial. I thought this was just amazing. Just think of all the patterned cardstock that we can make now & it even has a textured feel to it. I loaded up with all kinds of printed napkins on clearance at Target. I tried it last night. I had a few issues, but it worked out in the end.
Here is the card that I made & the napkin that I used:
Here is a closer up pic of the card.
This will be one of the cards going to the marines as part of the 1st task of The Lime Light Design Team.
Thanks for looking. Comments & questions are always welcomed.
Lori

The Lime Light - We Are Up And Running

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I have posted before about this new & exciting design team. We are a charitable design team that is made up of 11 paper crafters. We have just started our first task of making cards for our men & women fighting in Iraq. Although we are taking is a step further. We are sending cards for them to know that they are appreciated, but we are also sending them bookmarks & cards to send to those that they appreciate also.
We will have a new task every month. Please check out The Lime Light often to see what we are doing. There may be times that you will be able to help us out too. There is also a link for you to donate, if you can. This will help us greatly to alleviate some of our costs.
We have bios of all of our design team members along with our blog addresses. Please check us out & visit our individual blogs. I also have them listed on my sidebar to the left. Many of us are doing some wonderful things in addition to The Lime Light.
We also ask that you post a link to The Lime Light on your blog to help spread the word of what we are doing.
Thanks for looking. Comments & questions always welcomed.
Lori