Cinderella shoe

Hello my crafty friends! Hope you all have great plans for this weekend.  I'll be busy tomorrow but I'm hoping to have a quite Sunday.  Now, for some time, I've been playing with the idea of making a Cinderella shoe. I looked around for a shoe template and found this one.  I've used it before but never saved the template so I had to download it again.  I printed the template and this is what I came up with

I'm not exactly thrilled with it but it will do.  I embossed the inside piece with my Swirls Cuttlebug folder.

If you look closely at the following pic, you can see the double sided tape 

Here's a look at the back side 

I added a snowflake from a set of Christmas stickers.

The snowflake was all white with glitter on it but I decided to color sections of it blue.  Along the way, I decided to enter this in this weeks  CTO Challenge which calls for blue & white. I figure this shoe would work for a girl's bday party.  Stop by their blog, the design team has some great projects posted. I'm also entering it at Scrapping with the Cricut ~ No Cards or Layout Challenge #5.  It's my first time entering one of her challenges and I'm hoping to participate in future challenges.
Here's what I did when I first used this template

My inspiration came from here.  I love this template and will probably create the witch's shoe again.

Well it's late my friends, I'm hoping to get another layout done on Sunday.  Thanks for stopping by...love to read your comments.

Sending you crafting wishes,
Jeanette

4th of July Birthday

Hello everyone, hope you are all doing fine and making plans to enjoy the 4th of July weekend.  I absolutely love the 4th of July, not only because it's a day to celebrate our great country but because it's my Dad's birthday.  I'm so glad that I'll be spending the day with him.  Hopefully we can have a small bbq with family and celebrate his day.  I always tease him by telling him that all the fireworks are in his honor.  He's a very quite, humble and hard working guy.  I love him to pieces and couldn't ask for a better Father! My kids definitely are enjoying his company and appreciate having him around, especially because he's the only Grandparent they have left.
It's with this in mind that I planned my layout for this week's challenge at Celebrate the Occasion.  This week's challenge is all about the red, white and blue. After perusing some wonderful blogs, I came across the Pagemaps blog. I clicked on their sketches for June 2011 and immediately found one that I liked:

This is my interpretation:

This layout was created with my father in mind. Perfect for the 4th of July bday boy!!
Here's a close up of the two focal points....

                                             

The '4th of July' was cut from Stand and Salute and the 'hat' was cut from the Independence  Day cart. 

To spell out happy bday, I used these stamps from the G studio collection found in Michael's for $1

and for the sentiment on the top left corner I used these stamps from Hero Arts

  

I'm really enjoying these stamps, see here where I used it on my Memorial Day layout.  All the designer paper is from K&Company, the Americana stack.  I can't wait to add some pics to this layout.

Now onto some venting...initially, I attempted to cut the 4th of July sentiment from the Independence Day cart but no matter what I did this is how it turned out

I tried several sizes, changed the needle, pressure, speed, mat, etc. but nothing worked. Every time the cut broke...it seems some of the letters just cut too thin.   I guess this is why some people are switching over to the Silhouette sole for the use of titles, since apparently it cuts intricate pieces very nicely.  Oh, well that won't be the case for me, I have too much invested in my Bugs.

Well this is all for now, don't forget to head over to the Celebrate the Occasion blog and join the fun, the design team has done some wonderful projects.

Sending you crafting wishes,

Jeanette

Fastest Card

Back again with one last quick post before I call it a night.  I noticed I had a few minutes to get something together and participate in Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #17.  The theme is Father's Day.

Here's my submission.

Outside

Inside

I'll be back tomorrow to post the details..

Thanks for looking!!

Sending you crafting wishes,

Jeanette

School's Out

'School's out' is this week's theme over at Celebrate the Occasion.  It's challenge #16 and the only requirement is to make sure that your submission includes an apple.  So with this in mind, I decided to create a tag that I will attach to several gifts for my son's teacher.

All the cuts are from Plantin Schoolbook. The tag is cut at 4" and the apple is cut at 3".  All the papers are from Michael's recollection line with the exception of the red paper, which is from K&Company ~ KP Valentine Designer Paper Pad.  

I used a gelly roll pen in white to draw the stitching around the apple and to write the word "Thanks".  I also used my white ink pad from Colorbox around the edges of the tag. 

I used Stampin Up! Crystal effect on the edge of the apple to give the bitten corner of the apple a more realistic approach.

The last thing I did was to add red and white ribbon and that was it!   It was easy to put together so I'm planning to do a few more.  There's still time to join the fun, so go ahead and jump in.  

While you're there don't miss out on following their great CTO Pool Party Blog Hop. I've been hopping  along from blog to blog and all the participants have done a beautiful job.  So many great things to see ~ so much inspiration.  You definitely won't be disappointed!

Well, this is all for now. I have two more projects to work on and hopefully will get a chance to post them today.

Sending you crafting wishes,

Jeanette

Happy Retirement

Hello everyone...hope you are all preparing for the long holiday weekend.  I sure am looking forward to having Friday and Monday off from work...yay me!!

Now onto my post, while blog surfing I came across Challenge #15 at Celebrate the Occasion .  The challenge theme this week is "Retirement".  I opened up the first handbook I found, which turned out to be Wrap It Up, flipped the pages and decided on the car on pg.42.

All the cuts where made at 3.75.  

I cut the main image twice and used glue dots in between the layers to pop it up. 

On the top I wrapped a Martha Stewart ribbon that I bought at Michaels about 2 months ago for $1.  I also added a tag, cut from the same cart, at 1.50. The sentiment is hand written because I didn't have any stamps with the word 'retirement' on them.  I don't have a big stash of stamps, just a handful from various companies.

I also added a little bit of bling to liven things up and some white stitching here and there with my Signo pen.

On the inside I put a blank piece of ivory cardstock and attached two wheels cut at 2.25 to opposite corners.  I was tempted to write another sentiment but changed my mind.  After all, this card along with the others will be mailed to our Troops overseas and I want them to be able to use it for his/her own purpose.

I really enjoyed making this card.  I think I could get addicted to participating in challenges.  I'm definitely looking forward to more challenges. 

On a final note, I came across 'My Paper Love' and guess what? ~ Shelley is having a great giveaway:

Yep, it's the 'Simply Charmed' cartridge. Just become a follower and spread the word. You have until May 30th to join the fun. So go on, hurry up and join!!

Well, my dearies, that's all for today!!

Sending you crafting wishes,
Jeanette