Baby Shower Invitations

I made these for a very good friend of mine who LOVES turtles and is having a little boy. The patterned paper is an old Stampin Up set that worked perfect for the colors I wanted and I accented with Old Olive and Bashful Blue for Mr. Turtle. I used my trusty Cricut, Gypsy, and th Life is a Beach cartridge for the turtle. Of course no cute turtle is complete without googly eyes :) The party will be decorated similar so come back for the decor!!!

Twelve Days of Christmas Day 12 1/2

Ok I had two issues with this post and both were completely a ditzy moment on my behalf... 1) I have no clue which teacher gift I forgot in my 12 Days of Christmas but whatever it was I didn't take a picture of it and 2) I don't follow recipes so when something turns out great I have no idea what I did or can I tell someone how I do it. This drives my family CRAZY!!! BUT I will try to tell you HOW I made the puppy chow even though you can probably find a recipe somewhere. I got irritated the first time I made this by the recipe I found online because I had about 2 cups of Chex cereal left over and it seemed like such a waste. SO I made 1 large box of cereal, by melting 1 stick of butter, 3/4 C peanut butter, and 1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips plus about a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. I melted this in the microwave for about 2 1/2 minutes on cook power 5 and stirring about ever 30 seconds. I dumped the cereal in a paper grocery bag and poured the melted mixture over it. I shook the bag well until all the cereal was covered. I then dumped about 2 cups of powdered sugar and repeated the shaking process. I then dumped it out on wax paper or foil to 'cool' or dry. I bagged it up with some Christmas ribbon. I got about 12 bags out of it.

Twelve Days of Christmas Day Eleven

I saw these round truffle chocolates when I was shopping for my 12 Days of Christmas and I couldn't resist the little Santas. I got my inspiration from the cartoon that said Sanat got your letter you've been good this year and he died laughing. I DIDN"T think that was appropriate for an elementary school so I modified it to :

I wrote Santa to tell him all your kids were good this year, he Rolled On The Floor Laughing!

Merry Christmas!

Twelve days of Christmas Day Ten

This one took me awhile because I kept coming up with "Just Keep Swimming" but I couldn't come up with how to relate it to Christmas or the teachers. So I went to It's o-FISH-ally almost Christmas Break! Kinda corny but the little red fish make me smile.

Twelve Days of Christmas Day Nine

I try not to repeat any ideas but I couldn't resist anything with the Grinch this year. The original poem I found called for green candy canes. I couldn't find 100 green candy canes without spending a small fortune. I did find candy canes with a green stripe so I added my own twist to the poem.


When the Grinch discovered,
There was no way,
To keep Christmas from Coming,
On Christmas Day,
He devised a new plan...
Though not quite as mean,
He licked all the teacher candy canes,
And turned them part
GREEN!

Playing With Vinyl Again

This was a special request from a very special girl and I can't resist a new challenge. Especially when it comes to using my Sure-Cuts-A-Lots & Cricut. Even though I am NOT a Hawkeye Fan since I paid for my education at ISU, I helped with the project anyway. Im pretty impressed with how they turned out especially since I was using Wii Rockband sticks to make it.

Twelve Days of Christmas Day Eight

Another funny one I found online. Had to improvise a little since my budget was tight. I used the Stampin Up Pillowbox die to cut the puzzle boxes. I have a good friend who hooked me up with the shavings of wood for my puzzle 'pieces'. The 100 puzzles had the same concept just different packaging. The label says "Expert Jigsaw Puzzle"

Twelve Days of Christmas Day Seven

I had a great elf helper with this one to make the cake pops with no stick :). The chocolate pools to look like it is melting. It is tied with 3 tags, a snowflake made with Stampin Up's new three-in-one punch to look like a snowflake from glitter paper, a tag punched with the Stampin Up Curley Label Punch that says "Florida Snowball", and the third that was cut in a square that says "Caution throwing this snowball may cause a food fight". Happy Crafting!