"Anything But a Card" at Cooking with Cricut

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My blog candy winner will be posted on Friday so you have until 9:00 pm PST on Thursday to add your comment.

It's Wednesday and my design team day at Cooking with Cricut.  This week our designers/ hostesses chose a fun challenge - Anything but a Card and use polka dots and the color yellow.  If you've been in the Valentine mode, this makes you think differently or at least outside the box.  And speaking of box, that's what I chose instead of a card.

 

This is the heart box from Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More.  OK, I am still in the Valentine mode, but I did find yellow and polka dots.  Sometimes it pays to have as much patterned paper as I have LOL!

The tag was punched and I added the sentiment using the monogram feature on A Child's Year (I actually used the inside of the cut).  I added a doily, a bow, and a few Gel Pen dots and that's it.  A quick and easy treat box.

Click HERE to see what the other design team members created for this challenge.

You can play along with us at Cooking with Cricut.  Just link up your project.  Remember, anything but a card, use a Cricut cut somewhere on your design, and incorporate yellow and polka dots. 

And don't forget that you can still leave a comment for the Cards for Kids blog hop and be entered into my blog candy drawing.  You have until 9:00 p m PST on Thursday.  My winner will be announced Friday, January 27th.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn



Easter Treats

I love putting together packages to send to my daughters for special holidays.  Since Easter baskets are not feasible for me to mail, I found other ways to package their Easter goodies.

Here are some of things I put in the packages:

I bought this plastic tube at my LSS - just perfect for Jelly Belly's.

My daughters love these candies!  I just decided to place a wrapper around the stack.

I made boxes and placed some smaller gifts inside.  The box and lid are each made from 12 x 12 cardstock.

Finally, a gift card holder and a carrot treat box  - the carrot was totally scraplifted!!!

The packages are on their way.  I wish I could share the holiday with one or both of my girls, but that's not to be this year - sigh!

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn



Happy 29th Birthday

My youngest daughter turned 29 today!!!  Since I can't be with her to celebrate - she's in Illinois, I'm in California - here are few things I sent her.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANNA!  I love you and am so proud of you.

Background frames - Sentimentals, dress form and 29 - Nifty Fifties, fabulous - Paisley

Flowers - Mother's Day Bouquet, basket - Sweet Treats, numbers and frame - Songbird

Shopping Bag - TBBM, high heels - Forever Young

Purse - Forever Young

Tomorrow I'll post pictures of the blog candy I'm offering during the Fantabulous Cricut Crawl which begins April 11.  I'm going to add something extra if I can reach 175 followers.  So, if you haven't become a follower, I would love to have you.  Every follower's name will be in the special drawing.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn

Notecard Set

Here's the next project I completed this past weekend.  My daughter wanted some more personalized notecards (I had made her several sets in the past) so I thought it would be fun to send them to her in their own "bag".  The cards are A2 size. The "a" is from Don Juan using the Under Pressure feature and cut at 2".  Since there isn't a shadow feature for this cut, I created one using my Gypsy.  I used Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More for the bag.  I used a 12 x 24 mat and enlarged the cut all the way to the borders on my Gypsy so I could make it as large as possible.  The tag was made using Nestabilities and then I welded the name using the Songbird cartridge on my Gypsy.  I just added some paper layers to the bag and a few gems here and there.  20 cards fit inside.  Although they overlapped somewhat, there was still room without the bag falling over.

Tomorrow I'll share another weekend project.  Until then,

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn