Cards - the beginning...

I figured since I'm just starting this Blog, I can show things I have already done.  I REALLY hope to be able to make cards every week or so, and have something new to show.  I love to make cards, but they usually go on the back burner if something else comes up, like a holiday and I just HAVE to make a craft for the kids, or if I actually get around to my regular family scrapbook pages.  Right now, I am way behind on my scrapbook pages for my family.  I haven't scrapped since October, so I am a few months behind.  Once I get back on track, I hope to make a ton of cards.  I'd really like to mass produce cards, like maybe 5 at a time, that are similar but vary a little and put them in a file to have on hand to give when needed, like Birthday's or Thank You's.

So, here are a few cards I have made.  I pretty much just started last year, exploring the making of cards.  I use my Cricut and Michael's paper for most of the cards.I didn't write any of the sizes down at this point and it is only a photo of the cards I have made.  I look forward to being able to provide more information to you as I progress in the making of my cards.  :)

This first card was a card telling our parents we were having another baby.  I now would never have the outside of the card look so plain.  I also think that carriage was a sticker.  (This is BC - Before Cricut.)

This was the inside of the card.

This next one I used the Lollipop alphabet die for the Sizzix to make the letters.  This was a Thank you for my son's teachers at the end of the year.

Love this Film Strip Die from Sizzix.  

The rest of these cards are in no order, I barely remember the order in which they were made.

I made this card using the Birthday Bash Cart.

I used Sweet Treats for this one.

Birthday Bash again.

This was my first Pop-up card I made, using the Every Day Pop-Up.

A card for a Baby Shower.

A Baby Shower invitation.  

I used the Sizzix Mac & Cheese Font for the name and Round-a-bout for the title.  

My second Pop-up card.  I am hoping to get better over time.

My daughter wanted to have a 'baby' party.  It wasn't her Birthday or anything, she just wanted to have a party for her baby.  So, I threw one.  We invited 3 little girls over, had lunch and cupcakes and they sat with their babies.  It was very cute.  Here is the invitation.

I used the Once Upon a Princess Cart for this cupcake.  Then I used the Girls are Weird alphabet die from the Sizzix for the letters.  

  I used the Baby Steps Cart.

This was the same party that my friend brought me the gift of Bakerella's Cake Pop Book.

These next 3 cards are only partial cards, either the inside or the outside of the card.  When I first started making cards I would put something on 3 surfaces of the card and then just a stamp on the back.  Now, I am trying to just do more with the front side of the card and not fill every surface of the cards.

I used 3 Birds on Parade for this one.  That cart is so stinking cute.

This is from Freshly Picked. 

There you go my friends.  The start of my cards.  Like I said, I really hope to get a move on these and make more cards and share them with you.  If you have a favorite blog, let me know.  I love to learn and see everybody's ideas out there.  

Have a lovely and creative day!

Susan

Space Rocket Birthday Party

For my son's 5th Birthday he wanted a Space Rocket Party.  I just got online and started clicking away.  Turns out, I think there is a blog or an idea for just about every kind of party one could dream of.  That-is-COOL!  I love it.  So, I found a bunch of different ideas that I loved and I used some from a few different sites.  I also used my Cricut Space Party Cartridge!  It is incredibly cool.  Here is the invitation.

It was pretty cool how the flame pulls out to read the invitation.  They were surprisingly easy. I used blue, black and yellow cardstock some velum for the window and gems for the lights. Little bit of glitter glue and there you have it.  Easy Peasy & Cute.

I then found this gal and made Jet Packs.  They are time consuming to make (I made 20 of them).  The kids helped with the packing peanuts and that was fun for them. We got ALL of the bottles and packing peanuts for FREE using Freecycle.  If you don't already freecycle, find out if you have one available in your towns or nearby towns, I think it is a great way to keep stuff out of the landfills and clean out your house, or even to find 40 empty soda bottles without having to drink a drop.   One of the things I did wrong was fill the Jet Packs too full.  I liked the original one I saw better, that way when the kids would jump up and down or run around they'd make noise.  These were still a big hit and I know a couple of the kids that still have theirs and it is 3 months later.

FOOD!  I used a couple of sites for the food ideas.  We used UFO Bagels and Saturn Pizza's and the Cheetos ideas from the interweb, the rest Monte and I just came up with names for food we wanted to serve.  I love labels, so we of course had to come up with clever names for things.

You have got to LOVE Dry Ice - right?  It was a huge hit.  We used V8 Fusion juice for the Rocket Fuel.  

Let the Games Begin!!

We played Pin the Alien on the Moon.  I made the Aliens with my Cricut Space Party Cartridge and Monte got an image of the moon on line and used his Large Format Printer to get a big Moon.  

I made the Banner too using my Cricut.  I can't find out which one I used for the life of me, once I do, I shall update it.  

Then my incredibly AWESOME and BRILLIANT hubby found a Rocket Launcher that you can order, and make at home, then download prints to make homemade rockets.  Monte was so excited he nearly burst. So, not only did he make the Rocket Launcher, but he decided to make a rocket for each kid. (20)  He also had some 'practice rockets' that he 'practiced' with outside at night when the kids were in bed.  Let's just say this really made the party BLAST OFF.  It was a huge hit and some of the kids took their rockets home.  They flew everywhere!  In the road, down the street, in the neighbors yards.  We were finding the rockets for like a week.  

Then there was CAKE!

I was going to make a Space Shuttle Cake but, as the date of the party got closer, I ran out of steam.  So, I went with cupcakes instead.  I just got a white cake box and frosting, I added silver jimmies to the cake batter, with the hopes that they would look like little rocks inside (it was fine) and then sprinkled the silver sugar on top to make it look like gravel or space rocks.  Then, using Cricut Space Party Cartridge I made more space rockets and glued 1/2 of a skewer to them and jabbed them into the cupcake and called it done.  I also made the Alien Head Cake Pops, using my book from Bakerella.  The cake pops were lemon and I found the purple chocolate covered sesame seeds at Party City.  

So, the Aliens weren't as awesome as the ones in the book, but not bad for my second try at cake pops.

Then, it was time to leave.  I made homemade Moonsand.  I got the idea from another Rocket themed blog post, and used her link for making the moonsand.  I then used some cute 'to go' containers I had left over from a Baby Shower I co-threw.  Then I used the  Cricut Space Party Cartridge to make the UFO's and put them on the box.  I used a normal Circle Punch and a Thank you Stamp to finish the job. I also found Jet gummies at our local candy store and put them in little baggies for each kid.  

Noah's favorite color is purple, so that was the color of the moonsand.  Now, one thing I'd do differently is put a note in the bucket with the moonsand.  I'd say what it is and how to use it and how to preserve it.  I did not do that, I think it was something I wanted to do, but it just didn't happen.  Turns out, not everyone knows what it is and how to use it.

So, there you have it, the Space Rocket Themed Birthday Party.  Use all, use some, add to it, let me know how yours turns out!