Bounce House Birthday Invitations - FREE Template

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My Sister-in-law is doing a Bounce House birthday party for my nephews, and this is the card that we came up with!

Since it's a joint birthday party, we put two frogs bouncing in the bounce house.

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To make the little frog:
The head is the 3/4" circle punch trimmed a little on the bottom, and the body is the 1/2" circle. The legs are the small heart from the Three Heart Punch and the eyes are using the Owl Punch.

Nurses Day!

May 6th is National Nurses Day and starts nurses week!
School Nurse Day is Wednesday, May 11th of next week. As some of you know from my blog, the nurse at my kids school, Mandy Mayer, is phenomenal. I don't know how we would get through Ashley's diabetes without her. I am working on some things for next week, but here are some projects from the past that would be great if you need something now!
Click on the titles or photos below for more details!

Here is my Doctors Bag and Nurse Card.

Here is my band-aid card

Keep checking back for more to come!

Easter Eggs - A New Way to Decorate!

Here is a new twist on decorating Easter eggs! We did this with Timmy and Dylan(my nephew in middle) who are three and Ashley who is five. They had a blast! Above they are having their bees fly around. Below we have our pigs, owl, skunk and cat!
It's just cut pieces of scrap paper stuck on with craft glue. The rest is a permanent black marker.

Race Car Box!

Here is my Race Car Box!
After making the Castle Frame for my daughter, I had to do something fun for my son too!
I have two versions of this race car box, but you can easily make this into any kind of race car you would like! Change up the colors or decorations to make it look however you would like. This is the perfect box to give a present in, or to give to a child to play with. It stores matchbox cars perfectly!
Also great to give a present in for Father's Day as a NASCAR car!

The box is approximately 8-1/2” x 3” x 3”.

To see more details or get this tutorial
CLICK HERE!

Castle Frame

After my trip to Disney World I was inspired to make this frame for my daughters photos!
The full frame size is approximately 16" x 19" and holds 11 photos! You can hang this on a wall as it is, or you can put the entire thing into a glass frame.

You can also change the colors of the castle so it won't look like the Disney castle for whatever type of frame you want!
This would be perfect for any little girls room! Print the templates smaller and it would perfect for a scrapbook page!
You do not need 12" x 12" paper to make this, only 8-1/2" x 11".

To see more details or get this tutorial
CLICK HERE!

Back from Disney World!

We just got back from five days at Disney World!
We went with the four of us, plus Brads parents and my parents. We all stayed together in a four bedroom condo that was bigger than my house! Two master bedrooms, both with huge jacuzzi tubs in the rooms!
I will post some pictures from our great trip soon, but I just wanted to let you guys know.... anyone that emailed me while I was away, if I have not gotten back to you yet, please try and be patient! I have about two days of emails to go through and reply to!
I will post more soon...

March GMS Meeting part3

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Below are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

Make-n-take

Swap by Shanti McKenna


Swap by Marti Jurnak

Below is one of the make-n-takes we did. The main envelope is 7-1/2" square, folded in half, then half again. Then just cut the bottom two squares on a diagonal and you have your card holder!

March GMS Meeting Part2

Swap by Betty Button

Swap by Tonya Ditzler

Swap by Gwen Landis

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Above are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

March GMS Meeting Part 1

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Above are only some of the swaps and samples... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month! Some I don't know who brought, so if they are yours, email me and I will put your name by them! (Sorry!)

March Card Class

These are the cards that I did for my March Three Card Class at my house. We had a big group this time so I kept them pretty simple.
Two of them I got ideas from The Stampin' Up Regionals meeting that I went to this month. The one using the Petals Punch I saw there but don't know who made it since it was on a display board (if it was you, or you know who made it let me know!). The third one I changed the colors a little bit but I got it as a swap from Christopher Famolaro.
Below are the little favors that I made for my ladies so they could have a snack during class! When you pull the ribbon, the candy gets pulled up!

Planter Six Pack

I love Spring! I love going into the stores and seeing all the gardening stuff and I can't wait for our weather to get warmer so I can start playing in my garden. Until then, I guess I'll just have to make projects with the stuff...

I saw these little planter packs at Target, they are $1 each in the front section of the store (about 2" wide). They come with a little planter vase, seed packet and peat pellet. You can get flower ones or herbs. (Or you could just put together your own with little vases or already grown flowers!)

I could not help myself but to make my Six Pack Project with these little planters! This would be such a great gift for a gardener or just someone who cooks and likes to use fresh herbs. You could even give this as a gift with some recipe cards!
I Love Spring!

CLICK HERE

to see the details for the original project that I used!

For these planter six packs I used the following stamps and supplies along with the Six Pack tutorial:
Fast & Fabulous or Just Believe
Basic Pearl Jewels

Punch Pack
Blender Pens

The colors are:
Old Olive, Concord Crush, Whisper White, Bashful Blue
or
Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Whisper White

Last Day for Sale-A-Bration!!

Today is the LAST DAY for Sale-A-Bration!!

You do not want to miss this great promotion!
For every $50 of merchandise that you order, you get an item out of the Sale-A-Bration catalog for FREE!
On top of that, for every $50 of merchandise that you purchase you get one of my tutorials (of your choice!) for FREE!!

CLICK on the catalog photo above to see all the details!

It is also the LAST DAY to get the starter package for the reduced rate with the FREE $50 add on bundle! Even if you have no interest in selling Stampin' Up this is a great time to get over $310 worth of merchandise for under $150!
You will also get all the perks of being on my team! You can see all the details HERE!

Chiropractor Thank You

I made this card as a thank you for the new Chiropractor that I have started to go to. He is great! (If any of you are in the area, his name is Dr. Bruce Steinberg located in Queensbury, NY)

I made the skeleton on the card from my Halloween Punch Three Card Class that you see below. I used brads to hold all the joints together so you could move him around, just like I can now that I have been seeing Dr. Bruce!
He is only attached to the card at one rib/brad spot so he can move all around.

Butterfly Rainbow

I saw a picture of a card in a magazine that used butterflies to make a rainbow, I changed it up a bit, and here is my version of what I saw!

I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit with the Big Shot. The clouds are using the top of the Cupcake punch! The sentiment is from the So Happy For You Sale-A-Bration stamp set. I used a variety of card stock and Designer Series Papers to make the butterflies.
This card makes me want Spring to come sooner!