Gift Bags for the baby shower - birdcage

This is the gift bag I made for the presents!  And man, oh man did I have fun buying girl clothes!  My girls are 27, 13 and 10 and they won't let me dress them in tutu's anymore, so  imagine the fun I had shopping for this baby!  I used the Straight from the Nest cart of course.

Diaper Cake

This is a little bit of a twist on the diaper cake.  I wrapped diapers and tied them together to form a circle, then covered them in a circle with paper.  I used the Straight from the Nest cart for the branch, the Plantin Schoolbook for the grass and the Gypsy Wanderings for the bird.  The cellophane candies I used were diapers rolled up!  How cute is that?  I saw it on Etsy.  I was pretty pleased with it!

This is a name card I placed on the cake plate, just to let people know the name of the new little one and to welcome them to the shower!

Baby shower wreath

Well, folks it's been a while since I have posted.  I thought June was bad, then came July!  So between vacations, weekend boating and a surgery (all is well) I have not posted for quite some time.  But that does not mean that I have not been busy on the cricut.  Hardly a day goes by that I don't use it. 

My girlfriend had a baby girl today and in preperation we had a baby shower last week.  The theme was nestin, and the colors were pink, brown and green.  Those of you who know me, know that I want a granddaughter to dress up, so when I heard my friend was having a girl I went a little crazy!  So here is the first of several posts.  First, actually this was the last project I did, it came to me when I was recooperating, is a wreath for the front door.

I made this wreath using diapers.  I tied them around a wreath I picked up at an after holiday sale at Target.  I used the Straight from the Nest cart for the welcome and branches, and the Gypsy Wanderings for the bird.  The shoes I found a template for at Pink Fox website AND I just saw on the Holidaycricut website that CTMH has a new cart coming out tomorrow with this 3D shoe on it!  CAN'T WAIT!

Girl Baby Shower - party and favors

One of my girlfriends here in Southern Oregon is having a baby girl!  I'm tickled pink (get it?) to be hosting this baby shower along with another girlfriend of mine.  I found this image on line from Flickriver.  This is the theme I want to use and come heck or high water I am going to make this cake!  But I'm going to use brown, green and pink.  The party favors I made up yesterday and should help me hold the theme of the shower. 

 Love these tubes and you can get them on several web-sites or go directly to SKS Bottle and Packaging, Inc.  They hava all sorts of fun containers and SUPER reasonable.

Cooking With Cricut Challenge 83

My entry for this week's challenge on Cooking with Cricut.  It's all about bling.  So I hope you can see the bling in the middle of my grapefruit!  The background for this card was cut from the Straight From the Nest cart and the grapefruit was from the Preserves cart.  I love the Preserves cart, the fruit is so pretty.  It will be fun to use this at the end of the summer for canning season!

Gift Bag and Box for Baby Girl!

I posted the gift bag in a previous post, but here is the gift box as well! For the gift box I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 cartridge! And the owl was from the Create a Critter Cart.

Color Throwdown Challenge #188

Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo and Always Artichoke are the colors to work with in the Color Throwdown Challenge this week. Have I mentioned how much I love these challenges. They just spark the imagination. This one in particular because color is creativity!

My son's kindergarten teacher is expecting a baby girl and we are having a shower for her tomorrow. And I can't begin to tell you how much it thrills me to get to make anything frilly and girly!

I used the cricut cartridge Just Because cards to make the peas, and straight from the nest to make the onsie's and hangers, then textured with the polk a dot folders on the cuttlebug!

Gift Bag

This is the gift bag that went with the card. I used Straight From the Nest for the swirls and Designers calender for the carriage. I love the way it turned out!

Throwdown Challenge #185

This card is for the Throwdown Color Challenge. I love this blog! This site reallly challenges me to stretch my imagination and what better way to do that then to put together colors that are exciting and make you FEEL! I only used the cricut a little on this one. I'm discovering the Straight From the Nest cartridge which is new to my collection. I used the swirly and floweres from that cartridge! Hope everyone is having a great Sunday.

Mojo Monday Challenge #234

Well, this is my card for the Mojo Monday Challenge. I had such a hard time with this design. Mostly just deciding what to put on it. But I settled on yet another Easter card. Easter is my fave! I used the Straight from the Nest cartridge for this gorgeous little nest! And the circle card came from Birthday Bash. Now I have to walk away from the craft room for the night...AHHHH!