Sunday, August 7, 2011

Queen of my Craftroom Back to School Blog Hop Aug 6th & 7th Day 2



Welcome Back to Day 2 of the Queen of 
my Craftroom Back to School Blog Hop.
If you are joining me from Berenice at
Then you are in the right place.

If you just happened across my blog and would
like to play along in our fun hop, you can go to
Queen of My Craftroom at
and start at the beginning.  There are so many
amazing and talented ladies in this hop.

Thank you for  joining me on Day 2 of the Back 
to School Blog Hop! Each of us bloggers were ask 
to create a Back to School themed project for this Hop.

I decided for todays hop to make a couple Sweet 
Treats that can be handed out to your child's new
teacher on the first day of school.


I though "what teacher wouldn't love some home 
baked cookies". Especially when they are made 
with love.  And why wouldn't you want to have
 a cute Apple card to go with them.


The cookies are made from the recipe off the back 
of the tollhouse chocolate chip package.  I  added an 
extra 1/2 package of chocolate chips to the mix because
 who doesn't love LOTS of chocolate chips.  I used 
my nestabilities to make the topped for the bags but, 
you could just use a rectangle and fold it in half.  The 
School Bus and Back pack came from the Doodlecharms
 cartridge and were cut at 2 1/2 inches.


The apple card was cut at 5 inches from the
Create a Critter cartridge.  Don't you love that
little tale sticking out.  What could it be?


Yes, it is a cute little worm.  I also used
Create a Critter to cut her out.  She is cut
at 2 1/2 inches and backed with a black 
shadow.  I added a few pop dots to give 
her a little lift off the card.  Since this 
cartridge doesn't include a card option I
 took out my poor neglected Gyspy and added
 2 apples to the mat, flipped one of them and
 then used the wonderful weld option.  I can't
 tell you how much I love the weld option on
 my Gyspy.  To get the green on the inside of
 the card I cut one more apple with the
 blackout feature.

With this being the first year that both my
daughters are going to be in Middle School
together I though I would celebrate with some
Blog Candy for you. If you would love
for me to send you some Blog Candy please
 leave me some Blog Love below.

~I am giving away a sample of the DCWV
Grade School 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 stack,
a package of apple stickers (that any teacher
 would love) a pack of school ribbon &
one of the best black pens money can buy
(at least I love them) ~


Queen of my Craftroom is having some blog candy also.
The sponsors for the hop are: Karbar digital stamps,
Jen's digi stamps & Hambo stamps.  Please leave me
a comment on my blog to be entered into the drawing.
All of us in the hop will be drawing one name from
 the comments and sending that name off to Michelle. 
 She will then draw from those names who the winner 
will be.  The drawing will end Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

I hope you enjoyed my projects.
You next stop is:
If you think you might have missed someone
you can go back to the beggining at

Here is the lineup in case you get lost or
need to stop along the way:


I hope you enjoyed my Back to School Projects.

Sweet Wishes,  Sharon
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Queen of my Craftroom Back to School Blog Hop Aug. 6th & 7th Day 1


Welcome to Day 1 of Queen of my Craftroom 
Back to School Blog Hop.
If you are joining me from Berenice at
Then you are in the right place.

If you just happened across my blog and would
like to play along in our fun hop, you can go to
Queen of My Craftroom at
and start at the beginning.

Thank you for joining me for the Back to School
Blog Hop! Each of us bloggers were ask to create
a Back to School themed project for this Hop.

I decided to make a couple different fun projects
 that can be handed out to your child's new
teacher on the first day of school.


The first project is a clay pot filled
with brand new pencils.  What teacher doesn't
Love brand new pencils!!  I painted the clay
pot with 6 coats of regular black acrylic paint.
The apple was cut at 5 inches from Create a Critter.
After the paint is dry you can use chalk to write 
a special message to the teacher on it.  It is okay
if you mess up (as I found out) because the
chalk wipes of with a wet towel.


This project is a very simple one for anyone who
Loves Post it Notes.  I cut the red background at
3 1/4 inches X 8 inches. Then score it at 3 1/4, 
3 3/4 & 4 1/4 inches.  Measure your pen and mark
off where you want the holder to go.  Then fold
the scored lines.  After it is folded it should all 
make sense.  I cut the top paper at 3 X 3 inches.
The A+ is cut from Platinum Schoolbook 
at 1 1/2 inches.  The apple is from Doodlecharm
and is cut at 2 1/2 inches.  I made it with the shadow
on the main apple and then cut another shadow to 
put on the back.  I used pop dots to glue the two
layers together over the Giant paperclip.


With this being the first year that both my
daughters are going to be in Middle School
together I though I would celebrate with some
Blog Candy for you. If you would love
for me to send you some Blog Candy please
 leave me some Blog Love below.

~I am giving away a sample of the DCWV
Grade School 4 1/2 X 6 1/2 stack,
a package of apple stickers (that any teacher
 would love) a pack of school ribbon &
one of the best black pens money can buy
(at least I love them) ~


Queen of my Craftroom is having some blog candy also.
The sponsors for the hop are: Karbar digital stamps,
Jen's digi stamps & Hambo stamps.  Please leave me
a comment on my blog to be entered into the drawing.
All of us in the hop will be drawing one name from
 the comments and sending that name off to Michelle. 
 She will then draw from those names who the winner 
will be.  The drawing will end Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

I hope you enjoyed my projects.
You next stop is:
If you think you might have missed someone
you can go back to the beggining at

Here is the lineup in case you get lost or
need to stop along the way:


I hope you enjoyed my Back to School Projects.

Sweet Wishes,  Sharon
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Thankful Thursdays DT Bookmark Challenge

The Design Team this week was asked to make
any type of Bookmark.  My daughter Emily
Loves Tinkerbell so, I decided why not make
her a Tinkerbell Bookmark to get her started
back to school.  Tink is cut at 7 1/2 inches
and even at that size she is hard to get her
eyes and mouth to look just right.


Thank you for stopping by!! Don't forget to
visit my other Design Team Sisters and check
out their wonderful Bookmarks.
Sweet Wishes, Sharon
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Thankful Thursday Red, White & Blue Challenge

The Crazy About Cricut Design Team was asked
to make a project using Red, White & Blue.
Since 4th of july was just a few days ago I made
a 4th of july card with lots of sparkle. I have
seen lots of medallions for sale at Michael's
and Jo Ann's lately so, I thought why not try
to make my own. It was so easy to make.

I took 2 strips of 11 x 1/2 inch paper and folded
them in an accordion style. After the paper was
folded I glued the 2 strips to form a circle. When
they are glued, lay the paper down and form a flat
circle. I then cut a 2 inch circle and put lots of
glue on it, then I layered the accordion circle on
top to hold it flat down. At this point you can
decorate the top how ever you want. I chose to
add a bigger circle with lots of sparkle to the back
to give it a pop of color. The star is from the new
E2 downloaded cart called Cricut Essentials.
The star was cut at 3 inches.

Leave me a comment if you want me to give you
step by step instructions on how to make
these medallions.

I hope you enjoyed my Red, White & Blue card.

Sweet Wishes, Sharon
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