Happy Birthday Denzel!

Happy Birthday to my Godson Denzel!!!  I love you and I hope your birthday is as AWESOME as you!!  I am so glad you came into my life 8 years ago and you have brought me so much joy over the years.  I will always be there for you and love you..."Mom"

Details: 8th Birthday was a free word art by Desert Diva, penguin image by Digi Darla, paper by Imaginisce (Let's Pretend), colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, Glossy Accents on spiky hair, banner dies by MFT Die-namics.

Thanks for stopping in!
Kathi

Challenges:
Digi Galore - Anything Goes
Oozak - #9 Anything Goes + Red
Here Come The Boys - Birthday

Save the Earth Cricut Crawl

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is having their version of a blog hop.  The challenge is to use a recycled item and a cut from a Cricut cartridge.  I used the crayon from the Locker Talk cartridge and I used a frosting container....yum....  The star paper is an older one by Imaginisce called Let's Pretend.

I love recycling in my crafts and I had several of these frosting containers just waiting to be used...and no I didn't eat the frosting just for this challenge!  Not that I wouldn't if I had to though!  LOL!!

Kathi   :)

RN, Teacher gifts and grad favors...whew!

Wow I can't believe it's been a month!  Whew!  Well I've been a little busy in all areas of my life  :)  I've altered several more of the little holders I found at the recycling place.  First was a special project that I made for the RN's at the assisted living facility where my client spent his final days.  He lost his long battle with cancer on June 8th.  The nurses and Hospice where so unbelievably compassionate and caring to such a wonderful man and friend.  It touched my heart so I wanted to make them something special.

before & after

paper by Imaginisce #000455 Loves Me/Weak in the Knees, heart #000457 run through the Cuttlebug with the pin dot folder then I touched all of the dots with Liquid Pearls, "Smallest Things" phrase by Verve as well as the matching "Classy Label" die/stamp, heart cut with the Verve "Jotted Heart" die.

filled with a lot of Avery sticky notes, pads, pens

matching card...oval by SVG.com "Nested Lacey Shapes", heart is a Spellbinders die, stamp by Verve

inside of card...stamp by Verve

Next I have teacher gifts for Denzel's teacher and her assistant.  She told me today I make the best gifts  :)  I saw this idea at Papertrey Ink  here.  There's a PDF with the journal questions.  I  tweaked and retyped mine in a different font. 

paper by Basic Grey's Sweet Threads line swt-3278, Verve heart die, matching cardstock from DCWV stack, phrase stamp "all About You" set by Verve

butterfly stamp "Chicks Rule" set and matching die "Flutterby" by Verve

journal questions in an acetate pillow box and a "leatherette" journal (so is that faux leather?  LOL)

Teacher assistant gift...much simpler...I was running out of time and went to bed at 1:00 a.m.!  You know how it is when you want/need to finish something!  :)

filled Bath & Body products

I made these 1"x8" cellophane bag favors for his classmates.  Filled with skittles...yum!

Circles cut at 2.5" and 2.75" stamp by Stampendous, grad cap is an SVG I found online and forgot where I got it (sorry my bad!) and the font (2011) was loaded in my MTC.  The can was a large powdered formula can that I repurposed  :)

Sorry this was so long but I hope you found some good ideas or inspiration......Kathi  :)