A Cars Birthday Party

We partied on New Year's Day! A birthday party for a very special 2 year old boy! Steph's (yes, the Steph I mention often) little boy turned two. The theme was Disney/Pixar's Cars.  Steph and I (and some help from Jim too) made the invitations.  Steph and I agreed on ideas for the tables and what sorts of decorations she wanted. She did the shopping and I went to work.

Let's take a look!

Here's the invitation:
We stamped the front...

The inside was done using Word... (and the thing this invitation is sitting on...a sneak peek at the Christmas present I want to share with you *smile*)

The birthday banner was cut out using the street sign shapes found on the Disney Pixar Cars Cricut cartridge. (I believe we went with 5.5 inches) The letters were cut out using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.

I cut out various other shapes from the Cars cartridge and put them on skewers. There is floral foam inside the buckets and I stuck the skewers into the foam.

The cuts on this cartridge are very intricate. McQueen was cut at a couple different sizes. I don't know if he is truly a pain in the bottom side or if I was too tired to be working on the project, but he ended up in the trash *gasp*
I do like how the buckets turned out. It was super windy the day of the party so some of the shredded paper covering the floral foam blew away.

The tables were decorated like roads...

Now I can't take credit for the cake, but it wouldn't be a party without a cake right? Here's the cake. It was done by our local bakery. I think they did a fine job!

Happy Birthday Buddy!!! Love and hugs from Uncle Jim and Aunt Jen {heart}
Steph, I hope the craftiness lived up to your expectations! It was fun (and I'm still taking over in October next year...love you too!)

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will leave a comment. I am linking up at Someday Crafts for Whatever Goes Wednesday and Passionately Artistic

Happy New Year! and a card!!

Happy New Year Everyone! I know I am glad to close the door on 2011. While things could always be worse, we are truly hoping for some better times in 2012! We hope 2012 is a better year for everyone!!!!

Mother Nature has decided to start the year off with our first winter storm.  I had adopted the thought of "It didn't snow for Christmas, so it doesn't need to snow at all!" Well, Ma Nature feels differently.  It is pretty wild that we are this far into the winter weather season and this is our first major snow fall, with the most accumulation to come overnight. That brings a whole new meaning to "We'll see what tomorrow brings"

One day this week I will share with you one of the coolest Christmas presents I received. It has been hung, now it just needs photographed. :) I also need to share the gift I made for Jim, it too, needs photographed. The other thing I have to share is a post about a CARS theme birthday party. So-----as long as I sit down in front of this computer each night this week there will be some fun to be had! :-)

Since it was snowing out and Jim was working, I made a cup of hot peppermint tea and sat down to craft. I did make some cards this evening. Here is one of them.

The paper is from DCWV Madly in Love stack.
The stamp is from studio g and is stamped with Stampin' Up Very Vanilla.
The card was cut using the heart card from the Wild Card cartridge and was cut at 5 inches.
The black heart was cut using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and was cut at 2.5 inches.

The inside is blank because....I don't have a Happy Valentine's Day stamp. Oh darn!!! Gonna have to go shopping...
Have a great week and a Happy New Year!!!!
~Jim, Jen and Jynx

Picture Frame {PEACE}

Hi Everyone! Middle of the week! Thanks so much for stopping by, even if only for a second. Last night I made the first Christmas project that is actually STAYING in OUR house!  YAY!!!! Here is what I started with.

A multi-picture picture frame

Christmas Paper (from Adorn It) with letters cut out using my Cricut (and my Gypsy). The letters are from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.

And my two new favorite items....packing tape and glitter!!!!

I put the packing tape on the back of the letters and then sprinkled the glitter onto the packing tape.  This is what I ended up with! I hope you will let me know what you think. I can say that the time change and shorter days don't mix well with someone who crafts in the evening. The pictures pretty much, well, suck! I do apologize.

Do you think all the letters should be red? I am contemplating cutting out new pieces for the green letters and redoing them so all letters are red.  I'm hoping you, my friends here in blog world, will help me out on this.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Please leave a comment so I know you were here. ~Jen
I am partying at the following places!!! Please stop by and check them out!!!!!!

My first Gypsy Creation and it is for Cricut Cardz Challenge #87!

Hi Everyone! I finally created my first project using my gypsy. The challenge over at the Cricut Cardz Challenge blog are having challenge #87 this week and the challenge is to make a thank you card using hearts any cartridge(s) of your choice. The only thing that can't be used? Red and pink!
My project is a long ways from red or pink or even Valentine's Day for that matter.  I used my Gypsy to weld together the heart from Plantin Schoolbook and the dracula from Happy Hauntings. There are some things I will tweak before making another one, but I'm pretty pleased with my first ever Gypsy project.

 I was having some camera issues, but really wanted you to be able to see the whole inside of the card!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again soon! (maybe even over on the right in the followers column)

Have a good night! ~jen