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For our 4th of July get-together I made Martha Stewart’s Favor Rockets, but I used them to stuff the plastic silverware, napkin and straws inside. Super cute stuff I think! For her instructions go HERE. I added personal bling with glitter pow’s at the top. After the meal the Short one and the Smallest one had a ball playing rockets together.
Happy Independence Day! I created a 4th of July cake using the silicone giant cupcake pan. I had been wanting one of these for a while now and my auctioneer Dad found one for me a couple of weeks ago so I was ready to test it out. It was actually a bit harder to use then I had imagined and I definitely need to practice more!
I frosted the cake with my Butter-crème Icing and then used cans of Wilton Color Mist in red and blue on the surface. I cut “4th of July” and fire crackers out of red glitter paper on my Cricut using the Independence Day cartridge. I then attached the the paper cut outs to wooden skewers and placed them onto the cake. The short one added the final decorations of red, white and blue star shaped marshmallows.
Sadly, it is now a daily norm to have Phoenix temperatures hit 112 degrees so the cake started to melt almost immediately but hey it all goes down into the mouth and tastes the same no matter if it is pretty or not and it tasted delicious.
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For this month’s new Hello Thursday cartridge Ornamental Iron 2 I created a Southwest style mirror.
I started with a 12 inch wooden hoop and covered it with heavy orange upholstery fabric and then glued a round mirror in the center with E-6000. Using the Ornamental Iron 2 cartridge I cut the Southwest looking design out of aqua card stock and attached it to the fabric using permanent spray mount. To finish it off I attached Imaginisce Hot Rocks.
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I recently spent half a day with the girls at a playground, playing in the sand and collecting twigs, stones and small pieces of trash we found laying around, such as caps to water bottles. We used our collection to create a “trash city” in the sand, as the short one called it. It was such a wonderful time I took photos and when we returned home I thought I should make a special book to remember this.
I created a book using pieces of rounded corner wood for the front and back covers. I painted them a soft green, wrapped the cover in string and glued a twig in the center. I created interior pages out of soft grey paper and bound the pages using my Your Story book binding machine. I then glued the front and back cover to the interior pages. I ordered the photos from our “trash city” activity and am placing them in the book to capture our special day.
- Our Trash City
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It is time to get crafting for Father’s Day. I made a “tool kit” but with personalized mix CD’s in place of tools. I used the Father’s Day Cartridge for the Happy Father’s Day and the American Alphabet cartridge loaded in the new Cricut Expression Anniversary Edition machine to make the Guitars. The pieces were cut out of grey suede paper and silver glitter paper.
For the tool box I found one at the craft store, spray painted it red and then used a sanding block to rough it up so it had a wear and tear look about it. Then I create custom play lists on i-tunes and burned them to CD’s.
Shhhh . . . Don’t tell the tall one!
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