tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874812212753975702024-03-13T04:10:15.508+01:00Scraps of Our LivesShellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17676322647313773757noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787481221275397570.post-36951747978241387802011-03-23T00:13:00.000+01:002011-03-23T00:13:18.987+01:00A bowl full of lemons.: Silhouette GIVEAWAY!!!!<a href="http://abowlfulloflemons.blogspot.com/2011/03/silhouette-giveaway.html?spref=bl">A bowl full of lemons.: Silhouette GIVEAWAY!!!!</a>: "My new Silhouette SD machine finally arrived and I'm dedicating this week to my Silhouette creations. I'm also giving away a Silhouett..."Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17676322647313773757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787481221275397570.post-67272892441401299562010-10-29T20:31:00.004+02:002010-10-29T21:29:48.488+02:00Halloween Treat BagsI am always looking for great ways to treat the kids in my son's class that involve very little sugar. I was looking on <a href="http://www.lilluna.com/2010/10/kids-craft-wednesday-halloween.html" target="_blank">Lil Luna's</a> blog & saw her post about GAK & Halloween playdough. Well that got my little wheels to turning & I had to figure out how to make something cute for my son's class with stuff I could find in Germany. German's don't generally celebrate Halloween, so finding Halloween stuff is hard to darn near impossible. Fast forward a bit, my son loves my Cricut & I fear the thing since I don't really know how to use it properly. So while I was trying to find treat bags for the class treats, we passed the Cricut items & my son started his chant, "cut the paper, cut the paper." So I went on the hunt for Halloween scrapbook paper & came up with nada, nothing, zilch. So I came home & searched high & low for Cricut crafts for Halloween. I found <a href="http://svgshop.com/blog/?p=1525" target="_blank">Eleanor's blog</a> with this cute .svg file for a treat bag & best of all it was FREE! This was so easy & simple to put together that my son even helped. I resized the image in SCAL so that it completely took up a 12 x 12 sheet of plain white cardstock. Then I took some scraps of yellow construction paper & glued it behind the ghosts eyes & mouths before assembling the bags. For the window, I just cut page protectors to fit in the space. Using double sided tape, I put the bags together & then filled with treats. My son & I made Halloween colored playdough from a recipe I've used with my daycare kids in the past & used that to fill most of the space in the bag & then added a few pieces of candy for that Halloween spirit. <br />
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<center><a href="http://entertainexchange.blogspot.com/2010/10/handmade-halloween-contest-starts-today.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Entertain Exchange" height="190" src=" http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr338/sportyshorty1/halloween/HandmadeHalloween.jpg" width="190" /></a></center>Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17676322647313773757noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787481221275397570.post-88949572300524440382010-10-01T17:24:00.001+02:002010-10-01T17:24:05.031+02:00Halloween Subway Art<p>This is totally not my idea, but a copycat of Jen's Spooky Subway Art from <a href="http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com">Tatertots and Jello</a>. I loved hers & thought this would be a very easy first project for my Cricut. Since I live in Germany, I usually have to buy most of my supplies on the economy (German stores) in euros.  My German is very minimal, so it's often challenging trying to find what I need in German or finding someone who knows what I'm talking about. I wanted to get this done quickly & not have to order anything online & wait for shipping.</p> <p>Supplies & cost:</p> <p>canvas- 3.95 euros (about $4.50 at the time)</p> <p>DecoArt black acrylic paint- already had</p> <p>Americana jack-o'-lantern orange- already had</p> <p>white contact paper $2.95</p> <p>orange sheer ribbon 2.95 euros (about $3.50)</p> <p>I pretty much followed what Jen did & copied her words & placement since this was my first time doing anything like this & I wanted it to be super easy. I had fun trying out my cricut & definitely learned some things about it. I used contact paper because it was cheap & what I could get my hands on fastest. Well here it is sitting in my bathroom window before I placed it in the stairwell outside my front door.  Don't hate on my military tile & privacy window glass. :0)</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3c1n5R5xcrE/TKX9EReqibI/AAAAAAAAC0U/Wipl3gzYghg/s1600-h/IMG_8872-1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="IMG_8872-1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3c1n5R5xcrE/TKX9FHf5XTI/AAAAAAAAC0Y/htKabLwI4O8/IMG_8872-1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="221" height="324" /></a></p> Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17676322647313773757noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787481221275397570.post-34018429824085392792010-09-29T23:25:00.002+02:002010-09-29T23:29:34.424+02:00New DirectionI'll be going in a new direction with my long neglected lil bloggy. Instead of digital scrapbooking, I'll be posting some crafts & home decor stuff that I've been working on. Please stay tuned.Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17676322647313773757noreply@blogger.com1