Happy Halloween

This creepy looking rat made out of white chocolate is the only thing I made this Halloween. I really wasn't feeling very crafty but when I saw this mold at Joann's I figured if nothing else I had to make this. Just to give you an idea of how large this rat is in this pic he is laying on my dinner plate.

 

a close up of his red beady-eyes...

Little Mrs. Wright

Since my last post so many months ago was David Wright themed I figured I would post three new heat transfer vinyl items I made for my daughter inspired by him.

First is Little Mrs. Wright

This t-shirt was inspired by the Little Miss books. I found a cutfile online of Little Miss Sunshine and edited her for my purposes. My daughter doesn't wear two ponytails, or part her bangs in the middle so I gave her one ponytail, and bangs swept to the side. It's hard to see the colors in the photograph but the t-shirt is neon yellow, Little Mrs. Wright is neon orange, her hair is brown like my daughters, her smile is neon pink, and last but not least her hair bow is neon blue. I was disappointed that my Cricut would not cut out the freckles, I guess they were too small.  I searched online for a font that looked similar to the Little Miss font, this was as close a match as I could find. I really wanted to make this shirt for her. I had the idea for this shirt probably over a year ago. I could visualize how I wanted it to look and this came pretty close.  

I made this same t-shirt before and posted it here but it was slightly different. The first one I made was white with black lettering and a metallic red heart. (I just remembered that my daughter is wearing it in the photograph when she met him in person). For whatever reason the metallic heart did not wash well.  I think the t-shirt looks much better in black with white lettering and regular red heart.

My last David Wright creation is this sweatshirt.  My daughter asked me to make a sweatshirt saying, "You can't go wrong with Wright." Eventually I have to add more to the sweatshirt. I was thinking maybe a baseball on the hood,  and the team logo.

I'm done making David Wright stuff, well at least until next season.

David Wright Layout

My daughter is the biggest David Wright fan. For those of you that don't know who he is, he plays 3rd base for the New York Mets.  She has always wanted to meet him, and on June 2nd she got her chance.  My daughter found out that David Wright would be hosting a benefit for his charity at the South Street Seaport, so she went down there with her Grandma and waited for him to show up. She was so excited, she called me afterward and I could hear it in her voice.  She has this photo as her wallpaper on her laptop, and on her ipod. I swear she looks at it every 5 seconds.  I decided I wanted to make her a nice layout with this special photo and this is what I came up with...

This is a close up of the title. I did some embellishing with a white gel pen for the first time on the letters. It seems to give it a little something...

close up of the journaling cut out with Spellbinders,

I also cut out the heart embellishments on the page with Spellbinders...

close up of the calender. I picked up this calender stamp last weekend in the clearance section at Michaels. As soon as I saw it I knew it would be perfect for this layout,  I used JustRite Stampers for the month and year, and embossed them both using colors that went along with the overall color scheme of the background paper.  I also used a distresser for the edges of the calender just to give it some dimension. The dates on the calender were handwritten. I really don't like my handwriting so I make every effort on my craft projects to find ways around that. Unfortunately this time I did not...

This was just a little something I thought my daughter would enjoy

 (her initials and his initials)...

I really love this font. I used it on this heart and the journaling in the star up top because I think it looks like really cute handwriting.    

 close up...

and here is a close up of the photo.  Notice the shirt she is wearing, I made that for her with heat transfer vinyl.  For the frame I used the corner adorner victorian frame punch, and also used a white gel pen and some bling to embellish it.  

I put the layout in this frame I bought at Michaels and gave it to my daughter last night.

She loves it.

Graduation

I figured since it's that time of year again I would post what I made when my daughter graduated from 8th grade last year.

I'll start with the invitation.  In the zeros of 2010 I put my daughter's kindergarten graduation photo, and 8th grade graduation photo.  I can't believe how much she has grown.

Next is the gift bag.  The decorations I bought for her party had primary colored stars so I figured the gift bags should match.

I used the 5 colors represented here on the bag and just rotated the colors around.  I matched the ink on the tag with whatever color the large center star was.  I used JustRite Stampers for the tag.

Here is a closeup of the tag.

 Inside the bags I put 3 sour cream containers.

 

For this sour cream container I used a picture of my daughter.

another view

I also put 2 chocolate covered Oreo cookies in each bag.

  Cookie close up

Finally I made her an autograph book. Autograph books were a big thing when I was kid. SILS were the initials of her school.  I used a graffiti font I found on dafont.com, and black and neon colors for the title.  I used my Bind-it-all to put together. This is the front cover.

inside front cover and pages.  I also used neon for the inside pages...

inside back cover...

back cover

Softball Bucket

My daughter loves pitching so I figured I had to get one of those buckets that at one time or another you can find dedicated parents sitting on catching for their daughters during pitching practice.  I picked up this grey bucket at Lowes, unfortunately it had a huge logo on one side. 

I decided that I wanted to embellish the bucket with a softball theme. It's kind of difficult to fit all the details into the photographs. This is a huge softball, and inside the softball are the names of some pitches.

off to the side is a silhouette of a softball pitcher.

Next is a better look at the pitcher...

and the other side of the bucket says Fastpitch Maggie.

close up

I know it seems crazy but I couldn't get the song Mustang Sally out of my head, and I thought Fastpitch Maggie was a cute take on that.

I used neon sign vinyl for everything except the pitchers silhouette.  For that I used glossy black vinyl.

I got the pitchers silhouette from:

http://dscrapbookingroom.blogspot.com/2009/11/girls-softball-svg-files.html

and I got the baseball that I used as a softball from:

http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/scal-upgrade-and-a-freebie/

Baby Shower

I cannot believe how much time has passed since my last post.  I'm finally going to post the other stuff I made for the baby shower.

This is a little bucket I bought in the dollar section of Target.  When I saw them I figured I could use them for something for the baby  shower.  

I originally bought 4 buckets but while I was trying to figure out how I wanted to decorate them I destroyed one.

I changed the ribbon color and stamped and embossed the hand prints and footprints on velum, ran them through my Xyron and stuck them to the bucket. I cut the onsie from the Cricut New Arrival cartridge, and then stamped and embossed the name Liam on it.  I also bought one large wood dowel that I cut into four equal parts and wrapped them in the same blue ribbon as the bow. I finished it off with shredding some of the paper that I used for the onsie and used it to cover a foam square that I put in each bucket to hold the wooden dowel in place. I used the buckets as centerpieces.

For favors I made chocolate covered oreo cookies in dark blue chocolate and then decorated them with different edible sugar decorations. I put them into individual bags and made toppers matching the ongoing theme of light and dark blue and baby hand and footprints. 

These are close ups...

and the final item for the baby shower was of course a diaper cake.  Here it is completely naked...

I went back and forth about the color scheme for the diaper cake. I went with the jungle/safari theme because that is the how the mom-to-be is decorating the nursery.

Here is the diaper cake all dressed up, side 1...

side 2...

side 3...

side 4...

This is the largest diaper cake I have ever made. It was 5 tiers and a total of 287 diapers. Usually I buy so much stuff for the cake I have lots of stuff left over, not this time. In fact, I had empty spaces so I cut animals out on my cricut that matched the cake to help fill in the gaps. 

and here it is all wrapped up.