Patches of Pink here I come

Well, how is everyone today? I'm doing excellent, thanks! Just thought I'd let you know that I am now a member of the Patches of Pink Design Team! Yay! I wanted to invite you to join us at the Thursday Link up Party. The theme is Valentine's Day. You can link up a papercraft or a home decor item!  I can't wait to see what you link up! Here's my project:

I love these jars! I put all kinds of things in them, depending upon the holiday. 

Interested in making some?

Bananas for you and heart toast

I hope everyone had a 'Love'ly Valentine's Day yesterday! What did you do? We had a party at my parents and my husband was so cute! He gave me Dove Dark chocolates (my fav), gorgeous bouquet of flowers, and a beautiful card! It made me cry (awh)! So fun!  Anyways, I just wanted to share a little treat my kids and I passed out yesterday to friends at my husband's office, teachers, and some of our other friends around town.

We're 'Banana's for you!

I saw this idea in a magazine (Better Homes and Gardens or Family Circle, can't remember) and just had to do it for Valentine's Day! Everyone always gets so much candy on Vday that I felt like it would be refreshing to get a banana or maybe it is really lame, I don't know, but I thought it was fun!

All I did was make labels on my computer that said "We're 'Banana's for you!"

Then I just stuck them on the bananas. 

Simple as that!

Another thing I wanted to share was my son's Valentine's Day Toast.  

I just love this little toast! I think it is so fun! I was thinking that I could make ducks for Easter, balloons or other shapes for birthdays.  I'm so excited about this new idea! 

Anyways, all I did was make a piece of toast and cut it out with a cookie cutter!

 Simple as that!

Hope everyone has a great day today!

Smiles, 

Jill

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Valentine Review

I never thought I enjoyed decorating and making crafts for Valentine's Day until now......
Here's a peek at all the Valentine Crafts I made this year....

Valentine Wreath	Life with you makes perfect sense card	Valentine Candy	Dynamite Valentines	Valentine Topiary	Valentine Popcorn
Vintage Valentines	O-Fish-AL Valentines	Valentine Pasta	I heart u	I "Mustache" you a question..	Valentine Vase
Love Card

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Happy Crafting!
Smiles,
 Jill

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Valentine Popcorn

Okay so I feel like Kristyn over at Lil Luna has been reading my mind! I was going to make Valentine Popcorn and she did too! The popcorn she made looks super yummy, but it is different than mine. The popcorn I made is a chocolate covered popcorn with heart sprinkles! I made this popcorn at Halloween and everyone loved it, so I decided to make it again except this time add a little Valentine fun in, using heart shaped sprinkles!  Here it is:

I "Mustache" You a question....

I got my inspiration for this valentine from Lil Luna.  She used wax mustaches, I couldn't find wax mustaches anywhere, and then I remembered I got a new cricut cartridge called Billionaire and it had mustaches on it. I cut the mustaches at 1.5.  If you don't have a cricut, you could find a pattern online and trace them and cut them out.   Here they are

Aren't these hysterical?! My son LOVES them!

Here's the topper I made to go over the sandwich baggies I used to place the sucker mustaches in.

I used Picnik.com to place the mustache on my son in the picture.....so funny! I couldn't resist!  I figured I might as well get good use out of Picnik.com before they're gone.....sad face....crying sad face!  What am I going to do without Picnik.com?!  Anyways, I hope you got a laugh from these silly valentines! I had a blast making them!

Happy Crafting!


Smiles,

Jill

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Vintage Valentines

I just wanted to share some cute vintage valentines that I found on The Splendidly Imperfect Miss M
They are so super cute that I decided to make a garland or banner as they say now-a-days:) ha!

All I did was print the valentines, laminate them, put eyelets on the side of each valentine, and run a ribbon through them. I can't get enough of these cute little sayings! "Tell me 'weather I still rain' in your heart my vanlentine"  So funny! Anyways, I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Happy Crafting!

Smiles,

Jill 

You are Sweet Treats

Since my Mops girls (a mom's group I'm in) are so sweet, I decided to make them a treat and I gave it to them at our meeting last week.  Here they are

I put them in little bags with a treat topper from Love from the Oven

I didn't get a good photo of the bags put together, but if you go to Love from the Oven she has some awesome ideas and photos of bags put together! So go to her sight and in-vision what my treats would look like in the bags. I used the bags "A Valentine Treat For Someone Sweet"! Then tell me what you think...ha!

Anyways, if you want to make some...........

O-"Fish"-AL Valentines

This week at Cooking with Cricut the Challenge is tough! I guess that is why they call it a challenge! I struggled with this one at first. I know you will do a great job with the challenge though! You must have yellow, polkadots, and anything but a card for your project! Then Link your project back to cooking with cricut. So this is what I came up with....


Anyone else loving Pinterest? I absolutely do! I must admit that it took me like 3 months to decide whether or not to start following it.  I was a little intimidated I must say.  But after I figured it out.  I LOVE it! While searching on Pinterest, like I do, for ever, I found this idea to use goldfish crackers using the word "O-Fish-ally". I knew I had to use it because my son loves goldfish crackers.  So, I created some Valentines for my son to give to his preschool class.

Want to make some?

Valentine Ladybug hair clip

So I made this little valentine ladybug hair clip for my God daughter. I mounted it on a heart (from my "extras pile" actually a heart left over from the wild card cartridge), by using a craft knife for a slit, and then I mounted it (using glue dots) on a tag I made using the Cuttlebug.

Valentine Treat Boxes

If you have Tie the Knot cricut cartridge...there are some really cute heart boxes! Perfect for Valentine's Day! I made these at 6". I used double sided paper, so when the cricut got done cutting them out, I took the little heart out of the middle of the handle, and flipped it over and glued it (using 2way glue pen) to the sides. Hope you have a great Valentine's Day!

Easy Valentine's Day Cards

I just recently really got into the cricut and card making. I made these cards with the wild card cartridge, some stickles, and the rolly turny thing that makes your paper wavey (sorry I know it's not a techinical term;) The photos didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped but I think you can get the general idea:)