DCWV Northridge "Bow" Challenge

 I am slowly trying to get back into the crafty swing of things and finding all of my stuff and organizing it and all of that good stuff. But an amazing person came over to help us pack up and move and even stayed to unpack it too, and I don't even know her except that she works with my MIL and volunteered to come help. How amazing is that? So I made her some Shower Soothers that just had to have something cute to be placed inside. I used different pieces from DCWV stacks and their napkin ring bow template.

I was going to use a specific ribbon that had the hot pink and zebra stripes in it, but once I started finding papers, the colors took over and the ribbons vanished for another project. The zebra paper came from the Stack 7 and the pink hounds tooth came from the Halloween and Fall stack. The blue cheetah came from Recollections All Girl. The i-rock and gems are from Imaginisce.

The shower soothers are amazingly simple to make. I got the directions off of this webpage  http://beingfrugalbychoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/homemade-vicks-vapor-shower-disks.html

"Chews" to serve

 Our annual Pinewood Derby is tonight. We have opened it up to the community, which means that we get to race 5 cars from our family as well as one scout car. I'll post some other pictures of them later, and the racing too. The candy cars to the right are for the overall community prizes.

 Also at this time, our Cubmaster, my wonderful hubby, will be giving some treats to the leaders of the different dens. I used the "Thanks for chewsing to serve" stamp from Sunbeam stamps. I used the blue and yellow cardstock for the bags and labels. My Cricut has been working like a horse lately for me and my different ideas. I also filled them with assorted chocolates and candy bars.

I stamped in blue on the yellow and in gold on the blue. I am sorely remiss in not having yellow ink and will definitely have to remedy that situation soon, especially if I continue on in Scouts, which is most likely given that I have 3 boys.

Dance Sing Love Live

If you've read any post on this blog, you'll know by know that I love to make notebook covers. And this one was no exception. I love this pad of paper called "Floral Foliage" by Recollections, which I'm not sure if it's DCWV or not, but I found it at Micheals. The stamp says "Dance like no one is watching, Sing like no one is listening, Love like you've never been hurt before, Live like it's Heaven on Earth. Mark Twain" and came from Sunbeam Stamps. My original purpose for this stamp will become apparent in a few months, hopefully after I get through (or started) on my Wood Badge training. But for now, I have a new notebook!

Kindness Begins with Me

 Another great stamp from Sunbeam Stamps, this stamp made me think of spreading kind words and remembering to use kind words when talking to others, even if they are related to us. So I came up with a couple different ideas for things that would help us remember.

This is two wood cutouts that I painted and then stamped and I put magnets on the back.

These two were put inside and on the back of bottle caps that had holes drilled in them for charms or to put on a keychain.








 

 This is a river rock magnet. The funny story is I sent my husband to the craft store for me and he could not really tell the lady what I wanted except river rock and clear and he came back with 19 in a pouch that cost him $1. Maybe I should send him shopping for me more often.

 This is a project that came out of my Stake's Super Saturday two years ago and I never gave it out because I wasn't quite pleased with how it looked. We were given the chapstick already made and a piece of paper with a recipe on it and all we got to do was pick the 1" circle for the top. I thought this might be a good gift for achievement day girls or object lesson in Young Women's with clean words.

So I used my cricut again to cut out a bunch of 1" circles and stamped them with the stamp centered slightly different each time and then just started playing with them.

I am a Child of God

I love this stamp. I received it and knew immediately that I wanted to do the birthday gifts for my Primary kids with them. I have about 16 kids in my primary and it was getting frustrating to figure out what I could make that would be cost effective and fun for the kids too. The free cartridge of the week for the Cricut Craft Room was the Spring Holiday Cards and it included this box and the blank front. I stamped the "I am a child of God" stamp from Sunbeam Stamps and then colored them in with colored pencils. I scored them already and they are ready to be assembled as the birthdays come up in the year. I will put a treat and a bookmark or something similar inside.