Our Christmas tree helper!

What a cute picture!! Our Jack-Jack on the ladder helping trim the family room tree for Christmas. What a sweetie!!

Exploding box!

My daughter wanted to make an exploding box for a school project. I had never made one before, so we began this adventure together. She needed to use pictures from a recent family field trip and wanted the box to be bigger than others we had seen so that the pictures would fit. We used Martha Stewarts 18" x 18" paper from Michaels and made the box 6" x 6" x 6" in size with 5 layers. It was actually a lot easier to make than I thought it would be. She cropped and matted all of the pictures herself. She added the journaling and rounded all of the corners. She cut 2 different sized circles to go under an ornament in the center to make it look like it was on a rug. She also used the Cricut to cut out her title and the Xyron to put adhesive on the title and the ribbon. I did cut out the corners of the papers for the layers of the box, but only because the paper was too big for my trimmer and the corners had to be cut out by hand, but she did all of the folding. I also had to make the lid, that was a bit complicated. I am so proud of her and she had so much fun and used so many of my tools. Some she had used before and some that were new to her. I think her favorite was the bone folder.

Happy Halloween!

My 11 year old DD was Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas, with a feminine twist and my 9 year old DS was a Crash test dummy. Little Jack was a pumpkin.

I finished 5 layouts yesterday!!

I wanted to share these because, I really like the papers. I got these from Current quite awhile ago. I love the bold colors and they are of a heavy weight. I would guess 80. There is no cricut in any of these. I have decided, that I need to get things caught up. These papers have enough going on that I don't think I need to add any cricut cuts. That is a good thing and it will help me get caught up. These pictures are from 8 years ago. Enjoy!