Teacher appreciation gifts using homemade JAM

Here are some simple "Thank you" gifts for teachers. I made strawberry jam and then I just used flowers, buttons and ribbon to decorate the lid of the jam. I cut out a flower tag on my cricut...I believe it was the Georges Cartridge. Then I wrote, "Thank you for being so Berry Sweet to me." And then had my daughter sign her name on the other side. The teachers LOVED it. My daughter had 4 pre-school teachers...so, I just did it for all of them. I say it was easy because the freezer jam was already made. I always make some smaller jars of jam .. to give away.

1 Timothy 4:12 - Poster for Young Women's

I made this for Young Women's to help the girls memorize the scripture and theme this year. I used STONE SCRIPT cartridge and I found the flowers at Roberts. I loved this GOLD vinyl I found.

Baby Shower Invite - GIRL using cricut and Wild Card Cartridge

My youngest...but tallest :) sister is having a baby in October and these are the invitations that I made for her baby shower. I LOVE the WILD CARD cartridge. I just selected paper and then choose the size using my Design studio on the computer and the Cricut cut them out. SO CUTE!! I then used the cuttlebug "You're Invited" embossing folder. And then inked the edges and added ribbon. They were really FUN!!!

10 commandments of Baseball in vinyl

I did this recently for someone who was hanging in a newly dedicated baseball park. Just click on it to see it LARGER. :) This one took a lot longer to do ...just because of the small letters...but, it was fun.

Catridges used: Street Sign

Vinyl Wall sayings - Teenage girls' room - using cricut

Here are some sayings I recently did for a teenagers room. She actually picked the quotes...which I think are Fantastic. I don't know why some of them look blurry, you can click on them to see them larger and clear. :)

Cartridges used: Lyrical letters, stone script plantin schoolbook, calligraphy

Name Boards using vinyl and CRICUT

I have had so much fun doing name boards for a baby and wedding gifts. Especially because one was for my sister :) who is having a girl and one was for my nephew. I copied my sister's board that she did for my brother's wedding. Thanks for the stain too Laurel. Here are a few I have done the last few months. It is so much fun to match the colors of the babies rooms'.

Cartridges used: Lyrical letters, calligraphy and plantin schoolbook

Ribbon found at Hobby Lobby and Wal-mart

Flowers at Wal-mart and Roberts

School Projects with vinyl lettering

Last spring my twins were in 5th grade and required to come up with a state float. My boy chose Colorado....because of football and the Denver broncos. My girl chose Tennessee....so that she could make Dollywood. :)









This is the cheerleading outfit my daughter wore for her first Halloween. We used rubber bands and bungee her on the back of the float.

Cricut cartridges used: street sign, lyrical letters and plantin schoolbook

Customized Lil coupe Car

I was so excited to do this for our baby girl. All she wanted for her 2nd birthday was a car. I wanted to make it look different because there are a few of the same cars in our circle. Little Tikes is doing their 30 year anniversary and so this car came with eyeballs ... too cute. So, here is her custom FLOWER POWER Princess Car! I also added blue eyes and eyelashes!! TOO FUN!
Cup Holder













Custom License Plate

Star Student of the Month

I love cricut for these kind of things. Here is the Star student of the week poster I did for my daughter. I used Lyrical letters for the name and georges basic shapes cartridge for the stars. This is came together really quick and I like that I have her favorite things down for the year!

Wedding Banner

This is the first banner and biggest project I have done with vinyl. I was not able to cut out something this big on my cricut. The banner is 4 x6 feet. Luckily, I know someone with a bigger machine and she was so great to help me and cut this out :)!! THanks KRISTIN!!! My sister and I put it on the banner ... it was so much fun and I think it turned out great. Thanks Shari again for your late night help and for finding the image for the dancing couple. And Kristin ... You are amazing!!!

We hung the banner by the "dance floor." The font used was Scriptina.

My sister in law is a folk dancer for BYU ... don't you think the dancing couple looks like that? They are so much fun!!!

More glass etching - Wedding shower gift

I etched these 3 pans for a "couples shower" we did for my brother and his sweet new wife!

Cricut cartridges used: Lyrical letters, home accents, calligraphy and Doodletype.

Note: You need to type the letters backwards and then use the FLIP feature on the cricut.
Just click on the picture to see it larger. :)

Wedding Sign-in book

These last few weeks have been so busy...but, so much fun. I created a wedding sign-in book for my neice, but forgot to take pictures. It turned out great. Her colors were plum, sage green and black and silver. My brother was getting married a week after her and so I thought it would be fun to create one for them. Their colors were coral and peach. I had it at the luncheon and everyone was able to sign it. You can just click on the picture to see it larger. Special thanks to my sister Shari that stayed up with me to help me create and adhere!!! :)

And a HUGE thanks to my husband, Wade ...who took the great pictures and printed them out for me. :) Love you !

Families are Forever

This project was inspired by my sister, Laurel. She had an idea and together we accomplished it. She found the wood board at wood connection in Utah and then she painted it black, sanded it and stained it. Then we added the vinyl. It was a gift for my brother that just got married last weekend. They loved it! Good job Laurel!!

Note: Cricut cartridges used were plantin schoolbook and calligraphy

Teacher Appreciation Door 2009 - TREASURE THEME

This year our Elementary chose HOLLYWOOD WEEK for a theme and so I went along those lines with the movie National Treasure. I decorated the door and said, "Mrs. AUlt is our NATIONAL TREASURE." On the door I copied The Declaration of Independence onto cream cardstock and then I wadded the paper up into a ball a few time , burnt the edges and chalked and inked it. For the all seeing eye and torch, I printed those off of the internet and added chalk, glitter and clear, liquid dimensional embellishment called glossy Accents. Then I put together a scrapbook that contained pictures of the class, a sheet filled out by all the students... The top 10 things I TREASURE about Mrs. Ault and also a thank you note from the parents. Then I found a small treasure chest and made a satin pillow and filled it with gold dollar presidential coins. I just picked them up at a local credit union. Here are some pictures of what it looked like. Just click on the picture to see it larger. :)











I also included some of her favorite quotes in the book, such as "To teach is to touch a life forever."