I am having a relaxing weekend, no obligations just time for me to do whatever I want to do.  Those kinds of weekends don't happen often.  Today I am posting a project that I made a few months ago for a family friend's baby shower.  She was having a boy and the color scheme for her shower was non-traditional.  Red, black and white.
So I had this great aha moment to make a microwave popcorn pack wrapper.  The sentiment for the wrapper was "ready to pop" since she was ready to deliver and the popcorn was also ready to pop.

I was really happy with how this turned out.  I used 3 cartridges for this project, Nates ABCs, Sugar and Spice and Storybook.  I also embossed the black background trying to give the feel of popcorn.  The white band was cut at 4.25 by 11 inches and I just used tape to attach it to the popcorn pack.
The sock monkey is actually a girl with a bow on her hat but I cut off that portion and left the bow off.
What do you think? 
Hope the rest of your weekend is great.

Thank goodness it is almost friday!  I am glad we are almost to the weekend.  I'm sure everyone else feels the same way.  Today I was working on a project for Teacher Appreciation week which is the week of April 30th.

Can I tell you that I am completely obsessed with Rosettes?  Are you?  I have been watching videos on You Tube and I found this absolutely beautiful Vintage Rosette by Ruthean and had to scraplift her idea.

I created mine with the Cricut. The rosette is made with 3 pieces of paper measuring 9.5 inches by 12 inches. You can use a border punch for both 12 inch edges which looks great but I forgot when I was making mine. You will score the pages every 1.5 inches on the 12 inch side.
Accordion fold each piece then fold the accordion in half and glue it together to make a fan shape. She recommended quick dry glue or hot glue but I tried hot glue and it doesn't work well, so stick with quick dry glue like Zip dry or score tape, something strong. Once all 3 are glued in the fan shape you will glue them to each other to make a full rosette.

I inked the edges of the star and banner and added faux stitching to the circle. I also used dimensionals to pop up the star, scalloped circle and the banner .

I stamped the sentiment You're so sweet in brown ink and added the sparkly flowers with brown brads.  I think it has a feminine country look that I hope my daughter's teacher will like.
I set an eyelet in the top where the two papers meet and threaded some ribbon through it.

Recipe:

Star- 8.5 inches from George and Basic shapes
Scalloped circle- 5.25 inches from Stamping cartridge
Circle- 4.5 inches from George and Basic shapes
Banner- 8.25 Sophisticated (shadow also)
Other supplies:
Patterned paper is from Hobby Lobby and cardstock is Bazzil
Brown ink
Sparkle flowers
Brown brads
Brown ribbon
eyelet

I hope you will try to make your own rosette.  I think these are a great and easy project for any occasion.  Have a terrific friday and keep crafting.

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Sorry I haven't been posting for awhile.  We had a very busy week with family in town for the holiday and Easter at our house.  It was nice but very busy.  I hope everyone had a great week.  Today I am posting a project for She's a Sassy Lady challenge for Gypsy made simple.  This week Sheila challenged us all to use our Gypsy to create a get well window card.
For my card I used the Don Juan cartidge for my basic window card and added the "get well soon" from Simply Sweet.  My patterned paper is old and I'm not sure what brand it is.  The solid phrase layer is 3M adhesive paper.  I think it turned out pretty well and I was able to make 2 cards for my card stash.
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Happy Monday everyone.  Hope you are having a great start to your week.  I wanted to post some pictures of the flower card that I made for the Gypsy made Simple challenge from She's a Sassy Lady blog.  Sheila sure does inspire me to look at cartridges that I have that I haven't used.  Today's card used Sophisticated for all of the flower shapes and the leaves are from CTMH Art Philosophy.  I am so happy with how this card turned out that I need to try some more so that I can build up my stock of cards to have on hand.  If you haven't been to She's a Sassy Lady blog go there and watch her videos as she makes everything so easy.  Here is my card.  Hope you like.