New Official Cricut Blog launches today!

The Official Cricut Blog

sponsored by the Cricut Circle

www.cricutblog.org

Provo Craft is proud to announce the launch of the Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle! This all new blog will go live TODAY and we want you to be a part of the celebration! The Official Cricut Blog will introduce artists and crafters to the benefits of the Cricut Circle. It will showcase inspiring projects designed by the Cricut Circle Design Team and provide a central location to receive announcements, promotions and updates on everything Cricut, directly from Provo Craft.

The Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle will feature the following:

·         Inspirational projects using your favorite Cricut machines. The Imagine, Expression, Cricut Cake, Cuttlebug, Yudu and more.

·         Hello Thursday Cartridge announcements.

·         Educational videos and tutorials directly from Provo Craft.

·         Occasional sneak peeks into the exclusive Cricut Circle Community.

·         Access to the latest Cricut.com deals.

·         And much, much more!

We are so excited to share this great news with you and we look forward to having you join in on the fun!

Simple Covered Notebook

The other day I needed a quick and simple gift idea for a friend as a Thank You gift and remembered my notebooks I use to create all the time. In fact, I created this fun covered note pad a couple years ago and shared it on an old blog of mine (that I not longer maintain). And after hunting it down as a reminder, I thought I would repost it for my blog followers. I saw this fun idea to take a small lined notepad and cover it with scrapbook papers. It's quick and easy and the perfect gift when you need something for a friend. Visit this  step-by-step blog post to learn how.

The other thing I couldn't wait to make are these cute fabric flowers. I had so much fun I made a bunch of them. Here's some instructions on how to make these!

Enjoy this revisited project for the this lovely Tuesday!

Creative Ways to Gift Wrap

Creative Ways to Wrap Gifts

My super cute friend Alisa Bangerter was featured on Studio 5 last week on creative ways to wrap gifts. She showed a lot of ideas using brown paper and made the the top super cute and creative. This one below she made a bow out of airhead and smarties candies. How cute is that?

If you'd like to watch the segment here's the video:

So this segment made me think of all the yummy ideas I've saved on Pinterest of cute gift wrapping ideas and thought I'd share those as well.

This one reminded me of a scrapbook page or card.
I found it on pinterest and it linked to this site.

Love this pom pom gift wrap idea from Bugs & Fishes blog.

Love the white paper flower on white paper. I also found this one on Pinterest,

Martha Stewart's Cupcake Carnations

Dipping Confetti Gift Wrapping idea from Tokketok

Love the idea of wrapping with photos from Sweet Paul.

Wrapping with Fabric - another Pinterest find.

Yummm & it's made from wax paper. Be sure to click
over to "Nice Package blog" and see the tutorial on how to
make this fun flower package topper.

Happy Mother's Day 2011

Lion King performance 2010

Disneyland 2003

Quick thoughts on being a mom...

this won't be profound by any means, I just felt I should say something about it being that it is Mother's day. 

Some days I love it....

   some days I don't. 

I'm forever grateful for being blessed to be a mom, but so often I forget to thank my Heavenly Father for the change to have this special privilege. 

First, my kids are "cooler then your kids" and they just simply ROCK! Yes, there are times that I've question if I was doing it all perfectly. But I'm not, I'm learning as I go and I think we're all doing okay for it. My kids are honest, kind and patient...not sure they got any of those from me, but I am very proud of them. 

My kids will of course KILL me for posting pictures of them on my blog...but hey, it's Mother's day and I get to do goofy things like that. 

Did I mention I had a pretty AWESOME mom myself...she was and is my best friend! I will tell you the best thing my mother ever taught me and I hope to pass on to my kids was, "that I could do anything I set my mind to." 

Fourth of July - about 2009

Family Picture Day - not sure...maybe 2007