Freezer shirts with 7 year old

Wanting to try out the freezer shirt method from the Cricut messageboards. GD , age 7 was down so we first did the favorite animals shirt with giraffe on the front and elephant on the back. Then she was curious about design studio so we got going and put seven ice cream cones along with her name and two sparkly hearts. Notice the cherry stems freehanded? gotta love it! We did talk about how wearing a shirt with your name on it might not be a great idea... and she totally got it! For the ice cream shirt we used doodlecharms, and Plantin Schoolbook. Zoobaloo for the giraffe and elephant. We used acrylic paints with Fabric Texturizer (also sold in the acrylic section) as our medium with some detailing with sharpies.

two more altered art journals

Here are two altered journals that I made for my assistants at school. Used graphically speaking for the majority of the cuts. These go together fairly quickly. I could see altering a few of these and leaving a spot for the personalization. They could even be modge podged except for the name then only need a few hours before hand to finish them off.

Scored big with a trip to Michaels this weekend. They had deeply discounted many little journals so inspired me to do altered journals for my end of school gift for my Reading Support students. At 29cents apiece how could I say no? Truly I could not have made them with my bind it all for this cost. So I suggest you check for those if you go in. I used Cricut Zooabaloo, Doodlecharms, with lots of Stickles , M's ribbon and some from my stash. I wanted to give them something to remember to read and WRITE all summer long. Hope these do the trick!

opps - other pages for Sophia

sample pages from Sophia's wordbook. Most cuts from New Arrival and Storybook.

first attempt at wordbooks

woo hoo! I had been wanting to do this, but was chicken... finally after watching The Pink Scrapper's wordbook videos last week I decided to jump in and try one. Sophia is ready to be born any day now, so here is her wordbook!

Cricut workout!

I have been busy crafting. Made a storybook quilt and wanted a great presentation box so got the Cricut and New Arrival out. Here are pictures of the box and then coated the whole thing with Mod Podge.

OT -Let's go PENS

if you have ever scrolled clear down on my blog you will notice that I modeled my Blog title on Mike Lange's Shoots and Scores call for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Well they are hot on the ice right now so wanted to say GO PENS. I have been doing some Cricut crafting involving decoupage. These will be ready to reveal soon.

I also wanted to send you over to youtube so you can check out The Pink Stampers new videos for custom crafting. Robyn has put a two part set making word books that is wonderful! check it out.