tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16792075517877895522024-03-13T23:15:16.620-07:00Cards by CGDedicated to my creative wanderings through motherhood.... when I have a second to spare!Cheryl Gaffneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02176140439334956172noreply@blogger.comBlogger482125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1679207551787789552.post-60009768387398056212013-11-27T05:00:00.000-08:002013-11-27T05:00:07.460-08:00Elf on the Shelf Ideas<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, last year I was not very active on my blog during this time of year. You know how the holidays go....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, my boys had an Elf assigned to them by the Big Man in the Red Suit. He was not an official "Elf on the Shelf" but he was much cheaper and my boys like getting a new Elf each year and that just wouldn't be practical with the $30+ OFFICIAL elf. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, so I wanted to share the elf antics that our Elf, Tom, was up to last year. He was discovered each morning, having been up to something. Sometimes it was just fun, sometimes it was down right creative!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We do not have the "no touch" rule like the official elf does, I just know if it were me, I couldn't resist touching as a kid. H</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">ere are his adventures, one for each day from December 1st through December 24th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And now, onto the Antics. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 1: He made a pumpkin snowman out of those little decorative pumpkins. It was held together with toothpicks and decorated with buttons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day 2: He toilet papered the Christmas tree. My boys thought this one was so funny!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 3: Tom set up a train under the Christmas tree. We caught him riding on the train.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day 4: Tom was watching the movie Elf on the couch, he even popped some microwave popcorn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 5: My boy's behavior wasn't wonderful the day before, so on day 5, Tom brought a letter from Santa instead of fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 6: Tom was caught in the middle of a card game with a couple other stuffed toys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 7: He gift wrapped up all the breakfast foods for the boys... including spoons, bowls, vitamins and the box of cereal. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day 8: Tom decorated our bathroom!! It was all decked out with lights, snowflakes, a little Christmas tree and a wintery new shower curtain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 9: My boys LOVE Legos, so on Day 9, Tom brought them the book, "The Christmas Story" told in Lego Bricks and Minifigs. They loved it. :) Tom even had reading glasses on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 10: Keeping with the Lego theme, we woke up to find Tom sleeping in a Lego bedroom he'd constructed, complete with nightstand, bed and Christmas tree, he even had legos scattered under his bed like my boys usually do. His blanket was a piece of wrapping paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 11: Tom delivered bookmarks with the story of the candy cane, a real candy cane and a set of Santa placemats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 12: Tom brought the boys a cute little Santa toy/shelf sitter. He wanted to introduce his old friend and told the story of how Santa got started (the story of St. Nicolas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 13: We were surprised with Tom sitting on the table with a Holiday Funfetti Cake mix, frosting, cupcake liners and a letter from Santa. The letter also included ticket to ride "The Polar Express" and elf-themed jokes and games for the boys to play on the drive to the train station (it was about an hour from us).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 14: Apparently Tom missed the North Pole and all the winter snow (we didn't get any last year) so he constructed himself a snowglobe home, complete with snow. All our other snowglobes were set up around Tom's new home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 15: My youngest son loves Angry Birds and received a couple sets of the block toy for his birthday. On day 15, we found Tom in the middle of a game on our dining room table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 16: Tom was found on the end table, using a candy cane fishing pole to fish for gold fish out of a cup. He even brought his fishing vest and fish basket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Day 17: Tom set up a zip-line to ride from the kitchen and across the living room, landing on the Christmas Tree. The boys loved this one so much they made a video. It's on Youtube. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 18: In honor of the real meaning of Christmas, Tom set up a wall mounted, nativity display. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 19: We found Tom in a heated snowball fight in the kitchen. There were mini marshmallows everywhere. We found lots of "snowballs" mid-flight, strung from the kitchen ceiling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 20: Tom set up a tire swing. He was riding when we found him, but there was a line of toys waiting for their turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 21: "Super Tom"! Tom sure was busy! on Day 21, he arrived wearing a cape, mask and under-roos.... Super Tom was there. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 22: Apparently Tom wasn't cut out to be a super hero.... on Day 22 he was covered with band-aids with a hot water bottle on his head. :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 23: Tom wrapped the boy's door-ways with wrapping paper, essentially sealing them into their bedrooms. He even remembered to add the bows. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 24: Tom gave the boys a photo album with pictures of all of his elf adventures during the time he was here visiting. It included a note explaining how Santa will pick him up tonight while he was dropping off the presents, and thanking us for a fun Christmas season. Before we left, we found pics of Tom setting up a camera and tripod on our coffee table. Then we found pics of Santa leaving presents under our tree!! The boys were so amazed!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was by far the most fun I've had with the boys, thinking of each of the Elf's adventures. My Facebook friends loved it too, I received lots of feedback when I posted "Adventures of Tom the Elf" each morning. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And here is the video of the zip-line: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=499286676769503&set=vb.100000645246176&type=3&theater" style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=499286676769503&set=vb.100000645246176&type=3&theater</a></span></div>
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Enjoy your Elf this year, whenever he/she gets there, the Elf is a blessing. I love how the Elf Antics thrilled my boys and just set their imagination on fire! :)</div>
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In case you'd like to adopt your own Elf, <a href="http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/2011/11/elf-on-shelf-printables.html">here is a link to my printable Santa Letters and Elf Passport</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just love the quote and I've seen it as printables, but not as Subway Art. With the fun trend, I thought it would make a lovely printable for my cards and a wonderful free printable for you too. :) Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can print it as a 8x10 and frame it up for some fun Christmas Decor, or print it for your own Christmas cards too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I started this project by purchasing some 2" vending machine capsules. While you can go and throw a bunch of quarters at one of those .50c vending machines, my way is cheaper. :) I bought these through an <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/251015355158?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649">Ebay listing here</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was the ONLY Ebay store I found that lets you choose your cap colors and the listing was for 25 capsules which is exactly how many I needed for this project. Perfect, right? :) I chose 1/2 red and 1/2 green caps. The caps become the hats for the little snowpeople. </span></div>
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I started off prepping all the little clear capsules by spraying them with <i>two coats</i> of Valspar's Plastic Primer. This helps the paint stick without peeling, cracking or flaking. If you've ever spray painted plastic that flexes (like these little guys will when you open to fill or reveal the daily surprise will), you'll know how important this step is. </div>
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Alternatively, you can fill the little capsules with shredded white paper if you want to skip the painting all together. It's really up to you, but I had the paint on hand and I thought it would make a much nicer finished project that can be used for years to come.<br />
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Next, I added<i> two coats of flat white </i>Valspar spray paint. Make sure you get down to the edges. I love Valspar brand paint because it coats well and doesn't drip like the cheap kinds. :)</div>
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I used my drill gun and added two holes to the top of each cap / snowman hat. I used about an 1/8" drill bit, but it really depends on the ribbon you plan to string the garland onto. If you'd like, you can just use little wire ties to add these little caps to a garland you already have. That would look super cute too. </div>
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I used a large eyed (embroidery style) needle to string my caps onto my 5/8" satin ribbon. I just alternated the colors to form the pattern. Super easy. :)</div>
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Okay, next I added Pom-Poms (bought at Dollar Tree) to the tops using hot glue. I added a dot of glue to the center of each cap and placed the pom-pom into the glue. Avoid gluing the pom-pom onto the ribbon. If you glue the pom-pom to just the cap top, the little snowmen can be slid on the garland if need be. </div>
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See, they sure are starting to look like little hats now. Don't you think? </div>
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When the painted capsules are all dry, I used black Tulip puffy paint to add the little faces, two larger dots for the eyes and five little dots for the mouth. I also added the numbers to the back of the snowman heads (but forgot to take a pic, sorry).</div>
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While I painted faces, my boys were trimming out simple snowman noses from scraps of orange felt. We applied them to the faces with a little dot of hot glue. Almost done. :)</div>
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The last few steps are easy... put your prizes, candies, slips of paper with holiday activities printed on them, etc into the capsules and snap them to the lids/hats. If you need more/less room between them, slid the snowmen on the garland. </div>
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My boys wanted jingle bells on the garland, so we added them by tying them on using a little green sheer ribbon. These little bells will slide as well.</div>
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Don't you just love this little snowman face??? So cute but so simple too.<br />
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And here is our little sting of happy snowmen. Just awaiting their special day. :)</div>
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Here is a shot of the back of our snowmen. I used the same black Tulip Puffy paint to hand-draw the numbers. If you have a die-cut machine, you could use vinyl to add the numbers, but I loved the ease of adding these while I was drawing the faces anyway.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My boys and I created this deconstructed witch wreath. They love it, we had a great time and it's now proudly displayed next to our front door. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We stared with the following:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">an 18" grapevine wreath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My boys wrapped and wrapped. First we added the fall leaves garland, then the Halloween lights and then the wired ribbon. We used a little crafting wire to attach the decorations to the wreath when needed. We also wired the broom to the wreath (fyi: we sprayed the glittered broom with cheap-o Dollar Tree hair spray to keep the glitter from falling off).</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the cuts we decided to add to our wreath:</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I finally have a minute to have share the costume that I created for my 8-year-old Owen. He has been into Cryptozoology for over a year and he REALLY wanted to be Sasquatch for Halloween this year. I will take this blog post to take you on our Bigfoot Costume Journey! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We started with an Incredible Hulk mask ($2 from Goodwill) and a Bear in the Big Blue House ($10 at a re-sale) Disney Store fur suit costume. </span></div>
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First I altered the Bear Costume to fit my son. it was about 2 sizes too big, I removed the face, the bean-bag belly and bottom, and used scraps to cover the yellow chest.<br />
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Here is the fur suit after the alterations. You can also see the unaltered Hulk Mask. :) I added bulk to the hood area to give him the Bigfoot shaped head too. </div>
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I bought quite a few cans of fabric spray paint from Joanns (I used the 40% off coupon and they were still over $6 each). I used dark brown, medium brown and black. After many layers of paint and lots of money spent, I resorted to good old spray paint. It was smellier, but with the pre-planning I did, the smell has subsided well. You can see in the first picture, I have the costume hung on a hanger, but I found the coverage was much better when I stuffed the costume with paper. The dimension helped get even coverage without folds in the fabric.</div>
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For the mask, first I sprayed the mask a combination of browns and black. Then I used scraps of the fur suit to add the fur around the Hulk face. I then touched up the fur.<br />
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With all that wonderful spray paint, the teeth were quite brown.... So we first added some off-white acrylic paint and then added some glow-in-the-dark paint.</div>
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Onto the feet!!! I bought these feet on Ebay. They are a little hard to come by. They are called "Funny Feet" and were perfect for this costume!! First I cut off the tops and glued them to the tops of a pair of my old shoes. Owen needed slip on shoes with these feet, and I was the only one who had a spare pair.</div>
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Here, I used E6000 glue to attach the funny feet to the tops of the slip-on shoes. In case you were wondering, I had about a week from the time I ordered these feet to when they came, so I pre-painted my shoes for this project. </div>
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I used zip-ties (or cable ties) to hold the tops onto the shoes while the glue dried. We let these set about two days. It was super hard the wait for the next step!!</div>
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Okay, first I tried spray painting these feet... don't do that.... it doesn't work.... the paint and the silicone material these feet are made of don't get along!! So the second step was strip all that spray-paint and apply one coat of acrylic primer and three coats of brown acrylic paint. </div>
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The next step was to apply the toenails. I painted two coats of the toenail color (we used a cream color). Then I added a very fine mist of cream spray-paint to create a dirty look. Then, I applied two coats of an acrylic sealer.</div>
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See, look pretty Squatch-y don't they?? In case you were wondering, these measure roughly a size Men's 11!! Because they are mounted up off the toe, my eight-year-old had no problems walking in them... in fact, he had no problem running and playing in them!</div>
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Here is the completed mask/hood look. On Halloween, we are going to be underpainting Owen's eye's a brown so they don't stick out as much.</div>
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Here is Owen doing the classic bigfoot stance as seen in the Bluff Creek, CA pics by Patterson/Gimlin in 1967. See those impressive feet sticking out?? They make me so happy!!</div>
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And lastly, here is the candy bag Owen will be toting all his goodies in.... and in case anyone thinks he is a monkey, bear, or Chewbacca, it says he is a BIGFOOT!!!</div>
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I used two bandannas for the bag body (measuring 11' x 14 1/2") and lined it in black cotton. I created the logo using Photoshop and printed it on iron-on paper. I then ironed it onto yellow cotton and stiched it down to the camouflage fabric before sewing it into the bag. Owen wanted it to be reversible, so we made another yellow logo panel for the black inside layers. Lastly, we added a black nylon cross-body strap so he doesn't have to hold it while trick-or-treating.</div>
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And in case you were wondering, before we started this costume we were searching and searching for a diy, instructions or tutorial for a Sasquatch or Bigfoot costume and THERE WERE NONE TO BE FOUND!! So, this costume run-down is our contribution to all those other people looking for directions for creating their own Bigfoot costume. :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Using my Gypsy, I combined some images from both Robotz and a couple periods and 1/2 of a parenthesis from Plantin School Book for the smiley mouth. I welded two of the Robotz image, flipping one upside down, to create a shape very close to the shape of a Lego Mini-Fig head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I set the file up to cut the face (with the eyes and smile cut outs) on the left and the background face piece of the right. The card base was set-up on layer 2 on my Gypsy. I welded two of the background pieces together to form the folded base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see all the parts ready for assembly. I sized the head to be 4 1/4" wide and just over 5 1/2" tall, you'll see why in just a couple steps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, I folded the base and I was ready for assembly. Like the Create a Critter carts, this card became very easy to assemble. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See, easy and quick assembly. :) Okay, so the bottom bump (called studs) on the Lego Mini-Fig head was a little long... so I used my paper trimmer to cut the card to 5 1/2" so it can fit in a standard A2 card. Don't forget to round the corners with a corner chomper or just by hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, using the same face files, sized to 1", I made some Mini-fig confetti to put inside the card. Since Bryce was turning 11, his card was filled with 11 little friends. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I have a super fun project to share that was entirely inspired by my son, Bryce. He loves his Legos and been collecting Lego Mini-Figurines (Minifigs) for about a year now. He loves those little mystery ones in the foil pack but has some more rare ones too. Anyway, he wanted a way to store his minifigs so that he can see them, but still take them down and play with the occasionally. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This project was inspired by an Etsy item I found, I'll include that link at the bottom of this post in case the project is a little too involved for you (or the Lego Lover in your life). Okay, on to the project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You'll need the following supplies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- a shadow box, either store bought, or thrift-store find like we did ($2 each @ Value Village)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Spray paint for your frame - if it was a thrift store find or you'd like to change the color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- the backer for your frame (or wood, cut to fit, if needed)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Spray paint for the backer board</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- 2x2 Legos in the color of your choice (we used 42 of these found on Ebay)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Saw-tooth picture frame hangers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since we found our 16" x 20" frames for $2 at Value Village, we needed spray paint to make them match the room they are going to be living in. In my son's case, we are painting his room right now, and he is WAY into orange, so we went with an orange backer, orange Legos and a black frame. Three coats of black paint and the frames were good to go. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We cut our 1/4" birch plywood to fit the inside of our frames and sprayed them with Island Orange by Valspar. Here, Bryce is modeling how well it matches his orange shirt. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, we used painters tape to attach the template we made for the Lego placement. I used an Exacto Knife to cut all the rectangles out so I can glue the Legos into place with the template attached. It worked out perfectly. Yeah! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see how I placed the Legos on their side into the template holes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See, they went in perfectly. So easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the backer board, all the Legos in place... gotta love that shiny finish too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And this is the backer board mounted inside the newly painted black frame....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">.... and loaded up with Bryce's favorite Lego minifigs. I have most of the supplies to assemble a second frame for Bryce's collection. I just have to get ahold of some more orange 2x2 Legos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just love how the Legos blend in to create the effect of the minifigs floating in the frame. Just perfect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the Etsy store that inspired us to create our own minifig storage frame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one is wonderful and all, but for $25.99 plus $12.00 shipping (for a total of $37.99), I knew I could do better. Our frame cost us only $13.50 to built... and ours store 42 minifigs while the Etsy one stores 28.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And last but not least, here is my template for the Lego placement on a 16"x20" backer board. It can easily be altered for a smaller frame too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To save the template, click on it to open it in full size, then just right click to save it. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.4shared.com/photo/M6SAIv4H/lego_mini_fig_storage_template.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or you can download it using 4Shared (free file sharing)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just print the file onto multiple sheets and then assemble to become a full size template. The directions will print directly on the template.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enjoy! Please feel free to link to this page to share your creations too. I'd love to see them. :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you've come from </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="http://leescraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lee-Ann's blog at Lee Scraps</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> you are in the right place! If you just came across the hop, please start at the beginning over at <a href="http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/">Carson's Creations</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I created this Jar Shaker Card using<a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/"> Lawn Fawn</a>'s <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm">Summertime Charm stamp set</a> and <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">matching die cut set</a>. I was totally inspired by <a href="http://www.mossymade.com/">Chari Moss</a> of the Lawn Fawn Design Team to make this card and followed her basic directions but tweeked it to work for Georgiana's challenge of threes for her blogaversary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My card measures 4 1/4"x 5 1/2" (standard A2) portrait style card. All the paper is from <a href="http://www.butterflyscrapbooking.com/servlet/the-6728/Simply-Brights-6x6-in/Detail">Creative Imaginations 6x6 "Brights" paper collection</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used the blue swirl, the orange swirl and the green swirl (3 patterned papers). I inked all the edges with black memento ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The black cardstock layer measures 4" x 5 1/4", the blue swirl paper measures 3 3/4" x 5". Then I cut 1/2" pieces from the green and orange swirl paper and cut the banners at the ends. I then stamped the sentiments using a couple<a href="http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/"> "Scrappy Mom's" stamps</a>. I glued it across the card and then<a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts"> die-cut the jar shape</a> out of the assembled card front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I set the assembled and <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">die-cut card front</a> on top of the white card base and used the <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm">Summertime Charm stamps</a> to stamp the jar directly on the base. Then, I stamped 3 lightening bugs and their matching "shine" stamp and colored in the bugs (adding stickles to the rear ends). I then <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">cut a layer of craft foam</a> to match the front, and then used the <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">matching jar die-cut</a> to create the layer of foam necessary to make this card into a shaker card. I <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm">stamped</a>, colored and <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">die-cut extra lightening bugs</a> to "fly" around the inside of the shaker card with the micro beads I used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before assembling the shaker card, I added the three black button brads to the card front. Then using score tape, I assembled the card in this order:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">card base -- <a href="http://www.lawnfawn.com/products/summertime-charm-lawn-cuts">die-cut </a>craft foam --add the micro beads and bugs -- attach a piece of transparency (or recycled clear plastic packaging) to the back of the card front -- attach the card front to the card base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lastly, I added three escaped lightening bugs to the top of the card. LOVE them! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3 patterned papers, 3 sentiment banners, 3 sentiment stamps, 3 lightening bugs stamped in the jar, 3 lightening bugs loose in the jar, 3 buttons and 3 escaped lightening bugs. :)</span></div>
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We made this Framed Scrabble Board for my Mother-in-Law, Sue. Including my kids, she has eight grandchildren! We really wanted to make one for my hubby's grandma too, but she has 12 great-grandkids and we simply couldn't fit all the names on one scrabble board!!</div>
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For this project you'll need a scrabble board, tiles (we needed two sets of tiles so we had enough of the more frequently used letters), hot glue / glue gun, and a shadow box frame.</div>
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We hit thrift stores by the batch to try to find a scrabble board and tiles with no luck. I ended up having to buy two scrabble boards for this project. I hated having the brand new tiles and boards, I really liked the more aged look of our old board (it's dated 1942).</div>
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This is the board that came with our new games.... long story short, my boys traded me their cool old, aged Scrabble board for this shiny new one. :)</div>
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See, don't you like the age and character of the old one better? Anyway, we set out all the names we needed to include, added a couple little touches to the corners and some love too. </div>
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Then we glued everything down with hot glue. Try to keep your spacing uniform between the letters, they don't all butt up together to fit nicely on the playing squares.</div>
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I didn't like the nice, clean, new, unused looking tiles, so I hit the letters with my heat gun. I just used my heat embossing gun, but a hair dryer might work too. This little bit of heat gave the tiles a lovely darker sheen that I just LOVE!</div>
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Next, I found the 16" x 16" shadow box frame at Craft Warehouse. Now, my board was a wonderful 14 1/4" square, but the new board I bought was not the wonderful square that my fun old board is. If you plan on making one of these fun boards, you might want to take that into consideration when choosing your board.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you can see, it's a shaker card. I put two layers of foam tape in between two layers of Recollections Clear Window Sheets. I them sandwiched the plastic shaker between my paper window layers. All paper is from Me & My Big Ideas specialty card stock called "Harvest".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the shaker, I added some leaves from Serenade and some Recollections microbeads to help the leaves move inside the window. I added three brown brads to each side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see the card shape. I love this tag shape! :) I cut a little hill by hand from some more paper from the same paper pack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see the velvety texture of the green hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you just came across this hop and would like to start from the beginning, please go back to <a href="http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">Jenny's blog (Crazy About Cricut).</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I created a PDF file that goes with this project. Please feel free to download the file. You are free to use it as much as you'd like for your personal projects, but it is not to be used for commercial purposes. If you'd like to post the PDF or this project on your own website or blog, please link it back to the Cards by CG blog (cardsbycg.blogspot.com).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I included three file share programs for you to download with. Hopefully you'll have no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">problems, but please email me if you need me to attach the pdf in an email directly to you.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35248427/Reading-Log-Bookmark-Cardsbycg" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">http://www.scribd.com/doc/35248427/Reading-Log-Bookmark-Cardsbycg</a><br /><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/48837762/Reading-Log-Bookmark" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">http://www.docstoc.com/docs/48837762/Reading-Log-Bookmark</a><br /><a href="http://www.4shared.com/document/1gHbShW1/Reading_Log_Bookmark_cardsbycg.html" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">http://www.4shared.com/document/1gHbShW1/Reading_Log_Bookmark_cardsbycg.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 1: </b>Print out the PDF onto card stock. I use white for my projects, but any color will do. You will have enough reading logs for two bookmarks each time you print the pdf file.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 2</b>: Cut a book mark from card stock. The measurements are 2 1/4" x 8" - you can cut a total of four bookmarks from one sheet of standard 81/2" x 11" card stock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 3:</b> Cut out the reading logs and mount them on the colored card stock, there will be one side with a large blank spot at the top of the bookmark. This is where you or your child will add decorations (we chose to use Cricut Cuts from Mini Monsters). The second side (the long one) will be added to the back of the bookmark. -<i> see second picture</i> -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 7:</b> Cut your decorations. We used Mini Monsters and our Cricut Expression. All our cuts fit perfectly using 2 1/2" for all layers. Both my 7 and 10 year old sons love using the cricut (as you can see from the pictures)! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 8:</b> Once everything is cut, assemble your decorations. We used a Zig two-way glue pen for the assembly of each monster cut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 9:</b> Attach the decoration to the top of the bookmark with Action Wobbles (super fun addition for small batches, you may want to use pop dots if making a lot of bookmarks).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Step 10:</b> Have your child write his/her name on the bookmark. Here my 7 year old is using a Gelly Roll white gel pen.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d5a6bd; white-space: nowrap;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)<br />A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater<br />Sure looks strange to me!"</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some black stitches finish off the treat container. I used a black Glaze pen make by Sakura (Gelly Roll). Add some candy and you are good to go! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Here is what my boys and I came up with. My boys and I made<br /><b><i>MONSTER HOODIES!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Hoodie - recycled is best, but I bought ours at Walmart for $10 each</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Felt - we used black, white, red and green - .25 cents a sheet at Walmart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As much as we loved<a href="http://www.youtube.com/threadbanger" style="color: #9c4695; text-decoration: none;"> "Thread Bangers" </a>version of a monster hoodie, we changed up the eyes, added a tongue and Owie (my 6 year old) said he just needed spikes down his back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We also sewed our parts down after my boys glued them where they wanted them. I know this step may not be needed, I know my kids... this hoodie will be worn and loved and need to be washed. :) I knew it would be much more likely to come out of the washer in one piece if the parts were sewn down.</span></div>
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To help the spikes stand on their own, we sewed them together down the points.</div>
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Here is the finished hoodie for my oldest son, Bryce. He is nine. The tongue on his monster is snake-like and he wanted a more "furious" monster so he picked red for his eyes.</div>
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I love the little shine we added to the monster's eyes. :)</div>
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See how the spikes stand up? Both of the boys settled on three body spikes and two head spikes.</div>
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Here is Owie's (my 6 year old) monster. He chose green eyes - to match his own eye color. I love that he chose red for his spikes, they really show up against the gray hoodie.</div>
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You can see how his eye shape is different than Bryce's. His tongue is wider too but they both wanted them forked.</div>
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Here you can see the stitching lines. A very special "thank you" to my sister who helped out with the sewing! I now have a special order to make a monster hoodie for my nephew! :)</div>
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I love that my boys love these hoodies enough to NOT save them for Halloween. :)</div>
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And here are my little monsters... making their brand new monster personas wrestle! :)</div>
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We also made matching monster gloves... what's a monster without claws? We cut more spikes and added some claws - attached everything with fabric glue. Let it dry and you are good to go.</div>
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Here is Bryce's monster hands (hiding behind my handmade gravestones in the front yard).</div>
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Here are Owen's gloves... be sure to match your spike color to your Monster Hoodie. Owen suggested we add the claws using those el-cheep-o acrylic nails but I didn't want sharp nails if they are planning to wear these to school.</div>
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And here are his gloves... the gravestone says "Here lies the invisible man... I think!"</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My kids and I love going to the pumpkin patch... it's the unofficial start of the holiday season! :) We head to our local patch and stomp through the muck, get lost in the corn maze, play with the pumpkin catapult, take a hay ride and finally get to pick out our family of pumpkins... I say "family" because my boys always pick a "Mom", "Dad" and two "brother" pumpkins. It's too funny to watch my boys lug the big "Daddy" pumpkin into the wagon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All of the cuts to create my card come from Create a Critter! The wagon is cut at a sizable 2" tall (nearly 7" wide) but after I cut off the handle and reattach it with a brad, it easily fits into an A2 envelope with the handle folded in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I attached the handle back onto the wagon with a small silver brad and I placed two large silver brads on the wheels. I inked the edges of the wagon, wheels and handle with black ink and a finger dauber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pumpkins measure 1 1/2", 1 3/4", 2" and 2 1/4". I inked the edges of all the pumpkins with some orange ink to add dimension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead of a sentiment, my kids really wanted the wagon to be "a real radio flyer" so I printed out the logo and mounted it onto an oval of silver metallic paper to tie it to the metal brads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see how I used all the shadow layers of the different elements (welded in my Gypsy) to create a very interesting card base. I set the card up so that it has the fold at the top and can be displayed upright. I love when my cards can become a stand-alone decoration too. :)</span></div>
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I created this Fall Scene Card today. I've been a little of a creative funk...I really hope this might help me out of it. The card base is 5"x7" to get plenty of room for my scene. All the paper is from scraps! :)</div>
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This tree came from Everyday Pop Up Cards, cut at 3 1/2". I cut the base in yellow and using ink and a finger dauber, I tinted the outside orange to create this wonderful fall color! I cut leaves from Serenade in both yellow and orange and glued them randomly around under the tree.</div>
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The clouds are from Serenade as well, cut in random sizes from 1/2" to 2". I inked the clouds with blue and then with black on the bottoms. I don't know about everywhere, but here in Washington, it's super rainy in the fall and the clouds are <b>gray</b>... threatening to pour. The sentiment is printed using "Peanuts" font at 18 points.</div>
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I created this super fun pumpkins by using circle punches. I just love this simple dimensional element method and I thought it would work on pumpkins too. I punched three of each circle, folded them in half and glued them together to create this form that can stand on it's own but fold down to mail. :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I have this fun card to share with you. The card base measures 6" x 8". I created the pinwheels first, selecting paper from Echo Park's Dots & Stripes paper pack. The pinwheel papers measure 2" x 2". I then added these adorable sticks (they're actually coffee stir sticks) and hot glued them together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each pinwheel has a simple button at the center although it would be wonderful with a brad in the center so the pinwheel could still spin. The background paper is some Coordinations paper that is pre-embossed with a small polka dot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are unsure about making these cute little pinwheels, I assure you, they are EASY!! These (along with about 10 others) were made by my two boys!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This terrific twine is from The Twinery. I just love the red and white. I added a little bow I tied with my Bow Easy and hot glued it to the pinwheel sticks. I wanted a little more twine on the card so I added these little white corners (simply 1 1/2" squares cut in half on the diagonal) and attached a little strip of twine there too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is my card for the challenge. I chose to use the grid items, pink, flowers and a button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For this challenge, think "tick, tack, toe, three in a row." All you have to do is choose three boxes to make a line and create a project with those themes/colors/items included.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and pink glitter paper (DCWV) the card base in dark pink Bazzill cardstock. All cupcake cuts are from Sweet Treats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once you open up the cupcake top, you see this view of the card. While this card opens all the way, it would be ADORABLE to seal the cupcake wrapper into a pocket too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before assembling, the cupcake top went through the D'vine Swirls embossing folder. I just LOVE the texture of embossing but it's even better on glitter paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the cupcake all opened up, you can see the adorable stamps from Hero Art's "Sending Smiles Messages" sentiments. If you want to make this cupcake card with optional gift card holder pocket, <a href="http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/2011/02/cupcake-gift-card-holders.html" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">go here for my Gypsy file!</a> :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />So, my sons go to Orchards Elementary school here in Washington. The school colors are Blue, Red and White and while I automatically thought 4th of July, I came up with the project to honor an all american super hero: Captain America. This is a 3-d card to resemble his shield and will be a wonderful card for my nephew who is having an Avengers party at the end of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5", 4 1/4", 3 3/4" and 3 1/4" and the star is 2 3/4". I grabbed all these shapes from Life's a Party because I love the star, but you can use any cartridge that has these basic shapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I inked the edges of all the layers with some brown Memento ink and a sponge, then I added some more aging to make the shield look battle-worn. I used a paper shaper to curve the assembled shield to give it dimension and put the card together with a layer of pop dots through the middle but glued the rim directly to the card base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All that inking and shaping gave the shield this wonderful dimension. I'm sure the birthday boy will just LOVE it. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is my take on the sketch. All my patterned cardstock is from DCWV's Grade School stack. The card base is a standard A2 with the corners rounded with my corner chomper. The oval is 3 1/4" x 4" 1/4" and 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" cut from Accent Essentials. The Hexagon is also from Accent Essentials, cut at 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" and 2 1/2" x 4". The cute little ruler is actually Peel and Stick Ruler Tape, cut to size, 1/2" x 4" and the black layer cut to 3/4" x 4 1/4".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've included free printables for this project. <a href="http://www.4shared.com/office/jOOJxXz7/rolo_pencils_10.html?">Click here to download the free printable in PDF format</a>, or scroll down for the file in jpg format. This printable fits 2 pencils on each page. Cut the paper down to 4 1/2" x 6" and run it through the paper crimper to add the texture. This really helps is look like a pencil. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First glue the Hershey Kiss to the Rolo pack with some hot glue. Add adhesive to the yellow cardstock layer. I used ATG tape and my two sons found this easy enough, all not all the labels were super straight. :) Make sure to align the "no. 2" pencil label with the end of the Rolos that don't have the Kiss on it. This will be the eraser end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So this is what your pencil will turn out like. We loved them so much that my two sons and I made a total of 12 of them to give to all the wonderful teachers in our lives. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.4shared.com/office/jOOJxXz7/rolo_pencils_10.html?"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Click here to download the free printable in PDF format.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simply print the free file onto a piece of 8 1/2" x 11" yellow cardstock, cut to 4 1/2" x 6", run it through a paper crimper is you have it and attach it to your Rolos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am a proud member of Cori's Design Team over at <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">Ginger Snaps Scraps</a> and today I have a fun card to share with you!
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love making shaped cards (as you'll know if you are regular visitor) but I like to look beyond the usual shapes for my inspiration. This card, believe it or not, is created by re-sizing a tag shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love summer!! This would be a wonderful birthday card for someone special, but this one is a fun thank you card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My little sentiment tag is hand cut to about 3/4" x 2". The stamp is from Scrappy Mom's Stamps. I mounted the tag up on pop dots and tucked the end under the tree just a little. I finished off the tag with some white gel pen stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The sun is from Celebrate with Flourish, cut at 1 3/4". I added Glossy Accents to the center (it's still wet in the picture). The clouds are from Serenade, cut at 1" and 1 1/4". Both layers of the sun were inked with orange ink, on the clouds I used blue ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This tree is from Simply Charmed, all layers cut at 3 1/4". The grass is from Paper Doll Dress up cut at 1" and 3/4". The little bird is from Serenade, cut at 3/4". I also used green and clear Glaze pens to add the details on the tree. I inked the tree and grass with green ink and the sky layer was detailed with the same blue ink I used on the clouds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here you can see the full card base. I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart. This tag is from page 91 (button #10) using the mirror creative feature. I sized the base to 4 1/4" x 11". The front layers were sized down by 1/4" each. The black layer measures 4" x 5 1/4" and the blue sky layer measures 3 3/4" x 5".</span></div>
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Today I have a card set teacher's gift to share with you. I made a set of ten of these adorable pieces apple card for my boy's teachers.</div>
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I used red, black and white generic card stock, patterned card stock from the<a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/DCWV_c_69.html"> DCWV's Grade School mat stack</a>, a Studio G rubber stamp <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/Stamps_c_43.html">(but any stamp with an outline would work) </a>and some craft string <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/Twine_c_44.html">(or twine)</a>. In addition, I cut a box for the set of A2 cards to be gifted in. </div>
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The little apples are stamped onto a 2" x 2" piece of white card stock, the black layer is 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" and the red layer is 2 1/2" x 2 1/2". I stamped the apple onto red polka-dot paper <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/DCWV_c_69.html">(DCWV, stack 7)</a>, brown (for the stem), green (for the leaf) and white (for the apple center). I cut each of these pieces out so I could glue them together for the finished apple. It was quite time consuming, but I think they turned out wonderful!!</div>
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Here is how they look finished. I used some <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/Zig_c_65.html">Zig precision glue</a> to assemble the apples. </div>
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The red card base measures 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I wrapped three layers of craft string around the patterned card stock before I used my ATG tape to assemble the card front. I then used my ATG tape to secure the apple layer to the center of the card front.</div>
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I made ten cards for each teacher. Each card has the same apple decoration, but the patterned card stock is all different -- all from <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/DCWV_c_69.html">DCWV's Grade School mat stack</a>.</div>
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I love how they all go together! :)</div>
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I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More to make the gift boxes (the matchbox on button 43 or page 124). The window is from Just Because Cards. To complete the window, I recycled some Cricut Cartridge packaging!</div>
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<a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/qa_1_3l1/A2_card_box.html" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">Here is the Gypsy file for the box</a>. It is sized to fit the A2 cards with envelopes.</div>
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<a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/qa_1_3l1/A2_card_box.html" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">A2 Card Box.gypsy via 4 Shared</a></div>
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I tied the box closed with some more string and made a little matching tag and voila! It's done. </div>
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Here's the second box, the little frame around the window is different, but everything else is the same.</div>
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<b><i>In case you missed it, here is the download file again:</i></b></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to be entered in my drawing for some blog candy...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a $20.00 gift card to either</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michael's or Joanns -- winner's choice!!!</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drawing will take place on<b><i> Monday, September 4th, 2012.</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- I have another blog hop next week and will email all the winners at the same time-</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am a VERY proud new member of Cori's Design Team over at <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/" style="color: #cd0057; text-decoration: none;">Ginger Snaps Scraps</a> and today I have a fun card to share with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For my project today, I am featuring this summery county sheep card.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M2sSmnQC5_G9oqyR5DkXoqIdRrkHr1yusK8A2riywBS4clurxv6qJWgrV9Gu_l6QhaOk5nk7cVPcZyc_4-wKkvqZ8wjzYtPJXuJ-bPU5bqsgrc0JXQIEpbsppVAEzXZ92HsUAqNWN6s/s1600/sheep+spring+card+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #cd0057; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M2sSmnQC5_G9oqyR5DkXoqIdRrkHr1yusK8A2riywBS4clurxv6qJWgrV9Gu_l6QhaOk5nk7cVPcZyc_4-wKkvqZ8wjzYtPJXuJ-bPU5bqsgrc0JXQIEpbsppVAEzXZ92HsUAqNWN6s/s400/sheep+spring+card+1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(117, 0, 205); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I just love summer!! For this card, I used Preserves for the card base and the black and cloud layers. The card measure 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". All the solid paper is <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/Bazzill_c_70.html">Bazzill Cardstock</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sheep is cut out using white <a href="http://www.gingersnapscraps.com/DCWV_c_69.html">DCWV glitter paper</a> and then ran it through my Swiss dots embossing folder. I also embossed the largest and smallest hill in the background.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I inked the edges of all layers on the hill in greens, the clouds (and cloud background) in blue, and the sun in black.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">various inks to ink the edges</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">County Life : hills/sunshine cut at 5 1/4" wide</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Create a Critter : clouds cut at 1", 1/2" and 3/4"</span></div>
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