Greeting Cards

 

These are some new greeting cards I have made recently. Most of them are made with the Cricut Joy, and some are made with rubber stamps.  I always have a large stash of cards ready to send, but I never hesitate to make more to add to the collection :). 

A Cricut Vinyl Project

I received this cup from a Baptist Nursing Fellowship conference I attended, and I knew I wanted to Cricut something onto it to make it into something special.  After a little creativity and time with the Cricut, this is what I came up with!  Fun!

Cricut Designs for Notebooks

With the help of our resident Cricut, I designed and made a few notebooks for my mom and me. This fun notebook has quickly become one of my favorite school notebooks.  I have been using it to write notes as I study for exams.  When I start studying for finals, I can look back through the notes I took throughout the semester and use it as a great review source.  

This notebook and the following one are gifts that I made for my mom with her favorite colors and designs.  She has already started using them for recording notes from her homeopathy classes and studies.  I look forward to making more notebooks in the future now!

A Baby Hat and Card for a Friend

 

We LOVE babies at my house.  I was recently blessed with the opportunity to make a little gift for a friend who just had a beautiful baby girl.  

For the hat, I made a preemie pattern with thicker yarn and larger needles than the pattern directed to make a newborn-sized hat. It has a sweet eyelet pattern and was simple and easy to make.  The card was a Cricut Joy project with some fun pink paper.  :)

Candlemaking

With some extra time on my hands before school starts back up, I dug out some candle making supplies that have been sitting in my closet for some time.  One of my favorite gifts I ever received was a candlemaking kit for my birthday many years ago.  There was only a little bit of wax left in that well-loved kit, so I decided to finish it off and make something fun with it.

I repurposed some glass yogurt jars that have the cutest shape.  I used a scent named "grassy meadows" and it lives up to its name.  It smells like grass, but also has a hint of something sweet and fruity to it.  Almost like apple, or honeysuckle, or something to that degree.  It smells very nice!

After the candles had a while to set up and harden, I pulled out some white vinyl and cut out the words "joy," "faith," and "hope" on the Cricut.  Some twine around the necks of the jars finished them off.   Now they are ready to bless someone else!

Neither do people light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.  Matthew 5:15-16 KJV