Pencil Valentines with [Cutie Cupid Tag] Free Printable

Creating just the "right" class valentine is hard work especially with a 6 year old little boy who has his own opinions of what he wants his valentines to look like.  I jokingly told him (but I was somewhat serious) that "your older brother never did this to me, he always liked my valentine ideas." -- ha!  He's a chip off of the old block and loves to throw out crafting ideas.  Remember his Football Heart Valentines from last year and the Dinosaur Valentines from 2011?  This year was no different.  
This year….he was insistent to give a pencil to each of his friends.  We played around with different ideas of how to create our valentines that we could incorporate a pencil and finally settled on the one I'll show you in this post.   For the base of the treat holder I'm using the Trifold Card Die from My Creative Time.  The adorable little cupid guy is from My Cute Graphics.  

Download this cutie cupid tag here.  <---

Tri-fold Card Die by My Creative Time

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If you're looking for another idea with this sentiment here is one Spencer and I created several years ago and we also have a video tutorial to go along with it.  :)

Just Write for Me Valentine

You Rock Valentine

Valentine Tractor School Box

Tractor Goodie Bags

Sharing with some of these linking parties this week! The Gunny Sack ~ Strut Your Stuff ~ Craft-O-Maniac ~  ~ That's What Che Said ~ Keeping It Simple ~ Young & Crafty ~  ~ Somewhat Simple ~ Tater Tots & Jello ~ Home Stories AtoZ ~  ~ A Diamond in the Stuff ~ Lil' Luna ~ Create & Inspire ~ Purple Pumpkin Blog Pin It

{Halloween} Treat Bag Toppers with Free Printable

Hi everyone -- I hope you aren't getting too terribly bored with my Halloween Treat bag ideas -- but Halloween 2012 is almost over and I'll move onto Thanksgiving.  I think everyone loves to get a treat and if it's in a special little package that makes it every sweeter, right?!   Here are the goodie bags Spencer and I made for his friends in his class this year.  I'll send these with him on Oct. 31st to put one in each child's backpack.     Aren't they so cute?  {love}  I've included a free printable for you…. so feel free to print as many as you'd like for yourself or kiddo's.  

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Quick Card….

Yesterday I showed you the altered journals I created for Spencer's teacher and classroom aide {view those here} and today I wanted to share the little cards I created to go along with the gift.  I had him write his name in the lower section.  

Simple. simple. simple is what these cards are…..:)

Each card measures 3.50 x 7" folded in half (making it a 3.50" x 3.50" card).

 Supplies:

• Blue cardstock (for card base)
• boy and 2 girls digital images by Scrappin' Doodles (designed and printed from computer)
• circle font - BaaBaaBook
• white galaxy marker and ink for shading.
• Inside of card - "Wishing you a great year" - School Days set by My Pink Stamper
• 3 inch scalloped punch (polka dot paper)

Did you know that My Pink Stamper has a "Handmade with love by…" stamp on the "Friends and Family" stamp set?  It's the perfect addition to your handmade projects to let the recieptent know who is was lovingly created by.  Click here to check out that entire set and find a retailer here to grab one for yourself.

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{ Altered Journals } for Teacher's Gifts

I've been wanting to play around with some altered journals for sometime now -- I see so many cute designs and almost everyone makes them look so super simple -- so when I found these I knew I would give it a try.  I found the journals at Family Dollar (love that store), the flap (where the name is) has a "magnet" closure - super simple to use.  It then opens like a book with lots of pages with lines inside.  


I made these for Spencer's new pre-school teacher and classroom aide for him to give as a gift on the first day of school.  Just as a "welcome and wishing you a great year" kind of gift.  I {love} how they turned out.  


These were purchased (covered) in the designs you see here -- I just added the white vinyl and tags.  :)

 Supplies

• white vinyl 
• font for vinyl ~ "Pooh Font" by Cricut
• boy and 2 girls digital images by Scrappin' Doodles
• font for circle - Baa Baa Book
• sentiment - "Teach a Child * Change a life" (designed printed on my computer)
• 3 inch scalloped punch
• 3 inch circle punch
• ink and pens for doodling

I'd LOVE to hear what you think about my first altered journal! 

I hope you find them inspirational.  


♥ Tracy

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Repurposed Cowboy Tag

For Spencer's birthday party last week I made signs for the various drinks like sweet tea, soda, bottled water, juice boxes so the guests would know what was in each ice chest.  Since his theme was a cowboy party I printed just a simple cowboy onto white cardstock to tie the theme together.

After the party was over I had all of these signs that were too good to just throw away and thought I could use the printed cowboy for something else, so I saved them…..  Here is what I did with one of them.  I cut out the cowboy (from the white cardstock), adhered it to some brown cardstock and added a little tag using a couple of sentiments from My Pink Stamper's Boy Crazy stamp set (Yee Haw and Have a Super Birthday) To attach to the gift bag I used jute twine.  I think it looks adorable…..and I knew I'd find another use for them. ☺

cowboy image is by Scrappin' Doodles

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I like the length of the tag -- it really adds character to the entire gift bag.  :)

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Simple Cowboy Party Goodie Bags

Hi everyone and Happy Sunday!

I wanted to share some simple goodie bags I created for Spencer's 5th birthday party that we recently celebrated.  For the past 3 birthdays this child has wanted a cowboy "themed" party -- he is a cowboy at heart and since I don't mind at all -- I was okay with it.  I needed to make about 40 goodie bags so I wanted something simple that I could mass produce…..yet nice.  Goodie bags are one of my favorite crafting projects to create!    I get all "giddy" inside.  :) ….

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{My Memories Suite} Software Review & Give-away

Hi everyone and welcome back to Craft Junkie Too!  I have a super sweet post today that I hope you will enjoy.

For the past few days….I have been given the opportunity to try My Memories Suite, a fun and easy digital software that is allowing me to create fun and delightful projects including scrapbook pages, cards, and I'm even working on a calendar for my office.  I will be sharing several projects with you over the next few weeks but I wanted to quickly let you in on this fun and user friendly software program that takes my family scrapbooking to a whole new level.

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{My Front Door} Digital Scrapbook Page

Earlier this summer we had the outside of our house painted -- all I can say is wow what a difference a bucket of paint (many buckets) and some talented guys make!  I am so happy and pleased with the colors I picked out.  

To remember this exciting time -- I'm doing a digital scrapbook and will show you a few more pages very soon but wanted to share one that I finished tonight.  

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CJToo Digital Designs - School Days Scrapbook Page

With Back to School right around the corner (kids are bummed and mom's are cheering)….lol…. I was playing around with some different school designs and came up with this scrapbook page to share with you.  I have designed this to fit an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper (so you just need to play around with the image size).  Also…..I've included the link here for you to download it for yourself to enjoy -- I hope you enjoy it!!.  


I'd love to hear your feedback and let me know what you may be interested in seeing here and I'll see what I can do.  

Click here to download the file!

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Cowboy Roller Skating Birthday Invitation

Now you probably read the title of this post and said "what?" cowboy + roller skates = huh??


Its Birthday time again coming up for my little guy Spencer and since he is getting pretty good at roller skating he requested a roller skating party this year…..how fun!  When we discussed his party "theme" -- he immediately said COWBOYs hmmm…..I reminded him that he had that for the last 2 years…. then he said HORSES!  Now….Spencer has had a cowboy themed birthday party for the last 2 years (click here and here) but he insists on having another one.  BIG SIGH….he is a cowboy through and through so….guess what?  We are having another cowboy themed birthday party!!. (I really love it too).    

I wanted to share his invitation for this year's party and 

I'll share more about the party details as it gets a little closer.  

Whatcha think about my little poem? I love "play on words".  

I'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks for leaving me a comment.  

I ♥ comments!

cowboy and horse by Scrappin' Doodles

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Monogrammed Birthday Friend Tags

If your child is like mine they get invited to many birthday parties.  You can create a personalized card to keep on hand and attach it to the outside (or inside) of the gift.  It is so stinkin' cute to see adorable cards attached to the gift.  Just have your child sign the bottom in their handwriting and it makes it even more special.  

For the monogram - find a font you like on your computer and print several (play around with the size) then use your round circle or scallop circle punch to punch them out.  Use coordinating paper to design the perfect theme for the entire card.  

I've included the sentiment below -- click on the sentiment, it will open in another window, right click on the sentiment (in the new window) and save it to your computer.  I've included 2 formats, .png (transparent so you will not see a border around the words) or .jpg (which will have a white box or border).  Enjoy!  :)

digital image by Scrappin' Doodles

 Click to open in a new window - right click on the words and "save as" on your computer. 

Click here to download

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Digital Designs by CJToo! You are my Sunshine Page

One of my passions is clip art, digital images, digi stamps, whatever they are called -- I love it all!  I have a very large collection of clip art images that takes me way back to the 90's (yes, I'm serious).  I remember saving my first clip art images on floppy disks because my computer hard drive was so full.  This was a long time ago before cd's and dvds.  Back then….there were lots of clip art artists who loved to draw and offered their images free (with a request that if someone used the image they would give credit where due).  Sadly, so many people would take the image and claim as their own or worse, sell the image.  Boo Hoo!  That doesn't stop me from purchasing it!  loooove it….:)

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I wanted to share one of my first digital scrapbook pages….

 that I put together for your inspiration.  

You don't need to have these exact images to create a scrapbook page just like this -- no ma'am -- this is just for ideas, inspiration and your viewing pleasure.  

Create a F-U-N page with a photo of your kids at the park or on a fun outing somewhere special.  Got a Cricut -- pull out one of your cartridges that has these types of images on them and create one similar.  Paper Doll Dress Up or Everyday Paper Dolls has some adorable images that would be wonderful to create a page just like this!  

Have digital scrapbooking page elements, clip art, digital images, digi stamps?  Use them!  Substitute the boy or girl for your kids, pets or other fun images you may have.  

I'd love to hear your feedback and I thank you so much for taking the time to leave me a comment.  

p.s. I will continue to create projects using my cricut machines -- I am a true craft junkie and like to dibble dabble with lots of crafty avenues.  I like to move onto new things OR revisit some old friends.  I hope you like it too.

For this page I used: 

- page is 12 x 12

- yellow and white checkered patterned paper

- a sun

- a cloud

- "Zachary" font for journaling inside cloud.

- fonts for "you are my sunshine" (part of a digital set I have)

- one boy 

- one girl

- 4.50 x 6.50 rounded rectangle for photo mat

Big Hugs!

Tracy

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Happy Birthday America Freebie!

Right click on the image and save to your computer and enjoy my friends!  Perfect for scrapbook pages, cards, tags, goodie bags, etc.  

The only limit is your imagination.  

2 formats - .jpeg and .png

I'd LOVE to see how you used the graphic 

so take a picture and send it to me or post on your blog.  ☺

.jpeg version

.png version

Graphic courtesy of Cheryl Seslar Designs


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Linking up at these fun parties:


Under the Table Dreaming ::  The Girl Creative  ::  Me Making Do

Keeping it Simple  ::  Young and Crafty  ::  Tatertots and Jello

It's a Hodgepodge Life  :: Making it with Allie :: CraftoManic

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Happy Mother's Day! #163

Happy Mother's to all of the moms out there.  


I hope you have a wonderful day!

Tracy here to show you the Flower Pot Faces set from Digital Delights by Louby Loo that is simply adorable.  What a fun set -- their little smiling faces just melt my heart.  

I've decided to make an easel card for my project today.  

black card stock - cut at 6 inches, score at 5.50 and 2.75

Click here if you are unable to see the video below. 

Happy Mother's Day!

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