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Gettin’ Patriotic Chic!

Posted on June 29, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

In getting ready for our big 4th of July day one of my projects consisted of making shirts for a group of us that will be participating in a local Push and Pull’em parade.  The parade is a blast where you decorate wagons, strollers,  bikes, and even make homemade push items (my hubs made a Corsair plane that is always a hit)!

I saw this idea via Pinterest and took it a different direction. I am in the process of making 6 shirts and they are SUPER easy.  All you need is some Jumbo Ric Rack, Gerber daisy, bling and a hot glue gun.  I got the T-shirts at Target for $7!

Thanks for coming and sharing a piece of “feeling patriotic with a little chicness to it pie” with me

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A Bit of Horsin’ Around!

Posted on June 26, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

Our church puts on quite a Vaction Bible School and opens it to the community for free. It runs a full week in the evening and over 300 kids from pre-k to high school come.  It is one of the best ran VBS’s I have ever witnessed and there are over 100 volunteers that take time out of their busy lives and give back to the kids in the church and community, me being one of them.  This year we also were a church that a VBS publication Gospel Light was there filming the use of their product so it was exciting for the kids to be a part of!

On the last night I wanted to give the group I was in (Craft Group of course) , the Children’s director and the Group Leaders of my 4-year-old daughter’s group a little something to say thank you, since I knew first hand how much work and commitment it took to pull off such a wonderful event!

The theme was “Wild West” and the craft team helped make cute ride’em ponies that were a huge hit with the kiddos, so in capturing that moment, I made goodie bags and a couple of cards!

Thanks for coming and sharing a piece of ” a bit of horsey business” pie with me!

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Recipe:

Cartridge: Create a Critter horse cut at 2 inches for the goodie bag and 3.5 for the card

Paper for the Hershey Nuggets: Cut strips 1 inch x 3 inch, using adhesive, wrap nuggets (click for MPS tutorial)

Paper: Recollections basic card stock and Die Cut With a View Summer Stacker for pattern paper.

Bags: Clearbags.com

Twine: Stampin’ Up

Cuttlebug: Musical Florish (for card) and Candy Cane Stripes (for mane and tail) embossing folders

Glossy Accents in Enamel Black for hooves and eyes

Ribbon: Celebrate it.

Ink: Close to My Heart Chocolate

Sentiment: Goodie Bags: My Pink Stamper Yummy-licious  and inside the cards  My Pink Stamper: Spectacular Sayings

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A Big Piece of News!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

Today I have the honor of a wonderful creative community blog to announce me as one of their NEWEST DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS! What is even more exciting for me is that this is my first design team experience! Woot! Woot! My first contribution will be on Tuesday, July 2, 2012!

The blog is called Fantabulous Cricut Challenge where the motto is,” Share, Create, Inspire”!  I have been following this blog and when they announced they were in search of design team members I took a chance and applied and to my surprise and excitement, I was accepted.  If you have not been to this blog, it is about creating with Cricut machine products!  It is a great place to get ideas, check out tutorials, compete in a weekly challenge, and see what crafters are doing with their Cricut.  It is a must see and follow blog! If you are not already, come follow me to Fabtabulous Cricut and start to “share, create, and inspire”!

Thanks for sharing a piece of “big news with a Cricut on top” pie with me!

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Doin’ a Bit of Taggin’

Posted on June 13, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

I ordered the My Pink Stamper Birthday Doodle Kit during her release of the new product.  I have NEVER done the coloring stamping thing before and had a lot of fun doing it.  I whipped out this tag in just a matter of minutes as I was RUSHING, RUSHING, RUSHING out the door to the party all the while being able to coordinate the tag to the gift bag.

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Recipe: Mini Monograms cut at 4 3/4 inches and 4 1/2 inches

Cuttlebug embossing folder – Swiss Dots

Paper: Recollections

Crop-A-Dile

Stamp and Ink – My Pink Stamper Birthday Doodle Kit 

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For a Chic Grad Card

Posted on June 13, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

We have an extended family member that just graduated High School and since I was making it for a girl, I wanted to incorporate her school colors of purple and gold, but with a bit of chicness added!

Thanks for sharing a piece of “keepin’ it chic” pie with me!

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Recipe:

Card base is 8.5×11 cut in half and folded in half (A2 envelope fits)

Cricut: Everyday Pop-Up (hat cut at 2.5 inches and used shadow and fist layer) and Forever Young (heels cut at 2.5 inches)

Paper: Recollections Animal Print Pattern Paper, Die Cuts with a View Glitter stack

Gold  Shimmer Spray for the sentiment tag and base of cap and tassel

Recollections purple gems

Sentiment: created by me using MS Publisher (inside card sentiment – My Pink Stamper)

Adhesive: Pop Dots and ATG gun

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