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Happy Monday all! If you came over from Fantabulous Circut Challenge Blog‘s recent challenge, you are in the right place. If you are just joining me, you need to head over to FCCB and check out the fun inspirations that the amazing design team has in cooked up. This week’s theme is Fun with Puns. All you need to do is make a project using at least ONE Cricut cut and have a fun pun to go along with your project theme! I can’t wait to see what you got up your sleeves!
This week I decided to kill two birds with one stone and make my oldest daughter’s birthday invitations while keeping this challenge in mind. We will be celebrating at Build -A – Bear Workshop this year, so I had to get my paws on the new Teddy Bear Parade Cricut Lite Cartridge! Oh my did we have a hard time deciding what bear theme to use. The soon-to-be birthday girl decided upon a cute ballerina bear!
For the sentiment tag, I pulled out my Silhouette and printer and put them both to work! I created this by piecing different images from the stock images that come with the Studio software. I came up with the pun on the fly and threw it all together pretty quickly. I inked the edges headed straight for my Circut to start on the cute little bears!
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Using Cricut Craft Room, I designed the bears to be around 3 inches and built them from there. I added some faux stitching, inked a bit around the edges and some cute bling flowers and called it a day! Having to make many of these, is a bit timed consuming, but I had a great little helper! The base paper I used was from American Crafts Hip, Hip, Hooray! 6×6 paper stack I found at Target! LOVE THIS PAPER! I used the paper from the same stack for the tutu and shoes. I added some bubblegum pink crinkle ribbon from Kristen Swain. These invites fit in an A2 envelope!
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Make sure you head over to FCCB and check out all the fun projects and join in on the fun by LINKING up!
Thanks for sharing a piece of “punny pie” with me !
The hubs is pretty happy to have a fun little treat to bring to the rest of the “Nerd Herd”. I am super happy I could throw this together so quickly to close out a week that honors their genius innovation and brilliance and total logical approach they bring to the world. The funny thing is, I don’t think any of them have any idea that this week exists nor do they really care, but they will love the fact it is a reason to get cupcakes! 🙂
Step 2: Paper Pennants: I used a Cricut die ctt machine to make the stencils for the paper pennants, but you can use a Silhouette or cut them out free handed. Using a designer paper of your choice, create a fold using a bone folder and trace the pennants using the stencils (this will create the “diamond shape that folds over the twine to secure the pennants). I cut two pennants each from three different coordinating design paper with coordinating sizes to match the design paper.
This project was a fun project to create. I came back from CHA very inspired and creatively energized! I had it planned out in my head for some time, but needed to roll up my sleeves and get on with it. As you can see there are a lot of components but all were very easy to execute and on the C-H-E-A-P (music to the hubs ears)! 
The pennants and stands were made in just a couple hours and the materials list was SHORT! PLUS IT WAS NO SEW!!!!!! All you need is fabric of your choice, yarn and wooden porch railing decor found at Home Depot, craft paint, hot glue, scissors, and sand paper! I hand crocheted the bows . . . look 
This bouquet of love was so simple. The metal tin came from the Target dollar bin and I rounded up some Valentine cupcake wrappers along with a foam ball and some straight pins. This was made with 75 cupcake wrappers. All I did was fold the wrapper in half and “scrunch” the bottom and pin to the foam ball. Continue until all the wrappers cover the area that does not fit inside the bucket! 
Now on to the heart shaped yarn wreaths! If you have followed me for a while, you will know that I have a thing for making yarn wreaths. I find them relaxing. I guess this is my version of knitting or crocheting. It was super simple, just pick up some foam heart wreaths for around $2 each and some yarn! Tie a knot at one end of the yarn and then pin it to the back of the wreath and just get your wrap on and knot the end and pin it! 
Last but certainly not least, YARN BALLS! This was my first time tackling these little guys, but after being the master of yarn wreaths, this was easy peasy! All I did was gather up 12 small foam balls, using the same technique as I did for making the wreaths. A great project for indulging on bad reality TV and being a couch potato!
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