Teacher Appreciation Drinks

I never got around to posting my Teacher Appreciation Gifts earlier in May but, I took in a 'gift' every day to my son's 1st Grade teacher.   This was on Tuesday, her favorite drink, Diet Coke.  I took it Tuesday since the carrier had room for 4 drinks....if she wanted to have one each day for the rest of the week.

The carrier is from Dairy Queen, which my husband is addicted to.   When we go, we usually go through the drive through and they give us these carriers so, I have been saving them.   This turned out to be perfect!  I used some school alphabet paper from the DCWV The Stack 6 to cover each side and the handle part of the top.  I cut the crayon from A Child's Year cartridge at 2 1/4" and wrote her name on it.   Then I cut a smaller one at 1 3/4" and stamped 'World's Greatest Teacher' on it, from a Stamps Happen stamp set.

I added a couple of other stamped items to it from the Stamps Happen set as well and then tied ribbon around the pop bottles to hold them in place.   NOTE:   Because these are heavy, I also used some tape to reinforce the bottom of the carrier and then I used glue dots to hold the bottles in place.  

First Holy Communion

I have to start by saying I am sorry for this picture.   I made the card at the last minute and then I was running out the door and remembered that I needed a picture so, I took this one with my phone. 

The cross was cut from the Easter 2010 cartridge at 3 3/4" using pinkini Bazzill paper and a shine pearl paper that I always love using.   The card base is Core'Dinations whitewash paper so, it's a dark teal on one side and a whitewashed teal on the other.  

The is the whitewash paper and a printed sheet from My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found 'Breeze' mini-stack.   I border punched both sheets with an EK Success scallop punch and them mounted them onto a Bazzill Pinkini sheet.   The sentiment on the outside and inside was printed. 

Birthday Style

Today's birthday card is for my fashionista friend!   The mat paper is from DCWV All About Girls stack.   I added a strip of paper down the center and then embossed with a plaid embossing folder.

I cut the dress at 5 1/4" using the Everyday Pop Up Cards, with the layers.   The stamp on the front is from Fiskars and the sentiment inside if from Scrappy Cat.

Lego Cake

My last lego post here is the lego cakes and cupcakes made by my sister.   The cupcakes with the legoman head were chocolate and the bricks were white.   They were a huge hit!!!

Lego Man and Lego Girl T Shirts

Lego Man and Lego Girl T-shirts!!!  So, I got the idea to make my son a LegoMan T shirt for the party fromOver the Big Moon Blog   I couldn't stop there though.   I went on the hunt for some cheap T shirts and I was able to find some so, I took the file that is on the blog and I added a bow to the legoman, to make a lego girl!!  I wanted to know that the girls would wear the shirts later.   So, 15 shirts later, this was the outcome.   Each kid got one as a prize for games.

Lego Party Extras

We're nearing the end of the Lego Party posts. This post is for the 'extras' that I put together for the party, NOT using the Cricut. This is the first thing that I made for the party.   I bought juice boxes and wrapped them in colored duct tape.   Two tips here.   #1, remove the straws before wrapping.  #2 use a strong hole punch to punch a hole in the duct tape that goes across the top of the juice box and line up the hole in the duck tape with the hole for the straw.

After you've wrapped the juice boxes, you can reattach the straws with some ATG tape and then use some foam pop dots to add paper circles on the front of them.   Now you have lego drinks!

  The idea of these paper cones also came from Pinterest.  They were black and white superhero cones.   These are color copies of the Lego instructions, filled with Cheetos.

I used my cupcake 'trees' to hold the cones.   As you can see, I hung plastic table covers on the walls and added the same color paper plates, to look like large legos.   I also wrapped many boxes an stacked them and added circles to the tops.

The food table included a white lego man border that was the backing for another project that I will show you tomorrow.   I just taped them in line to the table cover.   I also took some DUPLO lego blocks (the larger ones) and holders for the silverware and napkins.   One of the foods on the menu were sub sandwiches, that I displayed the cardboard tray (to the left) that I wrapped in solid blue wrapping paper and then covered with the 'lego' logos that I saved from my son's boxes of lego's that he got for Christmas and Easter.

As you can see, I hung some honeycomb balls form the ceiling and used more of the wrapped boxes for the table centerpieces and well as some wall sized legos'.  

Lego Birthday Card

Today I have my lego birthday card that I made for my son's birthday.   The paper is the same paper used on the invitation, from Creative Imaginations.   I used a large green piece as the 'plate' and then cut smaller pieces for the boarder and layered them using pop dots so they were raised as if lego's were being stacked.

The lego man head was a another story!  I used a layer from the Robotz cartridge that was half of the shape of the legoman head.  The cut was the Robot39 font cut, using Design Studio at 3".   I stretched it a little for more of a square shape and then copy and pasted the same shape onto itself but, rotated the top shape, turning it upside down. I welded the two shapes together and this is what I got.   I did have to trim the top and bottom down so that the lego 'knobs' weren't too long.

Then, onto the face.  I cut the mount and eyebrows using the Twinkle Toes cartridge, Dancer5 layer shift at 6" for the mouth and 3" for the eye brows.   The eyes were hole punched.   I printed the sentiment and framed it. 

the inside was framed with each color lego paper and then a few random, falling blocks.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Lego Sign

This certainly isn't an extremely close up picture but, pretty good.   Each letter is cut from the Birthday Bash cartridge, at 4" EXCEPT the 'I', 'Y', 'P' and 'N' that we cut at 3" because they cut larger than the 'H' for example.  They are mounted onto lego blocks in each primary color.   The blocks were made just like the blocks for the invitations, only a little larger.   I used the rectangle and cylinders from George and Basic Shapes and welded them together in Design Studio, to make them look like a lego brick.   The total size of each 'brick' was 5 3/4".  

I used my Crop-a-dile to add grommets to each 'brick' and then I roped red, yellow, blue and green curling ribbon into each letter to hang them.  

Lego Game Container

 Obviously more lego paper used on this project...the band around the front, the band around the lid and the tent card on the top with the game question. 

For the legoman head, I used a layer from the Robotz cartridge that was half of the shape of the legoman head. The cut was the Robot39 font cut, using Design Studio at 6". I stretched it a little for more of a square shape and then copy and pasted the same shape onto itself but, rotated the top shape, turning it upside down. I welded the two shapes together and this is what I got. I did have to trim the top and bottom down so that the lego 'knobs' weren't too long.

For the face. I cut the mount and eyebrows using the Twinkle Toes cartridge, Dancer5 layer shift at 6" for the mouth and 3" for the eye brows. The eyes were hole punched.

Lego Party Favors

This is just a quick post with the party favors from our lego party.   The containers are from the Target dollar bins and they were 3/$1 and have holes all over them.   I filled them with a lego birthday man, lego builder card, lego tips and tricks (these all come in the sets from lego.com and I got them on sale for $20/box).   I also added some lego man crayons that I made using the lego.com silcone mold and I added a rice krispy treat that I put mini marshmallows on and covered with green melting chocolate.   Those turned out a little messy but the point got across.  

The tags that I made for the favors were using the Creative Imaginations paper and just mounting a solid yellow rectangle and then the child's name printed onto red paper.   I pop dotted on some individual cut out blocks, to look like the building process. 

Lego Man Crayons

These were the crayons that I made for the lego party.   I bought the silicone mold at lego.com and then collected up all the worn down and broken crayons in the house.   I slit a line down each crayon with paper and then peeled the paper off.   I broke all the crayons into small pieces and then put them in the mold to bake for about 15 minutes on 250.

TIPS:  my first batch didn't go so well because I wasn't using enough crayon.   You want to almost fill the mold so that you can push the crayon out from the backside.  When you take them out of the oven, put them in the freezer for about 15 minutes and then you can get them out of the mold easier...without snapping their heads off.  Also, the darker color crayons are OK if you only use one with lighter colors.   If you use several darker colors together, they pretty much melt together and look black when they are re-hardened into new crayons. 

Lego Birthday Invite

My son just turned 7 and the theme for his party was Lego's.   He's completely addicted and actually got about 15 different sets that he worked on for a day and a half until he got them all completed.   Now he wants more!  Oh gosh!

So, to kick things off, this was the invite.   As you can probably guess, this is not the correct information.   I changed it for the purpose of this posting.  

I used Cricut Design Studio and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to create the lego block.   I chose the rectangle and the cylinders on the George cartridge and widened the rectangle a little to make 4 cylinders fit.   I welded them together and then cut.   The block itself is a little smaller than 4x6.

The paper was the Lego paper from Creative Imaginations.   It says 'lego' on every little knob and they are raised.   Now, here's a little tip.   When cutting this paper, because all of those knobs are raised and are not stuck to the mat, you will get tearing if you don't use a good mat and a new blade!

I cut a solid blue piece as well and glued them together so that the back of the invite wasn't just the white of the lego paper, and then I inked the edges.

Stay tuned for the rest of my lego creations for this party!