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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Back from Disney! Yay and boohoo!


I love Disney but am soo glad to be home!  I'll have some new posts later this week.   

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Magnetic Travel Games

Here are the travel games I said I was working on from last week.  They turned out great!
I bought a game three pack from my local bargain outlet for $6.  It had bingo, two card games and checkers/tic-tac-toe.  
I also bought a few packs of magnetic sheets.  I put them on the back of the bingo cards and then covered with a cute paper.
I did the same to the checkers/tic-tac-toe board, but I had to pick which game to use.  Since my girls are still little they haven't really played checkers, so I covered that side and used the tic-tac-toe.
I added magnet buttons to the markers for tic-tac-toe.  
For the bingo markers we're just using the plain magnets.  
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Sleigh Ride

Every year it seems like I have less and less Christmas decorations.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Well I have been making some each fall to fill in.  
This was a cheapo black frame that I painted white and then aged it with a smoky glaze.  Then I just took a piece of glittered card stock as a background.  I cut the sleigh and the holly from the Christmas Cheer cartridge and the snowflakes from Accent Essentials.  The mat was a plain white so I added a white metallic paper over it and wrapped it with silver thread.  

Now I just need to find the perfect spot for it.
I'm linking to these parties.
Show and Share Day at Just a Girl.

A Little Knick Knack



Thursday, November 11, 2010

Goody Bags for a road trip

Road trips can stink when you have kids that are bored.  Yes?  So I'm trying to put together some things in a bag that they will get the morning we start off on our journey.  Because sometimes movies just don't cut it in the car.  I bought some plain red gift bags and decorated them Mickey style.

I used the cricut for the circles but I had to freehand the Mickey gloves.  Not an easy feat for me, the non-drawing person in this house.  Anything else artistic I can handle but I can barely draw a stick figure.  Anywho...I glued them on and added glitter.  I added a Disney phrase sticker on the backside and have started filling them up with coloring books, crayons, notebooks, autograph books for the characters to sign, a little toy.  Next week I will have another post on how to make a travel game which will also going in the bags.  :)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Road trip blankets

As I said the other day we are taking a vacation to Disney soon, and I want to have a few things for my kiddos on the road.  Since we are driving rather than a quick flight my girls will definitely want pillows and blankets with them.  I decided to find some small throws for them instead of big blankets that will take up tons of room.  
I picked up these throws at a bargain outlet store for 7 dollars apiece.  But I wanted them to be a little more special for my girls.  I added Minnie Mouse silhouettes to them.
Soo cute!  I was worried because the care instructions say "no iron"  but I had to try anyway.  :)  I used the Cricut design studio and welded three circles together.  I ironed my fabric to my Heat N Bond.  Then  just put it onto my Cricut mat.  The glue side of the fabric down against the adhesive mat worked great.  I cut four and then decided that the Mickey logo wasn't enough.  

They had to be Minnie so I cut four bows from the Rock Princess cartridge.  I ironed them all on but I used a tea towel over my throws and images. 


 I know my girls are going to love them!
Here are the linky parties I'm joining.

Show and Tell Green