Cricut Magazine Challenge-Primary Birthday Box

The Primary asked me to make them a Birthday Box for the birthday treats that they give each child on their birthday. I thought that I would make it look like a cake. This is my first one. I am thinking of making two so they can have a choice. I found some really great drawer pulls at Hobby Lobby for the top.

I took the handle off the box and changed the closure on the lid and added some foam to the bottom of the lid so it would close properly. The box was painted with pink paint. Then it was covered with paisley paper in pink and blue. I sewed the border onto the paper. The border, the cupcakes, and the flowers were cut on the cricut. The top of both cake layers have gathered pink netting. The bling is plastic beading, some large sequins, and large stick on gems. The top layer pulls open with the drawer pull as a handle to reveal the treats. Both layers have some flower trim around the edges.

See the newer post for a look at the finished cake. So what do you think? Thanks for looking.

So how do you like my blinged up Relief Society manual. I get a lot of strange looks when it comes out for the lesson. Yes, those bumps are ladybugs on top and along the side. I also made a large book mark with a ladybug as well. I bound it with the zutter and put on some charms to make it jingle. Lol. I was so excited that I did the Old Testament manual too.

I saw the Cricut Challenge to use these colors but I was a week late.

Last Thanksgiving's place cards. Must hurry and make some for this year. The turkey is this years dinner invitation. Four of the seven families are coming for dinner. Yeah!

I made these knitted headbands in Relief Society. I taught a class on how to make them after Patti taught me how to knit them. I made several for some Young Women in the class and gave this one to Kim.

Patti taught me how to make these crocheted hats. I made one for Aurora and Amelie for their Birthdays. Kim liked them and went home and crocheted some for her niece.

Betty's Birthday Card

It was my friend's birthday on the 19th and I made her this card and gave her a Birthday Box to keep track of her grand kid's birthdays. She is a wonderful friend. Hope she had a great day.

I decided to put some more pictures on the blog of the Halloween Box to show you. Thanks for looking.

Rozanne

Silk purse from a sow's ear.

We have a friend who casts silver, and buys silver in bulk. The silver comes in some round containers with handles. They are not in any way pretty , and only marginally useful when he is done with them.

This is what I did to make one of them fun for Halloween.

You can see in the second picture that I wrapped the handle with seam binding and decorated the edges.

The third picture shows the box with the lid on. The side is covered with orange craft paper, and then decorated with halloween figures from my Cricut machine: French Manor, Paper Doll Dress Up, George, Storybook, Pumpkin Carving and A Child's Year cartridges. The tag doesn't show up in the picture so we added a picture of it at the top. It was done with Pumpkin Carving. There are also some orange ribbons tied on each side of the handles.

On the top I added embellishments from a dollar store and a spare knob from a cabinet project. The fringe is intertwined Halloween orange and gold, also from a dollar store.

When it was done I filled it with apples and candy and took it back to him. He and his employees loved it! He gave me more to decorate, but I will probably move on to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanks for looking. Happy Halloween.

We traded 9 quilt blocks with friends and relatives. When I saw my daughter Patti's wall hanging she had added 3 more blocks to make it larger. Her's was so cute that I made more blocks to go on mine as well. It was really fun to sew again and I really like how it turned out. It also adds some color to my huge window. I sewed number 1, 3, 4, and 5. Candi's is number 6. Annelise's is number 7. Patti's is number 8. Amy's is number 10. I think that Diana's is number 11. I don't know who did the rest. I had some scraps left over so I am making some Halloween hot pads. I will show you a picture of them when they are finished. Walt helped me with the rivets that I did on number 4 to hold the word Dark in place. I also gave some of the blocks some more bling. Hope you like it. Please let me see yours when you get it done. Thanks Patti for a fun project.

Walt's 60th Birthday Party

Porter's Birthday Party

Porter's Party-I made the party hats.

Cake Making

Kim came over with her Cricut Cake and we had a fun day decorating.

My first Cricut Cake!