Birthday Cards

I finally got around to doing something crafty.

My cousins birthday is today so I made him a birthday card.  He's a little boy so super heroes are key! Given the release of Dark Knight I decided to choose Batman and the fact that I have the Cricut cartridge ; )

I got some inspiration online from some different cards, but I wanted to stick with traditional Batman colors.  I also had that puffy sticker that I thought gave it some cool pop.  I also lifted Batman from the card with the 3D photo adhesives.  The eyes were so small I didn't even try to cut them out, I just used my white paint marker.  It was even hard to do that.  I just did a small word bubble for the sentiment inside, but overall I liked the way it turned out.

It was also my nephews birthday a couple of days ago and I was lagging on the card, so I actually even whipped that one out finally.  He's a huge Charger fan and he's saving for a car next year as he'll be getting his permit, so I wanted a little place to leave some cash in the card too.

This is the front.  I found a Charger font free online and downloaded it and took the lightning bolt from the Cars Cricut cartridge.

I ended up making a pop up card because I wanted the car to stick out.  The only cartridge I had that had a sporty looking car was My Community, but I liked the car.  I did it in Charger colors, and there is no layering on that image so I winged it.  I put a little sun that does have another eye but was covered by the top.  I used a little cloud to hold the cash.  The road is just a black piece of card stock marked with white marker paint, you can see it's a little crooked ; (  Below is the picture of the card laying flat.

I don't think he'll notice the card, just the cash, but I had fun making it.

Hot Dog!

The other day  I had a huge sweet tooth.  Which is the norm for me which is why I started baking.  I love eating all the baked goods!  I couldn't figure out what to make.  Then  I remembered my kids were going to go swimming with their cousins the next day, so I decided to make them some cookies.  Of course they couldn't be just any cookies.  So I decided to make Hot Dog cookies!  I got the idea from where???  Oh yeah Pinterest!  One of these days I'll come up with ideas of my own ; )

Here they are:

They are just sugar cookies shaped like buns, then some food coloring for the hot dogs.   I didn't have any white frosting to dye yellow and I didn't feel like making a whole batch for just "mustard".  I used piping gel instead.  I think they turned out ok.  They tasted great!

I'm trying to find a better place in my kitchen to take pics, they always come out so dark...any ideas?

Happy Anniversary!

My husband and I celebrated our 1st anniversary of marriage this last week.  It's really been a tough year, with our son's cancer, but getting married really put a dab of sunshine in that year.  He really was my strength through the whole ordeal and I feel so lucky and blessed to have found him.  Although we've lived together for 5 years and also have a 4 year old Princess Diva together.  We still feel like we are in the honeymoon phase. I hope that it always stays that way in our many years to come together.  Thank you baby, love you!

Enough of the mushy stuff.  I was lagging on card making for some reason, must have been my over zealous 4th of July, but I did manage to make him a picture frame.  Of course I got the idea from Pinterest and I absolutely loved it.  I think I did a pretty good job.

I got a plain wood frame and organized black and white pictures around the frame.  I used an exacto knife to cut off any edges and I used mod podge to keep the pictures in place.  Then I put mod podge over the pictures for a finish.  This picture probably doesn't do it justice, but check out other samples on my Pinterest.

I also made him some profiteroles.  He loves them and I took a recipe off of foodnetwork.com.  I love Emeril and Paula!  I think they came out a little flat and  I think I'll try a cream puff recipe next time.  Not sure what the difference is between the two, but I'll find out soon enough I guess : )  They tasted awesome though!