Monster Love

With Valentine's Day coming up, Daycare asked that Jacob bring in 10 valentines to pass out to the other kids during the party on Monday. Instead of buying the boxed valentines from the store, I wanted to make them homemade so he could help. So I searched the web for some boyish ideas and printed a few out. We gave the final decision to Jacob to pick which one he liked the best. Thanks to Disney Family Fun website, Jacob loves his Monster Inc. inspired valentines that he will pass out to all his friends.

I used the Cricut to cut 5.5" hearts for the body, 1.5" hearts for the hands and feet. Punched holes in all pieces. I cut 24" pieces of yarn and tied at knot at the ends. I threaded yarn through the arm hole with a loop, went across the back and came back through the foot hole then looped it again. We used 40mm googily eyes from Hobby Lobby and adhered them to the center then used a Sharpie to draw the mouth and eyelashes. We wrote "Eye" themed sayings on tiny squares and stuck them to one of the hands. 

Project cost: approx $7.00  :)

I prefer baseball...

Not a huge SuperBowl fan but I am a SUPER big fan of scrapbooking.

My sis and I put together our 14th All-Day Crop for ScrapHappy on Jan 15, 2011. At each event, we try to teach some sort of new scrapbook project or technique for the scrappers to use in their own layouts. Our technique for January was making a layout using a mosaic design. Karla had mastered this technique after making about 3 layouts in this style. I on the other hand, had NEVER done it, so it was as new for me as many of the other ladies who attended.

Even though these two pages are all I worked on that day, I am very happy with the way they turned out and thought I would share them with you. Hope you will try it as well! Enjoy :)