A little change in my schedule . . .

After five years of being at home with my children, I am delighted to have found a job with our local school district as a substitute school bus driver—Yes!  After taking the necessary training, I obtained my Class B Commercial Drivers License, with proper endorsements, and the CHP Special Drivers Certificate earlier this month---whew!   It’s a part-time position in the afternoons, so I am still able to get my youngest children off to school, get some chores done around the house before clocking into work, and so far, it hasn’t gotten in the way of my creation time, either. 

Here’s a look at some projects I’ve made this month using hybrid supplies from jessicasprague.com.

Always Card Supplies--(jessicasprague.com)

Everafter Paper Pack & Everafter Elements by Cosmo Cricket

Other supplies used:  Cricut Paper Lace and Lacy Labels cartridges; Tim Holtz embossing folder; embroidery floss with sewing machine.

I Love . . . Forever and Always Layout Supplies (jessicasprague.com)

Design 365 Journaling 1 by Carina Gardner
Artisan Labels #2 by Creativity by Crystal
EZ-PZ Template 6--Fotocentric No.1 by liv.e.designs
Decorative Circles by Splendid Fiins

Other supplies used:  Cuttlebug/Victoria Cuttlebug embossing folder; Cricut/Plantin Schoolbook and Graphically Speaking cartridges; embroidery floss/buttons; pop dots.

iPhone Cozy supplies--jessicasprague.com

(iPhone Cozy Tutorial located at Dog Named Banjo--iPod tutorial)

Design 365 Color Kit 2 & Design 365 Journaling 2 by Carina Gardner
lovely little photo frames by Splendid Fiins

Other Supplies Used:  Fabric Stick, felt, white cotton fabric, button, thread/sewing machine, Velcro.

Camera Strap Makeover Supplies--jessicasprague.com

(Camera strap tutorial located at Make it and Love It)

Material Girl Paper Pack by Cosmo Cricket.

Other Supplies Used:  Fabric stick, black cotton fabric, fusible fleece, black thread, and sewing machine.

Also, don’t forget:  Registration for the NEW hybrid Heidi Swapp/Jessica Sprague class MOUSE, PAPER, SCISSORS is OPEN!

This BETA Class is 20% off!

Happy Hybrid!

That Boo! Time of Year

Lots of Boo! seasonal goodies at jessicasprague.com  I couldn’t wait to get my hands on them.  Here are a couple of project pictures utilizing the goodies of the season—I plan to do more.  These projects are so much fun and the kiddies love to get involved, too.

Haunted Candy Basket Supplies

Haunted Paper Pack and Haunted Candy Candy by Cosmo Cricket at jessicasprague.com

Other Supplies:  wooden basket or crate from thrift store, buttons, embroidery thread, and adhesive.

Happy Halloween Door Greeting

Haunted Paper Pack and Haunted Candy Candy by Cosmo Cricket at jessicasprague.com.

Jeepers Accent Pack and Jeepers Paper Pack by The Queen of Quirk at jessicasprague.com.

Other Supplies:  Sign found at thrift store and then covered with Cosmo Cricket (mentioned above), Basic Grey bookplates, Prima Flowers, sequins, Cricut shapes using Cindy Loo and Plantin SchoolBook, Twine, HS Bling, and adhesive.

How are your Boo! projects coming along this year?  We’re having a blast with ours and we cannot wait for the pumpkin patch trip.

April Provo Craft Projects

Hello, all! Hope you've been enjoying your area's springtime weather. It's been a little chilly here this week, which I enjoy, but I think the kids want it a bit warmer. This month's Provo Craft assignment was to use the Home Decor Solutions Cricut cartridge. I made a stacked box set, some framed art, and a card. The stacked box set and frame were found locally in a second-hand store. The stacked box set was originally decorated with a Christmas theme. I used a 2-inch square from Plantin SchoolBook Cricut cartridge with my Cricut Expression set on autofill mode, and cut out several pages of squares, so that I could decoupage the squares over the Christmas theme. Then I used wordart from the Home Decor cartridge with shadow and blackout to decorate each box. I really like the look and feel of this wordart--something I think is appealing to everyone's eye. Now onto the framed art--Because the frame had a metallic edge to it, I chose to use some foil cardstock by American Crafts. This cardstock is really great to use in conjunction with the Cuttlebug and embossing folders. I found a package of it at Michael's--about 30 sheets, three each of 10 metallic colors--great bang for your buck. The inner window of each panel was embossed using orange foil cardstock, embossed using the Paisley embossing folder with Cuttlebug. I then used the Home Decor Cricut cartridge to cut some bugs and wordart, again using the blue, gold, black, and red foil cardstock. I think this would look really great in a boys room, a garden patio, a green house, etc. Those bugs are too cool! For the card, I used Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge and DesignStudio software to weld the scalloped square into a card base. Then used Home Decor for the elegantly embellished frame and wordart. That's a picture of Raiden when he was about three days old. It was originally taken using my son's cell phone, so I played with it a little in Photoshop until I liked the way it looked and printed it out for the frame of this card. Hope you like my projects--I sure had fun making them.