So Easy It Hurts

This is one of those projects that you feel guilty even doing it because it is SO EASY...I have these cute ribbons and ric rac and knew once I accumulated more they would get unorganized. So in Cricut Design Studio I made a spool shape with Accent Essential Cartridge. I used a square and 2 circles which I made into an oval. Gotta love the DS. I then cut them out on some cute October Afternoon paper and glued the 2 sides together. Then because I don't trust adhesives I sewed the edges. Which makes it super cute anyway. Hope you enjoy and try yourself. Oh yeah, and I stopped the cricut because there were these funny little holes that it was going to cut in all the spools. I didn't notice it until it was cutting them and if I had changed it then it wouldn't have been "So Easy It Hurts."

Sour Cream Packets

These are too cute...however I did have ongoing adhesion problems on this one. If anyone knows what will hold these together please let me know. There are some good tutorials on these but basically you cut out a rectangle. I think I used 3 by 5 or so and you make a tube shape with the short ends together. Then flatten one end and adhere. Fill your pocket and on the opposite and you fold it perpendicular to the other end. I sewed the ends shut and as you can see the first part you glue(the tube) even popped open, but there is no way to sew that secion.
I also just used regular printer paper for this one because scrapbooking paper is just too thick for my adhesive. Plus they are just going to get ripped into. So here is what I did to get the pattern on regular paper. I scanned my cute paper and just printed my scanned paper so it took up the whole page. I suppose if you wanted to you could also just copy the paper as well, but I like having it saved on my computer before I cut into it incase I need it for future use.

Quick and Easy Birthday Banner

Tools used...cricut gypsy, expression, mother's day cartridge, 3-12 by 12 sheets of cute paper. I made a template on my gypsy using the pennent cut on the mother's day cart. I placed the letters inside the pennents and cut them out with cardstock. Then I cut just the pennent shape out in the patterned paper without the letters.
I have to admit I haven't found an adhesive I am in love with yet.(But my ATG gun is on the way) I'll let you know what I think. That is the long way of telling you I sewed them together because whatever adhesives I have I don't like. I used a zigzag stitch I liked and ran it around the edges. If you didn't have the Mothers Day cart. you could always just use a triangle shape from another one and place little circles in the corners of the triangle for hanging.
That is it..I strung them on my yarn and there they hang on my rustic mantle with my Christmas Decorations still up. We don't have basement steps yet inside our house, but we do have a big hole in our closet to our basement. So I am not taking down my decorations until the steps have been completed...but I digress.
I made the banner for my mother's birthday but I do believe it will stay up until my husbands as well.