My contributions to the bake sale for Project Topeka

For our last fundraiser for Project Topeka I made some chocolate covered Oreos, candy hearts and candy heart pics to put on cupcakes made by a co-worker. I love how the boxes turned out! The little red hearts went on some other cupcakes made by another person who baked over 100 cupcakes. WOW! We also had a chocolate fountain with all kinds of goodies for dipping, but I forgot to ask for permission to include the picture of the lady who ran it, so might be back later with that. Our group made just over $2,000 that will go to local charities who are all in much need of food and other supplies. It's been a very cold and snowy winter! If I forget to say it later, happy Valentine's Day!

Free SVG, PNG and SCUT2 file for the Paws in Hearts Design I made

This is my first attempt at posting a file I made to use with Sure Cuts A Lot to cut out shapes on the Cricut, so here goes....

SCUT2, SVG, PNG, JPG and PDF

ps. Please feel free to grab this design for personal use, but I ask that you not use it on anything you intend to sell without clearing it with me first. I'm really new at all this so probably need some kind of standard disclaimer or something. That will come later I'm sure with the help of some of my awesome fellow crafters. I hope that you can bring blessings to someone who either recently lost a pet, got a new pet or is just plain in love with their pets as my husband and I are (go see their most recent romp in the snow on Katie's blog here.)

Pet sympathy card using my very own SVG cut file!

What's a girl to do when she's got a totally cute stamp set by Clear Dollar Stamps, but not the perfect embellishment to go along with it? Well, she gets on her computer and starts designing her own! I made an awesome svg file using Sure Cuts A Lot 2 and cut it out on my Cricut Expression. I also created cut files for the stamps to save my arthritic fingers from that pain that comes from too much fine detailed cutting with scissors. There are still some adjustments to be made to the cut files matching the stamps, but for now I'll use  the ones that turned out ok. Don't you love the cloud embossing on this card? That has got to be one of my favorite roller/embossing combinations!



This card is currently listed in my Etsy Shop, Eco Chique Boutique along with a bunch of other pet cards. My daughter and I are donating a portion of the proceeds from all the pet cards to our local animal shelter, Helping Hands Humane Society where we have both adopted dogs and cats.