It's back-to-school in BC this week and I'm feeling for all of my teacher friends and colleagues during this uncertain time. Our nephew is starting kindergarten this fall so I wanted to make him a special card to go along with the book we got him - The Pigeon HAS to go to School by Mo Williams (read this book - it's hilarious!). 

I was asked to make a custom baby card for some Green Bay Packers fans. Luckily, this happens to be my husband's favourite team so I know a little bit about them! I used my Cricut to cut out a football and a piece of cheese and then had a random baby onesie die in my collection. I was able to cut out all of these from paper scraps in my collection.

A banner for Baby Charles for his Sip & See. These beautiful eucalyptus sprigs from The Greetery were my go-to for this special banner. With a colour palette of white, gold, and green, I was able to cut out some letters in gold foil using my Cricut Explore Air 2 and mount them on a wreath of eucalyptus set on white pennants from Martha Stewart. The delicious spread was created by Brindley & Barclay. These colours proved very tricky to photograph in order to obtain the look in real life. I had just enough sprigs leftover to create a little tag for the basket of Canadian made baby clothing!

I am SO EXCITED to show off some plantable invitations! Someone in the family asked me to make some wedding shower invitations for their daughter and I couldn't wait to try them out using this paper and my Cricut. I found some awesome calligraphy pens to use in the Cricut and set to work creating a simple design with these beautiful plumeria flowers from an older Hawaiian Close To My Heart set. I am loving this plantable paper! You can see video of my planting experience with this paper on my Instagram highlights. This picture shows the wildflower seedlings that have popped up from me planting a Mother's Day card embedded with wildflower seeds! I am linking up to the Heart2Heart challenge to "get your craft on" because I certainly felt that way with this project!

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|| Day 22: Proud of || I am proud of challenging myself to join #MarchMeetTheMaker with @joannehawker this month ♥️. Many positive things have come from it! For example, earlier this month on Day 11 when talking about #reducingwaste I mentioned that I was interested in #madeincanada #plantablepaper 🌸. Although I had looked before and came up empty-handed I decided to look again and came across @botanicalpaperworks out of Winnipeg, Manitoba! I got my hands on some and am so excited to play around with it. This then led me to finally setup my @officialcricut Cricut Explore Air 2, which I have been very intimidated to try; however, I was pleasantly surprised at how user-friendly it was and have already made a few projects with it - like this tag! Stay tuned to see more wooden tags like this one cut from cherry 🍒 tree prunings out of my family’s orchard 🌳 #heytheremaker #papercrafting #ecofriendly

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