• Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), 30+fantastic papercrafters have come together to create Spring-themed banners.They will then donate these banners to Ellen (CardMonkey), who works as Admissions Coordinator at Pediatric Specialty Care (PSC), www.pediatricspecialty.com.

    PSC is a long-term care facility for special needs children who are medically-fragile and/or technologically-dependent. The babies, children and youths at PSC range in age from birth to 21, and are admitted from all over the country.
    Some are infants, born prematurely and before their lungs have had a chance to mature. Others have serious birth defects,illnesses or injuries from accidents that cause them to need tender loving care in a home-like environment -- many for their lifetimes.

    Our banners are meant to cheer the young patients, their families, and the staff at PSC. Here is the banner that I made and will be sending to Ellen to decorate a child's room:


For my banner I FINALLY decided on which rabbit I wanted to use. It was an adorable one on the Nursery Tails Imagine Cartridge. Then I decided to use all 5 of the animal icons on this cartridge. I wanted to make a flower or a rosette for the animals to go on. I finally decided on one on the Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge. I like how it almost makes it look like a flower.

For my papers, I knew I would need 2 full pages per rosette and I wasn't sure if I had 10 pieces of paper that coordinated well together and fit with the animals. So I decide to print my own paper with the imagine using the Nursery Tails cartridge and then I used my gypsy to cut out the rosettes. They were super easy to fold and went together easily. You will need to cut out the rosette 6 times and glue the ends together. Then I used hot glue to hold the rosette together and glued on the animals.


Supplies:
Cricut Imagine
Gypsy
Cricut Expression
Nursery Tails Cartridge
3 N 1 glue
hot glue gun and sticks
white ribbon
white cardstock
circle punch








  • We DO have a tasty bit of blog candy to thank you for visiting us today! What's the prize??!

    How about a beautiful handmade (courtesy of our Blog Hop Hostess, CardMonkey!) Cricut Cozy Covers?! Each one is individually styled in your pick of colors and embroidered words! These are RARE because CardMonkey does not make them for sale and she usually sticks to paper, not sewing!!

    To qualify, there are two steps: 1. Comment on as many Bunny & Blossoms Blog Hop blogs as you wish -- the more blogs on which you comment, the more chances you have to win. There will only be one winner, picked at random by Random.Org.

    2. Follow and comment on the CardMonkey blog ... Leave a comment on our Hop Hostess's site (http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com) and let her know if your name is picked, what 2 accent colors you'd like on your Cricut Cozy Cover, and what text you'd like embroidered (up to 3 lines). You MUST be a follower of the CardMonkey blog to win and you MUST leave a way for her to contact you if your name is picked.

I also have some blog candy of my own, just leave a comment below by Saturday March 31st to enter to win a $5.00 gift certificate to Amazon. One winner will be chosen using Random.org


So now .... onto your next stop on the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop

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