Easy Gifts - Charger Plates!!

Hello Everyone!  I hope the New Year has been kind to you so far. This is Danita from danitasdesigns.blogspot.com.

This month I would like to share with you an easy gift to warm any little girl's heart. Girl's love to see their names on anything, especially if it's unique and hard to find. I made these two charger plates for the daughter's of my employees for Christmas gifts. They loved them!

These can be made for any event: Birthday, Anniversary, Easter, Valentine's Day and etc.... Just decide what you want to put on the charger, measure the inside circle of the plate, and work within that circle. You can use your Cameo, Cricut or whatever cutter you have. The charger plates can be found at Hobby Lobby, Michaels and a few at Walmart. You can sit them on their dresser, shelf or drill holes in the top of the plate, insert pretty ribbon and hang them on the wall.

You can see more of my charger plates and instructions on my blog: danitasdesigns.blospot.com

This one is for Kemani. She is on a dance team at her school.

This one is for Danai.  I guess you can tell she's a soccer player huh?

Thank you for stopping by!!!

Circle Mania, T-shirt and Calling Card

Hello everyone, it's Danita from danitasdesigns.

This month has and is going to be just crazy for me. I have a crop every weekend up until Thanksgiving and even one after that. Whew!!! There was not much crafty time for me to come up with projects other than what I did for the crops, so I'll share them with you.

I attended a crop last weekend at a friends house where I was able to get 30 card bases ready for Operation Write Home, (OWH) cards for soldiers. This may not sound like much, but those who know me now I never do ANYTHING at crops other than socialize!!!

This weekend I am attending a 3 day crop called Circle Mania. It's a huge semi annual event hosted by Paulette Trent (Scrapalette) in Alpharetta, Ga.  Crafters from all over attend. Provo Craft(the makers of Cricut/Cuttlebug) came last year bearing gifts and is schedule to attend this year as well. They are providing us with lunch on Saturday and bringing a special guest!!!  I can't wait to see who it is!!  We always have a lot of fun and leave with a lot of gifts and crop bags!!!  I will post more pictures throughout the coming weeks. Also, the Maniacs always turn in cards for OWH. Our goal is 1000 cards, so far I have 70 made. Be sure to click on the links to get more information about the events I mentioned above. OWH is great for those you who like to make cards and it serves a great purpose. Check out the link.

Okay, lets start with the calling card. It is a 3"x3" trading card for crafters. It usually has a theme, and you make a card for however many are attending the crop, in this case 50. Here's mine for mania:

I use the Crafty Girl Stamp, scaned it into my Silhouette software (ya, I know, not Cricut) and colored it. Normally I would use my Copics, but this was 50 cards!!! The actual size of the girl is 2.50 inches!!! I also did the Chevron background with my software.

Here's a close up shot.

I put my name on the craft bag and I made my Cuttlebug the new Anna Griffin one! See all the supplies in the bag?? Every little thing was colored in the Silhouette software!!

 

I try to make a gift for each Mania event I attend.  This time I made a charger. It's not clear whether or not this will be a give-away or a hostess gift. So far none of my gifts have made it to give-ways!!!  lol.

 

 

I also made "me" a matching T-shirt with my heat press.

Here's both together

Here's the back of the shirt

Thanks for looking and be sure to check back soon as I will be posting more pictures from Mania and my other upcoming crops.