It's time for another...

You might remember a couple of weeks ago when we announced that we'd be occasionally showing off what some of our talented designers have been working on right here at Oh My Crafts. Hopefully all you teachers and students are getting settled back into a new school year. Take a look at Lindsey's assortment of back to school crafts she created using Imaginisce's Teacher's Pet kit. If you like these and want to ask Lindsey questions, you can e-mail her at lindseyfillmore @ yahoo . com.

Makes all us non-school goers want to pack up a back pack and head to the nearest school house, doesn't it? Crafting for back to school is a blast! Keep in mind that we're STILL having our back to school sale! You can enter code BTS20 for an extra 20% off any order!

Happy crafting!

Some of us are pet people. And if you're one of those people, then have we got some quotes for you. The animal world is a wonderful one, and lasting friendships are often made. So get comfy in your computer chair, and hug your pet a little tighter, because these are sure to fit all your animal-crafting needs.

ANIMALS and PETS

Animals

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. —Robert Brault

Animals are such agreeable friends, they as no questions, they pass no criticisms. —George Eliot

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. —Nora Ephron

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. —Martin Buber

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. —Colette

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. —Robert Brault

Puppies and Dogs

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. —Roger Caras

Money can buy a fine dog....but only love can make him wag his tail.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. —Ben Williams

Dogs are miracles with paws. —attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be —Holbrook Jackson

My little dog, a heartbeat at my feet —Edith Wharton

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. —Franklin P. Jones

Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend. —Corey Ford

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. —Max Eastman

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walking in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. —Sue Murphy

Happiness is a warm puppy. —Charles M. Schulz

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater...suggest that he wear a tail. —Fran Lebowitz

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. —Ogden Nash

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. —Gene Hill

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. —Andy Rooney

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother, and they'll settle for a puppy every time. —Winston Pendelton

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political purposes. —Will Rogers

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. —Margo Kaufman

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. —Rita Rudner

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.

Kittens and Cats

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

Cats don't have owners, they have staff.

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. —Cynthia E. Varnado

The at is, above all things, a dramatist. —Margaret Benson

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way. —Mark Twain

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. —Paul Gray

There is something about the presence of a cat....that seems to take the bite out of being alone. —Louis Camuti

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. —Tay Hohoff

If cats could talk, they wouldn't. —Nan Porter

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? —Karen Brademeyer

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. —James Herriot

Time spent with cats is never wasted. —Sigmund Freud

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. —Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. —Doug Larson

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. —Ellen Perry Berkeley

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause the most inconvenience. —Pam Brown

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. —Jules Champfleury

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. —Mary Bly

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. —Terry Pratchett

Kittens are angels with whiskers.

Birds

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. —Joseph Addison

Have you ever observed a hummingbird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers, a living prismatic gem...it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. —W.H. Hudson

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. —Henry Van Dyke

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. —Loire Hartwould

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. —Chinese Proverb

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. —Emily Dickinson

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. —Aesop

I know why the caged bird sings —Maya Angelou

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. —William Blake

Horses

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. —Winston Churchill

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. —Yiddish Proverb

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. —Winston Churchill

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. —Arabian Proverb

To ride a horse is to ride the sky.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. —Mark Twain

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.

If the world was truly a rational place, men and women would ride sidesaddle. —Rita Mae Brown

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.

In riding a horse we borrow freedom. —Helen Thomson

Feeling down? Saddle up.

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to se the inside of a house. —Maya Patel

To me, horses and freedom are synonymous —Veryl Goodnight

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.

Horses—if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.

He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. —Stephen Leacock

Happy crafting!

Who's ready for school?

You remember what it's like. Starting school up for the first time. It's a big deal!! And then with each new year, there's always a sense of excitement over the brand new scene, friends, and teachers. What better way to document new year anticipation and jitters than through a scrapbook page? We've got some lovely ideas. However, first we'd like to show you the back to school contest winners that we announced on Facebook last week. The lucky winners received the Teacher's Pet scrapbook kit from Imaginisce.

Here's an awesome teacher appreciation gift made by winner Jennifer. She filled it with gift cards, post-its, colored pencils, hand sanitizers and lots of other goodies to help the teachers make it through the school year:

And our next winner, Carol, makes a notebook like this for her granddaughter every year. We're loving the Cuttlebug action throughout the whole thing:

We just love getting great submissions from our fans! Be sure to follow our Facebook page because we are continually announcing fun contests, and they always have a great prize that go with them!

Now, on to our great finds. We're pretty sure you'll love these first-day-of-school scrapbooked memories—because we do!

Here's a darling layout we found from Basic Grey:

Another super-cute layout that we really like is from Scenic Route:

And naturally, we wouldn't leave you without a mountain of Cricut ideas—cute looks we found in the Provo Craft idea gallery. This first one uses the Base Camp cartridge:

And this idea is perfect for school days. It uses Makin' Grade and Going Places:

And finally, here's a page using Base Camp, Going Places, and George:

So there ya have it, crafters! May this new school year be a good one for mom, student and teacher!

Pssst!!! Here's a little P.S. for you—but don't tell anyone! Enter code MM20 for 20% off any order! But it's only good for a little while, so get crackin'!

The hustle and bustle of school time

Can you believe that in another few weeks all the kiddles will be headed back to school with their backpacks in tow? My, has this summer flown by. Hopefully you've had time to cram in all the fun you can handle. If not—there's still a few days left!

But since the bell's so close to ringin', we'd like to start focusing on some A+ crafting projects that'll ease you back into the throws of school. Here's some especially fitting ideas for all you teachers out there. Hats off to you!

Here are a couple of awesome teacher's survival kits. The first one is created with the Cricut's Doodlecharms and Alphalicious cartridges. The second has Doodlecharms, Learning Curve, My Community, A Garden of Words and Base Camp. Whew. Looks like you've got everything you're going to need in these puppies: Click here and here for instructions on the Provo Craft web site.)

We R Memory Keepers has a great way for learnin' those kids their ABC's: (Find more great ideas in their Idea Gallery).

And just so you know, a paperclip isn't a paperclip anymore these days unless it's what? You guessed it: Embellished. These are done Sizzix-style: (Click here to view instructions and browse through more Sizzix project ideas.)

And finally, here's two super-useful ideas from Imaginisce's scrapbook kit: Teacher's Pet. And did you know that right now we're holding a Back to School Contest on Facebook? Yep. Just send in your pictures of your favorite and best-est back to school project for your chance to win the Teacher's Pet kit. Entries go to lana @ ohmycrafts . com, and the victor will be announced sometime tomorrow on Facebook.  Oh—and P.S.: winners might even get published on this here blog. But anywho, back to the Imaginisce projects. And to browse through more great ideas floating around in Imaginisce, click here.

Welp, that's all for today folks. But we've got more up our sleeve. Just you wait. Just you wait. 

Happy crafting!