7. January 2010 by admin.

Well, with wind-chills hitting between 30-40 below we have no school today.  I decided to use this cold day to catch up on my blogging.  I am showing everything that I have done in the past two months.  I am hoping to start getting more regular with this blog…may only be weekly.  There are several posts before this one so take a look.  Some of the images are sideways and not of great quality…sorry for that.  Thanks for looking and stay warm

For Christmas I got the Epic 6 and some Nestabilities and of course I had to play with them ;)  The dog images are Inkadinkado and are attached to some yummy chocolates.  I thought these would be fun to have in my classroom and I could give them to coworkers as needed :)  The other cards are for coworkers birthdays…there are a lot this month!  I unfortunately forgot to snap pics of these before giving them away.  Thankful I text them to my sister almost every time I make them, so you are getting the cell phone pic.

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7. January 2010 by admin.

Here are some things we made for Christmas.  I am so bummed that the pictures are bad because the towel turned out great!  We do something every Christmas for my son’s teachers and this year I decided to have him make his present for them.  I started off with buying flour sack towels.  I washed them and ironed them.  Then I stamped these awesome ornament images from Bo Bunny onto the towel using Colorbox Chalk charcoal.  I then heat set them with my iron.  Then to help Tanner out I stamped the same images again on freezer paper and cut the insides out of them.  I lined them up on the towel and ironed them onto it.  This way as Tanner colored in the ornaments (with Crayola fabric markers) and went out of the lines, it went onto the freezer paper instead of the towel.  Next I peeled off all of the freezer paper and heat set them again according to the box of markers.  I re-ironed the towels and folded them, putting them into these boxes that I made using cs and transparencies.  I tied wide white grosgrain ribbon around them and attached the snowflake tag.  The tag read to: and from: and he wrote his name on each one.  I used the same tags to attached to all the goodie bags he was giving his classmates.  The bags had candy, candy canes, a pencil and a little pad of paper I wiped up.  The pad picture was taken with my cell phone.  I hope you can see it ok.  Thanks for looking

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7. January 2010 by admin.

Here are some cards I made for others.  The first card and envelope was a set I made for my sister.  They were having all their friends over for a Christmas Party and she asked if I would make her some invitations.  The sentiment on the card and envelope are Studio G. She picked the set up at Archiever’s in the Mall Of America when they were there.  The ornament is TCP Studio and the punch is Martha Stewart.  I loved how these turned out.  The Joy To The World card was the hardest card I have made…not for technique or anything but because of the design.  My sister’s friend asked her to ask me if I would make her a set of religious Christmas cards.   I have never done a religious them before and have very few stamps that would fit that.  It took me forever to get my creative juices going on this set and I still am not a fan of it because I was out of my element in creating it.  I hope it was what she wanted.  I hand stamped the cardstock with silver ink and the snowflake from BoBunny.  The sentiment is Great Impressions.  I apologize about the icky pictures.  As I explained in the entry below, my camera settings were switched to low resolution and I didn’t realize it until I had taken most of the pictures I am uploading

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7. January 2010 by admin.

This is the package I made for my sister-in-law’s birthday.  I have used up all of my birthday papers and am using only this brown craft paper.  I love being able to create the design of the paper.  I also figure that when this is gone I can start using brown paper bags from the store as another way to recycle them. 

Sorry these images are small and that the red one is sideways.  My camera settings were switched to low quality for a post we put on Craig’s List…and they weren’t put back!  So I have almost 300 pictures of poor quality…so bummed.  Any way, the first one is a package I decorated for my nephew’s birthday.  The second one is a card for a co-worker.  I made one with this same image for my mom but didn’t get a picture of it :(  I colored the image in with a Copic…just starting buying these and all I can say is WOW…what a marker.

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7. January 2010 by admin.

I made these little pick me up’s for some co-workers.  The first one was a Breast Cancer goodie bag for a teacher that is a survivor.  She always has a smile on her face and a positive attitude.

All images are from Technique Tuesdays Celebrate Life set.  I stamped the ribbon on each page of the post it note pad.  The Hershey nuggets are wrapped in a stamped label.  The bag was a challenge I believe from Stamps and Smiles project Tuesday challenge (a few months ago).  I put all these inside the bag that’s pictured below.  I used Stazon jet back ink and Colorbox chalk rouge.

This was for a teacher who was feeling under the weather.  I stamped the 3×3 envelope in Colorbox chalk rouge with a stamp from the Scrappy Cat alpha antique monogram set.  I stamped the sentiment from Papertrey Ink’s On my Couch set in Stazon jet black.  Then I put a couple of tea bags inside it.

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