30. July 2010 by admin.

My brother-in-law is celebrating his birthday today.  We tend to exchange money between all of us siblings.  I decided to make one of these envelope gift bags that I saw here.  They are so much fun!  Gen shows you how to reuse your junk mail envelopes by covering them with printed paper.  She shows you what to do so make sure you hop over and take a look.  I decided to keep it clean and simple and I used for sentiments for PTI’s mega mixed messages set.  I was looking around on eighteen 25 when they had this post about a Holiday bake, craft and sew along.  So I went to the three blogs listed when I saw these subway signs which are super fun.  This is my take on the subway sign but on a gift bag.  I think the next time I do this I would add some color and birthday related images like presents and candles, maybe even just some dots.  I punched a circle from black cs and put a black brad in the center for interest.  By adding the circle it made it easier to see where the envelope was divided.

Here is a look inside the envelope bag.  I used a black paperclip to attach the tag and money to a package of gum.

Supplies: regular white envelope, Stazon Jet black ink, PTI-mega mixed messages, black cs, 1 1/4 circle punch, black brad, adhesive

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29. July 2010 by admin.

Our nephew celebrated his 5th birthday yesterday.  I zipped up this drawstring bag for him.  Inside of it are two boxes of Kinex vehicles and an outfit.  I love making these bags because they can use them for other stuff or they can reuse it for someone else’s birthday.  We try to be a little greener each day and this is one of my newest ways.  The bags are simple to make and take no time at all to sew up.  If you haven’t made one…give it a try.  If you do make one I would love for you to leave me a link so I can see your project.  If anyone needs step by step pictures and instructions just leave a note in the comments section and I can make a post on it.

Supplies: 1/2 yard fabric, black thread, rope, black floss, tag die cut (Sissix), circle punch, sentiment-PTI, balloons image-Dollar Tree, mini attacher-Tim Holtz

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!  The boys wrap up swimming lessons tomorrow and next week is my last full week of summer before having to go back to work :(  Summer seems to go by faster than the school year does.  Well enjoy and I should have another post for you tomorrow

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29. July 2010 by admin.

I made this frame to hang in Brayden’s room.  I love to make my own gifts for people.  I love seeing the look of joy on their face as they open it.  I pp for the background (same pp paper as on the card shown below).  Then I cut a mat out of dark blue cs and then cut white cs in a 3.5×5 size.  The middle rectangle is for a picture of Brayden and then the bottom rectangle is for his footprints.  I just stamped a footprint image on the cs to show what is to go there. 

This is the card I made for Brayden.  Inside is a nice little saying about baptism.  I just googled baptism sayings and baptism quotes and found several I liked.  That is also where the saying in the frame came from.

Here’s the tag I made.  I wraped the frame in white tissue paper and wrapped blue button twine around it twice and then tied the tag to it.  I also had a book tucked under the tag but forgot to take a picture of it :(  I believe the title was The Thank You Prayer.  I stamped the cross image on a large mailing address label (on the left side of the label).  Then I wrote on it saying that it was for his special Baptism day and love all of us.  I have always written on the inside of the books when I give them as gifts.  Lately I have been making label.  I will have a post on those soon.

Supplies: white and blue cs, circle punch, button twine, frame (from Target), baby feet image-Hero Arts, cross image-D-2514 PSX, ColorBox inks, printed Baptism paper-Moxie-Faith-Baptism

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16. July 2010 by admin.

So I was going through photos on my phone and came across these.  I thought I’d share the tag and card I made for my dad’s gift.  We went in on a raised garden bed for my dad with my sister and her family.  He wants to grow strawberries so that’s why I made the strawberry tag and altered the container of strawberries.

For the jar of strawberries on the gift tag I stamped the jar onto transparency paper and then cut it out.  Then I stamped the jar onto white cs and cut it out.   Next I used the mask from the white cs and put the jar back in it.  I then stamped the strawberries in black ink and colored them in my Copics.  I used Aileene’s clear tacky glue to glue the transparency jar to the cs jar.  I love the way it turned out!  I also made that label cover for the carton of strawberries we bought to go with the raised garden bed.  I wrote on both tags and stamped the 5 on the jar tag.  Thanks for looking and have a great Friday!  Stacy

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