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.

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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2. June 2010 by admin.

Yesterday my baby sister had her first child.  Her and her husband were blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby boy.  We drove up to see them yesterday and here are a few of the many pictures I snapped of him.  Look at all that hair!

Here is the card and onesie I altered for him. 

I couldn’t resist this blowfish…isn’t it just adorable!  He is going to look so cute in it

Here it is packaged up with some ribbon, twine and a tag.

Supplies: card: blue, brown and off white cs-Hobby Lobby, printed paper -imaginisce/baby powder-king of the crib, onesie image-studio g/katie & co.

onesie: onseise, blowfish-imaginisce/ snag em’, ColorBox Chalk inks-chestnut roan and lime green

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24. May 2010 by admin.

Two teachers at my school had babies and there was a combined shower for them.  They both had girls so I decided to make the same gift for both of them.  Here is a picture of the whole package…sorry the photos are dark again.  We had several weeks of cloudy skies and rain.  I stamped the bunny image onto a onesie with ColorBox chalk rouge ink and then heat seat it.  I just love this image.  The set has other cute images too.  It’s a shame I had to get it in Omaha because out Michaels does not have a very big collection of stamps.  They are just started to re do it and it’s about time!  The first time I saw this set was when we were at the Sioux City, Iowa Michaels….which has a huge collection of stamps.  I bought the boy set because it’s mostly boys in our families.  But then I continued to think about this girl set and really wanted it.  We took the boys to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo for Gaven’s birthday and I was able to swing in to one of the Michaels and pick this set up!  I am so happy I did…isn’t it just the cutest image Then I stamped some labels and wrapped them around the nuggets.  I stamped the pink image several times on white cs, punched it out and then stamped congratulations on it.

Here is a close up of the onesie and chocolates.

Here is a close up of the tag I stamped.

Supplies: twine- PTI, Colorbox chalk rouge ink and StazOn jet black ink, EK punch, clear bag, ribbon was in my stash, onesie, image and sentiment on tag-studio g, bunny image-Sandylion girl clear stamp set

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31. March 2010 by admin.

My little sister is having her first child in a few months and wanted to decorate some onsies for Baby D (they don’t know what they are having).  We spent this Saturday stamping on 10 onsies (which was wonderful because she lives 2 hours away so we don’t see each other as often as I’d like to).  It was a lot of fun and they turned out great!

Supplies: Great Impressions- D341 (monkey), E352 (mouse on tube), imaginisce snag’ems- giraffe, frog, panda, bird, hippo, Craft smart- bunny, Stamp Craft- teddy bear, We R Memory Keepers- hippity hoppity- buzzz.  Other: onsies, iron, freezer paper, ColorBox Chalks ink pads.

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6. March 2010 by admin.

My aunt had surgery and this was a little treat we brought her.  I re-used a peanut butter jar and filled it with mini candy bars.  The dot paper was in my scrap box (I know it came from HL…thinks it’s paper studio).  The button is paper studio and twine is PTI. The scallop circle was done with Nestabilities large scalloped circles.  The ovals were done with Creative Memories oval cutter.  Image is American Crafts clear stamps sentiments.  I stamped the image twice.

A friend of mine had her daughter in the hospital for several days as they were trying to figure out was making her so sick.  This is a little care package I made for her.  It’s filled with a variety of her favorite chocolates.  The tin I re-used, it once had chocolate pretzel balls in it.  Paper is all the same from the above project.  Stamp is from Inkadinkado. Felt flower, brad and ribbon in stash.  Nestabilities large scalloped squares.  The cream tag was done with Sizzix tags, scallop combo #2.

The card was tucked inside the box, I used up scraps for this too.  The stamp  is Kolette Hall got Studio G. 

Thanks for looking.  I hope your weather is better than ours.  We have ran which is freezing can causing accidents all around town.  Maybe it will help melt the snow as we warm up today!  I don’t know about you but I am ready for spring and green grass to play in

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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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13. October 2009 by admin.

Here is a gift bag and notebook that I altered for my niece for her birthday.  I also made this little 3×3 card.  The bag is a lunch bag that I cut down with my cutterpede scallop edged blade.  I also stamped the tissue paper with ColorBox chalk rouge ink and the castle stamp.  The images are all by imaginisce- fairest of them all collection-carriage, crown and castle.  I used Stazon jet black ink.  The little images on the altered notebook along with the letters are from EK Success- DSP001 Princess ABC (Disney).  Ribbon is from the Paper Studio.  Rhinestones are by Queen & Co.

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1. October 2009 by admin.

So I worked on these little gifts until midnight.  I had fun with them.  There is one more project I want to do but my creative flow was slowing down.  Maybe tonight I will get to it!  The first one up is for my little sister.  She is in town today for work and I will see her tonight for Girls’ Night Out…love these nights and they only come around once a month.  Anyway, this project is over at Stamps and Smiles for project Tuesday http://sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com/.  I used pp from the Paper Studio (currently at HL), solid paper is from the paper pack Trick or Treat by The paper company.  Black grosgrain ribbon was in my stash and the BOO! ribbon I just picked up at HL and it says Halloween crafts on it and is made by HL????  The ghosts and goblins stamp is by katie & co. for studio g.  The jar is filled with graham cracker crumbs, ghost peeps and Halloween colored m&m’s.  The baking directions are glued onto the bottom of the jar as I did not want a tag hanging from the jar.  Make sure to head over t Project Tuesday for all the directions on this fun little number.

Up next is a little comfort cup for my principal.  SHe was out sick yesterday and I thought she could use a little cheering up.  The cup is from The Dollar Tree.  I filled it with travel Kleenex, hand sanitizer, chapstick, a little chocolate and some honey vanilla chamomile tea.  The card is 3×3.  The images are all from Papertrey Ink, on my couch set.  The ribbon was in my stash (I know it came from the $1 bins at Michael’s awhile ago).  The button is from bag o’ buttons from the paper studio.  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Thursday.  It looks like it’s going to be wet and cold here today.

Stacy

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27. September 2009 by admin.

Here’s a little something I whipped up yesterday for my cousin.  She just had a baby boy on Thursday and I wanted to bring something up to the hospital with us.  I stamped the frog onto a large mailing label and cut on the inside line.  Then I peeled it off and stuck it onto the prewashed onsie.  Next I sponged on lime pastel ink.  I let it dry for a few minutes before peeling the label off.  Then I stamped the frog in blue iris and stamped in over the green frog.  I left it to dry while I created the bag and card.  Then I threw it into the dryer on heavy high for over 30 minutes to heat set the ink, which makes it permanent.  Next, I ran my embossing gun over the image to to ensure that the ink was set.  The bag came from Wal-Mart in their gift section.  I cut about 3 1/2 inches off of the top using my deckle cutterpede blade.  The tag I sponged with lime pastel ink, then stamped the sentiment in blue iris.  I used my tag maker for this.  The ribbon came form my local scrapbook store.  The card is 3×3.  I used the wax paper from the label as a mask to color the frog and bag the same way as the onsie.  The blue twine is from the local scrapbook store too.  Thanks for looking and let me know what you think.

Supplies:  all stamps are snag’em by imaginisce (frog and birth announcement), all inks are from the ColorBox Petal Point chalk- primary pastel, blue bag from Wal-Mart, onsie, tag and tag maker by making memories, ribbon from local scrapbook store.

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