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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24. May 2010 by admin.

For Teacher appreciation at our school we don’t do teacher appreciation but rather staff appreciation because it takes everyone to make our school a school family like it is.  So I whipped up these little baskets of goodies for the educati0n assistants in my room.  It’s a little ceramic dish with lotion and hand sanitizer from Bath & Body, Hershey’s nuggets with labels on them that are the same as the tag.  Sorry, the photo is a bit dark

Supplies: ribbon-the Paper Studio, twine-PTI, Colorbox chalk lime green ink, StazOn jet black ink, sentiment-studio g, apple-K&Company: Carolyn Gavin greenhouse stamps and ink, punch-EK

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24. May 2010 by admin.

I wanted to say thank to the custodians who take care of my classroom and students.  I wanted something simple and masculine, yet springy.  I decided to make this card for each of them.  I stamped the screwdriver image first and then came back and stamped the lines.  Then I added the sentiment from PTI’s fillable frames set #1. 

Supplies: PTI fillable frames #1, Close to my Heart Tool Time, Colorbox Chalk Ocean Breeze Paint Box, white cs

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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.

Posted in Craft Smart, Great Impressions, Stamp Craft, We R Memory Keepers, freezer paper projects, altered project, baby, ColorBox ink, imaginisce | No Comments »

6. March 2010 by admin.

Ok, so I have seen Dawn McVey build these flowers from paper punches and have been wanting to try them for months.  I finally tried it out and I had so much fun making the yellow one that I decided to make 5 more in different colors.  I am always in need of birthday cards and thought it would be nice to have some on hand when I don’t have time to make them.  I think I might make up a bunch of the flowers to have on hand to make card making go a bit faster too.  These would be perfect to make while watching Greys Anatomy

This is the first one I made.  I used my EK success punches 1 3/4, 1 1/2, 1 1/4 and 1″ circle punches.  I inked the edges in a darker shade of yellow and then crumpled them up and unfolded them.  I glued the circles together and added a button with PTI twine for the center.  The border punch is Martha Stewart and the leaves are Stampendous - Sunny Flowers that I stamped and cut out.  Sentiment is TCP Studio-Greetings.

Here’s a close up of the flower.  Makes me think of spring!

Here’s another set of cards I made to have on hand.  I needed three and didn’t have much time so I made about 10 of these since they were quick and I really liked how they turned out.  I used box of dots by Hero Arts and the sentiment is the same as above.

Here’s some masculine birthday cards I made to keep on hand.  I gave one to my 15 year old cousin and one to a co-worker.  Again clean and simple and very happy with the look.  I used Hero arts- snippets and the sentiment is also Hero arts- for him.

Here’s a card I made for my cousin’s daughter.  The sketch was from the pink elephant challenge from last week.  Image is imaginisce and paper was in my stash.  Rhinestone from Queen and company.

Well that’s all for now.  What did you think?  I’d love to read your comments.  Thanks for looking and enjoy your Saturday!

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6. March 2010 by admin.

I made this card for our PTA.  Every year they hold a book fair at conferences and then they buy us books of our choice for our classrooms.  I made a second one for one of my students and his family because they bought several of the books on my wish list.  It’s such a great program and I like to let them know every year how much I appreciate all of their hard work.  I was on Nichole’s blog from PTI and she had done a card like this with one of their new February releases found here http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c64e753ef012877865fed970c-pi.  This made me remember a stamp set I have from inkadinkado called circle and dots and a card that I had made similar to hers last year. The one I made here http://wheredoesstacystimego.com/category/congratulations/ used a variety of colors so I decided to try using monochromatic colors like Nichole did.  When I was looking through my ink pad drawer I found a ColorBox chalk cat’s eye set in the colors used below.  Then I found that I had matching paper so I went with it.  I like how the paper turned out.  I stamped an entire sheet of white cs in this print and then cut the size I needed for the two cards.  It’s hard to see but the background paper is a burgundy that matches the big circle image.  I used solid black ribbon from Offray and two staples to finish it.  The thank you sentiment is from TCP Studio Greetings (found at HL).  I will definitely be doing more of these in monochromatic colors!  I’ve been watching the girls at PTI do it for years and have never tried it until now.  Thanks PTI crew!  I’m sure you are all familiar with Papertrey Ink, but if you are now you have to check out the website and Nichole’s blog.  Whenever I need some inspiration I go straight to her blog.

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6. March 2010 by admin.

Here are some white lunch bags I stamped on and filled with goodies for my boys. The monster is from My Little Monsters from Recollections.  The hearts are from Bo Bunny Love birds.  Do you see that vase on the left?  My oldest made that at school for me!  So sweet and it’s made using a recycled glass bottle!

I just love this stamp set.  These little monsters are so fun! These containers are a mini version of large ones that my mom, brother, sister and I have.  We use them during the holidays to hold all our baked goods.  I thought these would be fun to have to either fill with candies or when they just want to bring a few cookies along to someone’s house.  They hold more than you would think .  There’s two trays and each tray held 10 cookies!  I was very surprised by this.  These are filled with monster cookies which is their favorite cookie that I make :)  I re-used the twine from the original tag that was on each container.  I used the largest tag in the Sizzix scallop tag combo set 2.  The little hearts were done with the love birds set mentioned above and colorbox chalk dark brown.  Then I wrote 2 little monsters love u!

Here’s a closer look at the tag on a different container.

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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

Posted in Nestablilities, ColorBox ink, Creative Memories, Sizzix, Epic 6, the Paper Studio, recycled, feel better soon, American Crafts, studio g, altered project, Papertrey ink | No Comments »

6. March 2010 by admin.

Wow, I can’t believe it’s March already.  I feel as though I blinked the last two months away.  While I haven’t been blogging I have been busy crafting.  I will start uploading everything this morning.  Here are some sympathy cards that I made.  The brown poke dot paper was from my scraps box, brown cs is from HL, twine and button are Papertrey Ink, with sympathy stamp is Kolette Hall for Studio G, cattails and dragonflies stamp by  Stampabilities and ink is chestnut roan colorbox chalk..

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