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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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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8. November 2009 by admin.

Okay, so I have been crafting, just not blogging. Here we go.  Here are all the things I’ve been creating the past few weeks…and we wonder where our time goes ;).  First up Halloween treats.  I believe all images are from inkadinkado (except for the ghost on the peeps jar). 

I used my new Martha Stewart cemetary puch to make this disposible food bowl.

Here’s another disposible food tray I using inkadindado images.

Here are more peeps jars that the boys and I made for family and friends.  We enjoyed our Colombus Day off to make all these.  Sorry that the pics are sideways and that the trird is super small.  I’ve been trying to figure it out, and haven’t yet.

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30. September 2009 by admin.

My hubby and I celebrated 7 years of marriage this week.  Here is the card I made for him.  Our wedding was all around the fall theme…leaves, fall colors (our colors were orange and blue…kind of a navy ).  He even sent flowers to the school for me that were orange and blue :)  Anyway, I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday (SSSc37) http://kgiron.blogspot.com/ for my card.  If you haven’t been to her blog you really must check it out.  I love her sketches.  The cs is from HL and the paper is the Paper studio…can you tell I do a lot of shopping at Hobby Lobby ;).  The leaves are from inkadinkado- 97513 Fall season…got these from Michael’s.  The happy anniversary stamp is jg deni for studio g.  The button and twine are from Papertrey Ink.  I used a fingernail file to sand all the edges of the papers to give it a rougher look and to kind of match the distressed look of the pp.  I also used Colorbox chalk chestnut roan and pumpkin spice. 

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful Wednesday. 

Stacy

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22. September 2009 by admin.

Here is a birthday card that I made for our school librarian.  I took a picture with the chocolate nuggets that I give out with each card.  The bird image is from the set birds galore by inkadinkado.  The ribbon was in my stash.  I think I picked it up from Michaels.  I used colorbox chalk ink.  The bird is lipstick red and the edging is blue iris.

I just stamp the Happy Birthday image on an address label and wrap it around a nugget of chocolate.  Who wouldn’t want to get to pieces of chocolate on their birthday? The birthday stamp is a clear $1 set from Studio g (Kolette Hall series 24).

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19. September 2009 by admin.

Good morning all,

Here is the birthday card I made for my mother-in-law last night.  I have been wanting to use the ESS52 sketch and finally did!  The card also meets the Color Challenge 236 on SCS which are pretty in pink, soft suede and whisper white.  The third challenge is for ssnotime105.  You can only stamp your image in black or brown ink…no color.  I used Colorbox chalk chestnut roan.  THe image is from Inkadinkado- Stamp it, girlfriend.  I used white and pink cs along with the pp that was in my scrap box.  The ribbon is from American crafts.  The brad was also in my stash of goodies.  The inside sentiment is from Printworks-clearly defined.

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