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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30. June 2010 by admin.

I’m always looking for ways to be greener.  When our cousin’s sons birthday party was coming up, they said he was really into Legos.  It seems like you buy this huge box with only about a 1/4 being used to house the Legos.  Then over time the box breaks down and Legos are falling out everywhere.  I decided to pull out the sewing machine and stitch up this drawstring bag (that I learned how to make in middle school)for the Legos.  I put the box of Legos inside the bag (not knowing if he had this set already) and used the bag as the gift wrap and then explained that the Legos could be stored in there once opened, making it easier to take them with him to a friends’ house and such.  Next I whipped up a simple boy looking tag for the bag.  Both the Legos and the bag were a hit!

Supplies:  fabric and cording from Wal-Mart, sentiment: PTI Enjoy the Ride, Sizzix: tags, scallop combo #2, EK Success: 1 3/4 circle punch, thread and staples

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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.

My sister-in-law graduated from high school yesterday.  My mother called me up and asked to make a card basket for her open house.  Here’s what I came up with.  I was so happy to have the car image from PTI because I think it turned out super cute.  I love you the rhinestones turned out on the head lights too.  There is a close up of the tag after this picture.

Supplies: PTI Enjoy the Ride set and die cut, StazOn jet black and pumpkin ink, the black ribbon was in my stash, the orange ribbon and rickrack came from  R Scrapbook store, white and black cs, American Crafts Sentiments set, Queen &Co. clear rhinestones, black circle clip in stash, Target-black fabric basket

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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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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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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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10. October 2009 by admin.

Here is a card I made for my co-worker in my classroom.  Her birthday was on Wednesday.  I used 2sketches for you 36  http://www.2sketches4you.blogspot.com/   Stamps and Smiles project Tuesday     http://sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com/ .  I love how this little gift card holder turned out.  This is the first time I’ve made this style of card holder, and boy was it fast and easy! 

Supplies:  button from Bag O’ Buttons by the Paper Studio, twine from Papertrey Ink, ribbon , birthday wishes stamp from Hero Arts- Birthday Messages, EK Success 1 1/4 inch circle punch, the paper studio 1 7/16″ scallop punch, cs from HL, pp from HL made by My Mind’s Eye  Bloom & Grow (checkered paper is Checking out, floral pp is Spring in Bloom), ink is ColorBox chalk- Olive Pastel.  Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment.  Have a great Saturday…we have snow on the ground here :) 

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