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

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 | 1 Comment »

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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5. October 2009 by admin.

Well, things didn’t go as planned.  I only got one card made yesterday.  It’s a birthday card for a co-worker whose birthday was this weekend.  I had lost my mojo and I think it’s because I have been still using my summer colored papers.  When I was digging in my stash and came across these, I started getting it back!  This sketch was from last weeks 2sketches for you #36.  I am very happy with the way this card turned out.   Thanks for looking.

Supplies:  cs was from a pack that was in my stash…came from Michael’s.  Image is $1.00 set from studio g, pp was in the stash and it’s from We R memory makers- country flowers, twine from Papertrey Ink, button was in my stash, ink is Colorbox petal point alchemy.  I used my 1 3/4 circle punch and 2 5/16 scallop punch.

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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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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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24. September 2009 by admin.

Here’s a little get well package I put together for one of our secretaries.  She has been under the weather since last week.  The mug has some honey vanilla chamomile tea, a mini bottle of hand sanitizer and some cherry harvest Halls defense drops in it.  The card is for CAS33  .  The couch and sentiments are from Papertrey Ink.  I paper pieced the couched.  The twine is from Papertrey Ink.  The cs and pp came from HL.  The pp is made by My Minds Eye, Penny Lane, moving dots.  I used Colorbox chalk charcoal ink.  I would have liked to do more with the card but ran out time yesterday morning…had to get to work.  Thanks for looking and have a great Thursday.

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13. August 2009 by admin.

Sunday was my dad’s birthday and I made him some of his favorite candy. I created the boxes for his sweet treats to go in. I created the printed paper by stamping the circle print in alternating colors of blue and gray. Then I came back and added color with a dot stamp in orange and red. I scored my kraft paper after decorated. Then I centered my oval cutter in the middle of the lid and made the window. I cut a larger oval out of transparency paper and adhered that to the inside, creating this window. The small box utilizes an entire sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper and the large box uses a whole 12×12 sheet. I wrapped them with twine and added a button (both from Papertrey ink). I hand wrote enjoy on the blue oval and used a glue dot to attach it to the box. My dad liked the boxes… because of what was inside them, of course

I also made him a matching card. What do you think? Thanks for looking and have a wonderful Wednesday

Materials Used:

8.5×11 kraft cs, 12×12 kraft cs, Daisy buckets- bubble stamp, ki memories- baby time stamp (little dot), we r memory keepers mvp opaque ink pads #41150-5(they are a set of four), twine from Papertrey ink, vintage button- Papertrey ink, printworks clearly defined- Q002 great birthday

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