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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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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30. June 2010 by admin.

My cousin is getting married in October.  With all the details that go into planning a wedding I thought she could use a mini notebook to hold all of her to do’s in.  She is having a rainbow wedding and said that her favorite color is purple.  It;s hard to see in the picture but the scallop is punched from purple cs and the button is also purple.

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30. June 2010 by admin.

Here’s a little basket I made a filled with Hershey’s nuggets.  My cousins fiance broke his ankle playing baseball a while back and I had whipped this up for him.

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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.

We celebrated my boys’ birthdays a few weekends back.  Tanner got several Buzz Lightyear toys and was very excited about them.  Since is birthday was after the big family celebration he wanted cupcakes that were like Buzz Lightyear.  Not owning any (or knowing that they were out there because I just saw some last week) I pulled out my Technique Tuesday Rocket Man set.  I showed him the little alien guy and he loved it!  We baked up some vanilla cupcakes and whipped up a batch of icing and created this little guys.  I didn’t mix the blue food coloring in all the way so that it would have that galaxy feeling and then we sprinkled Wiltons’ White Sparkling Sugar sprinkles and blue sprinkles on to for added affect.  I stamped the image in StazOn jet black ink and then colored it in with markers, then punch them out with my circle punch.  Next I put Scor-Tape on the inside of two circle punches and sandwiched a toothpick in between them.  Then we stuck them into the cupcake and brought them to school for snack on his birthday.  I am so happy with how they turned out as was the birthday boy :)  These little toothpick cupcake toppers are so fast and easy to make too.  I have done them for several years now. 

Here’s a little close up of the cupcakes.

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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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7. January 2010 by admin.

This is the package I made for my sister-in-law’s birthday.  I have used up all of my birthday papers and am using only this brown craft paper.  I love being able to create the design of the paper.  I also figure that when this is gone I can start using brown paper bags from the store as another way to recycle them. 

Sorry these images are small and that the red one is sideways.  My camera settings were switched to low quality for a post we put on Craig’s List…and they weren’t put back!  So I have almost 300 pictures of poor quality…so bummed.  Any way, the first one is a package I decorated for my nephew’s birthday.  The second one is a card for a co-worker.  I made one with this same image for my mom but didn’t get a picture of it :(  I colored the image in with a Copic…just starting buying these and all I can say is WOW…what a marker.

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11. November 2009 by admin.

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