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Birthday Treats

2009-09-13T14:24:00.004-05:00

I made these for my daughters class for her birthday treat. I wrapped Reese's PB Cups with pattern paper and crimped the ends. I wrapped a thin strip of solid cardstock around the middle and topped it with a scalloped circle. The cupcake stamp is one from Michael's dollar spot colored with pencils.

Mini pinatas that I made for her Build A Bear party using the new SU Build A Bear stamps.

Cupcake toppers also made for the Build A Bear Party using the SU Build A Bear stamps. I cut them out and glued them to a toothpick.

Thank You Treats

2009-08-05T20:57:00.002-05:00

This is the last week for summer camp for my daughter. I made the ever popular scalloped sandwiches for all of the staff. I am not exactly sure how many workers there are but I made 80 of them which I am sure was plenty. Very cheap thank you gift. I bought 2 bags of chocolate mints at the dollar store along with the basket. I weaved some ribbon that I had through it to cover up leaves that were painted on it. And of course I had the paper, stamps, inks and markers. I printed a thank you note off the computer, cut it with deco scissors and tied it to the basket with ribbon. We took them in this morning and they were a big hit.

Out Of The Box

2009-07-25T17:11:00.004-05:00

I made this for a friend's birthday (I am sure she has gotten it by now so it should be safe to post this). This is kind of an out of the box for me. I don't tend to use these colors very often because I never feel like what I do with them works well. If that makes any sense.

I used some Not Quite Navy(SU) and Bravo Burgundy(SU) with some light cream color cardstock. I sponged around the cream with Close To Cocoa (SU) along with stamping the sentiment. I used burgundy ribbon and round button as well as a green heart button. I can not remember who the papers are by, but I had bought them long ago at Hobby Lobby. I used a black marker to make dots around the circles.

Sorry for the pic quality.

I Created Something Today

2009-07-12T21:08:00.003-05:00

I actually took a couple hours in my craft room today and made these 2 cards that I have been wanting to make for a long time now. These cards were based on designs I saw from Dawn G (sorry I can not remember the last name).

3D card made with the SU scallop punch for the body of the lady bug. 1 inch circle punch for the head. Regular hole punch for the antenna. Pencil eraser and black ink for the dots. The stamped Hello and Friend are from the Michaels $1 bin.

Here is a different view to show the bugs body better.

I love how this card turned out. Again I used the SU scallop punch for the faces. All the black mouths are cut from 1 1/4" circle punches. The white eyes and Elmo's nose are maybe 1/2 inch circles?? I used a flower center from the Walk in my Garden cricut cart set at 1 1/2" I think. The black of the eyes are a regular hole punch. Cookie is also the center of the flower at 2" and cut with a scallop scissor for a 'bite'. Birds nose and Oscars eyebrows were free hand cut. Oscars tongue is the tip of the SU window punch. I think the stamped words are from an SU set called Happy Everything.

Softball Treats

2009-05-19T21:32:00.006-05:00

These are the gifts given out to my daughters softball team tonight. Sorry for the bad color on the pictures. I forgot to put the flash on.

2x2 cards using the team colors of Navy and Pink. The girls play with yellow softballs (not white like I played with back in the day). The CCC stands for Capstone Construction Company which is the Coach's company and our team sponsor. These were for the girls and on the inside it says, "I had a ball playing with you!" and my daughter signed them.

These are bag tags for the girls to put on their equipment bags (if they want). I stamped and colored the bunny and sponged the sky and grass. I added all the girls names on them and included a small black zip tie for them to attach it with.

Very simple treat. I sandwiched the top of the pixie stix between two black scallop punches and added the punched circles which I added the 'stitches' to with a red marker. These were also for the girls.

The items above and 2 pieces of bubble gum were packaged in clear envelopes for each girl.

Cards for the coaches and assistant coaches/helpers similar to the mini ones I made for the girls. After taking the picture I added CCC to the top right corner of the pink cardstock. I wish I had used a bigger 'thank you' stamp. Cameron wrote a personal thank you note in each one. I made 5 in all.

This was the gift for the coach and assistant coaches/helpers. I probably should have taken a picture before wrapping them. It's a large plastic popcorn bucket with yellow crinkled paper filler in the bottom, 2 boxes of movie candy, 1 bag of micro popcorn, 2 suckers, 1 bottle Diet Coke, 1 bottle Sprite, a gift card for Blockbuster and the card above.

Sewing Project

2009-04-23T19:24:00.003-05:00

I haven't been doing much scrapping and stamping, but I did pull my sewing machine out a couple weeks ago and tried my hand at a few things. I don't get a lunch at work, but I have an hour between work and picking up my daughter from school so I eat lunch between the 2 places. I had been looking for a cute lunch bag. The only ones I liked were all more than I wanted to pay for a little lunch bag. So I made this round drawstring bag. The four outside fabrics came from Wal Mart. The inside is lined with a waterproof material called PUL. I probably have about $3.00 of materials in it. It did take a while to make, but after making one, I am sure I could do another in a couple of hours.

I have a water bottle carrier that I made for my daughter and some reusable snack bags that I will snap some pictures of pretty soon.

Easter Cards

2009-04-23T19:16:00.003-05:00

I had intended to make many more cards this past Easter, but I waited until the last minute and was only able to make a few. All of the stamped images used on the following cards were $1 stamps from Michaels. Also used were Prima and Bazzill flowers, pattern paper from DCWV, SU cardstock and a little bit of white stickles.

Christmas Gift

2009-03-18T16:20:00.002-05:00

This was a project I did for a Christmas gift for my Grandmother. I printed B&W photos of all her great grandchildren and Mod Podge them onto wooden blocks my hubby cut for me. I had painted the blocks black first and then sanded the edges. I made stencils for the Angel letters with my cricut machine and sponge painted them onto the blocks. The wording on the bottom flat piece of wood are rub on letters. I hot glued it all together along with adding some Prima flowers to the front.

Valentine Treats

2009-03-18T16:57:00.001-05:00

These are what I made for my daughters class. They are in clear envelopes and hold 2 chocolate hearts.

Valentines Day Cards

2009-02-08T17:49:00.005-06:00

A friend asked if I would make some Valentines Day cards for her. This is what I came up with.

Classroom Gifts

2008-12-24T15:06:00.002-06:00

I made snowman soup packets for my daughters 1st grade class. I printed the poem on light blue cardstock. I cut the snowman using my cricut. The packets contain instant hot chocolate, 2 Hershey kisses, candy cane and mini marshmallows. It is all sealed up in a clear envelope (like the ones Stampin Up sells).

Ornaments

2008-12-24T14:57:00.003-06:00

These are glass round ornaments with coordinating Chirstmas paper rolled up and dropped inside where it unrolls a bit. I used some cheap brand of rub ons on the outside that were a pain in the butt to work with. I just added a hook and tied a bow. These were made for the ladies I work with.

I put them in plastic bags used for like chocolate candy suckers you make. Tied some ribbon and added this stamped tag. I bought the stamp on clearance last year at Hobby Lobby. It has 3 stamps in it and I think I paid .60 for it. I cut it out and matted it on a round piece of green cardstock and added a jump ring to attach it to the ribbon.

I bought a kit (also on clearance, only I bought it 2 years ago) to make several different felt ornaments. I got 2 of them made this year. Maybe I will start in January to get the rest of them done for next Christmas.

Some New Cards

2008-12-24T14:44:00.004-06:00

This birthday card is much cuter in person. My flash really washed out the color on it.

Cardstock - SU Lovely Lilac, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
Stamped Images - Candle is $1 stamp from Michael's, the cake is from the $1 clear packs.
Punches- SU scallop and 1 1/4 circle
Other- White Gel Pen, Cuttlebug with dotty (not sure of the actual name) embossing folder, Prisma colored pencils.

The card looks big, but it is only 3 1/4 X 5 1/4. The duck and scallop are on pop dots.

Cardstock - SU Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Whisper White.
Pattern Paper - DCWV
Image - Suzy Zoo
Other - SU scallop punch, 1 1/4 circle, Prisma colored pencils, pop dots.

I have only used this stamp twice now, and both times I have done it in blues and greens. I don't know why those are the colors that come to me with this image.

Cardstock - SU Ballet Blue, Green Galore, Whisper White
Pattern Paper - I think it's from a DCWV stack
Other- 3D balloon from the Sandylion Essentials Birthday Gift pack, green ribbon is self adhesive and from Darcie, Prisma colored pencils.

Halloween Treats

2008-11-02T15:34:00.003-06:00

I made these spiders for my daughters class. They are made with the SU scallop circle punch and SU photo corner punch (Thanks again Dawn!). The white of the eyes I cut with my cricut, the black pupil and red nose were done with a hole punch. A chocolate candy disk is sandwiched in the middle of the body.

I put them in small clear envelopes and added a bag topper that I stamped.

These "Frankies" are wrapped around a full size Hershey bar. I made these wrappers last year for the small candy bars for my daughters class. These I made for the ladies at work. I used my cricut to cut the eye pieces and nose. The hair was cut with decorative scissors.

I made 2x2 cards to go with the candy bars. I have 2x2 clear envelopes that they fit in.

A card I made for my parents.

Birthday Mice Card

2008-11-02T15:32:00.001-06:00

I made this card for my friend Michelle.

Handmade Edible

2008-09-14T16:54:00.004-05:00

This is not scrap related, but it is something I made. I ordered a 24 piece cupcake cake from Wal-Mart. Using a chocolate candy mold I made the bowling pins and balls with white and milk chocolate (they are 2 separate pieces) and stuck them in the cupcakes. The red lines on the pin were made by adding red food coloring to some corn syrup and painting them on the pin. Then we sprinkled red decorating sugar over the corn syrup (thought up by my husband). The Happy Birthday are candles and we had a number 6 candle as well. I think they turned out great!

5 Day Challenge - Day 5 (finally)

2008-09-14T16:41:00.002-05:00

After finishing the goodie bags on day 4 of the 5 day challenge, I have not been back in my craft room until today. So I am going to cheat and post this as my day 5 challenge. It just took more than 5 days to complete the challenge.

These are the thank you cards we are mailing to the birthday guests from my daughters party last weekend. I cut a black 4.5" circle with my Cricut machine in the blackout feature. I also cut a regular 4.5" circle in white and computer printed text on them:

Dear_______,
Thank you for the
_____________
and for coming to my party.
I hope you had fun!

I had my daughter write in the name and gift and sign her name on the bottom. Then I glued them to the black circles. I glued 1" silhouette circles in gray on the front for the bowling ball holes. I am mailing them in a CD envelopes (shown above, ready to mail) with the ball showing through the front window and I addressed the envelope on the back.

5 Day Challenge - Day 4

2008-09-03T21:40:00.003-05:00

Here is what I have been working on this evening. These will be the treat bags my daughter will give to her birthday guests at her bowling party this weekend. You see it is a bowling ball, right?

I used small black paper bags that I cut down a little bit. Using my cricut I cut 5 inch circles out of black cardstock and cut them off at the bottom so the bag sat flat. The 'holes' are 1 inch circles that were also cut with the cricut with the silhouette feature. The handle is a 1" x 11" strip of black cardstock.

The bags will hold Hello Kitty treats and candy for the girls and Spider-Man treats and candy for the boys.

5 Day Challenge - Day 3

2008-09-02T21:22:00.004-05:00

Well I didn't get to my craft room yesterday for day 3, but it wasn't because I was lazy and/or unmotivated. I was feeling crappy and decided to do a total clean up/out/organization of my daughters room and it literally took all day (mostly because I was moving so slow from lack of feel good energy). I still plan to do 5 days of projects, it's just going to take 6 days to do them.

Today my project was pretty simple, but I have been non stop going from 6:30am until right now (at 9:30pm). It's my daughters 6th birthday today and I only had time today to decorate a gift bag for one of her gifts. I thought I had some white paper bags, but I didn't so I had to use a brown one. I cut the cupcake and letters with my cricut and added some stickles baby blue glitter to the cupcake which is a little hard to see in the picture.

And does it count that I wrapped another gift in 12x12 scrapbook paper?

5 Day Challenge - Day 2

2008-08-31T21:13:00.003-05:00

Todays project for the 5 day challenge is pretty simple, but at least it is something. I had a late start to the day and needed to grocery shop before I did anything. Then it was lunch time and hubby and I watched a movie. My daughter had her bathing suit on at 6 am this morning and wanted to go to the pool today so we went in the late afternoon and then it was time to cook dinner. So I was lucky to even get to this today.

This is a picture from the end of last school year. The apple is a cricut cut out with the teachers name and year done in letter stickers. I printed "kindergarten" on white paper and put it behind a green slide and added a small apple on a pop dot.

5 Day Challenge - Day 1

2008-08-30T23:55:00.000-05:00

It's late in the evening, but I finished my project for day 1 of the 5 day challenge. I made some treat boxes for my daughter to take to school on Tuesday for her birthday. This is the first time I have done this little triangle box. Because I had to do so many and they are for 1st graders I figured I would keep them very simple. They are filled with Hershey Kisses.

I used white cardstock and some colored cardstock from the bold brights SU family along with matching SU ink. The cupcake image is from the Michaels clear $1 stamp sets. I have tons of these and this is the first time I have used one. The scallop circle is an SU punch and the star background stamp I used I think is now a retired SU set.

5 Day Challenge

2008-08-29T20:36:00.003-05:00

I need to find a way to get back in my crafting room and really enjoy myself. I was inspired by Dawn's 5 day challenge and I feel I might just get some of my mojo back.

So tomorrow will be day one. I have no idea what I am going to make (card, scrapbook page, alter something..... who knows), but I am going to make something!

Birthday Cards

2008-08-29T20:27:00.003-05:00

Wednesday was my birthday. Here are some beautiful cards I received from friends. Be sure to check out their blogs.

From Martha

From Dawn

From Michelle

From Elisabeth

Party Time!!

2008-08-23T21:51:00.004-05:00

My daughters 6th birthday is coming up and we are having a bowling party at the bowling ally. These are the invitations I made for the kids. (I 'whited out' some of the details, hence the odd blank spots).

I found a clip art picture online of a pin and did some adjusting to the size in a print shop program. The invites are the size of a business envelope. Then I typed the information over the resized clip art picture and deleted the clip art before printing on cardstock. Next I printed the clip art picture and cut it out to make a template to trace over the text I had printed. I had to do it this way because the clip art was not just an outline picture. It had weird shading and the red strips on it and I wanted them to print solid white on the CS. I used a marker for the red rings and then glued the pins on black paper and trimmed around the pin.

I printed some envelopes from the computer as well with a cupcake next to Camerons return address and a some colorful pins and bowling ball in one of the corners. I was pleased with the end results of these and can't wait for party day!!

Great Deal!

2008-08-23T21:35:00.003-05:00

Last weekend I had gone to Michaels to browse and came across some halloween items. I saw the little take out boxes first and saw a standard Michaels price sign that said 1 (and then the cent sign). I don't think I have ever seen price sign at Michaels that had the cent sign on it. They had thanks giving boxes that were exactly the same only with turkeys on them and they were 1.00 each. So I thought the penny price was odd. Anyhow, I checked the bar code numbers to make sure the ones on the boxes matched the ones on the sign and sure enough they did. Then I saw the paper bags which had a sign, but it looked as though someone ripped the price part from the sign.

So I grabbed all the penny boxes and all the white paper bags and headed to the register. I asked the lady if she could tell me how much the bags were. They rang up a penny. She asked me if I got them from the clearance section and I said no, the halloween stuff. So then she rang up the boxes and they too were a penny. She called for a manager and told her they were ringing up a penny. The manager said, "we can't sell something for a penny". I told her there was no price on the bags, but there IS a penny price on the boxes. So after some investigating by the manager and another employee, the manager said to give them to me for that price and then they are pulling them off the shelf. I don't know what I am going to do with them, but for a penny how could I pass it up?