10.27.10

How's everybody doin today?  We're good here, it's a laid back kind of day today.  The only day this week that I get to stay home all day and have no errands or school business to attend to, yey :)

Today I've got some Halloween favors that my kiddos will bring to school.  They're getting really excessive with the peanut allergy awareness so we went with glow bracelets.  Now, don't get me wrong here, a peanut butter sandwich is never worth risking some poor kids life for, but at our school it's to the point where they won't let the kids bring in anything.  My son's pre-school class wan't even allowed to bring these to pass so I'm having the teachers give these out as if they're from them.

Sorry, got a little off track.  Anyways, here's the project.

Don't they look so fun all together like that!?!

I bought this set simply to have this adorable sentiment, haha, lovin' it!!

I used spring moss cs and stamped with simply chartreuse for the background.  Used palette ink for Frank and the sentiment and colored with copic markers.

This one is lavendar moon cs stamped with plum pudding.

and these are summer sunrise cs stamped with orange zest.

Arent' they fun?!  I'm so in love.

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An oldie but a goodie ;)

So this should have been posted a few months ago, but it slipped away from me. Things have a tendancy to do that with me occasionally, well more than occasionally. I blame it on the kids, haha ;)

Anyways, enough babble for the day. These are the first day of school goodies that I made for my boys, it was Dylan's 1st day of Kindergarten and Tyler's first day of pre-school. The whole set uses the Teachers pet line from Imaginisce



Here is a pencil holder


Yummy coffeshop cookies with tags wishing them a great first day.


and lastly their super star son card.

I also made tucked away boxes for the teachers but forgot to take a photo of them. It works out that a full bag of ghirardelli chocolates fits perfectly in the box.

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Wintery Tucked Away

This cute little box is called the Tucked Away template from Papertrey Ink (created by Lauren Meader). They are so much fun to make, love 'em!

Cart. Exploration at the Chirper Challenge

Over at the Chirper Challenge this week we are exploring the cricut cartridges Plantin Schoolbook, George and basic shapes and Don Juan. All of the carts that may have come with your cricut machines.

My first card uses George and Basic Shapes. I cut the 2 star shadows at 5 1/2 and a star out of patterned paper. The oval is also from George and basic shapes. Stitching, ribbon, twine and a studio G sentiment finish it off.

This is the gift I made my husband for our 4th anniversary. The box is one of Lauren Meader's My Timeless templates, this is the small pack a picnic. I also made the large one for him for fathers day (it's a post or two ago). The cricut cut on here is the heart. I used the stitched option from Don Juan and it is so much fun. It just leaves little dots where I hand stitched with embroidery floss.

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Pack a picnic for CC #18

Here's my project for this weeks Chirper Challlenge . I used one of Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates that you can buy from Papertrey Ink. This one is the Pack a picnic and it's soo super cool because it comes with this template and a smaller version of the same thing and it's totally cute! These are so easy too because you just print them out cut on the lines and tape them together, easy peasy.

Anyways, this challenge was to include Brown, Brads and zig-zags. This was my hubby's fathers day gift. I would swear I took a picture of it when it was full with his Dad's day goodies and cards, but for the life of me I could not find it and had to take a new picture after it's been used for a while, ugh, sorry about that! Oh and it has a lid that of course is MIA, haha.




Supplies:
Papers: from Papertrey Ink, Ripe Avocado, Ocean Tides, Craft and Ripe Avocado bitty star basics, and misc. brown CS from stash
Inks: Ripe Avocado and Ocean Tides both PTI
Martha Stewart zig zag punch
Fiskars large star punch (I got mine from PTI)
Cricut Sesame Street Font for #1 Dad
Brads from stash.

Mother-in-law's 50 b-day gift set

I knew it was coming up, my MIL's birthday. However, I'd been really busy so I figured I'd throw together a card, toss in a gift card and call it good. Well.... at about 4 o'clock the night before her birthday my husband says "It's my Mom's 50th isn't it?"

"WHAT???" I can't just do a little cop out gift card for a 50th birthday, especially for someone as wonderful as my mother-in-law.


So I had to do something fabulous, but what? Of course I had no idea what to do and no inspiration. I spent an hour or so searching the web trying to find a simple and cute idea and came across personalized wine labels. :: lightbulb moment ::

Then in my scraproom I found one of these bare elements wine holders that I've had for years and didn't come across the right occasion to use it.

I ended up with a wine holder complete with customised wine bottle, card with gift card and matching flowers.

Not too bad for a moment's notice huh?

Here's the wine holder I put it in.

Inside the wine holder with the bottle of wine

The "Fifty & Fabulous" wine bottle

Another view of the wine bottle.

The quick card, I think it turned out cute though.

Inside the card with a gift card holder

I was really proud of being able to pull all of this together in such short notice and I think it turned out pretty cute, don't you??

Supplies:

wine holder: bare elements

patterned papers: Basic Grey Urban Prarie

cardstocks: bazzill

flowers: Prima

cuttlebug: textile folder

scallop edge punch: fiskars

ribbon: basic basic from Michaels

circle and scallop circle and i (heart) u: mini monograms cricut cartridge

50: Storybook cricut cartridge

Just 4 you: Graphically speaking cricut cartridge

Tag: Tags bags boxes and more or Plantin Schoolbook cricut cartridge (I can't remember which)

misc. silver brads and buttons from stash.

Dad's we're NUTS about you!

The father's day gifts I made for my DH, FIL and my dad. The bags are from Plantin Schoolbook and I sized them in DS to be as big as possible with the square cut out of the middle. Chip (or is it Dale?) is from the mickey and friends cartridge as are the acorns. Font's were cut out with SCAL NUTS I'm pretty sure is 2peas airplane, but not sure about the other one. All the papers are digi freebies that I printed. I'm going to try and do a better job of writing down where I get things from as far as fonts and freebies go, SORRY!



The cards to match. I love this picture!!




The set side by side

teacher gifts

This jar is filled with Riesen and Smartie candies. Cut the apple from the Doodlecharms cricut cartridge and used the fiskars threading water punch for the scallop edge








These are the cards I made for them. I didn't have any thick lined paper so I scanned regular old notebook paper and printed it on my computer for the background. The apple from Doodlecharms again and A+ teacher is Plantin Schoolbook (roly poly, I think?). Threading water punch again on the bottom The second picture is the inside of the card. Scallop circle is from mini monograms. The gift card holder is a printable template that I traced in inkscape and cut out with SCAL.

My boy's gift bags

I absolutely adore these little bags that were made to hold the valentine gifts for my boys. The dinosaur and palm tree are from the paper dolls cartridge. This is my newest cart and I love love love all the extras on it. dino-mite is mickey font welded in design studio. I cuttlebuged the dinosaur with the mesh and used prisma's and mineral spirits for the shading. The original bag is just a white paper lunch sack.

Sticky note holder - Teacher gift

These were so simple. It's just a piece of cardstock scored and folder to fit a sticky note book that was in the $1 section at Target. I used ribbon to make a pen holder for the inside.

Altered candle - Teacher Gift

Made for my oldest son's pre-school teachers. They were $1 from Michaels. The strawberry on top is a heart from the George and Basic shapes cartridge with the bottom cut off, ran through the cuttlebug mesh embossing folder and half a prima flower. Cute huh? I guess the teachers really liked them.

Another Valentine Gift Bag

For this one I wanted to see just how tall I could make a bag with a 12 x 12 paper. This one is about 10 inches. I embossed the acetate with the cuttle bug hearts folder.

Be Mine Gift Bag

An altered cut from TBBM cartridge. This is my favorite of the Valentine bags. I fit two of these on a 12 x 12 sheet of paper.

Be My Valentine gift bag

This bag was created in design studio using only George and Basic shapes. I fit two of them on one 12 x 12 sheet of paper.

Dad's Get Well Bouquet

Recently my Dad had to have surgery. My boys and I made this bouquet of flowers for him with photos of the whole family as the centers. Dylan, my oldest said, "Grandpa, you can't pick the flowers."

Dad showed it off to everyone and was bragging about getting the best flowers ever. He is healing well and back on his feet again.