Thought I’d at least upload a quarterly project! Here’s something that I think you’ll enjoy. It’s a combination of cards and a 3D item. Oh, and a picture of the birthday boy. Of course this was in February, but… what the heck! Enjoy!
Just Some Baby Things
Birthday Boy!
This is the last installment of my Christmas Gifts. The first is an old baking soda can that I covered with Ski Slope background paper Just as in the clear paint buckets, I used the Scallop Edge punch to scallop around the bottom of the Chocolate Chip cardstock. I was in a glittery mood so I took a piece of Whisper White and kinda curved it when I cut it. Used 2-way glue to add glitter to make it look like snow and then adhered that to the bottom of the can. Stamped Mr. Twigster in Chocolate Chip onto Whisper White and colored him with an Aqua Painter and ink pads… Bashful Blue and Tangerine Tango (I believe). I cut him out and adhered these tiny little Christmas bulbs that I’ve had for oh maybe 15 years. Yes, I finally used them!
The turquoise tin is actually another cookie container. My good friend had a cookie exchange and I took my cookies in this tin. Of course I left the tin and the Mr. Twigster can for her.
I used tissue paper and wheeled the Snow wheel in Bashful Blue. Then I simply cut a 2 1/2″ strip of Bashful Blue cardstock and wrapped it around the container. The biggest layer of the medallion is actually cut from chipboard that I had laying around. Yes, another piece of stuff I finally used! I layered a Coluzzled Kiwi Kiss circle on top of that and then I layered little Mr. Penguin from Punch Pals onto that. I used the smallest scallop circle from the Sizzix die for that. All in all, these projects took very little time!
Hope you enjoy and if you have any questions, please let me know!
Here’s the 2nd installment of my long overdue Christmas Gifts. This particular project was given to my son’s teacher. I saw these cute little magazine holders and just had to try one. Here’s the pattern I used as the basis for my version of this project. There are many other versions including a holder that holds regular-sized cards. My cards measured 3×3 and I think I fit nine plus envelopes into the holder. I used my favorite color combination these days – Basic Gray, Not Quite Navy, and Kiwi Kiss. I also used one of my favorite new stamp sets Pocket Silhouettes and Typeset Alphabet. Also included in this fun project are the scallop circle punch, gray taffeta ribbon, and Urban Garden background paper.
Enjoy! If you have any questions, please let me know.
I know it’s after the holidays, but I thought I could stretch it just a weeeee bit longer. If I can get myself together, I’ll post a few more samples this week. We’ll see how that goes. This is my daughter’s first year of middle school. Gone are the days of making a few teacher gifts. She has 7 teachers. Of course we had to have one for each of her teachers.
Here’s my first installment for your viewing pleasure. I purchased the clear paint buckets from Staples oh so long ago. I’ve finally used them. Each of the buckets is a little bit different. The height of the designer paper isn’t really important. Just make sure you like the look!
Cookie Containers
I took this idea from Nichole Heady’s blog {capture the moment}. Boy, does she have some really neat stuff out there. It’s a constant source of inspiration for me! The paper is Stampin’ Up’s! Ski Slope designer series background paper. I decorated the bottom edge of the top paper with the Scallop Edge Punch. Used the Punch Pals set to stamp the little penguin on the smallest scallop from the Scallop Circle Die #2 for the Big Shot. Colored the penguin with an Aqua Painter and SU! ink pads and then layered that on top of another Big Shot die. It’s actually a flower die from the Flower Layers w/ Leaf. If you look carefully, you can see that I stacked my Oreo Truffles according to flavor (I know… it’s a little anal). I separated them using the larger of the two circles from the Scallop Circle Die #2. I had to experiment with a few different types of paper (first I tried vellum… didn’t work too well and all the truffles fell down the sides of the paint bucket) when I finally decided that cardstock worked the best.
Hope you enjoy my take on the cookie container. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave me a comment and let me know.
Raw Materials for the Big Shot
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After a few days of pondering what should actually go into my organizer, I’ve finally come up with what I think is the perfect year-round organizer for my gift giving. Don’t get me wrong, I love all those Christmas
organizers that I’ve seen lately, but I wanted an organizer that could be used throughout the year. I’m thinking of giving these to my kids teachers for Christmas. So, here’s what’s in my pockets:
If you click on the links above, they should take you to a PDF file for each of the documents I created.
To make the organizer, I followed two tutorials and then combined them both to personalize 
my own and make it useful for my own purposes. 
Here are links for the samples that I used as my inspiration: Blue Moon Stamping, Stamps, Paper, Scissors. My spirals for my gift guide are quite large. I only had the 5/8″ binding coils for the Bind-it-All. I think the guide would look much better if it were bound with the 1/4″ coils. Just one more thing that I need to order. If you have a chance to get one of these little beauties, GET IT! I 
love mine! It cuts through chipboard, CDs, metal, and lots of other stuff.
My supplies included:
Thanks so much for looking! If you have any questions, please be sure to let me know!
I’ve come to the realization after many years that sometimes most times I work better under pressure. Today was a perfect example. Took my DD to the doctor. She has a wicked case of poison ivy that has gone to her face. It’s not the skin, itchy-type of poison ivy, it’s the internal reaction kind. She looks as if we haven’t washed the Kool Aid off her face for a week. Of course this requires medication. We go to the grocery store to fill the prescription. There’s a small crisis at the pharmacy counter and our prescription takes about a 1/2 hour longer than expected. We do a little shopping ($50 worth, not too bad for not needing anything). I think they do this on purpose. We leave 45 minutes later with a prescription for steroids… all the while I’m thinking that my daughter is going to have a mustache before Christmas because of the steroids. She’s only ten… I haven’t even shown her how to shave her legs yet. Now, I might have to have my husband show her how to shave a 5 o’clock shadow.
I decide to treat her (and me) to a little more breakfast before heading to school. Burger King was right next door (oh, how I love BK). She wants McDonalds. Since she does have poison ivy and all, we head to McDonalds. We turn the corner to enter the McDonalds parking lot and the whole building is gone. Just gone! Now, I start doubting myself. “Wasn’t there a McDonalds there just a few weeks ago?” “Am I dreaming?” Did I go to the wrong place?” A quick “U-ey” and we’re headed back to Burger King. Yippee for me!!! Oh, how I love those breakfast croissants. Cheese??? Yes!!! Sausage??? Yes!!! Egg??? Yes!!! Oh, and now they even have these little hash browns with cheese in them. I have died and gone to Heaven. We get our food stuffies and head to school.
Drop DD off at school and head home. I’ve got to get a birthday gift for one of the neighbor boys around the corner. I’ll go out a little later to pick up something. Of course I put it off and begin the many tasks of the day… dishes, laundry, school paperwork, etc. Next thing I know, the bus is pulling up at the corner. Oh no! No gift, no card, and no absolutely clever packaging idea for the gift I didn’t get. What to do??!! Quick… think! I’ve got it! The day before, he had gotten a new digital camera. So, I packaged up 10 AA batteries and a box of photo paper. Made a quick card and had it delivered before everyone left for ball practices and games. Plus, had dinner cooked and ready by 5:15. I haven’t thought of anything too original during the past few weeks. I felt so vindicated! I can still stamp. I can be creative. I just need 15 minutes and the sinking feeling of guilt to get things done! Phew!!! I had succeeded!!! And, the gift wasn’t days late!!! His mom was “amazed how cleverly I packaged the gift.” Pat on the back for me!!! My only concern was if I had washed out all the oranges from the container.
Here’s a pic of the gift package minus the photo paper. Pretty self-explanatory, but let me know if you have questions.
Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of your day!
honestly, about a year or so ago, i created my first blog. i played and played, but never publicly promoted it. i just didn’t have the time. i’ve seen some fantastic blogs since then and now and it really was a tough decision for me to actually begin blogging… again. you see, i’m the kind of person who could sit at the computer for hours days just changing the colors and layouts of documents (i know i’m not the only person who does this, so fess up if you’re like i am… it will make me feel better). you can only imagine what it’s like when i sit down to do a little stamping. when i started this blog, i promised myself that i would find a template then stick with it. no tweaking; no going back to a different blogging service; no changing colors; no nothing. heck, it took me forever to decide which blogging service to use. oh, and believe you me, i tried them all! first, you have to have something to write about or to show people. that would mean i’d actually have to stamp or scrap something and then write about it. do i really have time for all that? is my life really that interesting (and if it’s not, can i make it sound interesting)? is anyone gonna want to read it? the answer to all those questions is “probably not” but i thought i’d give it the old college try anyway.
well, i thought i was doing OK until my blogroll list started to look a little unkempt. my solution… pick a different template… of course. darn it, i said i wasn’t going to do that. well, if you visited during the past few days, you know what i mean. i think i changed my template 20 times or more. i’m back to the template i originally started with… for now. i’m sorry if i’ve confused anyone. i know my reader base isn’t breaking any records at this point, but please accept my apologies.
once i finally decided to leave well enough alone, i had enough time to upload these photos that i’ve 
had for weeks! i really love the new baroque motifs set. it’s so elegant. i could kick myself for not getting the coordinating wheel. i now have a rule: if a set has a coordinating wheel, it must be purchased at the same time as the stamp set… even if i don’t think i like the wheel (yeah, right. like that ever happens).
this is actually a stamped set that includes a card, envelope, and a handy little holder for both. i cased the card from beate’s gate-fold card tutorial. she is one of my favorite scs stampers. she always has something fabulous to share on her blog and her cards are just the bee’s knees.
enjoy the long labor day weekend! till next time… happy stamping!
supplies:
Instructions:
here’s a cute little project that i whipped up the other day (yeah, right) for my stamper’s club. no, the colors don’t all exactly go together, but what the heck! i cut each circular note card using my cricut . you gotta love that cricut when you’re cutting 50 little circular note cards in a matter of about 30 minutes. the tin measures about 2 1/4″. each circular note card was cut using “real dial size” set to 2″. i folded each note card and used the scallop circle punch in coordinating colors to layer onto each circular note. i punched 1 3/8″ circles to layer on top of each scallop and stamped as desired. in my samples, i used the following color combinations from left to right:
the tin bottom was covered with purely pomegranate textured cardstock. i wrapped the lid of the tin with wild wasabi double-stitched ribbon and adhered a faux bow to the front.
other accessories used for this project include:
enjoy your day! happy stamping!!!
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