Happy Father's Day!

Hello everyone! It's Father's Day and I managed to make something special for my DH! This is some sort of slide mount chipboard book thingy that I got from my upline. I think you can get these at scrapbook stores, etc.

I covered it with SU patterned paper with a glue stick, and embellished with coasters and chipboard. The letters are made from a medium weight coaster and my Big Shot. I covered a coaster with SU cardstock with a glue stick, then ran it through the Big Shot using the Go Slim upper alpha by Ellison (now discontinued).

The oval piece is chipboard from Basic Grey, I believe. I used an ink pad to color it. I inked it up with True Thyme and sponged some Close to Cocoa over that. I also sponged a little Cocoa over the blue letters to tone down the bright blue.

On the inside, I covered it with more DP and put in a pic of the kids with some little handwritten notes saying what my kids loved about their dad. I absolutely hate my handwriting, and would love to have used little alpha stamps, but I really wasn't in the mood to stamp that much info! In addition, handwriting is much more authentic than printing or stamping in my opinion, so I have to get over my dislike of my handwriting! My husband, Chris, loved the gift and asked me if had actually made it! For a minute, he thought it was purchased!

Thanks for checking in with me, I'll be back with more cards later. I'm having another Card Buffet this week and will share some of those cards with you all!

Teacher Gifts!

I wanted to make something special for my children's teachers this year. They've really been good to my son and daughter and I wanted to show our appreciation. I've been seeing a lot of strawberry-themed projects lately, so it's been on my mind. I pulled together these chocolate and strawberry baskets and used the retired Stampin' Up Oh So Sweet stamp set to top it all off!

First, I used these adorable red baskets from the Target dollar spot that I've had for a year now. I lined the bottom of the baskets with white shredded paper or excelsior from Michaels. I found these inexpensive plastic bowls in the candy decorating aisle at Hobby Lobby and put the strawberries in that and added a container of chocolate fruit dip from the grocery store. I added my favorite Offray 1.5" mini check red gingham ribbon and a 3x3 note card and that's it! Easy gift!

The red bags are card sets that I made for the assistants. These red bags are inexpensive party goody bags that come in packs of 10 or 12. I can't remember where I got them, but I find myself using them a lot! I punched holes and tied with ribbon and finished it off with one of my many craft store silk flowers and my favorite big polka dot brads from Hobby Lobby.

I really love to make cute gifts and I love to see how much people appreciate a hand-made gift!

I'm tired from the long week's end-of-school activities. Not sure how much stamping I'll be doing. I'll mostly be hangin' out and relaxin'!

I'll post some more new samples as soon as I can!

All Bagged Up!

Phew! I finished the scrapbook pages and the cards for the teacher. I basically did the same thing as the card to the gift bag. I'm in a total hurry to get to work, so I didn't CB the celery BG, but I don't think the teacher is as into the details as I would be. Seriously, all of you stampers out there know how much more into the packaging we are than the recipient of the gift, right? Unless, of course, the recipient is also a stamper, but I digress.

I've got ten minutes to shower and get to work. Guess it's gonna be a ponytail day! : )

Supplies are the same as the previous card posted. Happy Friday everyone!

Yet Another Lunchtin

Yes, here's the obligatory lunchtin. I know, everyone's been there and done that. I just wanted to share with you all another way to use a silk flower on a project. We made these in my stamp club. It's funny, some of my club members just loved making these, while others thought it was just too much work. Makes me wonder, what kind of stamper am I? Do I love to alter things and do lots of different techniques? Or am I a stamp and go kind of girl? I think I fall somewhere in between. What kind of stamper are you? Do you love the process or do you prefer more simple projects?

On this tin, I took the flower apart and added a white Prima for the center and a Making Memories rhinestone brad. I love the bling!

This weekend, I'll be planning a Stamp Buffet class. I'll be offerring about 8 different card choices, so I'm looking forward to playing with my stamps all weekend! I'll post my card selections later on this weekend. (Assuming the kids and the DH will leave me alone so I can stamp!)

Have a happy Friday everyone!

Happy Birthday Liz!

One of my stampin' buddies is having a birthday! Liz, are you out there? There are some goodies coming out your way! I hope you have a great day!

I embellished this cute tin from Michaels with some of those flowers I bought at Michaels. I LOVE these flowers! I love primas too, but it's so fun to take the silk flowers apart and layer the petals and add brads and more! Here, I added a big brad from Hobby Lobby. Sorry, I can't remember the brand. I used glue dots to adhere the ribbon and I used tacky tape to adhere the black cardstock to the tin.

Finally, in the window, I stamped friend from the Noteworthy stamp set from SU.

Have a great day everyone!