Baby Gift Set

My friend had her beautiful baby girl on the 28th and I wanted to make her something for the baby's room. I decided to make a name frame and a set of blocks. I used the baby girl collection from Basic Grey and made the frame, blocks, and card to match.

For the blocks I used Emily's tutorial from her blog - Stamping and Stuff.

I used Beate's weekend sketch challenge as my jumping off point for the card. I changed it just slightly when I used the scalloped circle in the corner instead of a square.

We actually got to see Chloe last night as it was her big brothers birthday party and my kids were invited. We had a blast playing at our local indoor play place. I made this card for the birthday boy - I used Beate's weekend sketch again - this time staying true to the sketch. The stamp set is My Favorite Things Dinomite and the paper is from the DCWV glitter stack.

Hope you had a great weekend! We are trying to get our backyard in order and purchased a swing set and playhouse so we can spend lots of time out there this year!

Holiday Spirit Box

I got the idea to make one of these boxes from Ali Edwards blog. She has wonderful ideas and I love her scrapbooking philosophies. She offered these holiday spirit prompts in a PDF file, courtesy of one of her blog readers. I decided it would be a neat project and a great gift for one of my good friends. We had recently been talking about Christmas and how to create memories and experiences and how to downplay the materialism of Christmas - so this idea was very timely. I do plan on using these when I make my own advent calendar - my son doesn't like chocolate anyway, so these would be perfect for the days of advent.

I started by printing the PDF onto cardstock - I then stamped over the prompts using an older Stampin' Up set (holiday blocks - I think?) in different colour inks. I cut the cardstock into squares and stamped images on the back as well. I scored the squares so they would be easy to fold in half. I matted a strip of patterned paper (Basic Grey Figgy Pudding) and used sticky strip to adhere it to my dollar store jar. I made the label using my scallop punch and made a little additional label for the lid using my All in the Family set. Next time I'd like to design a couple labels on the computer and print them out.

Thanks for looking!

Wedding Gift

I needed a wedding gift for my cousin who kind of "eloped" and got married at a Sandals resort somewhere tropical (they had a "weddingmoon"). We're going to a family celebration for them and I didn't want to show up empty handed. This is the gift that I made them. Ideally I would have stamped the letters of their last name but I didn't have an alphabet that was big enough, so I just printed them onto cardstock with my printer. The background is stamped with swirls in versamark, and there's a little heart and key charm hanging off the letter "H". The frame I used had an opening of 7"x14" so the ribbon down the left side is to hide my seam. I think this turned out pretty nice and I hope they will enjoy seeing it in their house.

I made this card (in all of about 10 mins!) last night. I used the cool caribbean paper because it matches their wedding flowers and I embossed the sentiment with silver embossing powder. The ribbon is black velvet. I thought it turned out quite well for a 10 min. card!

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Teacher gift

I have a new friend who is returning to teaching this year after a break. I saw this idea on the 2peas board and modified it slightly to make it work. I love that line in the movie "You've got Mail" where they're talking about the fall and sending bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils. I remember feeling that way about school supplies too. Anyhow, this is what I made for her to go on her desk.

It's just a container from the dollar store which I glued floral foam into. I covered the 4 sides with paper and ribbon and added some Prima flowers. Then I stuck the pencils in, some tip up, some eraser up, then used the leaves to cover the foam. I think it turned out pretty cute. It cost me about $4 to make. I'm planning to make another for Riley's kindergarten teacher.

This is the card I made to go with it. Meet Changito - isn't he cute? I cuttlebugged the background with my spots and dots folder (still using my rolling pin!). I sewed the paper to the choc. chip cardstock and added eyelets around the sentiment. I thought the sentiment was appropriate for referring to back to school!

Altered Journal

Here's a journal that I made for a friend. I used the Basic Grey Oh Baby line which I absolutely love. This started as a $3 Princess Journal from Zellers so I think it turned out just fine! My favorite part is the inside which I lined with the cutie elephant paper from the line (my favorite paper!). I made a matching pen and then a matching card. The card is simple and the sentiment on the front is actually a fuzzy rub on from Heidi Swapp. I had a couple seams to hide on the inside of the card so I used some ribbon and velvet ric rac. Hope I left enough room for writing! Thanks for looking!