Moving Away Gifts

So my very close friend Gabriella is moving away next week.

I can't believe that it is already here, as she told me back in

the middle of October that they had sold their house and

would be moving after the first of the new year.

Time sure does fly!!!

So I wanted to make her some special going away gifts that she would enjoy.

I made her a fashionable backpack which is a Becky Roberts tutorial I bought

and enclosed a set of cards in it that matched it.

All supplies used were Stampin' Up! The paper is Spice Cake and

I think it is one of my favorite lines. I love the colors! The sentiment is from

Papertrey Ink and the ribbon is rayon seam binding.

Then I wanted to make her one more special gift that would last her the

whole year and remind her of me when she used it.

I made her a Gratitude Journal using the same Stampin' Up! paper.

I think it turned out pretty good. It is a work in progress and she

can add whatever she would like to it to make it her own.

So that was just a small sampling of some of my favorite things about the

journal. I put it in one of those small 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 binders from Staples.

I used lots of stamps, tags, graph paper, guest checks, envelopes,

punched shapes, ticket stubs, paint chips, washi tape and more....

So maybe this will inspire you to try this for the new year and

write something you are grateful for. It can be a day by day thing

or just a random throughout each month type of deal.

Wishing you and your loved ones a  very

Happy & Healthy New Year!!!

Jennifer

 



Holiday Gifts

So its been a while again since I have been able to post on here.

It seems life is way too busy!!!

So I thought I would try to get this one up today.

I have been busy getting Teacher's gift baskets ready and

wrapping gifts for the little ones.

I decided to try and dress up some of the gift cards that

were going to be handed out.

Here is what I came up with...

This one uses the font & center die from Papertrey Ink,

Paper is Stampin' Up!,Sentiment is PTI, twine, flowers, rhinestones

and a cute little sparkly jingle bell.

This one uses a glassine sleeve that I covered with Stampin' Up! paper,

some SU! ribbon and another cute little jingle bell.

This uses another glassine sleeve, Stampin Up! ribbon,

handmade candy canes from chenille stems & a glittered snowflake.

So I hope you have enjoyed seeing my little creations and I hope to be

back again real soon.

Happy Holidays



Thanksgiving Cards

So I thought I would share with you the Thanksgiving cards that I mailed out this year.

I have to say I am shocked at myself for doing this only because I don't normally send out these cards.

I talk about it every year and before I know it the holiday has snuck up on me.

So I commited this year and did it. I mailed out 20 cards!!!

 Some of you received this one using a CTMH set that was new to me this year.

And some of you received this one using a new DeNami Designs pilgrim chickies stamp.

I was happy to hear from quite a few of you that you had received them

already and loved them.

Watch my blog over the next few days for peeks of what I will be selling

at the Victor Methodist Chuch Home Party Open House.

Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 9am to 3 pm.

Have a happy Gobble, Gobble day!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Back To School

Hard to believe that summer is over and it's time to head back to school.

With that being the case I was busy yesterday working on some gifts for the kids to

take to their Teachers for the First day of School...

I can't take credit for the idea as I saw it at the Stamp Convention a few weeks ago

at the DeNami Design Booth. They did theirs a bit differently than mine, but it turned out

 pretty good considering that I was working with a not so great cell photo to look at

when I made it. After I did the large ones for the kids teachers I decided that I should make

mini ones for the kids and put them in their lunch boxes as a surprise. They loved them!!!

Hopefully now that the kids are back at school I will be able to keep up with my blog

again. We will see what happens...

Supplies:  cardstock - Stampin up!, Stamps - Papertrey Ink, Ribbon - Rayon Seam Binding, Tin Foil.

Ink - CTMH, Candy - Rolos and Kisses.

     See you soon,

      Jennifer



Sorry It's Been So Long

So it's been quite a while since I last posted something on here.

I really am going to try to better while the kids are on summer break.

Here are photos of a card set that I made for one of my kids Teacher.

All of the patterned papers used are from Colorboks new line called Flea Market.

I love everything about this line, I reach for it a lot when I am paper crafting lately.

I also used the decorative punch from Stampin' Up!, the ovals the sentiments were

stamped on were cut on the Cricut and ribbon was mostly Stampin' Up! or Offray.

The inspiration for these cards came after a card swap with my friend, Kelly.

So thank you Kelly for such great inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back in the next couple of days with some more

goodies that I have been working on.

Hope you all spend some extra time with the special men in your life

tomorrow for Father's Day.



A Quickie Card

I was in JoAnn's the other day and noticed this new K & Co. line that they are carrying.

I really liked the colors of it and the nature feel of it. I picked up a package

of these clear acetate frames that were glittered and colored.

I immediately thought that they would be a perfect fit for the larger size

cards that I make. So here is what I came up with for a few of them.

Very simple but I thought they looked really nice.

I usually struggle to make sympathy cards because I never know what to do

for embellishing , but these were perfect and all I did was stamp

a sentiment under the transparency.

Hope to see you again tomorrow.

Have a wonderful day.

 

Thanks to you

So I love this color combination of Brown and Turquoise.

So I had to share this card with you.

This card uses a sketch from a Card a Day by Papercrafts.

I used CTMH patterned paper, the die cut, stamp with dots and sentiment are all

from Papertrey Ink. And the butterfly is from Jenni Bowlin Studios.

Ribbon was just miscellaneous that I had on hand, probably from Michael's.

I had to do a close up because that butterfly is just too beautiful.

Hope your having a fantastic Monday and I will see you tomorrow.