Spring is Blossoming

Spring is Blossoming with Sneek Peek products from the upcoming 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog. You can get these new products one of two ways. Click here to the see the flyer.

• Spend $20.00 on any Stampin' Up! products and become eligible to purchase both the Four Frames Set and Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper.
• Host a $350 Workshop and get the Four Frames Set and Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper for FREE!

Contact me today to schedule your Spring Workshop!

SO THANKFUL!

I am so thankful for Diana Rambles. She did an excellent job making over my blog! Now I will post more often. It was just such a drag to come and post because it just looked so awful. So for the next few days I will be posting a few things I made a while back. Then I will begin posting on a regular basis! I am so excited about the new look!

Valetine Workshop

I think last night's projects were the a hit!

1. The clear DVD case in the back comes from Angie Juda over on http://www.mychicnscratch.com/ . You can check out her design here: http://www.mychicnscratch.com/2010/12/stamp-case-notepad.html . Since we were focusing on Valetine's Day I used the Love Impressions DSP and the XOXO stamp set both found in the Ocassions Mini Catalog. We also used the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. Punches used were the 1 3/4 Scallop circle, 1 3/8 Circle Punch, Modern Label Punch, and the Word Window Punch. I used real red ink and both real red and basic grey stampin write markers.

2. The glass jar is a starbucks jar washed, cleaned, and reused to make a very nice gift for someone! Here I used the Love Impressions DSP also. I used the large scallop and small scallop cirlce punches. Then I used the 1 3/8 and 1 1/4 circle punches. The stamp is from the XOXO stamp set. The punches are Pink Pirouette, Real Red, and Basic Grey. We used real red paper and punched a 1 3/4 circle to put on the bottle top. The ribbon is not SU ribbon.

3. The middle project uses the Mini Milk Carton Die Cut. The Mini Milk Carrier instructions can be found here: http://www.paperpunchaddiction.com/2010/01/mini-milk-carton-carrier.html

I used the small scallop circle on the handle and then used a 1" circle punch. The mini milk cartons are made from Pink Pirouette Cardstock. Both stamps used come from the Valetine Defined set and are real red in this picture. I closed the milk cartons with the Round Tab Punch.

4. The Hershey Candy Bar holder comes from Michelle http://istampedthat.com/page/2/

Snowman Soup

Just made these for students who earned their December reading counts goals! I changed the original poem to fit what I was using the Snowman Soup for this time! I used the More than Merrier stamp set from last year's Stampin UP! catalog.

Hope you like it!

Gift Card Holder

I saw this design over on Becky Roberts sight http://www.inkingidaho.blogspot.com/search?q=gift+card+holder. I just changed up the colors to fit the bags I have made for Rylan and Trace's friends and their teachers. The boys go back to school August 9th and I thought this was the perfect design to place a gift card for their new teachers.

The first day of school design was cut using the cricut cartridge Locker talk. It was then placed on a Stampin Up die cut Top Note.

You will see the bags soon! (I had to make 38 of them so I'm not quite down yet!)

Birthday

This is Papa's birthday card! The boys informed me that since Papa loves golf we just had to make him a card with golfing! So I decided to take on my first spinner card! Believe it or not it came out just right!

I used Stampin Up bashful blue card stock for the back ground. The golf had to look like it was on the "green" so I used Stampin Up certainly celery card stock.

The golf ball and the golfer were cut on the cricut using the Sports Mania cricut cartridge. I then used stickles to enhance the golf ball.

The Happy Birthday stamp is stamped in chocolate chip and it comes from the stamp set Look Who's Turning.

Picnic Basket

I bought this picnic carry all at Dollar General for all of $6.00. However, it of course had its faults! When I tried to put forks in it they fell straight through the back. I decided I needed to quickly come up with something to spruce up the $6.00 basket to make it work for me instead of letting it go to waste!

So here's what I did:

I used Close to Cocoa Stampin up card stock for the back ground and the letter B (for Butler of course!)

The Pink oval was cut from the Mother's Day 2010 Cricut Cartridge. I used a scrap of pink passion stampin up paper I found in my scrap box!

The three flowers were punched with a stampin up punch and then slightly peeled apart and I then used a sponge to dab on pink passion ink. To add a little accent to the three flowers I added a small pearl in the center.

The B was cut on Close to Cocoa Stampin Up card stock using the Ashlyn's Alphabet Cricut Cartridge.

The ribbon was from Hancock Fabrics. They recently had a 50% sale on ribbon by the spool so I stocked up on super cute ribbon!

The stamp in the bottom right corner is stamped using Stampin Up Chocolate Chip. The stamp comes from the Picnic Parade Hostess set from the 2009-2010 Stampin Up Catalog.