Time for school?

Well, the summer is winding down with only 2 weeks left. I enroll Brett in school for 2nd grade on Weds!! Where (literally) has the summer gone?? I have enjoyed the weather we've had this summer but I fear we're about to get the temps of a true Kansas summer this week! So, we will be going swimming a lot this week to take advantage of it. We plan on trying to make it Schlitterbahn up by the KS Speedway in Bonner Springs. This is a new outdoor water park that just opened it's 1st phase a couple of weekends ago. I'll certainly post here to let you know how our experience was!

On to a project I made for Brett's teacher as the end of the year "thank you" last year. I REALLY like how this turned out. I again used a Timeless Template from PTI to make this stationery set as well as the Teacher's Apple stamp set. I included cardstock notecards and personalized them with her name. Each one I utilized a different apple stamp!!

Now, look at those polka dots!! LOVE THESE!! Look at the coverage with PTI's Fresh Snow ink!! It is fabulous!! This is the Polka Dot Basics stamp set from PTI. This is one of my must

"go to" sets ever!! Can't wait to order Polka Dot Basics II set soon!

These last pics are of the card I included with her personalized gift and how I packaged it. The apple is glittered using prisma glitter and raised with a pop dot. Well, I hope this project has inspired you to make that teacher this year a special gift to let them know just how much you appreciate them as your kids' teacher. Thanks for visiting!!

>Stamps: Teacher's Apple (PTI), Polka Dot Basics (PTI), Simple Alphabet (PTI)

Paper: Cardstock (mostly P TI)--lovin the Pure Poppy (PTI)

Ink: Noir Palette, Pure Poppy (PTI), Ripe Avocado (PTI), Fresh Snow (PTI)

Other: Misc. ribbon, Pop Dots, Prisma glitter, Cloud scissors (card), Scallop border punch (EK Success), Tag punch

These are adorable!!

Look at these super cute little "purses" I found the other day at my local Dillon's. There were 2 to a package and were on sale from Valentine's!! I knew the perfect thing to put in there and who to give it to. I had been saving a cute little TAC GWP stamp to give to my boss since she LOVES doggies. She has an entire room set up in her house for them with a bed and all!! It is just the cutest thing. Anyway, this is how I packaged this cute "paw print" stamp for her since she makes scrapbooks of her doggies!! The tag was made using Around and About Sentiments from PTI and a mini button for the center of the flower!!!

BIA fridge magnet

I made this adorable refrigerator magnet for my Clinical Coordinator (my boss) where I work. Last year at seminar, several other "sister" angels and I decided to find my boss's dad's Dairy Queen because if I remember right, someone wanted m&m's. Do you girls remember this? Remember we were making memories!!! So, I said let's try to find the Dairy Queen and it would mean so much to my boss if we could visit her dad's store. So, after a LONG time driving around, we finally found it and it looked just like the Dairy Queen I used to go to every Friday when I was a little girl. My grandpa would come over every Friday to watch Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, and Falcon Crest. We would then drive down the street to our local DQ to get us a blizzard!! I really remember those memories fondly as my grandpa passed away a number of years ago. Anyway back to the story, I introduced myself to the owner and told him that I worked with his daughter. We then got a picture in front of his DQ and I made this for my boss. Wheww, that was a lot of talking!!! Here's how this was made. I had ripped apart one of those Coffee Break board books and adhered some TAC exclusive paper. I the ran it through my BIA, attached picture, ribbons and scrappers floss. See that little tag on the top? That is actually a pull tab that can be pulled out and has my journaling on it for my boss!! She loved it!!

Last year's valentines!!

I can't believe it's been a year since I made these super cute Valentine's mailboxes (from Target) for my kids and never took a pic and posted it here!! They LOVE them and like to see them in the kitchen to see if they received "mail". I used misc. patterned papers from HL and ribbon from my enormous stash. I colored some chipboard letters to monogram the fronts. I didn't really want to put ribbon on my son's but what the heck. I think it still looks boyish. I have since found some different mailboxes from Dillons after Christmas that are much larger and the flap of the mailbox opens differently (it's attached and pulls down). This year I plan to set their mailboxes out on the kitchen table before we leave on our vacation and when we get home their Valentine's will be waiting!! Of course, I will use my favorite new PTI set Heart Prints for my Valentines this year!! I will post pics of those cards after Valentine's Day.
This cute little 3 1/2 X 3 1/2" card just fits in their mailboxes. I used TAC's Hoppy Everything set. This set is SOO cute and this image was perfect to add "googly eyes". The frog was colored in using watercolor crayons---one of my favorite mediums. The "Love You" sentiment was a GWP stamp from a couple of catty's ago.

Disney momentos

Here are some Disney autograph books that I've been working on for my kids to get autographs of the characters at Disneyworld. I plan on snapping a pic as well and when we get home, I will put together their mini autograph book!! The dimensions are 4 x 5 1/2" and boy I sure do wish that I had the new Zutter Rount it All corner rounder for this project!! It would have worked perfect.....the way I did it works, but this would have saved so much time!! This tool will certainly be on my list of things from Serendipity soon.

I did some looking locally for a Mickey Mouse stamp set to use and found this one at my LSS (Scrapbooks Etc.). I still want to do some looking to find a bigger one to use for my scrapbook once we get back. This set is by EK Success and fits perfectly with their circle punch!!!

Disney name tags!!

I just can't remember where I saw this idea so I can't give adequate credit but I made these name tags for my kids to wear while on our trip. On the back, I put what "resort" we were staying at in case my kids got lost. I found the Disney lanyard at Michael's in the $1 bins a while back. For Payton's, I used a retired TAC set for the castle image and a TAC alphabet. For Brett's, I used misc. Disney paper, punched out Mickey ears and used the TAC alphabet.

An oldie but a goodie!!

I love this cute little quick project. I made this a while back but just had to share. This is made using one of those office supply clips. I used TAC papers and found ribbons to match from my HUGE stash.....one of these days I will take pics of my ribbon drawers. Anyway, I have several of these made and put some wallet size pics in them on my shelves in my scrap/stamp room.

Christmas gifts

I wanted to post the pics of the gifts I made for various people this year at Christmas. I did break down and buy some Papertrey Ink stamps and I have to say.....WOW---love them!!! I will definitely be ordering more soon. I love how they have release parties, countdown, and NEW stamps every month!! Well, check out the link above for yourself if you are interested in clear stamping, new paper lines and new Palette ink colors. Now, on to the gifts I made.

This tin is from Papertrey Ink and was "lifted" from somewhere with a few minor changes I made. The red cardstock and ink are Papertrey....yep matching paper/ink!! The aqua cardstock and ink are SU. I absolutely love the versatility of this stamp set......Holiday Treats and who wouldn't like to get a personalized gift like this? These stamps fit exactly on Avery labels and they fit on Hershey nuggets!! This was made for my son's 1st grade teacher.

Now this second project is one using the bind-it-all machine...I love this thing!! I again made this for my son's 1st grade teacher. It is a magnetic notepad that can be personalized with a picture of her children. I did use TAC stamp set Forever Family for the heart and Build-a-Flower for the "happiness". The chipboard for the bases are just coasters you get from restaurants. Nothin' fancy!! Did you notice I also made a pen that matches her notepad?? How cool is that?

Now, we have various tins that were made for my husband's friends at work. I used another set in there this time....Can you see it? Yep, it's the Sweet Goodies stamp set from TAC for the tags!! To make the tags not so "white", I just used a sponge to lightly dab the white tags. This technique just "softens" it up a bit. Now, wait I'm not done yet!!

Here are the tins I made for my boss a.k.a. clinical coordinator and DON where I work. Here I got out my Alcohol inks and started inking them up. Not so traditional colors this time but I think they are oh so cute!!

What do you think?? Let me know!!

Look at this!!

I wanted to make a different kind of gift for the grandparents this year and after seeing Mischelle's project she did, I knew this was it. It is a frame that you can put a picture between 2 panes of glass. There is no mat except for around the picture that I did myself. Just a little patterned paper and whalaa!! Now you can't really tell from my wonderful picture taking that the picture kinda "floats" there. The hardest part was centering the picture on the glass and getting the glass clean!! This collage feature is just awesome and was made using Shutterfly Studio that is free on Shutterfly.com website.

Well, here it is..........

my Memory Purse!!! I had fun creating this wonderful scrapbook page and have really received a LOT of compliments on it. Like I said in an earlier post, it is really small inside but then don't we all need to downsize our purses a little?


I also am showing off my "bag tag" that I made for the group of swappers I'm in. I made these for seminar thinking that this way when we all got our new TAC bag, we'd be able to tell them apart by the monogram!! The bag tag is made using a baseball card sleeve and a binder ring with coordinating ribbons attached. The monogram was stamped with Alpha Grunge stamp set (my all time favorite) and then cut out. By the way, the drill press works great for punching holes through the baseball card sleeve!!

Well, I am going to go for now and try to create something new to post. Hopefully, it won't be a month before I post again since this is one of my New Years' resolutions!! Here's to a great New Year!!>