Leslee's Birthday Bag

Good Morning everyone, today I wanted to share with you a cute little bag that I filled with just a few fun goodies like some crafty embellishments, gum, body spray, etc.. for a friend of mine. We recently went to lunch together to celebrate both of our Birthdays, and I surprised her with this little bag! 

The bag came from a pad by Colorbok called Create A Box. It has a bunch of pre-cut and scored bags and boxes.  I used some Ranger Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to blend in and soften the edges of the box and then I embellished the bag with a stamp and die set from Sizzix & Lori Whitlock. I used my MISTI to stamp the images in Versamark, applied white embossing powder from Stampendous, then heat set with my heat gun from Darice. I used some watercolors to paint my images. I cut out the images with the coordinating dies using my Cuttlebug. To finish it off I applied some Crystal Clear & Marshmallow Sequins from PPP using Ranger Multi Medium Matte and then tied a bow at the top to give it that extra touch.

I tried to give links to most of my supplies, a lot of them are linked to the manufacturer but you can also buy most of them from Simon Says Stamp or Amazon.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you have a fun and crafty day!

Thanks for everything

Good morning to all, today I wanted to share with you a card I made just to have on hand. You can never have enough thank you cards for all those wonderful people in your life that help you out when you need it. 

I really like the color combination I used on this card and I love the sparkle in the flowers too!

Supplies:

"Delight in Everything" stamp set from CTMH

Thanks stamp set from SSS

Ink colors from Memento: London Fog, Grape Jelly, Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, Tangelo, Rose Bud. 

The yellow is Memento Versa Magic in Thatched Straw. 

 Wink of Stella Fine Glitter Dust Pens from Zig

Pink paper is from my stash

Flower paper is from Doodlebug

Green paper is Colorbok

Marshmallow cardstock from Bazzill

White gel pen

Thanks for taking a look today, let me know what you think!

Teacher Appreciation 2013

Hello everyone, it's been a while because I spent all my time making an inventory for a craft booth I had at our local city festival.  I wanted to show you some of my older projects that I forgot to post in the spring.  Today it's all about Teacher appreciation. 

My daughter's second grade teacher loves Mickey and Minnie Mouse, so this is what I came up with to decorate her door.  She loved it! I cut some Mickey ears using the Mickey and friends cart. and put the names of each kid in her class on them. The red ones are the girls and the boys are the black ears.

Now this thank you gift bag was made for my 14 yr. old daughter's art teacher.  I used the Once upon a Princess cart for the bag. Patterned paper is from a Colorbok paper pad.  The stamps and punch are from Stampin' Up. The ink used was from SEI.

This bag was made for Tehya's Chinese teacher.  Cartridge is TBBM. paper is from SEI. I used prima flowers and the brads and ribbon are from my stash.  The thank you stamp is from My Cute Stamps and the ink is Colorbox.

I love making things for other people and seeing their faces light up at receiving the gift.

I have many more projects to show you now that I have more time.  I look forward to catching you guys up on all my creations and I can't wait to check out what you all have been up to.

Thanks for visiting my blog today and I hope you will return to see more. Let me know what you think of my projects, I love to read your comments!

Birthday Bags #1, #2 and #3

Here are a few of the birthday bags I made for my soccer girls this year.  Sorry I haven't posted for a while. life is just crazy!  All the bags were cut from the TBBM cartridge.

For the first bag I used a chipboard embellishment from imaginesce.  The scalloped circle and the stamp are from Stampin' Up. I used white embossing powder from Stampedous and pink Stickles for some sparkle.  

Scalloped circle, stamp and ink are Stampin' Up. Stickles for the glitter. Black glitter paper is from Coordinations, patterned paper is from my stash.

Paper is from the Colorbok Confetti paper pad, Stamp is from Close to my Heart. I used white embossing powder and the ribbon is from the $1 bin at JoAnn's.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my projects, there are many more to share.  I am super busy getting ready for our local fair where I have a booth of homemade crafts.  I am creating everyday I just haven't had the time to post.  So I am hoping I can sneak in a post here and there as I am working on everything.  Let me know what you think of my projects and I wish you all a happy crafting day!

 

Happy Easter and Thank You card

Happy Easter everyone, I wanted to make this quick post because I made this Thank you card to enter into some fun challenges.  First up is My Craft Spot where the challenge was Strings & things, and the other one is at the Use It Tuesday blog. Their challenge was all about spring! get out your old products that you haven't used in a while and make something.

Here is my card:

Paper is from Colorbok-(the patterned paper is the first sheet I have used out of this stack)

The Twine is brand new from Michaels

The stamp and punch were used for the first time on this card & both are from Stampin' Up

The flowers are from my stash that I have had for years.

Thanks for checking out my creations,  I hope you have been inspired!

My Friend

My little Trinity was Student of the week last week and part of that was that she could take a treat in and share with her class.  When I asked her what she wanted to do for her treat she said she wanted me to make cupcakes but I explained that the schools don't let us do things like that anymore and what we did would have to be store bought.  So then she looked at me and said "treat bags".  So once again I made some treat bags. 
I made these ones simple and a little smaller.

Patterned paper is from a Colorbok paper pack from Wal-Mart.

circle and scalloped circle were cut from Mini-Monograms cart.

Flower and sentiment stamp both came from My Pink Stamper

Inks used were from SEI, Stampin' Up, and Momento Tuxedo Black.

Thanks for taking a peek today!