XL Teacher Thank You...

So my sister calls me the other day and asks for my help. My nephew's teacher asked her to make a card for the entire class to sign for the student teacher that has been helping her out this year. My sister asked if I had any ideas and I immediately thought of Jennifer's FABULOUS Dimensional apple tag. I thought it might be fun to do a supper sized apple. :)

Here is the card. It doesn't look too big in the pic but it is huge. I took a poster board, cut it in half, and then folded one half to create the card. It is plenty big for his class to sign....

Jennifer used an apple die for her tag but there is no apple die this big so I created one. I found an apple outline image during a web search, printed it, and then made an enlarged copy of it. (If you try this, just remember whatever image you use, MUST be a mirror image when you fold it in half!) I traced the image eight times onto red cardstock. Then I cut each one out, folded each in half and starting adhering each one to each other. Such a fun technique.

The photos really don't do it justice. It is so neat in real life...

For the "Thank You" at the bottom, I just drew a sentence strip and wrote Thank You on it. Easy Peasy...

Aren't teachers the best?! I was a Preschool teacher for many years and I know first hand how much it is appreciated when all of your hard work is noticed. :)

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

MUSIC MONDAY

I haven't done a MUSIC MONDAY in what seems like forever. So here's 5 songs on my ipod right now that I love...

Retreat Cards..

Hi friends. Before I get to today's cards, the winner of the Stampin' Up goodies from last post is CHARK! Congrats. Email me your address and I'll get your goodies to you.

Today, I have three cards to share that I made last weekend at a crafting retreat. I worked on Aiden's scrapbook for most of the weekend but did manage to get a few cards done!

The weekend was amazing. I was surronded by the most amazingly talented group of women. Not only are they talented, but have hearts of gold. Teri was one of these women and I was lucky enough to play with some of the stamps that she designs. LOVE her stamps. Good stuff. (Sorry for dark pics..posting in a hurry...no time to edit) ....

I love that I could be super simple with these cards and let her stamps take center stage...

This one for my hubby...

Last one..

 

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a fabulous weekend! 

Another Giveaway!! (Stampin' Up)

Hello friends. Today I have ANOTHER GIVEAWAY for you but first I wanted to announce the winner of the Bubble Gum ink pad from the last post....Congratulations Sara! Email me you address and I will send out your goodies. :)

So I recently received an email from Stampin' Up asking if I would like to work with some of their products that they are releasing in June. I happily accepted the invitation and they sent me the adorable "A Round Array" 6 piece stamp set and the yummy 7/8" scallop punch. I loved working with the products so much that I created THREE cards. :) Here's a peek at them...

As you can see, I decided to keep the same design for all three but mixed up the colors and greetings. Here is the first one. A Thank You card...

A For You card...

 and a You Make Me Smile card...

To create this card....

1. Stamp the open scallop image in VersaMark ink randomly on your card. Sprinkle white embossing powder on top of each one and heat set.

2. Stamp coordinating color of ink (that matches your patterned paper) randomly on your card too. The embossed image will create a cool ghost look next to them. :)

3. Punch a large scalloped circle out of patterned paper and adhere it to the right, lower section of your card.

4. Cut an inch strip of gray cardstock and punch 4 scalloped circles out of coordinating patterned paper. Decorate them with brads, buttons, string, and pearls.

5. For the last scalloped circle, Stamp a sentiment from the "A Round Array" Stampin' Up stamp set in grey ink then line up your Stampin' Up Scallop punch to match them image and punch it out.

6. Adhere all the scalloped circles onto the strip of cardstock.

7. Ink the edges of your card with grey ink.

8. Adhere the strip of scallop circles to the card.

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY....Stampin' Up was so generous and sent me another set of all the goodies (plus a clear acrylic block) to give away to one of my blog readers...

Just leave a comment to this post and I will pick one lucky winner one week from today (April 11th). Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!

Bunny Tails + GIVEAWAY!

Today I wanted to share some Easter treats I've been working on....

I've hoarded, I mean collected, these plastic tubes for awhile now and filled them with tiny marshmallows to give to my nieces and nephews tomorrow. Here is a close up of the tag using THIS favorite stamp of mine..

To create the tag....

1. Stamp the bunny stamp onto white cardstock using VersaMark black ultra fine ink and sprinkle clear embossing powder on top. Shake off excess powder and heat set.

2. Using THIS frame die-cut, cut your image out to create a tag.

3. Apply some glossy accents to the tails and press on some velvet flock to make the tails "fuzzy".

4. Punch a hole on the left side of the tag and add a blue circle around the hole punched out of pool layering paper.

5. Print out "Bunny Tails" onto some white cardstock. (I used the Print Clearly Font) and mat it in the pool layering paper. Attach it to the tag.

Another fun idea for bunny tails would be white gumballs in place of the marshmallows. Speaking of bubble gum, I HAVE AN EXTRA HERO ARTS BUBBLE GUM INK PAD TO GIVEAWAY...

Just leave a comment to be entered for a chance to win. I will draw a name next Thursday morning (April 3rd).

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Easter!

NEON

I didn't think I would jump on the neon bandwagon, but I did. :) I recently went shopping and spotted some neon nail polish that I had to get for a friend and it inspired me to break out my neon inks and create a card to go with it....

 

I used the NEON Ink Cubes from Hero Arts and swiped it across three pieces of a star embossed background (star embossing plate from Hobby Lobby-Paper Studio line)...

I added the sentiment from the Hero Arts Glow Girl Stamp Set and colored it in with a sparkle pen and finished it off with some metallic string that I found in the Target Dollar Spot...

I'm now loving the neon. How about you? Have you tried it yet?

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Store Bought with a Handmade Touch...

Hello friends. Since I shared Aiden's birthday pictures on the last post, I'd thought I'd show you the thank you cards I'm sending out to the guests. I bought a pack of monster thank you cards from the store but they felt kinda plain so I gave them a handmade touch.

The pack had more than enough cards that I would need so I took the extras and cut up the pieces that I wanted to double up......

I decided to mount the front piece of the store bought card to a Hero Arts notecard. Then I added googly eyes to both monsters and as for the extra red monster I cut up....

I added him on top of the matching image with a spring...

 

...so the kids will get a kick out of the lil' dancing monster. :)

Now I just have to include some pictures of the party inside the card and they are ready to be mailed!

 

Thanks for stopping by!