I love Buttons!

I finally did it

What you ask?

Mailed out my Christmas Cards which had turned into my New Year's Cards and I suppose now they are my Valentine's Cards... To bad I had enclosed a family photo collage titled "Frederick Family 2010", I could have played it off and said that I was just early for next Christmas ;o)

This card set was created for my Grandmother.
She actively blesses the elderly shut ins, ill, and grieving members of her church with hand written notes.
What a wonderful ministry!

CHALLENGES I USED:
Corrosive Challenge: Button it up
My Time to Craft: Emboss (hopefully you can see that I embossed the first, large layer of DP)
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Whateva (you do have to stamp something)
Dutch Dare Card Challenge: Buttons, Buttons Buttons
Paper Play: Stamp It Out
Pile It On: Punch It (I used the ticket corner punch)
..............Supplies I used.................
Stamps: Paper Trey Ink
Papers: Stampin Up (patterned papers), Paper Trey Ink (white)
Ink: Momento, Stampin Up (markers used on the flower in pot, real red on bicycle)
Buttons: Paper Trey Ink, some are from my stash
Toons: Stampin Up (embossing folder, ticket corner punch), Spellbinders Nestabilities (labels 4 & scalloped ovals)

Teacher Appreciation Gift Sets

New Year, New School, New Teachers,
one thing remains the same
our
APPRECIATION
for
TEACHERS

At the end of the last school year, I made little gift sets just like these!! ABC Toys & Crafts along with Little Red Wagon, Stamp Something, The Pixie Cottage AND Shirley's 2 Girls are all having "BACK TO SCHOOL" Challenges and these were so much fun to put together that I decided they would be a great way to start of this school year.

Each set includes:

10 - note cards in red, blue, yellow, purple & orange

FRONT of Note Card ---->

BACK of Note Card ---->

20 - "This Book Belongs To The Library Of " stickers

1 - Personalized paper clip

CHALLENGES I USED:
ABC Toys & Crafts: Back to School
Stamp Something: Back to School & a DT Search
The Shabby Tea Room: A Little Bit of Metal along with a photo inspiration (I liked the shabby colors which I used in my packaging & I used a metal paper clip)
Little Red Wagon: Back to School
The Pixie Cottage: Back to School &/or their sketch (I chose just to use the theme)
Shirley's 2 Girls: Back to School w/a "Twist to use Letters or Numbers" (I used both on the belly band of my packaging )
.....................Supplies I used..................
Stamps: Crafty Secrets (book lovers ), Paper Trey Ink (teachers apple)
Ink: Momento black, Stampin Up (real red, close to cocoa)
Cardstock: Stampin Up (real red, elegant eggplant, yo yo yellow, pacific point, tangerine tango, whisper white)
Patterned Paper: Autumn Leaves (Hall Pass)
Tools: Marvy Uchida (large scalloped circle punch), Spellbinders (Nestabilities Labels 7 die)
Misc: Paper Trey Ink (small wax bags, 8 1/2" x 11" adhesive sticker sheets), K & Co (blank tags), metal paper clips, ribbon scraps

Funky lil gift card holder

With the mad rush of last minute gifts to make, packages to wrap, boxes to mail, baking that didn't get done, I still have a couple of projects that I wanted to share.

If you look closely at this funky 6"x6" card, you will see that it is actually a pocket containing a gift card. The best part is that 3-D stocking. I shaded it a bit then used my finger to poof it up. I didn't want it to collapse so I cut two slender strips of packing foam and glued in the center prior to adhering it to the card front.
Challenges:
The Pink Elephant: 2 designer papers, 3 buttons, snowflakes
Our Creative Corner: clean & simple

Halloween Party Invitation

My project today is a fun and rather unique Halloween Party Invitation, although it was completely inspired by the original idea of a gift card holder. Not so sure that my coloring is unique to say the least. Sometimes I can't get past those colored labels, however, days like today, I am so thankful to have them as my inspiration.
The Halloween Bat & Halloween Haunted Bird House stamps are my newest Inkadinkado stamps from ABC Toys & Crafts. The sentiment on the outside of the belly band "We will have a screaming good time" is from the EEK a Monster stamp set by My Cute Stamps.

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..............Supplies I used...............
Stamps: Inkadinkado (halloween haunted bird house, halloween bat), My Cute Stamps (eek a monster)
Patterned Paper: Imaginisce (hallowhimsy-lollipop lizzy)
Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink (smokey shadow), SU (lavender lace, natural)
Ink: Copic Markers, Momento black
Ribbon: The Paper Studio (polka dot purple)