Baby's First

Not that I have a need for a baby page, but I kinda want to keep this for myself. I really like how the page turned out.

The DSP is old SU paper I have had for quite a while. The cardstock is Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, and Certainly Celery. Ink is SU's grey.

Pucker Up Valentine!!

To continue with the Valentines theme, I've been trying to come up with some cute sayings to go with stamps I already have, instead of investing in new ones just for the sentiments. Here I have create two cards using the lemon/lime/orange/grapefruit stamp in Tart & Tangy (SU). Unfortunately the yellow lemons didn't pop that well. However; the limes really shine.


Ingredients:
Stamps: Tart & tangy (SU)
Ink: Wild Wasabi (SU)
Paper: Wild Wasabi (SU); White (PTI)
Accessories: Computer generate sentiment; Nesties; ribbon

Ingredients:
Stamps: Tart & Tangy (SU)
Ink: Lemon tart (PTI)
Paper: Barley Banana (SU); White (PTI)
Accessories: Computer generated sentiment; nesties; Lemon Tart Saddle Stitch Ribbon (PTI)

Spoiler Alert To Family--Christmas Gifts Below!

It's that time of the month where Papertrey Ink challenges their customers to participate in the Blog Hop. This month the Blog Hop asks us to share our Christmas cards, gifts, and packaging ideas. Unfortunately I didn't receive my Papertrey Ink Package yet that had tons of packaging and gift ideas inside (nugget tins, tea tins, take note pads, etc) so I thought I would share with you what I have started on. The post is a little long today, but please enjoy.

First of all lets start with my Holiday Inspiration Table. I take all my Christmas themed stamps, paper, and embellishments and lay it all out so I can see what I have. It helps sparks inspiration and reminds me of all the items I have.

This basket contains nuggets (finally found some here in town); peppermint patties, snack bags, plastic card boxes, candy canes, recipe book, and PTI holiday stamps. Underneath is a huge package of paper, along with more holiday paper behind the basket.
Here you can see my other stamps; a Santa bag filled with kraft gift bags to decorate; vintage buttons; jingle bells; PTI ribbon; punches; and tons of holiday embellishments I found at Micheal's.

Now onto some gifts:
Snowmen Peppermint Patties

I took my scallop punch and punched out white scallops for both the front and back of each peppermint patty. I used my single hole punch to create the black coal buttons and the eyes. The hat is punched using SU 1 1/4" square punch and the word window punch. I then drew on the nose and mouth using copics. The punch art idea came from various people who shared on Splitcoaststampers, so thank you.
I then took the little snowmen and placed two in a small glassine bag from PTI. I then wrapped some PTI Enchanted Evening Ribbon around the bag, added a top note die topper in Enchanted Evening which was stamped in Fresh Snow (PTI) using a snowflake stamp set from SU. To finish it off I added a tag (sentiment To: From: comes from PTI's Halloween Tag set), and a marvy extra jumbo (yellow) snowflake punch with a Enchanted Evening Vintage Button, and a little Noel sentiment, stamped onto a punched marvy extra jumbo scallop square, from Dawn McVeys handwritten Signature Christmas set.
Here they are all packaged up!

Now onto some hot chocolate & other drink gifts:

As I posted the other day I made Trendy Tubes Hot Chocolate gifts. You can find the post here. These are individual gifts but I plan on using PTI's Tea Tin to create a family version along with some other treats to eat and drink on a cold Northern Canadian winter's day! All the treat ideas will be packaged up into a nice basket. If you also look at the post below this one you will see a PTI plastic card box that I have decorated. I have placed some drink items inside.

Now onto reusing PTI Stamp boxes:

I have a soon to be SIL whom I have just met. The two of us went to Sweet Flour in Toronto where you can create your own cookie and have it baked in front of you. Now my brother is Vegan so can't eat this sweet delicious treat, so I have put together a Hot Chocolate, Peppermint Patty, Gift Certificate package. I am reusing a PTI Stamp box to put together this package.

To create the Gingerbread Peppermint patty I used my scallop punch again, and just added some small circles to create the arms and legs. The sugarcoating is created using a white ballpoint pen. Added some hole punched red circles for buttons and a small ribbon as a bow. The box is wrapped in dark chocolate paper which has been stamped using a gingerbread stamp in Fresh Snow Ink (PTI). Ribbon was then wrapped around the box and jingle bells were added to the bow.
On the right of the above picture is a Gingerbread man created from the Top Note Die, marvy oval punch (blue), 3/4" circle punch, and the 1 1/4" circle punch cut in half to create the eye lids. The gingerbread man's edges were inked with Fresh Snow to make it look like icing. Then on the back of the gingerbread man I die cut another top note die, but cut it in half. I adhered just the edges so that it becomes a little pocket and the gift certificate to Sweet Flour will fit inside.

Here are two other Top Note Die Gift Certificate holders I made. Another gingerbread one and a snowman.

Do you see the gift that is illuminated???? Alot of people are making these these days. It is simply a glass cube (this one is repurposed from a lady's house here in town, but you can buy them at your local hardware store). You tie ribbon around it, tie a bow and decorate, drill a hole into the back side, and feed a small set of Christmas lights into the back. Neat huh???
Here is what I haven't gotten to. My to do list:

1. Nugget Tins

2. Alter Tea Tin into Family Hot Chocolate Package

3. Pillow Box gift certficate holders

4. Note Books

5. Christmas Crackers (heres last years picture) This year the items inside wont be cheesy

6. Still need to decorate my kraft pages.

Stay tuned for views of all of these, plus my Christmas Cards. I am not posting my cards here as I did not use any PTI supplies on them (as I made them last year).

Thanks for stopping by.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!, or so it seems on everyones blogs. Papertrey Ink is having it's monthly countdown to their stamp release date of September 15th, and this month it's everything Christmas. I already have my Christmas cards done, and kinda know what I'm doing for gifts, so I thought I would spend today whipping up some cards to go on my gifts this year.

My colour inspiration came from this DSP paper I have had for a while now. We R Memory Keepers: Christmas-Holly

I started by cuting my 8 1/2 x 11" paper into 3" strips. I then randomly stamped various images creating my own DSP onto SU Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery and Rose Red cardstock.

I then cut out tags from Kraft cardstock that was 3" x 4 " and adheared the different strips of DSP I made. I then added some sentiments and some ribbon, and voila.......Christmas card tags; Finished and Done!

Ingredients:
Stamps: SU Little Holiday Wishes; SU To You and Yours; SU The Snowflake Spot; PTI Holiday Treats; PTI Polka Dots II; PTI Guidelines; PTI 2009 Halloween Tags; Holiday Time-Holiday Treats (Walmart)

Paper: SU Bashful Blue; SU Certainly Celery; SU Rose Red; SU Kraft; We R Memory Keepers DSP "Christmas-Holly"

Ink: SU Bashful Blue; SU Certainly Celery; SU Rose Red; SU Always Artichoke; SU Chocolate Chip; PTI Fresh Snow

Accessoreis: Ribbon; Buttons; Punches; Pop Dots

Getting Back To Nature

Since it is the long weekend (Labour Day in Canada) I have been busy in the scrap room today. I finished my Halloween Cards that I posted yesterday. I am working on making punched turkeys for a number recognition activity for my Kindergarten students (turkeys have a number on their belly, they have to add that number of feathers), and I am trying to get together some cards to donate to my Catholic Women's League Bazaar in October.



So here are two more cards I've made:



"Turtle Me Pink!"

Ingredients:
Stamps: PTI Pond Life; PTI Polka Dots; PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Paper: SU Pink Passion; SU Whisper White; SU Wild Wasabi
Ink: SU Rose Red; SU Chocolate Chip; SU Bashful Blue; SU Blush Blossom; SU Chalks (old olive, bashful blue)
Accessories: Ribbon; button; embroidery floss; EZ Success punch


Now on to "Happy Hunting":

Ingredients:
Stamps: SU Nature Silhouettes; SU Backwoods

Paper: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Always Artichoke; SU Whisper White

Ink: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Always Artickoke; Copics

Copics used: E33, E35, G99; YG67; C-5, E47; Colourless Blender

Witches; Ghosts and Pumpkins Galore

I decided to finally ink up my new PTI order and create some halloween cards.

Ingredients "BOO":

Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI Summer Sunrise; PTI True Black; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: SU Only Orange; Basic Black
Accessories: Black grosgrain ribbon; PTI Vintage Button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Fright Night":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise; black; SU Only Orange
Accessories: Saddle Stitch ribbon; PTI Vintage button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Black Cat":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds; PTI Polka Dots II
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White
Ink: PTI Plum Pudding; black
Accessories: PTI Plum Pudding Satin Ribbon; PTI Vintage buttons; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Ingredients "Creeping by":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags; SU Halloween Backgrounds
Paper: PTI True Black; PTI Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: PTI Summer Sunrise; black
Accessories: Ribbon; PTI Vintage button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch


Ingredients "Le Fantome":
Stamps: PTI Halloween Tags
Paper: PTI True Black; SU Whisper White; PTI DSP Hocus Pocus
Ink: Black
Accessories: PTI Summer Sunrise swiss dot ribbon; button; embroidery floss; 1 3/4" circle punch; 2" scalloped circle punch

Since I had PTI's Halloween Tags out on my desk I dedided to use up some scraps and create 18 tags for my students. I will use these tags on their halloween treats this year.

August Papertrey Bloghop

Hello Everyone...time for another Papertrey Bloghop. Thanks for stopping by!! While you are here why not check out the rest of my postings. Unfortunately I cannot post to the PTI Gallery. I don't have a photo program to resize my pictures, so the gallery wont let me upload any. :(

My inspiration for fall was a kraft gift bag and remembrance of twig frames created as a kid.

The sentiment reads "Nuttin' is better than saying thanks so much".

All I did for this gift bag was cut the DSP down to size; Stamp the PTI Guide Lines background stamp in Chocolate Chip ink; stamp the tree then cut it out; stamp the images and cut them out; punch a fence; print off the sentiment; find some twigs and twine the ends together and voila my simple yet cute fall gift bag.

Ingredients:

Stamps: PTI My Punny Valentine; PTI Guide Lines; PTI Mega Mixed Messages; SU Season of Friendship

Paper: SU Kraft; SU Chocolate Chip; Martha Stweart fall DSP

Ink: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Summer Sun; SU Pumpkin Pie; SU Really Rust; SU Ruby Red; SU Old Olive; PTI Lemon Tart; PTI Fresh Snow

Accessories: Martha Stewart Fence punch; kraft gift bag; twigs; computer font sentiment; twine

A little back to school gift for myself; MTTC05

A special back to school gift for myself:

Lauren Meader has posted her newest Timeless Template Challenge. She has challenged everyone to make a gift using one of her templates with a back to school theme. Well since I am a teacher I thought I would make myself a gift for going back to school. I am hoping to get done a few templates to use on my desk this year using Filed with Flair and Perfect Match Box, but we are headed camping this weekend....and all the packing has been left up to me as my DH is working till 430pm. So instead I quickly put together an assessment folder using All Boxed Up. I always use cue cards to keep track of my anecdotal assessment notes. I thought why not put it into a cute little folder that also has sticky notes to use.

(Click on the photo for a better look)I teach Junior Kindergarten (4 year olds) and throughout each school term (there are 3) I will constantly make anecdotal comments and notes to be used later during report card time. To ensure all the comments are in one spot (my sticky notes use to end up all over the place) I started using cue cards. As you will notice I only used one pocket on the right hand side which houses my cue cards that are alphabetic and hole punched to fit a ring. On the left hand side are some sticky notes to use as well.

Ingredients:
Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy; PTI Simple Alphabet; letter A
Ink: Black; SU Pink Passion
Paper: PTI True Black; PTI Raspberry Fizz; SU Whisper White
Accessories: Lauren Meader's My Timeless Template "All Boxed Up"; Circle Punch; Saddle Stich black ribbon (Micheal's); cue cards; ring; pen

Another Colour Challenge

So today we had yet another thunder storm. The thunder and lightning has been crazy the last 3 days. The amount of rain that has been pelting down is just drenching. It's been really hard to get errands done, and tomorrow we are suppose to be having a BBQ with family that has driven from out of town. It seems as if we have only seen the sun for about 4 days the last two months. It's been so dark and dismal these last few months that I decided to add some cheer to the day by completing another My Time to Colour Challenge from Lauren Meader. This week I used the colours Lemon Tart, Ocean Tides, Plum Pudding and Berry Sorbet from Papertrey Ink, along with Whisper White from SU to match the inspiration below. (A reminder of summer....something I haven't seen in over a year) Nice bright colours.

I apologize for the dark photo. With the crappy weather we have been having there isn't any natural light to help with the photo.

It is hard to see but the Plum Pudding layer has been embossed using the damask template. The scalloped oval is a Big Shot die from SU that I used on my cuttlebug. I decided to punch some holes in the scallops for some added decoration. The stamps are from Botanical Blooms and the sentiment is from Nature Silhouettes, both SU.

Ingredients:

Stamps: SU Botanical Blooms; SU Nature Silhouettes

Paper: PTI Lemon Tart; PTI Ocean Tides; PTI Plum Pudding; PTI Berry Sorbet; SU Whisper White

Ink: SU Mellow Moss; SU Perfect Plum; PTI Lemon Tart

Accessories: Lemon Tart Silk Ribbon; Scalloped Oval Die (SU)

Quick Post

I have a quick post today as I was at my other school getting my other classroom ready. Also had to finish cleaning up my scrap room. Last night I decided to move everything around.

Here is a card I made last night for Matt. A girl that works for him made a pancake breakfast for everyone and he wanted to give her a thank you.

Ingredients:

Stamps: PTI Guide Lines; SU Botanical Blooms; thank you sentiment; PTI Holiday treats (dots on circle)

Ink: SU Rose Red; SU Bashful Blue; SU Perfect Plum

Paper: SU Hostess DSP; SU Lovely Lilac; SU Kraft

Accessories: button; ribbon; embroidery floss; pinking shears

Splitcoast's Clean And Simple Challenge 25

Well it's pouring rain here AGAIN!! So much for having a summer. Oh well, it allowed me some time to scrap today. I haven't done any of Splitcoaststampers Challenges recently, so thought it was about time. Today's cards are for the Clean & Simple Challenge #25 that uses Krystie’s Sweet Cherries as a guide. Since she used cherries it reminded me of my SU Tart & Tangy stamp set and the coordinating DSP. So here are my version of a Clean & Simple Card following Krystie's simple and amazing layout.


Clean & Simple Fruits:


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Clean & Simple Fruits: Cherries


When I think of Cherries I often think of the slot machines at Casinos...hence the sentiment of "Good Luck".

Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy, PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: Certainly Celery and Real Red Stampin' Write Markers; Black
Paper: SU Whisper White; SU Black; SU DSP Summer Picnic
Accessories: Real Red satin Ribbon

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Clean & Simple Fruits: Strawberry

The ribbon I used on this card reminds me of a picnic blanket. Here in Northern Ontario strawberry picking is a popular summer activity...so hence the sentiment "celebrate today". However, with this crappy rainy weather, there hasn't been much celebrating.

Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy, PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, and Real Red Stampin' Write Markers; SU Real Red Paper: SU Whisper White; SU Black; SU DSP Summer Picnic
Accessories: Picnic Blanket Ribbon

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Clean & Simple Fruits: Orange

Orange is such a cheery colour that I decided to choose a cheery message to match.

Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy, PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: SU Only Orange

Paper: SU Whisper White; SU Black; SU DSP Summer Picnic
Accessories: PTI Summer Sunrise Swiss Dot Ribbon

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Clean & Simple Fruits: Apple

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" or so lets hope.

Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy, PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Ink: SU Always Artichoke
Paper: SU Whisper White; SU Black; SU DSP Summer Picnic
Accessories: SU Mellow Moss Grosgrain Ribbon