New Years Resolutions

One of my goals for next year is to participate in the so Shelli creative challenge every month and what better way to start a goal then to start it early right? Well this month the challenge was to share neighbor gift ideas and here are some gifts that I gave this year.

This first project is an altered notepad with a pen attached. My best friend wanted to make some of these for neighbor gifts and I had so much fun making them with her I decided to make some to give away.

We started with a 5 x 8 inch pad of paper, cut it in half length wise and decorated it. We used some of my favorite retired paper, along with a flower we made using the baskets and blooms bigshot die. The big flower is made out of chipboard and the smaller flower is cut out of felt and attached with a pop-up glue dot. (sorry the picture is so dark, I am still learning how to use my new camera)

I have learned that when covering a notebook with paper you want to use sticky strip to make sure it stays put. Here is a picture of the back, you can see the magnet. (I love having a notepad on my fridge)

This is how I attached the pen. Just loop the ribbon around a pen and put a piece of sticky strip between the ribbon ends, then use another piece to attach it to your notepad.

My mom was so surprised that I found pens to match...... I think she was more surprised when I told her I just slipped a small piece of DSP inside the pen and decorated it myself :)

Here is how I packaged it, just a celo bag and a cute tag. This tag was running sprints this christmas season, I used it a lot! I love giving gifts to my kids teachers and this is the gift they gave their primary teachers at church. I can't take credit for this gift either, my mom came over with the pistacios all ready for me to help her make them look pretty for her neighbors :) Happy New Year everyone!

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Teacher Treats

Ok I know that Thanksgiving is over but I wanted to show you these adorable turkeys that my boys made for their school teachers. To see mine click here.

This First turkey was made by my 3 1/2 year old and he is totally my favorite. I love his face :) (edit - ok I just read this and I laughed I meant that I love this turkey the best. I don't have a favorite child :) This turkey was made by my 6 year old. It actually looks super close to the ones I made... (sorry it is blurry - I can't take another picture - he gave it to his teacher over a week ago)

I love when I find time to make things with my kids.

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Sweet Sunflower

I LOVE the sweet treat cups! This card is one that we made at a class this month. But the ones the ladies made was cuter because we used the sunflower seeds that were still in the shell. Maybe I will make another one someday... To make the flower I just used the scallop 2 die and snipped each petal.

A couple of things I did on this card that are hard to see in the picture:

I sponged Soft Suede ink onto the night and day DSP to blend in with the card a little better.

I was also afraid the greasy sunflower seeds would ruin my card so I punched a circle out of the window sheets and put it behind the sweet treats cup, so far it has worked great!

Stampin' Around

This month at Club we used the Stampin' Around wheels and the Table Setting Die. If you have a question about what we used, just let me know!

Good Night

When I saw this card I decided it was time to dust off my brayer and make one myself. This is a one layer card, I don't make many of them but sometimes they can look really cool.

a little bit of paper...

Do you recognize this box? This is the box the sweet treats cups come in. It starts as an awesome glossy white so I just added some DSP to each side. With a bit of ribbon and a tag it totally transformes it.

Flower Folds Bow

Are you tired of seeing the hairbows I make yet? I love everything made with the flower folds big shot die so this bow is definitely one of my faves.

Shimmering Snowflakes

One of my new favorite things in the Holiday Mini Catalog is the shimmer paint. My friend taught me how to create a spray to make shimmer paper! I loved it so much I wanted to make some snowflakes shine. I know you can't see it in the pictures but in real life these snowflakes (and the corduroy button) are really sparkly.

Where did I put these snow flakes? I made a fun winter album with them. This is a waterfall scrapbook. When you pull the tab on the right the pages flip over! These books are too much fun! This book is a couple inches smaller than others I have made. I just changed up the dimensions. Here are some pictures of the inside pages.

In this last picture you can see most of the hidden page all ready for a photo.

I wish you could see the shine but you will just have to try it yourself :) If you would like me to teach you just let me know!