thank you card set + things-my-kids-said thursdays.

Hi peeps!

I think the constant crafting for the PTI anniversary tired me out a bit.  While I gather whatever's left of my card-making-mojo, here's a "thank you" card set I made for Thomas' preschool teacher as part of her Christmas gift.

The sentiment stamp is a freebie I got for ordering from the lawn fawn store - love that!

And now, I must admit to being flabbergasted when Sofia (age 6) announced that she'd like to bathe in hot chocolate... be cleansed and sip away all at the same time... "it would be delicious and creamy, and I think I would love it."  That's the dream, kid... that's the dream.

Thanks for peeking!

mini-album.

Here's my "brown paper package, tied up with twine" for the current CAS-ual Fridays challenge.  I'm also posting it to our latest Papertrey princess challenge, which was to create a mini-album.

I love crafting with my 6 year old, Sofia.  We made our mini-albums side-by-side.  Hers was titled "things to do for fun" and she drew pictures and wrote cute little captions on each page.  Mine was all about her.  

I started out with a kraft base, die-cut a white label and stamped PTI's "background basics: hearts" onto it in blushing bride ink.  The "what I like about" was computer-generated, and I then stamped an image from "label basics" around it before cutting it out.

As you open up the album, there is a fun little image and greeting in each section.  I used different lawn fawn stamps and greetings, masked them, and added the same hearts background over-top.  Here, I used the cotton candy image and greeting from "admit one."  The floral embellishment is from SU.

The cutie-pie is from "silly valentine."  The little pink pearls were from Simon Says Stamp.

I love those little socks!  They're also from "silly valentine," and the little grey heart was embossed with an SU folder.

The rocking horse is from "pa-rum-pa-pum-pum" and the little tag is from PTI's "tiny tags" die collection.

Here is the final reveal!  Each section can be embellished further, and you could even decorate the back of each side - it's a fun little album :)  The sections all fold into a neat little package.

Hope you liked it!  Sofia actually didn't notice what I was working on - she was so concentrated on her own project.  I'm thinking this would make a completely sweet valentine :)

If anyone is interested in the measurements, drop me a comment or an email - I'd be happy to do a quick little tutorial.

Have a great day!

Candy cane tags.

"brown paper packages, tied up with string - these are a few of my favorite things!"

All of the presents are wrapped, and under the tree, and sporting these tags.  I inked up a sentiment from PTI's "merry little christmas" and stamped it to cover the entire tag sale 5 shape.  I cut out a label-basics shape and stamped the coordinating frame in real red ink (SU).  The candy canes and holly jolly leaves took the longest time to assemble, but so worth it!  The whole thing was adhered to a craft doily (so that it wouldn't be all kraft-on-kraft).  I stamped some bold snowflakes from a lawn fawn set onto the actual packages...

It's the final countdown!  My kids have been waking up, opening the advent calendar, and basically jumping up and down at how little days are left!  I'm trying to slow things down for them - it will be over as quickly as it came, right?  So here's to having Christmas fun with family starting right now *raises mug o' hot chocolate*

Thanks for looking!

CAS-ual Fridays - tic, tac, toe

Hi there!  I hope your weekend was lovely :)  

Now that our family is on the mend, I spent a bit of the day getting re-acquainted with my crafting supplies... 

And my first stop was to the CAS-ual Fridays challenge, where I found a fun "tic, tac, toe" board of choice:

I went with a Pink-chevrons-aqua combination and came up with this card:

I used PTI's "background basics: chevron stripes" in SU's pool party ink to create my aqua pattern.  The sentiment is from a PTI floral fusion set, and the shape it was stamped on is from the "label basics" dies (stamped with a border from the coordinating stamp set.)

To finish off, everything was adhered to a dark brown card base - to match the brown and white twine threaded through the pink button.



Thanks for looking!

CAS-ually embossed.

This week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge is: embossing!

In all honesty, this is my 3rd attempt at a card for this challenge.  I decided the first 2 that I made were pretty, but definitely not clean-and-simple.  I can't seem to heat-emboss without adding layers of stuff on top.  You'll see what I mean when I share the other cards... Anyhow, for this challenge, I dry-embossed instead:

I am so in love with this card... and my new camera lens :)  I added a 50mm lens to my Canon and the blurred background it gives is just the sweetest for photographing my cards... I can't wait to learn a bit more of what it can do!

The vintage cream cardstock (PTI) was embossed with an SU embossing folder.  It gives such a gorgeous texture!  I die-cut an angled label and stamped on it in tumbled glass distress ink with the coordinating image.  The sentiment is from a PTI mat stack set.  The same vine border that lays horizontally across the card was used to cut melon berry felt, and rolled into that scrumptious flower.  Nichole Heady showed how to create one on her blog - it's worth the effort!