Pink and Green

My newest set of magnets and a Tucked Away box are super duper girly and I love it! It's always so easy to come up with girly items when I have to. I used some of the paper leftover from Lexi's room again. The stripes and the flower are from Paper Source and the polka dots are from DCWV. I also have a fun one added in...it's a birthday girl paper from Taylored Expressions. Doesn't every girl loves presents and birthday parties and ice cream? :)


Instead of doing a ribbon or bow or button, I thought I'd make the box even more girly and add some Prima flowers on top in coordinating colors. I layered two and then secured them in place with a green brad from taylored expressions.


Here's a close up of the magnets.

And you can see that I did the back side in the stripes, too. I thought it was a bit blah without it! I think that flower magnets is super cute, too.

Just a note....stick around with me. I'm having a FAB giveaway here on the blog starting Friday morning!!! Make sure you check back!

td snapshots take 2

I partnered up again with my friend Tammy from td snapshots to make her a few more boxes to hand out her pictures in. She had decided that she wanted something thinner than what I came up with in the first go-around (if you don't recall, here's what I did before). She wanted more of an envelope style box.

This one I came up with all on my own without using anything I found on the web :) I really like how the finished product looks. It's still clean and simple. The ribbon goes through both the bottom and top rounded edges to help secure it in place.

Trick or Treat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM NEMO!!!

Little Nemo had a BLAST on Thursday night walking around Grandpa's neighborhood. We hit up 10 houses that are on his Loop (not a court, a loop...lol). By the end, she was loving it and really got the hang of putting her bag out and putting the candy in it. I couldn't believe how much she got in those houses...her bag was FULL to the top and that's without Uncle Jake giving her any when we got back to the house!

We had the perfect weather for TOT and I'm so glad Lexi did so well. We went out about 6:15 and were back by 6:45 and it was still light outside so no worries about getting run over or anything! This last picture says it all "Off and running!".

Fall

Here's another Tucked Away box and set of magnets. These was were fall themed and I was really disappointed I couldn't find any new fall paper that would work for this without ordering online. I don't really have any orange ribbons or buttons or anything, so I used PTI's Summer Sunrise for the ribbon and some brads from the Making Memories Harvest Collection. The patterened paper comes from Basic Grey.

I really like this new paper I found (the flower in the front). Got it at the big Jo-Ann's sale last weekend. There's a bunch of different colored flowers on the 12x12 sheet, so I chose this once since it matched the fall theme the best. The striped paper is another one I found at the sale, too :)

Christmas Blog Hop

Whoo hoo! It's that time again! PTI blog hop! This month's challenge was to do anything and everything Christmas. Since I'm already in that frame of mind, this wasn't too difficult! :) I went back to Nichole's blog and found the Holiday Cards 101 from 2008 as my inspiration. I love Heather Nichols Jingle all the way card! I let that serve as my inspiration and came up with this...

I did a set of six cards, a notepad and envelopes to match. They'll be an early Christmas gift so the recipient has time to use the cards! I used Merry and Bright and stamped the snowflakes in Fresh Snow and Ripe Avocado on Kraft. Each piece has Fresh Snow adding a little extra detail on the edges. Then, I stamped a tree in Scarlet Jewel and cut it out and adhered it overtop a Scarlet Jewel ribbon. The sentiment is stamped in Dark Chocolate from Dawn's Signature Christmas set.

I used the same idea on my notepad, just a different layout. I made sure to attach the ribbon on the back with some tape so it'll stay when it gets opened.

The inside, I used Nichole's template to make. Such an easy thing to do and it's a great place to put those Christmas receipts in one spot! I did a little snowflake around the edge just to add a little touch.

The envelope I stamped a few snowflakes in Ripe Avocado just to tie everything together. I really like how this all turned out! Helps when you have good inspiration :)

Supplies (all PTI):

Paper - Ripe Avocado, Kraft, Stampers Select White

Ink - Fresh Snow, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate, Scarlet Jewel

Stamps - Merry and Bright, Signature Christmas

Other - Scarlet Jewel Ribbon, notepad

Captured Card Case

I was asked to make a set of 8 (yes, EIGHT) magnets for a birthday girl. Only stipulation was they had to be fun. Since I was doing so many, I needed a bigger box to put them in. I haven't used the captured card case lately, so I pulled that one out. It worked perfectly!

For the base of the box, I used Stamper's Select White. The top is done in Lemon Tart. I love the dp, it's one from Hobby Lobby. I actually used this back when Lexi was born and it covers one of the letters that hang on her wall that spell out her name. Amazing that I still have it! But, one of my goals is to cut down on my paper, so that means trying to use up what I have. Once I do, then I can go buy the paper I really want! :)

I did the magnets in all sorts of papers...the one on the far left is from the paper on top of the box :) I *think* they go together...I had a hard time trying to find 8 different complementary papers on hand!

To add a little extra to the box, I tied a Raspberry Fizz ribbon on and added 5 Raspberry Fizz flower buttons. Love those buttons..I think they're so cute!!

Color Challenge #18

I had a bit of time tonight to play in Dawn's Color Challenge. The colors weren't too hard, but right now, the only thing I need to make (besides some baby shower invites! yay!) are Christmas cards. So...how to turn these colors and this inspiration picture into Christmas? Here's what I came up with!

I used the card on the front of Paper Crafts Christmas publication as my inspiration. I stamped two of the trees from Merry and Bright onto some random scraps I had in my stash to get the Dark Chocolate and Green and then cut them out. I like the different sizes and on two of them, I only used the top two portions of the tree.

Underneath, I had a base of Rustic Cream, Raspberry Fizz and then Kraft. I tied the Rustic Twine around my paper and then threaded the Raspberry Fizz and Dark Chocolate Buttons onto it, tied it and trimmed it off. What do you think of the heart button? Isn't it cute? I also used the tea dye duo to ink up all my edges to give it a little bit of warmth.

Supplies used (All PTI unless noted):

Paper - Rustic Cream, Raspberry Fizz, Kraft, unknown dp

Stamps - Merry and Bright

Ink - Dark Chocolate, Tea Dye Duo

Other - Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Fizz Vintage Buttons, Rustic Jute Twine