Happy First Day of School

It's our daughter's first day of high school (grade 9) today. I can't believe I'm the mom of a 14 year old. I gave birth to her 7 years ago now - and trust me, it's not easy giving birth to a 7 year old - but it is totally worth it!

Back to School - Part 3

...and this is the suitcase that the card, chocolate and other goodies (you need an assortment of s-f gum, etc. to go back to school don'tcha-know?!)

The suitcase is ala Becky's tutorial (see the set I made here). I thought I'd make my girl a suitcase kind-of symbolically - you know 'oh the places you'll go...' She has amazing dreams - so we want to give them wings (aka the butterflies:)

Back to School - Part 2

...and this is the matchbox full of chocolate that goes along with the letter... every girl needs some chocolate of course when she's facing something new;)

Back to School - Part 1

Every year when our daughter goes back to school I write her a letter to tell her how special she is and give her encouragement for the year - and I try to come up with some creative way to give it to her (along with some treats;)

This is the card I'm writing the letter in this year...

DSP is 'Tessa's Fairytale'
CS is all SU

Matchbox File Cabinet

I got the idea for this from Becky (she made one for the SU convention boards). I don't even remember where I got the dsp from (I grabbed it from my scrap pile;). The CS is SU.

All you do is make 4 matchboxes and then attach them with sticky-strip, cover with dsp and voila - a mini-cabinet:)

Paper Bag Purse

I made this little 'purse' out of a paper bag (...and some Basic Grey dsp; the ribbon and cardstock are both SU). Here's a link to the tutorial I used from Becki - thank Becki for such great inspiration!

It's a set

As you've probably figured out, my posts the last few days form a set of notecards in a box - which I recently gave to a friend:)

Stack of cups

I saw an idea for a card like this on Becky's blog - and since I finally have some teacup stamps, I had to try my own version;)

Tea, coffee, hot chocolate...

Teacup Card

I love cups & saucers, don't you?!

Tea Box

I love this little teabag stamp! Isnt' it darling?!

(The paper I've used on the next few projects is SU candy cane lane:)

Tea Time

I was playing with a new acrylic stamp set on this card (Coffee Cafe by TPC Studios). The images are darling, but I do have to say that rubber stamps leave a much crisper image! That being said, I like how this card turned out - it's for a friend that I'm having tea with this week:)

Tri-shutter Birithday Card

I made this birthday card using this week's splitcoast tutorial...


...I used the same paper as in the frame project I last posted, but aren't the colours so much more vivid in these pictures?! ...we just got a new digital camera (Fujifilm S1500 Finepix) - and I'm loving it! Much better than my old Kodak Easyshare! ;)

Frame

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately...work has been busy...home has been busy... so a little less time for creating (and it doesn't help when I give away projects before photographing them;) Anyway, this is what I made this weekend. I was missing a dear friend who lives far away and so I made this frame and played with a coloring technique on their family picture:)

I used the same frame as I did in this project, and I used dsp from my Old World Stack (which I actually didn't get at the lss...I found it at an incredible price at Winners! It pays to dig through the bottom shelf!) Some of the flowers are primas and some I made using a distress technique and a scallop punch.

A little thank you...

Just a tiny thank you note I made using my friend's sip by sip stamp set that I borrowed. I haven't had much time to craft lately and the biggest thing I made this week I gave away without photographing, but I did make nugget boxes for my favourite Starbucks Barristas since it was 'partner appreciation week':)

Repurposed Bag

This was just a brown flat bag that I got some 12 x 12 in that I repurposed using the same concept as a bagalope (scores on 3 sides were at 2).

I really like repurposing thing:)

Thanks a latte...

This is my latest installment in the category of 'gratitude journal'. My current journal is almost full, so it was almost time for a new one, and this morning I had a couple of friends from club over to share images. I thought I would prepare a little make and take for us to do for fun and this was the product:)

I borrowed a friend's 'sip by sip' set to embellish mine:) You can see my previous gratitude journals here and here...

The idea of keeping a gratitude journal is simple, each day you commit to write down at least five things you are grateful for before your head hits the pillow each night. I've found it to be a life changing habit:)

Best Wishes

I used Dawn's instructions on creating a faux linen look on this card along with the parisien breeze dsp from Stampin' Up.

Father Owl

This was the father's day card I had made for my father-in-law this year. I thought the owl was appropriate as he knows somethin' about everything;)

My Journal

For my birthday I made myself a new journal. I used my favourite paper that I've been hoarding from Webster's Pages:)