Warm Wishes To You

Hello everyone..

Lexa here today with a Christmas card for this season. Let's get started!

I made this background using Argyle Backdrops in Lobster and Walnut, and it looks so pretty! I love how it turns. Then decided to take the color scheme for the rest of the card.

I started with a tag, watercolored the background and colored the border, then stamp the "warm wishes" sentiment with Lawn Fawn Walnut Dye Ink. I tied a single cord twine in red and white for an extra cuteness. ;)

The gingerbreads are from Sweet Christmas set, colored them with my Distress Ink Markers and diecut them. I set a glass of warm chocolate from Love You A Latte between them in mint color. At last, I think a border on the left side will be nice, so I die cut a brown cardstock with my medium size scalloped border, and red fish tail banner with some peppermint sweets stamped in it.

I hope you like today's card! Have a sweet day.

End of the Year Teacher Gifts

Hi everyone! Roxanne here today with end of the year teacher gifts that I came up with for both my boys. They each have 2 teachers, so I had to make this project affordable, cute and simple!

My husband always laughs at me, but I reuse all sorts of containers for gift giving. I think it's quite resourceful myself, but I do amass quite the collection of containers and jars and boxes...you get the idea here! For this project, I chose to reuse strawberry containers. Just the simple clear plastic ones you get at the grocery store. I washed them all out, let them air dry and began thinking of clever gifts to put inside.

I wanted to do a popcorn/candy and movie themes for these. I thought it was different and totally fun. Here is what I made up:

 

Inside the containers:
- About 1-1/2 cups of popcorn kernels
- Homemade popcorn seasoning inside a little jar (found those at the $1 spot at Target)
- Sixlets candies (also found in the $1 spot at Target; I bought 2 bags to split between all 4 gifts)
- 2 brown kraft paper bags (found on clearance at Micheal's for 19¢ each)
- AMC Theaters gift card

For the container, I simply measured the rounded indentation on the top and bottom of the containers to cover with fun papers. This hides the stickers I didn't want to sit and remove! What I did was make one for the outside and one for the inside of the container for both the top and bottom. I chose a double sided patterned paper and used one pattern on the outside and one on the inside. I simply rounded the corners and glued to the containers. Such a fun and simple way to repurpose a fruit container! Think of all the containers you could use - fruit, donut, muffin, egg cartons, jars, and so much more. The possibilities really are endless. It makes a fun presentation for gifts like gift cards that are more exciting to get when they're wrapped creatively. At least I think so.

For the tags, I chose coordinating papers to match the patterned papers I used to dress up the plastic containers. I did two different patterned papers and matching tags for each of my kids. I made 2 of each, as I had mentioned above, for the boys. I simply had them sign their names on the opposite side of the tags.

Here are the products I used for the tags and jar label:
- Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks Lawn Cuts
- Lawn Fawn Happy Trails (the little clouds of exhaust I actually used for popcorn!)
- Lawn Fawn Tag You're It Lawn Cuts
- Lawn Fawn Triple Pack Natural Cord
- Lawn Fawn 6x6 Sweater Weather Petite Paper Pack
- Lawn Fawn Milo's ABCs
- Memento, Tuxedo Black Ink
- Versafine, Onyx Black Ink
- Spectrum Aqua Markers

The labels for the little jars of seasoning were also from the $1 spot at Target. I stamped "popcorn salt" onto the labels using Milo's ABCs. That font is so much fun!

I think this was one of my favorite teacher gifts I've created. I can't wait for the teachers to get them!!

So, save those containers and get crafty with them for gift giving this summer. AND if you have space to save them until then, they would make amazing holiday gift containers for gift giving - I can just picture a little loaf of bread inside one of these, or a line of yummy homemade cookies.

Thanks for checking this out! I hope you enjoyed my project today.

I'm So Thankful for You!

Good morning! Roxanne here today to show you a colorful project that I created for a Mother's Day card. I'll be making a few more for those special women in my life.

I love using bright colored images with black. It really makes your bright images pop off the page or card.

I chose a simple white base for my card. I always use a folded 4.25x5.5 card. It fits perfectly into an A2 envelope. You can get fun colored envelopes if you'd like, too! Adds a fun touch to someone's mailbox :)

I used a 4x5.25 piece of shimmering cardstock (Crafter's Companion, Silver Starlight) and a dotted stencil (Heidi Swapp) with some embossing paste (Dreamweaver Stencils, Embossing Paste). This was my first time using it and I'm definitely using this more often! It was really quite easy and fun, just took a little time to dry. After it was dry, I rubbed on some Versamagic ink in Thatched Straw just in one section. I love the look of this in person!

For the focal point, I used the Lawn Fawn Tag You're It dies to cut out the tag and hole. For the tag, I used Memento Luxe in Wedding Dress with various images from the Lawn Fawn Flutter By. I just am loving the chalkboard look lately. The hole for the tag was cut out on the yellow striped paper from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack. Little touches make an impact I think.

The butterfly, rose, and leaves were stamped onto white cardstock with Memento in Tuxedo Black. I then colored them in with my Spectrum Noir Blendable Colored Pencils. I used the paper stumps and blending solution to blend my coloring. I cut them out leaving a slight white border. Using foam adhesive, I glued them to the tag I created. I love the punch of color!! The cord at the top of the tag is a little piece of cord from Lawn Fawn's Lawn Trimmings, Pink Lemonade. It matched the pink in the rose I colored.

The sentiment blocks were stamped on white cardstock with Memento in Tuxedo Black and I simply cut around them in a rectangle shape. These are from the Lawn Fawn Happy Feast set.

I used foam adhesive to glue down the tag and sentiment blocks to the embossed piece. There you go!  A beautiful Mother's Day card. I hope you're inspired to create some beautiful, and simple, cards for those special women in your life for Mother's Day :)