5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 1

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  In the next 5 days I'll be posting those cards to show how cute some of these very simple, quick and easy cards can turn out.

Here's the card for today: 

Congratulations to our friend Wendy - she has retired as a school teacher after many many years of teaching our kiddos.  

I cut the base out of a teal cardstock and the overlay out of purple.  I added some gems and faux stitching to the card.  Very simple and she loved it :)

Tomorrow - an adorable heart card

~ Enjoy!~

Ladybug Centerpiece

Oh my gosh - talk about outside of my comfort zone - recently I have been asked to make products that are not paper based.  It has been fun experimenting outside of my box :)

For this project, some very dear friends of mine who are having a girl had a lady bug themed baby shower.  I was asked to make center pieces for their tables.  I searched high and low for ideas.  I knew I wanted to make something they could get use out of after the shower was over.  

I came up with this idea for a diaper cake and found some images in the silhouette store to use as decoration.  I absolutely loved the way these came out and I had to share these babies.  har har har.

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Flower Candy Sticks

This was another project I completed for the last day of school for a teacher gift.  I had so much fun making these flowers.  I found the image on the silhouette online store and went to town :)

I cannot get enough of how much fun these were to make.  

~Enjoy!~

Happy Summer

Even though Summer is almost over, I had to make sure and get these adorable sticks out for sharing today.  I made them for a kiddo's last day of school and with it being such a busy summer, I dropped the ball and didn't post them.

Here's some very easy candy sticks I made using M&M's and some of my favorite Jaded Blossom Stamps.

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Relay for LIfe

Every June Relay for Life becomes a big part of our community up here. 

 

I was asked to make some thank you treats for a team of volunteers who helped out at the event this year.  Jaded Blossom has one of the best fight for a cure stamp sets that are always a perfect go to for this event. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipe::

1x8 bags from Jaded Blossom

Layered frame and Journal die from Jaded Blossom

Fight for a cure girly from Fight for a Cure stamp set with Jaded Blossom 

Sentiment is from - you guessed it... Jaded Blossom's Fight for a cure stamp set

I colored this girly with BIC permanent markers and added gelly roller glitter pens

I filled the goodie bags with purple and white sixlets

I used a white gel pen to add stitching to the purple boarder

I tied it all together with purple and white twine

 

 

I just love how these turned out. 

 

 

~Enjoy!~

Of Course I'm Awesome

My husband saw a sweatshirt and instantly decided he wanted to get it for his dad.  I knew then and there, this was my oportunity to try heat transfer for the first time.  And, because it saved us money he was all for it!

It was a huge learning experiance for me.  Not only was it my first time with heat transfer but it was my first time creating my own design with my silhouette.  Thank you everyone who had made youtube videos for how to projects!  You were my saving grace.  and I'm pretty sure I watched all of them.  lol

Ok, so, here's my project! and his dad loved it which made it even better!!!

I was so excited how it turned out.  I'm looking forward to my next project already!

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You Rule

At the end of a school year comes end of year treats for teachers, teacher assistants, and the kiddos in class. 

I made this teacher's gift for a friend of mine who's moving into the 5th grade next year.  This was for his assistant teacher.

I filled 4 1x8 candy stick bags from Jaded Blossom with blue and red M&M's. 
I tied all 4 of them together with red tulle on one end then twisted and braided them together and tied the opposite end with tulle as well.
I took a picture of the back so you could see how they were twisted up.
I used the top of the ticket die from Jaded Blossom, the ruler stamp from them as well as the sentiment. 
I chalked the edges with orange and stuck it on with pop dots.

Stay tuned for more school treats this week


~ Enjoy!~