valentines a plenty

Why yes it is that time of year again. Okay maybe I am a bit early but now I can play with my Disney pictures and don't have to freak out over what to give the kids for Valentine's Day! Sad thing is I was looking for goodies to give the kids before Target even got any Valentine's Day stuff in!! They still had their storage stuff in the holiday section! Guess I was a little excited for this years fun.

We'll start with the kindergartners.... and if one of them is yours- don't let them see this post!! I want it to be a surprise!! 

I punched out circles in white and red cardstock. Stamped the heart on the white and a to/ from on the red and put them together.

Punched the holes with a heart punch. Was severely disappointed that the heart was upside down when I punched it!! I mean really??? Dumb punch. But I released and went with it anyways. 

I was going to do bouncy balls but I found bubbles instead!! Yahoo! Bubbles! I was very excited and snapped them up pretty quick. Thank you Target! Here they are all completed and ready to be handed out!

Then I had to make valentines for Alex's class. Pencils are always a good go to present in the classrooms because of the no candy rule in most classrooms nowadays. I used my Sybill (Silhouette machine) and cut out the three different heart patterns. That saved a ton of time!! Adhered them to some white cardstock that I cut and scored. Added the recipient's name on the front and stamped the sentiment on the inside. 

Attached the pencils with a bit of washi tape that I had in a red chevron pattern and had Alex sign his name.

And that is it! Valentines for three classes all bagged up and ready to go! Feeling pretty good about myself right about now!! Doesn't happen often so I am going to enjoy it.

teacher christmas gifts 2013

I have the pleasure of helping out in one of the kindergarten rooms with an amazing teacher and her equally amazing helper/ partner in crime/ friend/ paraprofessional extraordinaire. I help out twice a week so I can hang with both the AM and the PM classes. Cutest littles ever!!

But once again I digress.....

I made each of these ladies a set of eight cards for a Christmas gift. So much fun as I love making cards!! I also love using a new tool. I picked up the Fiskars hexagon punch on the black Friday weekend for a steal at Joanns. I also purchased a corner punch from Fiskars to replace the one I misplaced in my office and got both punches for under $10. Seriously happy day for me!!

So using my new hexagon tool I went to work on some cards.

And there you have a fun little something to give to two ladies who let me come into their classroom and paint the children!!

august sketch challenge

Another month and another sketch challenge from my FB group. I totally love that I have to scrap at least once a month something that I haven't previously planned out. Love it.

Here's this months sketch we had to use. Totally feeling it.

And here is what I did with it.

Such a fun day! It was so adorable to see each of the kids dressed up like mail carriers and finding their friends bags to put the Valentines in. I punched out the hearts and then sat there and looked at the negative paper that was left and decided to make it part of the layout. Added some of my hand made twine and am happy with how that worked out. I used my Sizzlit alphabet Aphrodite for the title. I probably should have fired up Sybill but wasn't feeling that adventurous yesterday. Pattern paper is DCWV Spring Stack from a few years back.

Here's hoping your days are full of love!!

more examples for terri's treasures

As I was looking at my website... my examples were a bit lacking. So I am going to work on getting a few more examples posted. I thought a couple of Happy Birthday and Get Wells would look nice.

I picked up the pattern paper at my LSS Wholly Scrap! They had just moved into a new location which is amazingly bright due to the front of the store being all windows now. I had to go and check out the new place and do a little bit of shopping as we wouldn't want the only LSS near me to go out of business. oh the horror!

I did sewing on all of these and had some fun with my flower punches. All the stamping has been heat embossed.

These next two have the medallion flowers on them. I should have gone for a half inch instead of the full inch as this makes the flower pretty large on the card. Not a card to be sent in the mail!! Live and learn.

oh so much fun. Off to get some more cards made. Need to get that website up and running!!