Thank Ewe!
Cold & Cuddly... ...again!
One of my newest stamping friends liked them so much, she asked me to make her a dozen of them. I finally got them all made, and put them in a little gift box with matching pen. It was just my way of saying that I appreciate her business. It also made me happy to know that she liked something that I made so much that she had to have her own. Thanks for stopping by!
Holiday Mini Products Still Available for Purchase
Stampin' Up! has chosen to carryover several products from the Holiday Mini Catalog. This list of products (shown below) is still available for purchase even though the Holiday Mini Catalog is no longer current. In addition, these products will be available in the next Idea Book & Catalog. As usual, there may be additional products from the Holiday Mini Catalog that also may appear in the next Idea Book & Catalog.
| Item # | Description | Price |
| 116794 | Ornament punch | $15.95 |
| 116806 | Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint | $5.95 |
| 116854 | Frost White Shimmer Paint | $5.95 |
| 116807 | Platinum Shimmer Paint | $5.95 |
| 116829 | Décor Elements Blocks | $9.95 |
| 116824 | Stampin' Up! Textured Impressions Folder Petals-A-Plenty | $7.95 |
| 116821 | Stampin' Up! Holiday Windows Magnetic Movers & Shapers | $29.95 |
| 116819 | Stampin' Up! Table Setting Bigz XL die | $42.95 |
| 116820 | Stampin' Up! Embosslits Merry die | $11.95 |
| 116823 | Stampin' Up! Sizzlits Merry Details die | $5.50 |
| 116822 | Stampin' Up! O Christmas Tree Pop-Up Bigz XL die | $42.95 |
| 118140 | Stampin' Up! Tree Decorations Sizzlits die | $5.50 |
| 118108 | My Digital Studio | $79.95 |
| 116519 | Charming stamp set | $19.95 |
Mom's Valentine
PA has gotten A LOT of snow the past two weeks. Two weekends ago, while Mom was snowed in, she decided to make a few valentines for us kids. I wanted to share mine with you. Thanks, Mom, for the handmade valentine! Thanks for stopping by!
Kindergarten Valentine Party Crafts
I planned the crafts for last week's kindergarten Valentine's Day party, and I wanted to share them with you. There's no stamping involved, but I wanted to share. It makes me happy.
The first project was a Jolly Lolly from the Family Fun website. I made lots of mustaches and kissing lips out of craft foam for the kiddos to choose from. Of course, there were black, brown and blonde mustaches along with bright red, pink and fuschia lips for all tastes. I had them all cut out with the holes punched so the kids just chose the "mask" and slid it onto a lollipop stick. Then, I printed mailing labels, one for each child, that said, "Happy Valentine's Day! Love, (insert name here)" That also made it easy to tell who had made the craft and who hadn't based on whose names were still left on the sheet of labels.
Next, the kids made these little Candy Airplanes, also from Family Fun. I bought cheap valentines stickers for the kids to use to decorate the stick of gum. Then, they assembled the biplane with help from the parents and aides at the party. I had the candy and rubberband in individual baggies for each child. Once they built the plane, they put it back in the baggie and affixed another mailing label that I printed to say, "Valentine, you make my heart soar!" with little biplane cliparts on each side.
The kids all seemed like they had lots of fun making these cute valentines to take home and give to parents, siblings, grandparents, whoever. Thanks for stopping by!
Homemade valentines
Ok, so I know that Valentine's Day is over, but since I'm always scrambling at the last minute to get projects finished, I end up sharing my holiday creations after the holiday is over instead of for weeks prior like most of the lovely bloggers I follow on a daily basis. (Whew! Was that a run-on sentence, or what?!?)
Anyway, here's an adorable handmade valentine that my son received from one of his kindergarten classmates. She's a cutie. The girls got special flowery lollipop valentines while the boys got these super duper bubble gum ones. (Note: There are 8 girls and 17 boys in the class.) This little girl's mom is The Bomb! when it comes to planning party games for the kiddos.
I just had to share this cutie with you so that you can see that you don't have to make something elaborate for it to be special. This is the only other handmade valentine besides ours that was distributed at the class party on Friday. More valentines tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!
Valentines from Mom and Dad
Now I'm sharing with you the valentines I made for the boys from Jim and me. You can read about our oldest son's love of the Nintendo Wii in this post from earlier. After making his image in a Wii Mii for his valentines, I made his dad, brother and myself. Then I put together this valentine for him. We'll give it to him tomorrow, and I think he's really going to like it. (It's 1:00am as I am writing this.)
Our youngest son loves trains. I mentioned this in an earlier post about his valentines. So again, I used this little train from the "Whoo's Your Valentine" stamp set for his valentine. I also used the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #100 for this week as my layout inspiration. I was working quickly and at the last minute, so it had to be simple!
Happy Valentine's Day! Thanks for stopping by!
My 3-year old's valentines
Ok, so far so good now. I finally got Blogger to post one set of valentines and goodies. Now for the next...
The past two years, my oldest son has given Disney/Pixar Cars valentines to his classmates at preschool. I made family valentines for family and friends. This year, I decided to make valentines from each of the boys and then none really from us as a family. Everyone just loves getting stuff from the boys anyway.
So, here's my 3-year old's valentine. We got this Peekaboo Valentine idea from a Family Fun magazine. It was perfect for him. These were fun to make, and pretty quick too. We made 16 of them to give to family and friends. Here's a close up of his two little eyes peeking through.
He also loves trains, and this image from the "Whoo's Your Valentine?" stamp set is super cute. I am really loving this set, and I'm not much for Valentine's Day! The "Chew, Chew" part of the sentiment begs to be used on a gum treat of some sort, so we made sleeves for packs of gum with it. I am pleased with the way they turned out. Thanks for stopping by!My 6-year old's valentines
My 6-year old LOVES to play his grandparents' Nintendo Wii when we visit them. I saw a valentine idea on the Wilton It's a Piece of Cake blog where they used Wii Mii images to make a valentine. I found a website where you can make Mii images, so I made one to look like him. Then I put together this valentine in Publisher, printed it, and glued it to red cardstock. We cranked out 44 of these for all his classmates, family and friends, so it was good that the printer did most of the work!
In addition, we made these Mario masks for a few close family members and friends. I only made eight of these. I found a Mario image online to use for a template to make the masks for the lollipops and the wrappers on the sticks. The idea for these came from this Jolly Lollies idea on the Family Fun website.
Here's a close up of the labels on the sticks. It reads, "I like you more than Mario Kart!" For him to say that he likes someone more than Mario Kart is saying a lot! Thanks for stopping by!
My Boys' Valentines - Take III
Ok, I am highly irritated. I have written this whole long post TWICE, and Blogger has lost it BOTH TIMES! I am going to try this again, and this time I'm going to split it up into two shorter posts. Here it goes...
Feb. 8 for $10 Workshop IV
Ok, here's the final project from the February 8 for $10 workshop. I saw these little lip balm/lip gloss holders a long time ago and always thought they'd make a cute Valentine's Day treat. Before Christmas, Kroger had a sale on Chapstick, so I bought up a bunch and put them away for this workshop.
I originally saw the idea on Lorri Heiling's blog here. (Scroll way down to the end of the post.) You can find a link to the template there too. I adapted my measurements so that the base piece of Rose Red cardstock would be 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Then I could get four out of one sheet of cardstock. I also adapted the measurements of the scores and cuts in accordance with the measurements of a standard tube of Chapstick.
The stamp set is called "Whoo's Your Valentine?" and also contains adorable owl and train images. My youngest son loves trains, and my sister likes owls, so I'm getting plenty of use out of this set this year. Oh, and it has the cutest image in it for making lollipop treats too!You can see the fish image is perfect for a tube of lip balm, because it says, "fishes, wishes & kisses"! What better way to keep those lips soft for kissing your valentine than some lip balm? Thanks for stopping by!
Feb. 8 for $10 Workshop III
If you've been checking in here this week, you probably thought, "Didn't she make any valentines at the February workshop?!?" Well, yes we did! I have to admit, Valentine's Day just really isn't one of my favorite holidays, so I don't go overboard celebrating it. However, I was inspired by many simple cards that I've seen on various blogs and websites. They simply used some heart punches with coordinating patterned papers to make a lovely, simple card.
The sentiment comes from the Whimsical Words stamp set in the current SU! mini catalog. There's a similar set in the Sale-A-Bration catalog too. This is another set I bought in the clear mount version. The ladies at the workshop seemed to like how easy it was to stamp the sentiments on straight compared to using wood block mounted stamps. Thanks for stopping by!Feb. 8 for $10 Workshop II
Chinese New Year is on February 14th. Friends of ours celebrate Chinese New Year every year. My sample card shows the sentiment as "Thank You", which was the sentiment in this Artfully Asian stamp set. However, I also had a "Happy New Year" stamp that anyone could use instead if they wanted.
I'm a hoarder, and the DSDSP is from last year's SU! catalog. It's the old In Color shades of Baja Breeze and Kiwi Kiss. I really need to stop hoarding things when I buy them and just use them and enjoy them. Not that I didn't want to use this paper, but I just hadn't come across the right project yet. I thought it was Asian-looking paper that suited these little Chinese girl kimono robes. Thanks for stopping by!
Feb. 8 for $10 Workshop I
Here's the first card I want to share with you from the February 8 for $10 workshop last week. I bought this SU! Fox & Friends stamp set in the new clear mount version. I wanted my stampin' ladies to have the chance to try out the new clear mount stamps, and I think they all liked them. I know I like the idea of them being less bulky to store.
Anyway, I saw this card by Mary Jo Albright and loved how it used so many of the little animal images. I liked her color scheme too, but I opted to use some of my DSDSP from the 2009 Sale-A-Bration promotion. Thanks for stopping by!
Anyway, I saw this card by Mary Jo Albright and loved how it used so many of the little animal images. I liked her color scheme too, but I opted to use some of my DSDSP from the 2009 Sale-A-Bration promotion. Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Groundhog Day!
No self-respecting Pennsylvanian would let February 2nd go by without doing something to commemorate Groundhog's Day! Stop over at my Cookin' with Melissa blog to see what we did at our house for this special day. Thanks for stopping by!
Christmas Skater Ian Thank You's
These are the thank you cards I finally finished for Christmas thank you's. This is the Skater Ian image from The Greeting Farm. I was inspired by a card I saw in this post on The Greeting Farm's blog, Splendid Stamping. You just take the wheels off his skateboard and make it a snowboard.
I made about a dozen of these cards and meant to take a picture of all of them together before I sent them out. However, I started writing in them and sealing them in envelopes before I remembered. At least I took a picture of all the colored Ians before I finished the cards! His clothing are all sorts of combinations of Handsome Hunter, Bashful Blue, So Saffron and Ruby Red to match the printed paper in the background. Of course, they're all blonde to resemble my two little ornery boys.
I used the Mojo Monday Sketch #121 for this layout. However, as usual, I didn't actually make this card during the week this sketch was current, so I couldn't play along. I'm always a day late and a dollar short! Thanks for stopping by!
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