Back to school

These are the teacher gifts I made for the boys to take to school this year. The re-purposed ice cream containers were filled with chocolate truffles.

 I used papers and stickers from the Simple Stories - Elementary - collection.

Other: Queen & Co. pearls, Prima jewels, American Crafts charm, Tim Holtz game spinner, Ranger Glossy Accents, hemp thread, washi tape.

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Butterfly box

I still love decorating Talenti's gelato containers :)

I used Jillibean Soup paper (Chicken Noodle), die cuts (Coconut Lime) and epoxy buttons. Other: Maya Road Canvas butterflies, sequins and hemp trim.

Here is another view:

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Teacher Thanks

it's teacher appreciation week at my son's school and I used the Simple Stories - Elementary - collection to make 4 decorated jars that I filled with Ghirardelli chocolate squares. Here are two of them, the other two went out before I got the picture...

Other: Jillibean Soup sticker tags (Dutch Mustard) and hemp. I attached the paper to the plastic with score-tape.

Here is a card I made for his homeroom teacher:

The ribbon I bought at Apron Strings, but I can't seem to find the manufacturer. I added Glossy Accents to the apple to make it stand out. The card base is from JoAnn's.

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Christmas gifts

I made some more decorated containers for the kids' teachers:

I used ice-cream containers and the Dear Mr. Claus craft kit by Cosmo Cricket:

And here is a tutorial on the bow:

1) Start with 2 strips of double-sided paper 12" long by 0.75" wide.

2) Fold one in half to mark the center, then staple the ends in the middle. I used the Tim Holtz tiny attacher. Here is what it should look like from top and side:

3) The other strip is marked in thirds, then the ends are stapled at each crease. Join the two staples and glue together to create a circle:

4) Layer the two parts to create the bow:

For a variation I also added a brad to the top circle and glued it down, as you can see in the top picture. Other tools/embellishments: 3" scalloped circle punch by EK Success, adhesive squares (regular and extreme) by GlueArts, pearl brads from Eyelet Outlet & Brads and baker's twine is from DKMdiva.
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Boo boo kisses

My oldest is starting kindergarten tomorrow -- time flies! We went to meet his teacher on Friday and I made her a little gift:

I used a plastic ice cream jar covered with October Afternoon Schoolhouse paper then used fabric tape from Love My Tapes. For the topper I punched out flowers and scalloped circles from OA Modern Homemaker, and layered them with foam adhesive. Unknown button and ribbon; apple pin by My Little Bit of Whimsy. I cut tags with a Coluzzle template and added some OA Mini Market alphas and a Making Memories eyelet.

I made a second jar for my youngest to give to his new preschool teacher, so he wouldn't feel left out:

This one also uses OA Schoolhouse papers and alphas. The punch-outs are from scraps of cardstock, the baker's twine is from DKMdiva, and the frog had been on the playroom floor for a while now.

Both of these jars are filled with fun BandAids, which I'm sure will come in handy this school year :)

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Tin of cards

The main reason I bought the June 2011 kit by Sweet Peach Crop Shop was because I'm in love with the Margarita Collection by American Crafts. Here is my first project with this line:

The 'Mambo' paper was applied to the 'Sheer Bliss' ice cream tin with Mod Podge (Matte). I sealed it twice with Matte then once with Gloss to add some shine. The butterflies were hand cut from the 'Flamenco' paper and coated with Mod Podge Gloss. I made the antennas by twirling strips of the bar code boarder  of the 'Merengue' paper. The sentiment on the card is a Colorbok gel sticker.

Here are some more shots around the tin:

The pink butterfly on top was colored with a Sakura gel pen and covered in Diamond Stickles. I added a little Mod Podge Glitter to the other ones (except the blue ones that come already glittered).

Here is the set of cards I made to go inside it:

Cardstock, Flair and delights also from the Sweet Peach kit. The cards are 3x3 inches and I could fit the 8 cards and 8 3.5x5 envelopes in the tin:

I think this will make a nice little gift :)

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It's Party Time - Lucky you!

March Madness is in full swing at Party Time Tuesday!!! Are you feeling lucky? Are you trying for the $45 gift certificate to CSN Stores?

This week the Party Planners are making gift boxes! We have another great tutorial by Lisa Tedder of Twosday's Techniques. Lisa is giving a 6 month membership to a lucky person this month - it could be you if you play along all month! We are also being sponsored this week by Stamp Fairy and I got an adorable bear in a pot of gold to play with. I printed it out on a plaid brown paper (Great Outdoors kit by American Traditions), fussy cut the image, then colored the white, black and gold parts with gel pens and added a bit of Ranger Stickles (Gunmetal). I love how it turned out!

I followed Lisa's tutorial, but instead of cardstock I used Kaiser Craft Jungle Bug (Tropic Tangle) paper I got at 3 Scrappy Boys. I used a heart punch to add some clover and popped some grass I cut from the paper around the bear with Glue Arts 3D combo pack. I added a handmade shamrock to the pin by Maya Road. Offray white ribbon; Sassafras Lass alphas. And here is the other two sides:

Prima paper flowers; unknown: buttons, floss and rainbow ribbon.

I hope you can join the Party!

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Cookie tin

I've been collecting cookie and ice cream tins for a few months now, just in case I had time to make holiday gifts. To try my hand at it, I made one last weekend for some friends that looked after my kids while Dada and I attended a wedding. I used LilyBee papers from the November'10 Scrapcetera kit.

I adhered the paper and hemp with my GlueArts Glue Glider Pro using an Extreme adhesive cartridge (it was the perfect width for lid rim!). All embellishments were attached either with GlueArts Extreme adhesive squares or GlueDots..

Here is a view of the layered box flower I made for the top:

And I filled it with Dada's peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.

Delovely Box

I'm quite upset that my recently printed 500+ photos from PhotoWorks have very bad resolution, as I've never had any problems with them in the past. Same camera, same upload method - I'm obviously not using them again! But as I've spent the money, I'm trying to sort things out and pick the decent ones out of the crap.

To cheer myself up, I made this box with some of the Cosmo Cricket's Delovely line that I won on one of their Facebook challenges:

The roses were made following Happay Scraps' folded flower tutorial (without the misting) using ~1" strips of Delimit and Delirious papers. I also cut out the flowers from both sides of Delectable and punched out bases for some of the roses out of Delicious.

I got the idea for the swirly accents from Julie's paper jewelry. They are made from the manufacturer's label strips.

UPDATE: I posted a tutorial here.

Box of Cards

I made a set of cards with the October Afternoon Thrift Shop papers in the July'10 Mosh Posh kit. The first one was posted here while the other ones are below. I also decorated a box to put them in, as they will be a birthday present to a friend of mine (I hope you're not peaking!).

I made the flowers following Julie's video tutorial, but instead of cutting 5 petal flowers I cut out the doilies from the  One-of-a-Kind and Collectors Item papers. The sticker on the tag is from SRM.

I made matching envelopes using the off-white paper that came in the page protectors of one of my 12x12 scrapbook albums. I cut them with a Coluzzle envelope template and decorated the flap. The one shown in the box is for the card in the previous post (the others are with their appropriate cards). I also made matching stickers to seal the envelopes, which I ran through a Xyron.

Crepe paper ribbon from the Mosh Posh feb'10 kit and Kaisercraft Rub-on from the Apron Strings May'10 Card kit.

 SRM sticker sentiment.

For this one used I used a red polka dot paper from my stash for background and envelope.

And a Christmas card that incorporates a vintage postcard.