Birthday Stamp-A-Stack Class

I'm trying to be better about sending out birthday cards. So far, I have failed miserably. I missed both my good friends and my mother-in-laws. So I've decided I need to have a stack ready to go so I might have a better chance of getting them mailed out on time.

I figured maybe someone else might be in the same boat, so I'm offering this as a Stamp-A-Stack class. That means you come to my house and I have everything cut and prepped for you. You just stamp and assemble.

This is what I came up with:



I think there's something for everyone on your list. You will make all 5 cards for $8.

The class will be Thursday March 10 at either 10:30 or 7. Please RSVP by Wednesday, by commenting here or give me a call.

Baby Shower gift

I really have been crafting lately, we've just had bad photography weather and I've been a little busy. But this is a cute purse I made for my cousins baby shower. It holds 8 thank you cards with envelopes. I saw one just like it on this website, but after following a million links, I could not find any instructions on how to make it. So I made it up. And while I was creating, I was so good and wrote down the measurements, so I could share them and re-create it. Do you think I know where I put those notes? Nope, but my guess would be they landed in the trash. I know the base is 1 1/2" and then the width and height are 1/4" bigger than an envelope. Really, once I thought about it, it wasn't too hard to put it all together.
The most time consuming part was piercing all the holes for the faux stitching. But it's so cute, I would totally make one again.

And these are the two types of Thank You cards I made to put in the bag. I used my favorite stamp set for the hand and foot prints. I will probably have to use these layouts again for my own thank you notes. I love them.

I made these right before we found out what we were having. The whole time I was making them I was thinking maybe I should save this paper in case I was having a girl. Guess we don't have to worry about that. Glad I got to use the paper for a cute little girl.

Can you stand some more hearts

I think these are the last of the Valentine's cards, if you can handle a few more.



Now this last one is a 6x8 piece of paper. It's supposed to go in a shadow box frame as soon as I get myself down to a craft store to buy one. The idea came from a blogger I follow regularly, Nancy Riley, and you can see her original here. Most of the squares are just like her's but I did change the placement and had to change a few to fit things I had. I don't have a ton of Valentine's decorations, so I'm really excited to have this to hang up next year. I think it turned out darling.

More V-day cards

These next cards are not ones I made. I participated in a swap with other SU! demos and these are some of the ones I got back. I really like them. They use some new stamp sets that are only available until April. I'll post the name of the stamp and the creator after each card.

This is a single stamp called Be My Valentine created by Sue Stratton
This set is Valentine Defined by Jan Shaw
Stamp Set: XOXO (notice the red glimmer paper, so cool) by Deb Prante

Also XOXO by Linda Whitten (the LOVE circle is a spinner, very cool)
And Valentine Defined again by Sue Erickson

I thought these were all great ideas. I haven't purchased any of these stamps, but these samples sure make it tempting.

Valentine's Cards

I had intended on posting one Valentine's Card each day for the first 14 days of February, but obviously that didn't happen. So here are the first 5.

On this first one, the balloon strings are hand drawn.


This next one is probably my favorite; I just love the richness of the colors
Stampin' Up sent us some rub-ons to try. I don't really use rub-on's so I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I saw someone use them for these 3x3 cards and so that's what I did here.
I don't love birds, so this image isn't my favorite, but the card is easy to do and it looks okay.
I love, love, love this image of the dandelion with heart petals flying. It always makes some of my favorite cards.
I've had these cards made for weeks, but do you think I bothered to actually put them in the mail. No. So today, I'm putting them in the mail, but they will be late. Oh, well. It's the thought that counts, right.

Valentine's Class

My Valentine's class has 3 great treat holders and 3 fun cards. Classes will be held Tuesday February 1 and Wednesday February 2 at 10:30 a.m. or 7:00 p.m.

Heart Bag $2.50

Candy Treat Pouch $1.50



Set of 3 Cards $5.00
Marshmallow Treat Box $3.50

Please RSVP by January 28th (you can leave your RSVP here in the comment section)

Inspiration for these projects came from the following blogs: heart bag, candy stick holder, love you card, i heart you card, be mine M&M card, marshmallow treat box

Snowman Thank You

I saw these cute snowmen cards all over blogland and I really wanted to do one, but couldn't find time before Christmas. But, they are more winter cards than Christmas cards, so I used them for some Thank You notes I needed to send.
The picture is a little blurry, sorry about that. Here are links to three different examples of the snowman, although the one that I made looks more like one I saw on a private site.

Original Snowman
Another Version
Snow woman

I just love this card. It's so glittery and JJ and I had so much fun making them.


For future reference, the circles are 2 1/2", 1 3/4", 1 1/4", and 1/4" black buttons.