Teacher gifts.....

I am so sorry for the lack of posts lately...but our school has so many things going on that I love to help out with...such as track and field and our grade 8's graduation! Now for me this time year is a sad one but also a happy time! I enjoy spending time with the kids throughout the summer but it also means that another year has gone! I have been very busy making some gifts for my sons teachers. I have known them for 9 years and truly appreciated all they have done for the kids.

I have used my trusty ol justrite stamps that allow me to personalize these cards. Now my theme here is strawberries to go with the homemade jam that will go with the gift. At Allsorts Challenge they have a great challenge to put this project into: Strawberries and cream!

Inside the card I have placed my recipe that I will use to make my strawberry jam that will go with the gift. Now strawberries are just about ready here in Ontario, so I am just waiting until I can go and pick them to make my jam! I will be posting my jam jars at a later post, so stay tuned!

Now what teacher does not keep lots of notes.....hopefully my notepads will come in handy for them. I used my Papertrey stamp set "Vintage Picnic" to keep my theme going and my justrite stamp set too. Love to personalize it up! I don't think you can see it, but I have put lots of glitter on the strawberries too.

Now I am off to finish up lots of grade 8 graduation decorations...lots to finish up! Have a wonderful day...and thank-you so much for taking time out of your day to come and visit!

A recipe card....

Oh boy did my house smell just wonderful yesterday. I made Carmel Cinnamon Coffee Cake from a recipe a ol friend gave me a couple of years ago. I have been wanting to get started on my new recipe binder which holds 4x6 recipe cards....and you can store them in plastic sheet protectors within the binder. Great for protecting your recipe cards from the mess going on in your kitchen! I have to thank Denise so much for giving me all her inspiration from her recipe cards and the go to site for the recipe card binder!!!

The stamped image is from the "Cookin' Up Memories" stamp set. I then used Justrites stamps to do the "Made with Love". That is one thing I just love about the Justrite stamps you can customize it just say anything you like. My recipe binder which I am going to post once I have it all done (hopefully this weekend) you can find here.

Here are a few little photos off my freshly baked Coffee Cake! Thank-you Denise for sharing all your wonderful recipe cards! Well I am off to try and finish up some more of my recipe cards so I can share them with you soon! Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

Got pink....

On the weekend I noticed my inventory for baby cards was very low and I really needed to get some done! So when I saw this cute stamp at Stamping Bella called Ketto's clothesline matched up with the Ketto's Baby Lingerie set I knew I had to make this card! I so love pinks and browns together...I used my prismas for this card.

I took a close up so you could see I stamped it twice so I could pop it up. I really like that look, it seems to give it a more real look! What do you think!!!
I really like to finish the inside my cards. So I used my Justrite stamp set that allows you to place the little letters inside the stamping pad to make any sentiment you would like. I really recommend these stamps from Justrite..it really personalizes it.

I hope to get a little boys card made using the same stamp set, so hopefully I can post that this week to show you!

Just went to the weather network..and we are suppose to get 10+cm of snow on Sunday. I may have to get my winter stamps back out..maybe some snowmen! March came in like a lamb so I guess it is heading out like a LION!

Coco has a CUPPYCAKE...

Happy Sunday to all...as I am typing this the skies are rather grey. I am hoping that we are not in for any more snow. The temperatures have been so cold lately and I would love for things just to warm up a little. For my card today, I used Coco has a Cuppycake from Stamping Bella. I am really thinking of the next holiday coming up, Valentine's Day! I still make my kids their Valentine's cards and of course hubby! My little circular sentiment is from the Justrite stamp collection. I don't know whether you can tell but I sprinkled a little glitter were the cupcake is! Do you all love glitter as much as I do. I think Valentine's Day cards always call for glitter! New rule!

Enjoy your day...and keep warm!

...sweetest holiday wishes...

I can now stroke another Christmas card of my list! Now this card was out of the norm for me that is for sure! I used colours that are not very Christmas like. I just wanted to try colours that I love together and see what happens...

I used a couple of stamps sets that I have to create this card. I used, Old Fashioned Christmas Set from Justrite, Quilters Sampler and Holiday Button Bits from Papertrey. I coloured everything up with copics. I used my Martha Stewart snowflake punch for the center of the card. I finished the card off with a little stitching around the edge of the card.

I have to say I am truly enjoying the blogs with all the inspiration they provide! There is so much talent out there!

All bundled up...

I have been so inspired lately to do winter cards. The funny thing is I am not a winter person at all... but looking at all the blogs and stamp companys that are starting to display there winter/christmas collections, does not make it any easier to put it off any longer! This week

Just Magnolia has a challenge that must have embossing on your project/card. It can be dry embosssing or the heated embossing. So I went for the run the D'vine swirl thru the cuttlebug look.

I used my Jolly by Golly line of paper (which I am just loving) and punched it with a MS punch.

Using the Justrite stamp I was able to put whatever saying I wanted onto my card. I thought Tilda looked "ALL BUNDLED UP". I then added the ity bitty mittens from Karen Lockhart stamps. My images were coloured with copics, lyras and prismas!