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Word Art World is opening her new store at Gingerscraps, which is really cool. I love the challenges they have in the forum. She has everything in her new store 40% off the first week. Now’s the perfect time to stock up.
One of her products that she is showcasing is her Family Subway Art. I was very excited when she first released this back in November as I thought it was a great gift idea.
I made two versions, one each with two of the three background options available. The first one is the chalkboard style that I made for our family. I haven’t had it printed yet, as I want to hold off until I’m sure I can’t convince James of another baby. The second one I made for my brother and his wife for Christmas. I can’t wait to see where they hung it up in their house. The background on this one has an earthy look. I was so impressed with how the 16×20 canvas print of this turned out. I ordered it from Picture It on Canvas using a Groupon. I would definitely recommend printing your family subway art there.

Come back tomorrow as I have four layouts to share.

On Saturday, I shared the cards I made for Jessica’s two teachers. Today, I am sharing the little survival kits that included the cards. I also included a travel-size hand sanitizer, a travel pack of Kleenexes, a little tin of Altoids (not the full-size tin), some lip balm, and some Hershey’s chocolate nuggets. If I had all my crafty stuff completely unpacked, I might have made something more elaborate than a bag topper for these survival kits. But, hey now that I’m getting eight hours of week of me time while Jessica is at Mother’s Day Out, maybe I’ll get finished unpacking stuff.

I used the pencil digi-stamp I received for participating in last week’s Hambo Hoedown. That is the great thing about digi-stamps, you can use them in multiple sizes. I’m entering these kits in this week’s Hambo Hoedown Challenge #30, which is to make a school-themed creation using primary colors of red, yellow and blue. Unfortunately, I forgot about the primary colors part of the challenge when coloring it up last night, but the survival kit for Ms. Lacy is close enough to primary, I think it will count. I’m also entering the kits in the following challenges: Stamp Something to make a back to school something; Just Us Girls Challenge #99 to make a 3-D back to school project; and Paper Pretties Monday Challenge #6 to make a back to school project.

 

Stamps: Hambo Stamps Pencil
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White
Ink: Dell printer
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils
Fonts: DriftType, CatholicSchoolGirls BB

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This is the second post of the day. See below for Texas Tuesday post.

I had hoped to make Valentine’s Day cards for our family and a few friends, but unfortunately, I ran out of time to make enough so I didn’t mail any this year. Oh well. However, I did make a Valentine treat for Jessica’s music teacher.  My parents took Jessica to music class yesterday morning since we didn’t get home from our trip until mid-afternoon. I apologize for the poor picture quality, but I didn’t finish the treat jar until the night before we left.

The cabinet above my refrigerator is stocked with glass jars that I started saving when I used to make candles. One of these was perfect for this treat jar. I used the cute Funny Valentine stamp set I won a few weeks back for entering the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge and here I am entering this treat jar in ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge #66 to make a Valentine card/project using non-traditional colors. This project also meets the requirements of Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #98 to stamp a card/project with lovin’ from the oven. I think my jelly bean filled treat jar counts, don’t you? A treat jar also meets the requirements of the current Simon Says Stamp Challenge to make anything but a card.

Stamps: C.C. Designs Funny Valentine; Stampin’ Up Wild Hearts
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: white heart brads; Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi stitched grosgrain ribbon
Tools: Nesties circle, oval, scalloped oval; hot glue gun

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I like to give homemade Christmas goodies to a number of our neighbors. This year, I decided to make two styles of Christmas treat bags.

This first one is the one I liked best. It uses two stamp sets I received as birthday presents.

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Friendship Jar; Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers; Stampin’ Up Snow (wheel)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Marina Mist
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Marina Mist
Embellishments: liquid applique, Stickles silver
Tools: Papertrey Ink Friendship Jar die; Stampin’ Up Creamy Caramel marker

The second style of treat bag has a color flaw that is bugging me. Even though the green ink I used on the treat bag matches the green cardstock, they don’t look like the same color. It is probably because the treat bag is glossy, which is great for keeping the treats contained.

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Yummy, All About Christmas (wheel)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Garden Gree
Ink: Stampin’ Up Garden Green, Real Red
Embellishments: the Twinery Maraschino
Tools: Nestabilities Labels Four

Both of the above treat bags are made using Window White Tin Tie bags from Paper Mart. I bought a package of 100 a while back and I need to find reasons to give gifts more often. Both of these treat bags are also made with a challenge in mind, Meljen’s Challenge #38 sweet as candy (or cookies). I have to say that goody bags filled with cookies quality as sweet.

This last treat container is actually one I made quite a while back at an A Muse workshop at Stamp Salado. My friend Geeta is a certified A Muse instructor and she came up with the design, but I wanted to share it, because it is super cute. I filled it with candy cane kisses and rollos to give to our baby-sitter. We’ve only used Maddie twice now, but I am super pysched about the implications of having a non-friend baby-sitter.

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You never know when you might need a little Christmas gift. Here’s one I finished up today. I filled it with candy cane kisses. I used a template for a trapezoid box that I picked up from Mirkwood Designs. She has a bunch of neat templates there, although I found the trapezoid shape to be somewhat annoying for putting a band around the middle since the sides aren’t perpendicular. I knew this when I decided to use this template, but it didn’t dawn on me until I was getting ready to adhere the snowflake band. That’s why you see a slight gap at the edges. I made this little gift with three challenges in mind: All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #57 which is all about gift ideas, Paper Pretties challenge to use punches, and Pink Elephant Challenge #90 to make a winter wonderland card/project/layout. If you haven’t noticed, I’m really digging the Baja Breeze/Whisper White/Real Red color combo for Christmas projects. Maybe you’ll see some projects in a different color combo, but no promises.

Stamps: C.C. Designs Christmas Around the World
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Real Red
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon Real Red; The Twinery Maraschino; ultrafine white glitter; velcro closure
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; liquid applique
Punches: Martha Stewart Snow Flurry; Stampin’ Up Tag and Small Tag

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