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First Day Survival Kits

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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.

First Day Survival Kits

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.

First Day Survival Kit for Ms. Lacy

First Day Survival Kit for Ms. Karen

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

Have a fabulous day!

Teacher Cards

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Jessica starts Mother’s Day Out at Abiding Love Lutheran Church on Tuesday, so I wanted to make each of the two teachers a card for the first day of class. I started these cards at Lori’s on Sunday, but finished them up Thursday after going to the MDO’s Open House and meeting Jessica’s teachers. I had wanted to add glossy accents to the apples, but alas I haven’t unearthed it from my boxes of craft supplies that I’ve already unpacked from moving.

I used Jen del Muro’s August Sketch for You to Try, which was so fun.

August Sketch for You to Try

I’m also entering these cards in the Your Next Stamp Challenge #49, which was to use fruit as inspiration.

Card for Ms. Karen

Card for Ms. Lacy

Stamps: Meljen’s Designs Little Apple Worm
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red, Old Olive
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up Summer Picnic
Ink: Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up Real Red brads; olive brads from unknown mfg
Markers: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip; atYou Spica Red, Black
Fonts: Kids

I also hope to put together a little first survival kit for Jessica’s teachers. If I do, I’ll be sure to share it as well.

Have a fabulous day!

Fun at Loco-Motion

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Sunday afternoon after stamping with Lori, I met James and Jessica at Loco-Motion, a bounce house place that has been having deals at a lot of different deal sites recently. I decided the pictures I took would work for a challenge I’ve been wanting to participate in, the August Scrapheap Challenge #1 at Scrapbookbytes.com. The challenge is to use 3 frames, 4 pictures, a tag (at least 1), the color yellow and 2 papers (one plain and one striped).

Loco-Motion Layout 1

I ended up doing two coordinating layouts since I had way more than 4 pictures I wanted to scrap.

Loco-Motion Layout 2

Digikits Used:
Circle of Life Scraps – Enchanted Studio Scraps – All Seasons Summer (blue tag)
Summer Driggs – Flip-flopsicles (beach ball, sunglasses, striped paper)
The Scrapping Sisters – March of the Animals (stitching, red paper)
B2N2 Scraps – March of the Animals (red string)
Connie Prince – Whale of a Good Time (white ricrac), Chugga Choo Choo (alpha)
Serif – Indie Chic (black frame)
The Scrappy Kat – March of the Animals (red frame)
Fonts Used: Pea Little-Ducky

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.

Thank You Berry Much

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Yesterday afternoon, I went over to my friend Lori‘s to stamp. We try to get together once a month or so. I worked on three cards while there and will share one of them today. I need to add some finishing touches to the other two before I can share them. I actually added the finishing touch, the strawberry embellishment, to this card today. I made the strawberry embellishment out of some red felt and black and green embroidery floss. I wish I had some green felt to use for the leaves instead of the floss, but alas I did not. I think I might have made it a tad big, but oh well.

The sketch is The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #122, which also added a spin of fabulous fibers. I think my felt strawberry counts as fabulous fibers. I’m also entering this card in the Hambo Hoedown Challenge #29 to use scoring. I scored the blue circle panel with a graph paper like look; although the cross scores are faint in the picture. In addition, there is the Simon Says Stamp Challenge to make a food & drink creation, which I think strawberries count as edible, except to maybe those poor people who are allergic to strawberries. One last challenge: Stamp Something‘s challenge this week is something to say thank you.

Thank You 'Berry' Much! Card

Stamps: Hambo Stamps Strawberry Kid
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up Play Date
Ink: Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 3/4″ Real Red polka dot grosgrain ribbon; homemade felt strawberry
Markers: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Old Olive
Tools: Scor-pal; Nestabilities Standard Small & Large Circles

Special thanks to Lori for letting me mooch patterned paper and ribbon.

Have a fabulous day!

Deadbeat Designs Class

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Thursday night, my friend Kristy and I went to a Deadbeat Designs class at Felicia’s Scrapbooks. I got to meet Mark, the owner/designer for Deadbeat Designs and one of the Texas Tuesday players (which I haven’t joined in with since moving). Lynn, the instructor, was great. We used some fun techniques and hopefully, I’ll use my set of chalks more now. I had a lot of fun.

Kristy and I With Our Favorite Projects

The class consisted of three projects. The first was a treat bag topper. The back of the topper is stamped with “You deserve some Chocolate!” and an image that could be considered a Tootsie roll.

Treat Bag Topper

The second was a card that will fit in a regular business size envelope. The inside sentiment is “What’s Up?” This was my favorite of the projects.

Card 1

The third was also a card.

Card 2

I ended up buying the multi-balloon stamp, so you’re bound to see more projects using it.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day.