Six again!

Hello Again!

Okay, so Book Fair is open today now, but I have a bow order I must get to.  Thus, I stayed home this morning to make a bow (and blog).  I will be heading to school shortly.  So, I will just share quickly the other birthday card (that I made at the last minute) for a little friend of Conner's, who turned six this past weekend.

I have been on a roll with using up scraps, pieces and extra preprinted digistamps, which is exactly what I did this time, too.  Makes me feel resourceful when I do that!  I know it is a super easy card.  However, since it was for a child, I thought it fit.  I think the stamp might be a Bugaboo stamp, but again, I can't say with certainty.  It does, however, meet the requirements for a few challenges!

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Bright Colors 4 Kids

Crafting by Design - Anything Goes Ribbon or Lace 

The ABC Challenge Blog - "X" Xtra Special Occasion  

Thanks for looking again!!

Another Birthday Weekend

Well, today is the last day of Book Fair, so maybe my craft room won't feel so lonely after today!  I certainly have a few bow orders I have to catch up on before anything else crafty can be done!  However, this weekend was another one jammed packed with Birthday Parties.  The catch was that this weekend included parties for Conner's friends.  He has been waiting for the day when he was one the invited to the birthday parties, and Sissy had to stay home.  Needless to say, he started off with a bang!

Here is the card I made for the party on Sunday.  The party was for a girl in his class, who he refers to as his "Super Good Friend".  Too cute!!

I was totally late in getting this card made, so I headed straight to the scrap drawers and my binder with all of the preprinted Digi Stamps.  I never just print one image at a time, so I will load up a page with other images.  Even if I don't plan to use it right at the moment, it helps me to be prepared and save time when situations like this come up.  However, the bad part is that I can't even tell you where I got the stamp from because it has been printed and sitting for so long!  I also took out my notebook where I make note of some of the challenges I may be interested in joining.  I knew I had copied down a sketch challenge, so it was a "no-brainer" on what the layout was going to be.  Like I said, all of the paper was in my purple scrap drawer.  I know that the patterned paper was left over from a mini book I got from Creative Memories YEARS ago!  I colored the image with colored pencils, and blended away, to help cover the lines because I colored so fast.  Here are the challenges I am submitting it to:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Number 227

Divas by Design Challenges - 3 or more Layers

Use It Tuesday - #65 Scraps, Pieces, and Odds & Ends

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I have a good excuse!

I know it has been days since I have blogged, but I have a good reason.

We were at Disney for a few days!  Sean won a free night's stay at the All Star Sports Resort.  We were there to try out the new Magic Bands!

It is so strange to have your room key, park ticket, Fast Pass, charging abilities, and your Photo Pass all on your WRIST!  We ran into one small problem on our last Fast Pass, but overall everything was just breezy!

 

 

Of course, Amelia and I needed matching Disney Flip Flops!  Can't tell you how many compliments we got on our shoes this past weekend!

 

 

I am going to try to catch up some more on the blog, but this is the Book Fair week.  So, I will be spending a lot of time at school.  I do have some hair bows to share.  I had a rush last week on orders.

Thanks for stopping by!

A gift for the teacher

Hello Friends!!

I know it has been about a week since you have heard anything from me, but school has been crazy.  In one week, we had Picture Day and Walk-a-thon, which both required additional prep time and/or follow up time.  Now the focus is Book Fair, and I have a few projects to make for that, so I may just be sharing those with you.

Today, I am sharing a gift I made for a special teacher.

This was a gift for my son's AWESOME kindergarten teacher.  She refers to her class as the "Brainy Bunch".  I was determined to use rulers for something "different", and this is what I came up with.  I hot glued popsicle sticks to the under side to hold all eight rulers together.  I then weaved some red and white gingham ribbon through the holes (that are already drilled into the rulers although I have no idea why) and added a blue ribbon in the center hole for use of hanging the board.  Our school colors are red, white and blue (if you couldn't guess).  I used a few different cartridges for this project.  They were Doodlecharms, Locker Talk, and the font from Robotz.  I am going to enter this sign in a challenge over at Paper Playtime.  Challenge #19 this week is to use apples.  It is a good fit, I think!

 

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Duty Called!

Morning!

Did you get worried because it has been a few days since I'd posted?  Well, no fears!  I just had paying customers I had to attend to.  Well, that and I have been at school volunteering since Wednesday, so that kind of cuts down on the crafting time.  

Anyway, back to the projects!  Word is getting out a bit about my flip flops, and I have had a few special orders recently that I had to make to get out to people.  So that is what I am sharing with you today...

These flip flops are made to match the colors of the local high school, and this is pair two of three current orders I have had for Bloodhound flip flops.  All in adult sizes, which I think is awesome!  Seriously, I live in Florida, so you will see people in flip flops all year long.  Why not be a little different?  Why should the little girls get all the fun stuff?  This is a creative way to show your school spirit in my opinion, of course!

 

I love making theme specific flip flops, but there is also something about the fun, anything goes stye, too.  I made this pair for Amelia's friend, which is the birthday party we are going to today.  I love giving out my flip flops and hair bows as gifts because you never have to worry that the child we get two of the same item, when it is something made from the heart!

And the last pair I will share with you today, is a special order pair from one of Amelia's favorite friends.  Unfortunately, the two don't get to see each other very often because of living so far away, but I love that when they do get back together it is like no time has past at all.  The pick up right where they left off!  It is too cute, and it makes my heart happy :)  Anyway, Makayla is in competitive gymnastics, and this pair matches her leotard.  I will be mailing them out to her today.

 

Thanks for looking!!

Birthday 2 of 3

Okay, this is birthday card 2 of 3.  The plan is for this card to go to the birthday girl this weekend.  Although, both kids were just invited to another birthday today that will be held Saturday.  That party is for a little boy, so this card may work.  Must decide!?!?

I honestly cannot even say where this digistamp came from, but I can say I have used it several times.  It is such a great "generic" birthday wish.  I colored it this time with my Bic Permanent Markers.  I have had a ton of baker's twine (I think that is what it is called) for a long time, but have never used it.  Good news -- I used all scraps yet again!  Another point, this card is perfect for the monthly challenge over at Just Inspirational Challenges.  This is the new monthly "Animal with Sentiment" challenge.

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Birthday 1 of 3

There are currently two birthday party invitations hanging on our refrigerators addressed to Amelia.  The catch is that the birthday party on the 28th is for a set of twins.  This is the first time Amelia will be attending a party as a friend of each sister.  Not going to lie, makes preparing for the party and bit interesting.  Do you get each girl the same thing, but just slightly different in looks perhaps?  Or, do you get them each totally separate/not even similar gifts?  I think we have decided on similar gifts, and more posting about that will come later.  

Right now, the card for sister #1.

I got this cute birthday cake digistamp for Blackberry Jelly.  I used my Bic Permanent Markers to color it, and a white roller ball pen to add the "extra" markings.  It is slightly difficult to see, but I added some pink Stickles in the middle of the lower heart.  I used a good ol' fashion round, circle punch with a piece from my scrap stash to make the background circle.  I also used my Tag Marker punch from Stampin' Up  to create the tag that I put a Happy Birthday rub-on on.  Again, this card is made using scraps.  I feel so accomplished when I can use all scraps!

 

I am using the card for these to challenges:

MelonHeadz Friends - Tag It Challenge

Just Inspirational Challenges -  Die Cut/Punched Shape Challenge

Thanks for looking today!