Graduation Stationary Set

My awesome friend Karie showed me a gorgeous stationary set she made for her kid's teachers. I begged her to teach me so I could use it as a graduation gift. After tons of pestering she'd had enough and gave in! LOL!




The box holds a monogrammed card set, a small 2.5 inch square note card set, some gift tags, postage stamps and a gift card. It's not exactly how Karie made hers, but this one fits my needs.


The monogrammed cards:


The small note card set:


The gift tags:


elements:
cardstock: Prism, Bazzill, Stampin' Up
patterned paper: Heidi Grace
bling: Heidi Swapp

A sweet little Valentine...

My GOOD friend Karie created a pretty Valentine and I love it so much I wanted to CASE (copy and share with everybody!) it. I didn't have the exact stamp set and I wanted to make a 3x3 card so I could get eight cards out of one piece of 12x12 cardstock, but the idea is the same. I think I'm going to use these for GQ to send to his little cousins for Valentine's Day.

Cookie Swap Recipe Card

Tonight I'm off with some mommy friends to swap holiday cookie recipes. Should be lots of fun chatting and tasting sweet treats. I don't think I'm going to eat dinner so I have lots of room for cookies!

Part of the cookie swap is to bring copies of your recipe to share. I have a hard time just printing a recipe on white paper to hand out, I had to find a way to pretty it up. As I was browsing the gallery at Splitcoaststampers I came across this adorable recipe card by SAMMYSUE1975 and had to CASE it. (I hope she doesn't mind...) I didn't have a holiday sentiment that would fit on apron pockets so I added apron strings instead.

One last note...I am still trying very hard to use scraps and embellishments I have on hand to do my paper crafts. So far so good...it's one resolution I've managed to keep all year ;) I made all six of these recipe cards with scraps. yay!

Off to taste some cookies!

Thanks a latte...

So I love to make cards...for everybody else it seems, because when I need a card for a birthday or thank you I never have one, I've given them all away as gifts. I decided I was going to sit down and make myself some thank-you notes; GQ must have known I needed some crafty time because after our afternoon at the pool he decided to nap for me! YAY! The Thanks a latte sentiment is so perfect for me, because if you really know me, you know that I loves me some coffee!

I found this card while blog surfing. I just loved it and had to CASE it! If you go look at that card you'll notice that it was actually a CASEd card from this one. Both cards are awesome...how could I not try to do the same? Thanks for the inspiration Beth and artystamper!!

I really love my final product. About 1/2 way through I was second guessing my colors, but they are some of my faves, how could I not like that? After it was all together I knew I made the right choice. I've been sticking to my crafty plan of not buying any more paper and using all my scraps up, which I did for this set of cards. It felt so good to almost deplete my yellow scraps and make a small dent in the green. Still have lots of scraps left, but I'm on my way to at least making the pile 1/2 it's original size.

Have a good one!

Finally...

I made a card! It's been a while, but we've been busy trying to rid our house and bodies of some awful virus. The husband and GQ both had to see a doctor to help with theirs but I managed to not make a trip in. GQ had a reaction to his Rx to get rid of the virus, it was pure craziness in our house for three days until we took him off of them. He's better, both virus wise and behavior wise. THANK GOODNESS!

Tuesday is our 4th wedding anniversary! We're going to celebrate with a mini-getaway while my wonderful mother-in-law comes to take care of GQ for us. Grandma wants to take GQ shopping while she's here visiting and he's making quite a list for her, blue swim goggles are at the top of it! I have a feeling somebody is going to get spoiled in the coming week. LOL!

Anyway, here is a card that I made for the husband. I know he doesn't read my blog, since it's not poker related, so I don't have to worry about him getting a sneak-peek at it ;) I was inspired by this card...I thought it was sweet and simple and gorgeous. I changed my version up a bit, but it pretty much follows her theme. Hope you like...

A CASE'd Card...

As I was going through my daily ritual of reading all my friends blog's I found an awesome card on Karie's blog. It's a fold that I've never done and it's so cool I had to try it myself. Here is my version of the card...click here if you'd like to see Karie's card and the details on how to make if you want to make one yourself.