Easter crafts

Hi Stampers

When you don’t own an Easter stamp set what is one to do? Look towards another set and make do. I don’t normally do the Easter card thing but every year mum really makes the effort to send a card (no she doesn't make her ones, they are very fancy store brought ones) so this year I put in the effort and made a handful of Easter cards. I have refrained  so far from purchasing an Easter set as I’m not sure how much it would get used. Anyway this is what I came up with for this year.

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Love Letter DSP

Stamp Set: Well Scripted, Thoughts and Prayers

Accessories: Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon, markers, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Distressing tool, Decorative label punch

These little projects here were the kids projects that they made for their teachers. Once again I don’t normally do this however this year Mason’s teacher had a birthday 2 days before the end of school and he asked why I didn’t make something……sorry I didn’t know it was her birthday! So the said that we would make an Easter gift instead. Then the other to wanted to do one as well. This is what we got……

 

Mason’s gift

Cory’s gift

The rear of the boxes

Luca had 4 of these for his teachers

One the Easter gifts were done I managed to quickly put this one together as the very late birthday gift. A Lauren Meader template.

  

With a very simple card which also happened to be the thank you card for this month. Mason gave this gift of the last day of school, not my best effort but it looks alright in these pictures. Honestly I put this project together in around 1/2 an hour as that was all the time I had.

Thanks for stopping by

Cherie

The roundup

Hi Stampers

So I realised yesterday after publishing my entry that I didn’t show you the whole package.

 

So here it is, the Genie bags at the back with the very cute Santa tag on them. The calendars and the birdhouses with the yummy Almond Rocca inside then the notebooks with the ribbon bookmarks  and finally the Christmas card.

 

The birdhouse with yummy chocolate

One of the Christmas cards used

The second card used.

    One of the Notebooks with the matching ribbon bookmark

One of the Genie bags

Another of the Genie bags

And finally the calendar.

Thanks for looking

Cherie

Happy New Year

Hi Stampers

Happy New Years day to you. Just like that, we are here at the start of another year, oh to know what it has install for us. It starts here I suppose.

So these teachers gifts, 6 in total ended up like this. The School teachers were up first with these ones…

Once I made the Birdhouse, the calendar, the notebook with bookmark and the card I had to make something to put it into so the good old Genie Bag came into play.

So these ones were kept super simple and finished with a tag after using the So Swirly wheel.

The next 4 well they were amped up a bit when I saw a very cute punched Santa on Becky Roberts blog. Becky had it on a Stocking so I transferred it to my bags which turned out like this…

 

Cute ah, Santa’s tag shimmers a bit as I use some shimmer paint. I did roll the top and bottom with the wheel Time for a tree. Put Santa on a tag did the finishing touches. I so loved how these turned out. Best of all the Kindy teachers loved these as well and that was before they got to see inside the bags.

Hope this year is healthy and happy for you all, best wishes always.

Cherie

Christmas gifts continued

Hi Stampers

Yesterday I showed you the notebooks that I did for the teachers gift. Today I will show you a bit more. Calendars……We made these for stamp club earlier in the year but this time I used something brighter, Poppy Parade.

These are designed to sit on a desk or similar. Nice and colourful. The 1/2 pearls that Stampin’ Up brought out recently have been such a hit, easy to use as well.

I couldn’t not put in something yummy to eat so this year I went for quality rather than quantity and made these cute birdhouses from the mini milk carton die from Stampin’ Up.

The bird was covered in Dazzling Diamonds and the wings were covered with Crystal effects with a Rhinestone Brad for the eye. I used the new Woodgrain background stamp on the birdhouse and on the roof is a scalloped edge attached separately. The mini milk carton was perfect to fit in 4 Almond Rocca sticks. The most divine toffee yummy yum.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cherie

Christmas Show’s at last

Sitting here this very mild evening I have managed to download the photos from the camera that my DH has had. In fact he had MY camera right up until he received one from work as a Christmas gift. Nice for some ah. Anyway I will get off from that high horse and show you some of the things that I made for Christmas gifts. Teachers Gifts……this year there were 4 kindy teachers and 2 school teachers to keep me going.

I started with these notebooks that I found that had plastic covers so I pulled out the covering and created it my way.

 

 

Each of these were covered with DSP and decorated with a saying and also a punched imaged. The top book had a bird, in fact about 4 of the books had birds but then there where the butterflies and flowers. Lots of Dazzling Diamonds of course and then I made a ribbon bookmark for each one. The idea came from the very talented Becky Roberts who is talent plus. I spent far to much time playing so it was a mad rush to finish them. I ended up settling on three designs going with a scrunched scallop flower with a large clear button as the centre. Plain circle attached to a large clear button with a punched flower in the middle and 4 that I used the Floral Fusion Sizzlits Die, 2 with plain brads in the middle and 2 with Rhinestone Brads. A couple had little tags attached as well.

I will show you the rest tomorrow, thanks for looking and pop over to Becky’s site if you haven’t already and check out her blog.

Cherie

Baby Boy

Hi Stampers,

Cory’s teacher at school took leave at the end of term 3 to start her family. She knew that it was a boy (which makes it easy for all), Mrs Peters is also Cory’s favourite teacher ever and so talk of giving a gift was mentioned. Shown here is the gift that Cory gave to her on the last day……

     

I brought a lovely soft blanket and inside was a baby toy. I created this expanding box to accommodate the bulk of the gift. It worked out great but I do admit that it took awhile and as I do all my crafting at night when the boys are in bed it was a very late night with a few not very well thought out problems. LOL. Very pleased when I was finished for sure. The bottom of the box was rolled with the Classic stars roller and the colour is ‘Bashful Blue’ using the ‘Choo Choo’ set.

If you want the details send through an email.

Thanks for looking.

Cherie

A 6 Sided Basket

Hi Stampers

My friend pop over and was telling about a basket she had seen, she described to me and I just had to have a play. This was the basket she was talking about but this is my effort. This is a very cute little basket.

This basket is made up from 6 of the Scallop envelope Bigz Dies for the Big Shot, joined together in a row then joined to create the basket. Shape it to suit then create a bottom template to sit either inside the basket or tape to the bottom, or both. Create your handle and there you have it.

This sample is made with Ruby red cardstock and the Designer Series paper Autumn Traditions. Filigree Brads finish of the handles. This basket is large compared to a lot of the other baskets and boxes I do so at this stage I’m thinking that these maybe good teacher gifts at the end of the year.

Thanks for looking in today (TFL)

Cherie

Stamp Club and Easter Project cont’d

So these were the other 2 baskets that we made at Stamp club, the previous post showed you a different style again.

And these little babies were for the teachers, amazing how much chocolate these took to fill up. Bags and bags of them and that was before the boys spotted them. I must stop filling gifts with lollies and chocolate, ‘you know a minute on the lips and a lifetime on the hips’. I’ll try and remember for next time.

Cherie

Teachers Gifts

It was a busy season for me but I did manage to get these teachers gifts done, filled then with all different types of chocolate kisses. It is easy to create a nice gift when the teacher is female. These cool boxes are from Paper trey ink. Pop over here to have a look at these easy templates created by Lauren.

Thanks for looking

Cherie