It's Summer Time!!- Teacher's Gifts

ETA: Ok I know I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but I found this challenge to make card's for teacher's over at Fun Frilled. So I knew this project was perfect for it! I didn't want to repost the same project, so I just edited this one, I hope that still counts! Thanks for looking! :)

Hey Everybody! Sorry that it's been almost a week since my last post. It has been a crazy week! My kids are officially out of school for the Summer! They passed the TAKS test and the end of the year tests to get out 2 weeks early. They just started that this year, and all the kids who didn't pass or that need more help, will stay 2 more weeks, for more one on one time. My son will go to the 3rd grade and my daughter goes to Jr. High (6th grade). :( We have a tradition in our family with the girls, that you have to wait until the Summer before the sixth grade to shave your legs. Well we hit a milestone in our lives this week, because we let our daughter shave her legs the night before her last day of school! (I know that sounds kind of cheesy, but it means our little girl is growing up!)

Anyway on to crafty stuff, since it was their last day of school yesterday, I needed to make gifts for the teachers. I know I could buy something, but I would rather make it! I thought about it for awhile and came up with these simple note cards. I figured they could use them next year. My son has one teacher and my daughter has three, so I made each of the 4 teacher's, a set of 20. I stamped them with the wood grain stamp (that I LOVE), how do ya'll stamp those big stamps? I had to step on it, to stamp evenly, (is that weird)? I typed the words on the computer and printed it out on notebook paper, and stamped an apple on each one and stapled them to the card. I thought the staples looked teachery. (do you like that word?) :) I made the cards to fit in a cd/dvd envelope. I bought the cd/dvd envelopes at WalMart, they were 100 for $6.00. I took the envelope box apart and traced the template on poster board and cut it out, to make a box to hold the note cards in. I used the red sticky tape to adhere it, stamped apples on it, and cut out a window in the front, so you could see the cards inside. I only made boxes for two of the teacher's and the other two, I just put a rubber band around them and tied a ribbon around it. (I ran out of time.) I started making them Wednesday afternoon, I had to stop and go to church that evening. When we got back around 9:00 that night, I started working on them again and quit around 2:00am the next morning. They still weren't finished, so I woke up and finished them that morning and took pictures of them, before I had to go to award ceremonies for my daughter at 9:00am. SOOO it was a busy night, but I think I work better under pressure! :) I also made Thank You cards for them too, and two more for other teachers, using the same design. I put them in kraft gift bags with the teachers name on the front and a simple brown bow. I think they really liked them! So here they are.

Supplies:

Paper- White CS, notebook paper

Stamps- Fall stamps- $ bin at Target, PaperTrey Ink- Mixed messages, All night media- wood grain

Ink- ColorBox Chalk Ink- Chestnut Raon, Studio G- red, SU!- brown marker, BIC- green marker

Accessories- staples, brown satin ribbon, red gingham ribbon, cd/dvd envelopes, kraft gift bags

Have a Blessed weekend!

KWerner Color Challenge #52

Hey again!! Can you believe, two posts in one day?! It's time for another KWerner Color Challenge. These colors were hard to find in my supplies, I had to use all scraps from my stash for this challenge. Some of my scraps were small, so I was limited on what design I could do. It was hard to find the color "sand", was that hard for anyone else? Well I really like how simple it turned out! If ya'll haven't noticed, I LOVE studio G stamps from the $ bin at Michael's and JoAnn's. They are so cute and very affordable!! I loved the Father's Day stamps I found at JoAnn's, and I figured the colors for this week would make a good Father's Day card. I really LOVED the pattern on this set too! Well here it! Here is the inside of the card.

Supplies:

Paper- All scraps from stash.

Stamps- Studio G- Father stamps

Ink- Versamark- watermark

Accessories- White embossing powder

Have a Blessed Night!

Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #6

Hey Everyone! I had some time to make a card for Dawn's Color Challenge yesterday. I LOVED the colors together. I want to start making some cards and things for the Pregnancy Center, so decided to start yesterday! :) I really loved how it turned out and plan to use this layout and colors again in the future! Well here's the card, I hope you like it! :)

Supplies:

Paper- Brown, White, and Coral CS
Stamp- Studio g- Mommy Stamp

Ink- ColorBox Chalk Ink- Dark Brown, Versamark- watermark

Accessories- Coral Satin ribbon, white embossing powder, safety pin

Have a Blessed Day!

A Baby Project

Hey Everyone! Well I don't know how ya'll Saturday went, but mine was busy cleaning house and changing out Winter clothes for Summer clothes. It has been so Hot here in Texas and it's only May. It has been in the low 90's already!! My husband and I own a A/C & Heating business, so it's good for business :), but long work hours!!
I wanted to share a project I made the other night at about 12 o'clock. A friend of mine started volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center, they have a shop that the women can get baby supplies from. My friend crocheted 5 blankets and put each one in a large Ziploc bag, she needed me to make the bags look a little cuter. I decided to make like a bag topper that will be stapled on top of the bag. So I folded a 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of card stock and stamped the words Sweet baby all over it. I bought some new stamps that just reminded me of babies, so I used the mommy & baby giraffe. I stamped them, then water colored them in and then cut them out. I needed to make 5 of them and I wanted to make little 4X4 cards to go with each one, so that she could write a little note in each one, to let them know that the little baby that will be wrapped in that blanket was prayed for. She prayed over the blankets as she made them. They decide to keep the blankets for a Baby shower that they give the Mom's once a year. I think the Mom's will love them! She really loves volunteering there, it is a Christian based clinic, she actually lead two people to Christ yesterday, Praise God!!
They are pretty simple, the hardest part part was water coloring and cutting them out. These pictures were taken late at night, again, so the lighting isn't great. I had a field trip to go to the next day, so she picked these up while I was gone, so I didn't get a picture of the finished project, Sorry! I hope to make some more stuff for the Clinic in the near future.



I made these in blue and green.

Here is one of the cards, It was getting late, so I just stamped these to the cards. :)


Supplies:
Paper- White, green, and blue CS
Stamps- PaperTrey Ink- mixed messages, Autumn Leaves- zoo stamps
Ink- SU!- yellow, ColorBox- brown, StazOn- Jet black
Accessories- SU!- blender pen, white satin ribbon, scallop scissors
Have a Blessed Night!

Cards

Hey Everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a couple of days! We have had Dr.'s appointments, school field trips, softball & baseball games, and church! Busy! Busy! Busy! I am glad tomorrow is Saturday, so I can sleep in, in the morning! :) Autumn's leg is looking so GOOD! We got the results of the culture back on her bite, it was MRSA ( the bad staph). I was a little upset about the results at first, but it could have been worse! They said the medicine she is on, should heal up the infection. I have to remember that her having the MRSA doesn't mean she is going to suffer from it again! We just have to be more aware of insects bites and other cuts and scraps. Just be aware of bug bites, they can turn into something bad within days! Sometimes it is hard to praise God in the storms, but we have to remember, He is still worthy to be praised!!!

Well I know these are a little late, but I wanted to share some of the Mother's Day cards I made for the kids Sunday school class at church. They gave them to their Mom's and wrote letters to them. I also gave some of them to the ladies at church to wish them a Happy Mother's Day! Sorry about the bad picture's, I took them late at night, with bad lighting! These were taken on top of my stove, that's pretty bad, right?! :) I made some more cards, but haven't had a chance to take pictues of them. I hope to post them tomorrow!

Here are a couple that weren't to blurry.

I made these 4X4 cards for scraps in my stash! I used the same design for everyone, and just changed the paper.

Paper-I don't remember all the brands of the paper.

Stamp- Studio g - $ bin at JoAnn's

Ink- ColorBox Chalk- brown

Accesories-I made the flowers from fabric scraps, brown satin ribbon, distressing

Have a Blessed night!

Update on Autumn

Hi again! I wanted to thank everyone SO much for all of the prayers and concern for my daughter! I took her back to her DR. yesterday, and they took out the packing and cleaned it out. She said that it looked really good and that she could get off of one of her medicines. So she is still taking one oral antibiotics and an antibiotic cream on the incision. She can get it wet again, which helps during bath time! We are still waiting on the results for the culture, I hope they will be in tomorrow. We just want to make sure the medicine she is one will continue to work. Her Dr. did say it was probably was MRSA, but we are still praying it wasn't!! I have been cleaning EVERYTHING in my house to try and keep it from spreading to all of us! I noticed last night that I had a bite or something on my upper thigh. We went fishing Sunday and baseball and softball games last night (it wasn't raining at the games at all), so it could have been a chigger or mosquito bite. I started putting antibiotic cream on it last night. Please pray it is just a bite with no infection going on! Well Thank You all again, it means so much to have prayer warriors praying for you!!



I also want to ask for prayer for a family, who I just found over the internet a couple of weeks ago. You might have seen them on T.V. The couple had a baby last June, and the little baby (Kayleigh) was 1 pound 1 ounce. We you see the picture on the blog title, you are going to fall in love! She has been through so much and so many surgery's. On her last surgery, (that was preparing for her to get to go home) she suffered a brain injury and became brain dead. Her family always kept the faith that it was in God's hands and not the Dr's, but after a couple of weeks of hanging on, she passed away yesterday. Please pray for their family, they have two other children also, that they are going to have to be strong for. Go by and see these precious baby girl and this sweet family! My kids and I have been checking in on her everyday, she has really touched our hearts with her fight for life!! It reminds me to cherish each day with your loved ones!! Hold your loved ones tight tonight and let them know you love them!! God Bless You All!

Blog Award #3

Hey everyone! The post for this blog award is a little late! (SORRY) Well I was awarded this award by the sweet Katie Turtle over at The Left Side Of My Brain. It is the Lemonade Stand Award and it is for being a blogger who shows great attitude and gratitude. That is a very big compliment, so thank you Katie!! Go by and check out her work, it is really amazing!! I am supposed to pass it on to some great bloggers, so here are some great ladies and their blogs!!

Kim J. at Jacksoki

Purple D at Purple on Paper

Anthonette at Chavez Designs

Savitri at Stampin and Scrappin with Savitri

Donna at Butternut Sage Designs

The rules of the award (To pick up the Lemonade Stand Award):- Comment on this blog.- Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog.- Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude.- Link to your nominees within your blog post.- Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.- Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

Have a Blessed day!