Valentine's Day Madness!

For some reason, this year, I have gotten into Valentine's Day more than I ever have.  Maybe it was all the cute projects/ideas on the How Does She site.  Yeah, that was probably it. Valentine's Day Ideas

I saw these jars with vinyl lettering posted and thought: What an EASY teacher gift!  So I enlisted the help of one of my girlfriends, Windy.  She owns a vinyl lettering business and does the cutest stuff!  Check it out here.  She happily agreed to cut vinyl for me and a bunch of other friends.  I thought: ok, now all I need is to stop by Hobby Lobby and pick up jars.  But.... then I found these little jewels I'd been saving up: Gold Canyon Candle jars that were cleaned an prepped and just waiting to be filled with, something.  I used these free downloaded Valentines by CreativeMama.com as tags for each jar

Next up, I loved the tin mailbox idea for each of my kids.  Once again, Windy helped me out and cut all my vinyl.  I can't wait to surprise the kids with these little cuties filled with Valentine's Day treats!  I couldn't resist, I HAD to get the pink one for myself.

  

Finally, I tried the heart shaped Rice Krispie Treats.  I used a spatula and melted milk chocolate for some goodness on top.  Then I sprinkled with some V-Day Wilton's sprinkles.  Once again, I used the free downloaded Valetines.  The treat bags I picked up at Michael's.  At first I was hoping for some heart printed ones, but they must have all been sold out.  It was Feb. 11th, afterall.  But I actually like the pink polka dot better, because I can use them for anything now.

Favorite PTI Project of 2010

I glanced through my prior blog postings and have to say this card is probably my favorite from the last year.  I made it for a friend's October birthday.  I love the layers of Mat Stack, label and the combination of stamping and preprinted embellishments from the Color Couture collection.

PTI January Blog Hop

This month's challenge was to create something using a less used PTI stamp set.  I got the Star Prints set shortly after it was release.  I notice time and again, it's not always the set I reach for while creating.  This month I thought I'd give it a try and make something baby themed for the Blog Hop.  I made a card and a box (with a previously unused template I'd downloaded).  It feels great to use what I have!

Colorful Butterflies

I decided to try out some of my new copics.  I used the Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet and Summer Sunrise colors.  I embossed a 1/4 sheet of Cameo Coral cardstock with the Elegant Lines folder by SU!.  Sentiment is stamped in Ruby Red.  I used a touch of Stickles for the bodies of the butterflies.  I also glued only the centers down so I could pop the wings up off the card.

Snow Ball Pail

I have a goal this school year to make a little something every month to send in to my boys' teachers.  This month I thought I'd try the Snow Balls Nichole Heady posted here.  I followed this recipe from the food network, but I have some suggestions: first, I'd cut down the heavy cream, I also had to add a TON of powdered sugar, and last, I added some coconut to the truffle mix.  Otherwise, you'll end up with a runny mess.  

Now for the fun stuff!  I picked up these medium clear paint cans at Michael's and added a strip of Heidi Grace Snowflake Park flocked paper I had punched with my Apron border punch.

I downloaded the font (Christmas Flakes) from Dafont.com for free.  Once I printed my Snow Balls label I die cut it from the Mat Stack 4 die by PTI.  I ran both my label and the paper strip through my sticker machine to make them easy to apply to the paint cans.

Finally, I added some coordinating Heidi Grace snowflake rub ons.  They were the perfect touch!

I loved the way these turned out!  I hope the teachers liked them too.

Baby Buttons

 
I love the way Maile Belles has been using the silk ribbon to tie on buttons.  Can you tell?  I also fell in love with the Spring Moss/Avocado color combo.  I used Spring Moss paper and Old Olive ink for this one.  The button is Fine Linen.  I wanted to pull in some of the other background colors, so I used my Prima flowers and added some centers.

cQc #66

I can hardly believe Christmas is over already.  This Holiday season seemed to fly by this year.  I'm finally getting back into the swing of things with my papercrafting.  I haven't played along with the Color Queen Challenge in some time, but when I saw this color combo, I immediately thought of my Tea for Two stamp set.  Here's what I came up with.

I stamped the Mat Stack 1 with Versamark and clear embossed.  I didn't have any Daffodil Delight, so I used a Harvest Gold button and Harvest Gold Ribbon.  I was inspired by the polka dots from the sample image, so I used my cuttlebug embossing folder for the background.