29. July 2010 by admin.

Our nephew celebrated his 5th birthday yesterday.  I zipped up this drawstring bag for him.  Inside of it are two boxes of Kinex vehicles and an outfit.  I love making these bags because they can use them for other stuff or they can reuse it for someone else’s birthday.  We try to be a little greener each day and this is one of my newest ways.  The bags are simple to make and take no time at all to sew up.  If you haven’t made one…give it a try.  If you do make one I would love for you to leave me a link so I can see your project.  If anyone needs step by step pictures and instructions just leave a note in the comments section and I can make a post on it.

Supplies: 1/2 yard fabric, black thread, rope, black floss, tag die cut (Sissix), circle punch, sentiment-PTI, balloons image-Dollar Tree, mini attacher-Tim Holtz

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!  The boys wrap up swimming lessons tomorrow and next week is my last full week of summer before having to go back to work :(  Summer seems to go by faster than the school year does.  Well enjoy and I should have another post for you tomorrow

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29. July 2010 by admin.

I made this frame to hang in Brayden’s room.  I love to make my own gifts for people.  I love seeing the look of joy on their face as they open it.  I pp for the background (same pp paper as on the card shown below).  Then I cut a mat out of dark blue cs and then cut white cs in a 3.5×5 size.  The middle rectangle is for a picture of Brayden and then the bottom rectangle is for his footprints.  I just stamped a footprint image on the cs to show what is to go there. 

This is the card I made for Brayden.  Inside is a nice little saying about baptism.  I just googled baptism sayings and baptism quotes and found several I liked.  That is also where the saying in the frame came from.

Here’s the tag I made.  I wraped the frame in white tissue paper and wrapped blue button twine around it twice and then tied the tag to it.  I also had a book tucked under the tag but forgot to take a picture of it :(  I believe the title was The Thank You Prayer.  I stamped the cross image on a large mailing address label (on the left side of the label).  Then I wrote on it saying that it was for his special Baptism day and love all of us.  I have always written on the inside of the books when I give them as gifts.  Lately I have been making label.  I will have a post on those soon.

Supplies: white and blue cs, circle punch, button twine, frame (from Target), baby feet image-Hero Arts, cross image-D-2514 PSX, ColorBox inks, printed Baptism paper-Moxie-Faith-Baptism

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30. June 2010 by admin.

I’m always looking for ways to be greener.  When our cousin’s sons birthday party was coming up, they said he was really into Legos.  It seems like you buy this huge box with only about a 1/4 being used to house the Legos.  Then over time the box breaks down and Legos are falling out everywhere.  I decided to pull out the sewing machine and stitch up this drawstring bag (that I learned how to make in middle school)for the Legos.  I put the box of Legos inside the bag (not knowing if he had this set already) and used the bag as the gift wrap and then explained that the Legos could be stored in there once opened, making it easier to take them with him to a friends’ house and such.  Next I whipped up a simple boy looking tag for the bag.  Both the Legos and the bag were a hit!

Supplies:  fabric and cording from Wal-Mart, sentiment: PTI Enjoy the Ride, Sizzix: tags, scallop combo #2, EK Success: 1 3/4 circle punch, thread and staples

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30. June 2010 by admin.

My cousin is getting married in October.  With all the details that go into planning a wedding I thought she could use a mini notebook to hold all of her to do’s in.  She is having a rainbow wedding and said that her favorite color is purple.  It;s hard to see in the picture but the scallop is punched from purple cs and the button is also purple.

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30. June 2010 by admin.

Here’s a little basket I made a filled with Hershey’s nuggets.  My cousins fiance broke his ankle playing baseball a while back and I had whipped this up for him.

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2. June 2010 by admin.

Yesterday my baby sister had her first child.  Her and her husband were blessed with a beautiful, healthy baby boy.  We drove up to see them yesterday and here are a few of the many pictures I snapped of him.  Look at all that hair!

Here is the card and onesie I altered for him. 

I couldn’t resist this blowfish…isn’t it just adorable!  He is going to look so cute in it

Here it is packaged up with some ribbon, twine and a tag.

Supplies: card: blue, brown and off white cs-Hobby Lobby, printed paper -imaginisce/baby powder-king of the crib, onesie image-studio g/katie & co.

onesie: onseise, blowfish-imaginisce/ snag em’, ColorBox Chalk inks-chestnut roan and lime green

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