End of Year Teacher Gift Basket - Line Alphabet & Pick a Pennant

They say it is better to give than to receive and I surely enjoying giving.  I hope I don't get any looks from other moms tomorrow as I may have gone overboard here - but I really do enjoy making extra special gifts and our son's teacher is amazing!  (Aren't they all??)

Plus, if you take away the 3 ginormous bags of chex mix, this would all fit in a smaller bag and it wouldn't look as big!  (Sorry.. feel like I need to defend this awesome gift!)

One of the many things I love about Stampin' Up! is the products that make gift giving so fun.  The ribbon, stamp sets, tags.. It not only makes it pretty, it makes it easy!

Our son's teacher told me earlier in the year that she loves all kinds of chex mixes, so I decided to make 3 different kinds.  These will be great snacks for road trips, camping or poolside.  I decided to make little tags with the Pick a Pennant stamp set.  This is a great small alphabet for little labels.  (I even thought some of the other stamps in the set looked like chex, so I made little banners with them as well.

Tucked in the side of the basket are two 8 packs of thank you/note cards.  These were made with the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, the Artisan Textures stamp set, Thankful Thoughts stamp set, Wood Words stamp set and some Berry Burst Ribbon.  I made an assembly line and this came together while I watched a movie with my kids. Win, win!

In the back of the basket is my favorite gift that I made.  I had an extra canvas and hoop in my craft stash that someone gave me once so this craft technically cost me nothing!  #thisiswhyIhoard

The stamp set is called Lined Alphabet and is a must have in your stamp collection.  I have seen so many great cards made with this.  A nice versatile set.

I stamped the letters in Memento Black Ink and colored them with my Blends.

I tried not to blend them too much to give the letters a watercolored look.

I dressed the hoop up with coordinating ribbon!  I love that Stampin' Up! is matchy-matchy.  It makes my heart happy!

I am so excited to give this to our son's teacher.  Teachers are such amazing people and they give so many hours and dedication for our children.  We are blessed...

I hope you have a great weekend!  School is out tomorrow! Woohoo!

Blessings,

Holly

I'm Here for You - TGIFC76

Hey there!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  I had a long weekend because of my craft show - but I'm so glad I did it!  I only sold cards, tags and a few pumpkins I made with scrap wood and retired DSP and I walked away with $250! (I actually made $384, but I deducted my vendor fee and the money I spent on this gorgeous piece of furniture that you'll see below!)  Not too shabby!  I even had 2 other vendors ask if I would like to sell my cards at their stores!  The only downside to the whole thing was that it was 3 hours of driving each day.  Saturday night I went to bed at 8 with a pounding headache.  I really pushed myself too far.

In fact, I was so distracted by this craft show that I forgot my TGIF card!  So, here it is on Sunday night!  There is still plenty of time to play along so I hope you join us at TGIF Challenges!

We have a beautiful fall color combo for you.

The leaves here in MN are really changing and as I drove on my hour and a half drive to the vendor show I saw so many birch and aspen trees inspiring me to make this card.

I love the In the Meadow stamp set and thought it was a perfect set for this color combo.  I'm out of kraft cardstock, so Tip Top Taupe subbed in.

I used my Aqua Painter on Shimmery White CS to make the background and color the Lots of Labels layer with the tree.  I added a few Pumpkin Pie Brights Enamel Dots and finished with a sentiment from the Here for You stamp set.

I hope that you join us this week! We love to see everyone's creations each week!  You inspire us too!

Here is the beautiful "pool party" piece of furniture I bought at the vendor show.  Most of the vendors sold handmade/antique/refurbished/artsy/shabby chic style pieces - this one is an old radio cabinet that's been emptied out.  I'm not sure if I'll use it for a coffee bar (I don't drink coffee), a guest room piece or whether I'll use it in my craft room.

Have a wonderful week!

-Holly

A Little Foxy Trio for FabFri89

Hey everyone! Happy Wednesday!  I am having a lot of fun stamping with my new Stampin' Up! products and have plenty made to share with you over the next few weeks.  I just had my June Stamp n' Snack/Catalog Launch party on Monday night so I will be sharing my photos of that soon.

But today I want to share with you 3 cards that I made using this adorable Foxy Friends bundle.  I am so glad I bought this right away.  On Monday we made a card using the cat and one of the ladies that attends my class stamped just the little whiskers on the corner of her envelope and she inspired me to come home and make a card with whiskers all over the background.  Thanks, Jennifer!

This card I made using the sketch for the Fab Friday challenge.

Here's the card I came up with :)  I used the new Labeler Alphabet stamp set to make the sentiment.  If you know me, I loved the Rotary Alphabet stamp set.  (in fact, if you search for that on my blog you'll find a lot of cards.)  So as sad as I am that it's gone, this set is pretty dang awesome!

The Fox Builder Punch is so quick and easy to use.  I only stamped the whiskers on this card.  Our little boys are loving the punch and set too.

For the background on the Blushing Bride circle, I used the new Touches of Texture stamp set.

Are these whiskers cute??

Next I made this cute little fox card.  Of course, all I can think about is that stupid song... 

It says Happy Birthday!

(Again, I used the Touches of Texture on the background.  Thought the jumbled mess of letters was perfect for this.)

For the last card I wanted to make this neat background.  I actually saw this in the catalog, so I cannot take credit.  TIP:  Score or lightly draw a line so that your shape is consistent down the card.

I added the little hat and sentiment from Guy Greetings.  Cute, huh?

I hope you enjoyed these cards!  Be sure to check out my Product Shares tab!  I only have a few spots left!

Have a great rest of the week! :)

-Holly 

Stamp Review Crew - White Christmas

Welcome to our first stamp set highlight of the month!  This is my second month with the Stamp Review Crew and I'm having a lot of fun seeing how creative my fellow team members are when it comes to using the same stamp set.  If you came from Kelly Kent's blog, thanks so much for stopping by!  

As you can see by our banner, we are using the White Christmas stamp set.  To be honest, I'm over all the "white" stuff and my mind is on spring.  When I saw this was the set we were using I knew I wanted to do something that didn't relate to Christmas.  We recently moved from Rhode Island and had two beautiful autumns in New England.  We drove to Vermont in October and toured a few maple syrup farms. 

So do you know what else those cute little trees remind me of??

You guessed it!  Syrup!  

My mom and dad just tapped their first trees and made their own syrup this year.  They sent me this picture one morning and said they were trying something new!  Looked like fun to me :)  They sent us the tiniest bottle in the mail and we're anxious to try it.  I'm not sure how many pancakes it will cover, so I might pull an Elf moment and pour it on my spaghetti!

(I'm kidding...)

So I wanted to make my parents a thank you card and decided to tie in the "syrup" theme with the sap lines running from tree to tree. 

I literally threaded some Tangerine Tango twine around the trees.  :) 

I really enjoyed making this stamp set into something different.  I hope they enjoy the card too!

Time to make some pancakes.  Or maybe just two.  haha!

I would love for you to continue on around the hop.  You can go back to the talented Kelly or next to my follower on many hops - Ms. Rochelle Blok :)  You can also click on the SRC Banner up top to go to the homepage to see a list of all of the participants!

  

Have a great week!

-Holly 

Love You Sew!

I have been visiting my parents this week in PA.  My mom is my upline and has a bigger stamp collection than I do... So lucky for me, I get to ink some up that I don't own!

Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's bad!  She can be quite the enabler. 

This set is the hostess set from the Occasions Catalog called Love You Sew.  Pretty cute, huh?

I love the look of real stitches on cards too!  It's one of my favorite things to do on a card.

 

And of course I had to add some extra on the inside.  Now I have to pick which friend gets the card! I have many that love sewing, including my mom!

Thanks for stopping by!

-Holly

Creation Station Hop - Bloomin' Love that Glimmers!

 Welcome back to another hop with the Creation Station!  I just returned from the K-Love Christian cruise and I'm not quite ready to get back to the norm :) I do have time to stamp though and was able to make 49 cards with my mom this Thursday and Friday!  

Note: I'm at my parent's house, the Internet is crazy slow and limited, so a big thank you goes out to Cindy Schuster.  Without her, this post would not have been published! Thanks girl!

This month we are featuring the Bloomin' Love bundle and glimmer paper.  I do not own the Bloomin' Love set, but when I dropped the boys off at my parents house before the cruise, I was able to use my mom's set.  So glad my "upline" gets all the goodies!

For this card, I wanted to keep it simple.  You might notice the sentiment from Suite Sayings looks a little different from the one in the catalog. Nothing the Marvelous Markers can't do! :)

The sentiment itself is a great one for Easter, but liked the way it turned out for this card.

This next card is not my original idea and I wish I knew who to give credit to!  Whoever thinks of cutting a butterfly out of the Bloomin' Hearts thinlit needs an award.  Or a high five. :)

I think I'm sold on both the Bloomin' Love bundle AND Suite Sayings. I hope you like what I made today! Be sure to check out the entire group of ladies and what they came up with. :) You can click on previous and head on back to the lovely Jennifer's blog:

Or continue through to sweet Mikaela's to see her creation!

Thanks again for stopping by!

-Holly

Sky Is the Limit - Times Two

Just a quick post today.  I traveled the past two days across 7 states and I'm a little exhausted.  But I wanted to share with you another set that you can earn free with a $50 order.  This set is called Sky is the Limit and you can only earn this set FREE through February 15th.

 

 

 

 

The set fits many occasions from baby to birthday to anniversary.  So what do you say?  Want to earn your own set?

:)

Happy stampin'! 

-Holly

 

 

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Happy Home Times Two!

It is such a great feeling to be in my craft room! It's about 90% unpacked and I had a chance to sit down and add some ink to some brand new stamp sets and I'm excited to show you 2 cards today that I made using the new Happy Home stamp set.  This set is adorable on its own, but I did pair it with the matching Hearth & Home thinlits.

 

 

I added some "It's My Party enamel dots" to the flowers.  I also used the flower stamp to make the leaves too.

 

The second card I made with this set turned out cuter than I expected.  It was a little stretch for me to use bold colors, but I really like the way it turned out!  The DSP is one of the exclusive Sale-a-Bration items that you can earn FREE with a $50 order!  It's two sided - one has this swirly look and the other is a very soft plainer look.  Both sides are great though!

 

Isn't that little kite flying kid cute? 

  

 

Thanks for swinging by!  Make sure you check out the NEW weekly deals Tuesday morning. 

Also, if you are placing an order soon less than $150, please use hostess code: E29ZAUEM :)

 

Below are the supplies needed for both cards!

Happy stamping!

-Holly

 

 

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