Teacher Thank you!

Hey there!

I realized that I didn't share the teacher and bus driver thank you presents that my kids gave away this year.

I wanted something simple, but tasty and good.  So, I decided to buy giant chocolate bars from my favourite chocolate maker and make some cute teacher-like tags to with them.

Here are the thank you's my kids took with them to school on their last day.

I wrapped each chocolate bar with a Night of Navy Belly band, and then wrapped that in our pretty white ribbon with a giant bow.

The tags were made using the Ornate Tag Topper Punch, the Water colour words stampset and the mini star punch to add a little gold star!  Perfect for the best teachers and bus driver's kids (and their parents) could ask for.  :)

I had my kids hand write their own message on the back of each tag.  Here is the message my youngest wrote for his teacher.  I think his penmanship would have been much better had I not attached the tag before he wrote his message - opps.   The part I love the most....his signature "writin by"  lol.  Despite his spelling mistake, I think it is SO cute! 

Happy Stampin'

Tammy 

A Royalty Christmas with Snow Friends

Hello there,

Luckily, over at Stampin' Royalty Challenge, they have a winter theme challenge for us! 

Have you seen all the great cards there?  You can find them here ....Stampin' Roaylty Challenge SR#305

SO, I have another Christmas card for you today using a stampset and matching framelits that I just LOVE!

Yep, you guessed it, Snow Friends!  These little guys are the cutest!  Just like playing with paper dolls.

I used my decorative dots  to create some snow falling in the background and used some of the shimmery white cardstock to make a little snow hill for my snow friends to play on.  I thought it looked a little pain, so I added a Christmas tree using the Festival of Trees stampset and coordinating tree punch.

 

Finally, I topped my tree with a silver star.  

Happy Stampin'

Tammy  

Festival of Trees with Stampin' Royalty

Hello my Stampin' friends,

I have a Christmas card to show you today...because it's never too early to get those little things checked off your list!  Have you started your cards yet?   

I found an awesome sketch challenge over at Stampin' Royalty with challenge SR#246!  That got my creative mind working!  I chose my colours after choosing my patterned paper - and now I am well on my way! 

I knew I wanted to use my new Festival of Trees bundle - save 15% when you buy the stampset and matching punch!  I LOVE matching punches and I LOVE bundle pricing!  Who doesn't love a deal, right?  But I do have a bit of a confession....this stampset is Photopolymer - I have never tried this kind of stamp before.  After all, I was very happy with my rubber stamps in wood and clear, so I was hesitant to give these new stamps a try!  

So as a skeptic, I can say...they are GREAT!  Here are the pluses that I noticed.  First there is no assembly!  You aren't mounting these on wood OR putting the sticker on them so you can see what you are stampin'.  The next awesome thing I noticed was that they are SUPER clingy to the blocks!  The third wonderful thing about these stamps was that they are SO easy to clean!  And, last by not least, you can see EXACTLY where you are stampin'....the Festival of Trees stampset is a two-step stampset and the photopolmer makes this really easy to do.  If you haven't tried these stampsets, take it from a skeptic like me, they are awesome!

So you are probably wanting to see my card, well, here is it....

I hope you like my card.

Be sure to stop on over to Stampin' Royalty to see all of the wonderful creations there!

Happy Stampin'

Tammy

Fab Friday 41 with Graduation

Hello there my Stampin' friends!

 

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's day!  Weather you are a mom or spent time with your mom, it always makes for a wonderful day!  I was spoiled by the wonderful boys (and their father) in my house!  I am just so lucky to be their mom!  They made some projects for me at school and breakfast in bed - thank you daddy! - and they were so proud of themselves that they made me a home made card!  They used  some Pretty in Pink Stampin'UP! cardstock and even used my 'scorer thingy' otherwise known as my paper trimmer!  lol

 

Speaking of cards, I have a graduation card to show you today and I decided to participate in the Fab Friday sketch challenge!  So much fun! 

 

A few of my regular card class ladies had requested a Graduation card and I thought this layout would be perfect! 

 

I decided to use some leftover Christmas DSP - what?  Yep, but this doesn't even look like Christmas when you don't use Christmas stamps!  The pattern is in Pool Party which I thought would be great for a boy or a girl.  I used some star punches ...one from my Christmas mini's set and a retired larger one.  I also used my Decorative Label Punch  - LOVE that one - and I punched it out twice to make a fake border buy cutting it in half and gluing it to the back of the Label with the verse on it. 

 

The verse comes from the retired stamp set Party Time.  I added some rhinestones and voila!  A graduation card! 

 

Thank you Fab Friday for some great inspiration!

 

 

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Tammy