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 

Happy Father's Day with Mojo Monday

Well hi there,

Are you all ready for Father's Day?  I am half way there.  I have mailed my card to my dad in New Brunswick and have started quizzing my kids about what they want to get for my husband. The boys in my house really aren't that great at planning ahead!  ;)

To celebrate Father's Day I wanted to create a card of course!  So I hoped on over to Mojo Monday and their challenge this week ( MOJO452) as a really great sketch to follow!

Don't you just love the detail in this sketch?  So much fun! 


So I thought I would use up some of my retired DSP and particularly the Go Wild stack from the previous Annual Catalogue.


Here is my card....

 
I wanted to be sure to use one of my newest favs from the new catalogue as well - can you see it?  It's the Thoughtful Banners stampset with coordinating punch (Duet Banner Punch)!  Can you say millions of possibilities?  Squeal!


The other stampset I used on this card is Watercolour Words!  Not sure why it took my so long to get this set, but oh so happy it made it back to the new annual catalogue.


Be sure to stop on over to Mojo Monday to get some more inspiration!


Happy Stampin'


Tammy

Stampin Celebration Challenge Returns!

Hello there,

So glad you stopped by today!  Do you know what today is?  It's the day Stampin' Celebration Challenge starts up again after a very short hiatus!  And, we are so excited to bring you this fresh, awesome picture sketch for you to play along with!  

What did you notice first?  My eyes were immediately drawn to the bright coloured stripes and the fun citrus images.  The next thing I saw was the white lettering on the black background.  I immediately thought fun chalkboard technique!  

Here is the card I designed with these picture in mind....

  I just LOVE how this turned out!  And I made it in about 10 minutes flat - a record for me!  

I found some yellow stripped DSP in my stash and paired it with a Tangerine Tango cardbase.  My greeting is from the stampset Watercolour Words.  I stamped it using Whisper White craft ink on a a scrap of Basic Black cardstock.  I added some speckles using the Georgous Grunge stampset.

Finally, I stamped the flower from Crazy About You - it was the closest stamp I had to a citrus fruit stamp, but I think it works - in Tangerine Tango on Whisper White Cardstock, cut out and popped up on dimensionals.  The flower center is a 1" circle punch out of Daffodil Delight Cardstock to match the stripes in the DSP.

I hope you like my card.  Please be sure to stop on over to the Stampin' Celebration Challenge blog and see what everyone has created using this picture inspiration.

 
Your turn!  I can't wait to see what you create using our challenge! Remember you have 2 weeks to participate.

Happy Stampin'

Tammy