Hope You Feel Better Soon

HOPE...

... you feel better soon.

Now, really I can't get enough of this idea...

I had to use it again...

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The only difference here, is that I printed the sentiment and cut it with the Fiskars cloud punch, once the right way and once upside down. 

Here is another version on blue linen:

Until next time...

Good Luck on Your Finals

GOOD LUCK...

... on your finals.

 Keep Calm and Study On....

As the school year comes to an end (where on earth did the time go???), we (the senior waterpolo moms group, as we like to call ourselves)  are going to get together one more time to put together a care package for our sophomore boys in college.

I kept looking for a different idea of what I could put in the box, and I thought Chocolate Chips Cookies... my son's face always lights up at the smell of those cooking... then again if I send them already baked, half the fun would be gone... 

So I had that wonderful idea: Simplified Chocolate Chips Cookies in a Jar.

"Simplified"... and how, you are asking me? Well, I am going to put everything except the egg and the butter. Those two elements are bound to be handy in their kitchen.

So yesterday, I made the tags for the mason jars and the how-to instructions, plus the handy card where every mom will put a good luck message to their son.

Now, since I do not have the mason jar made just yet, I will add the pictures of the tags and instructions later... but I couldn't wait to share the card below.

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I used two different cutting dies; the plain circle is  a Nesting Circle from Lifestyle Craft, and the scalloped one is a Sizzix one.

I folded the yellow card stock in half and cut both sides, leaving them attached at the top.

I ran a white card stock in a Cuttlebug embossing folder and punched two clouds. The sun is made with a Marvy Uchida  punch.

I tried my new Dee Gruenig's brush markers on a DeNami Designs stamp. First time ever I did that and it was so easy, brushing the different color markers on the different arcs of the rainbow. It doesn't dry and I actually stamped the rainbow 4 or 5 times before the colors went away.

I then hand-wrote my sentiment... one of those days, I will know how to type a sentiment in a shape.... but for now...

As for the jar:

As a last minute inspiration, I asked the moms if all their kids had access to an oven... was I inspired to do that... I ended up making 6 jars with trail mix instead. 

Much less pretty...

Until next time.

Hang in There

Hang in There

As a scrapbooker, I sometimes keep papers and embellishments forever before finding where to case them.

The paper in this card was actually a wrapping paper, hard to see in here, but it is in cotton more than paper.

I I like the mix of texture in this card, although you cannot really tell in the picture.

The sun is punched with a scallop punch, the clouds are from two sizes of Fiskars cloud punches.

The birdhouse is an ITTY BITTY stamp, and I cut it out and propped it with dimensionals, which allowed me to tie a piece of baker's twine.

I anchored the two ends of the twine with some heart stickers and added a handwritten sentiment.

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Until next time.

Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon.

I found that paper with writing on it, and thought that it will be pretty to punch some clouds out of it.

I stuck a sun under, added some dotted line under the clouds to mimic the rain, and used my prettiest handwriting for the sentiment.

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Until next time.

Life is a Beautiful Ride

Life is a Beautiful Ride.

Oh yes, it is... you look back on the years behind you, and funny as a human being is, you only remember the good times.

Better it is this way, or the human race will be extinct... if a woman could just remember the pain of childbirth. Right?

No, what she does remember, is the first time she held her baby in her arm, the first time he smiled, or the first time he handed her a flower he just picked up in the garden.

Yes, life is a beautiful ride. And a fast one too....

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I chose to use  Kraft paper and added a stamped sailboat from ITTY BITTY as well l as the stamped sentiment from the same set on white linen.

I added two flower brads and used a stencil and a white marker to draw waves under this sailboat on its wonderful ride....


Here is another version of the same card:

Get well soon.

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I added a Papertrey Ink stamped sentiment and a lone wavy line made with a white marker and a stencil.

The sun and the cloud are made with punches.

Until next time.