Cinderella

Happy Monday to you! Another Disney scrap page to start off your week! 

So here is a funny little fact. Most of the time I keep ALL of my stamps. But with moving in to my new craft room this past winter, I updated my box of for sale stamps, (some of which is actually linked at the top of this blog). While organizing, I found a few sets that I really never use and added them to my stack.
....then we went to Disneyland. And when I was trying to think of what I might use on this page, I realized I had the perfect stamp, in my to-sell box! haha! 

Supplies: 
Stamps: Making a Point
Ink: Smoky Slate
Paper: Seaside Spray, Basic White
Accessories: Wink of Stella pen, White Sequins, Silver ribbon
Journaling Font: Dreaming Outloud Script Pro

I mean seriously, a fancy, single high heel stamp? Has to be for meeting Cinderella! I stamped it in Smoky Slate and the colored it with the Wink of Stella pen. I think it turned out pretty fantastic! 

What are you making this week? 

Valentine's Day!

I finally got Valentine's  cards made for my big kids, but not until yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the cards are much more "all occasion" than they are Valentine specific, so you can still find inspiration! ...even if I used some very retired supplies on these, haha.

Both cards use the latest sketch from the Clean & Simple blog.

This card for my son uses his two favorite colors, has blue headphones like he does, and a very retired star embossing folder. When he was little he loooved stars. He would point them out everywhere! And I can't seem to get away from that. I still find myself pulling out star things for his stuff. 'cause I'm a cool mom like that.... haha...
Oh, this also uses a color combo from Splitcoaststampers.com

Supplies:

Stamps; Epic Celebrations

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Berry Burst, Peekaboo Peach

Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Peekaboo Peach & Whisper White card stocks, Color Theory DP

Accessories: Big Shot, Lucky Stars Embossing Folder (retired!), White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals

This card uses the color combo from the Inky Friends blog, and again, the same sketch as above. I almost never use a color combo because I usually find them too tricky and I over think it and I rarely like the result. In this case, I planned on the Lemon Lime Twist because it is exactly my daughter's favorite color, and the Berry Burst to throw in some pink for Valentines, and then I realized it was most of this challenge already! So I added some Soft Sky! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Making a Point (retired!)
Ink: Memento Black, Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst, Soft Sky
Paper: Soft Sky, Lemon Lime Twist & Whisper White card stocks, Color Theory DP
Accessories: Big Shot, Chevron Embossing Folder (retired!), White Baker's Twine, Blender Pens, Dimensionals

Anyway, when the kids woke up this morning, their cards and a little treat was at their spot on the dining table.
Happy Valentines Day to you, and I hope you have a great Wednesday no matter what!

Teacher Appreciation!

School ended this week, and that means Teacher Thank You's. I could never be a teacher of a classroom full of any age, and I appreciate them so much, so I feel this is important. Also, My kids have been very blessed to have truly wonderful teachers, and that cannot go unrewarded! This year we needed gifts for each teacher, the bus driver, the choir teacher and a counselor!

I looove these note card ideas from Becky Roberts, so I made up a couple more for my son to give. I was going to just use the pencil image, but I realized we just gave the teachers the pencil stamp card a few weeks ago, so for his teacher I went with the grunged up butterfly!

This is what the table looked like while we were assembling the thank you gifts...everyone got candy, two people got a drink, lol, one got popcorn, and they all got an assortment of cards for them to use, along with a thank you from me and my child(ren).

And here they are, ready to go, the night before! 

Happy end-of-school year to all of you! Bring on summertime!

A girly birthday!

Since this is my crafting blog, haha, I'm posting all the crafting here. My daughter wanted a nail polish birthday party, so with the help of Pinterest (hahaha) here's what we came up with!

The invitations are suuuper simple- she had dreamed up a fancy tri-fold card with bits and pieces and I just did not have time, much less the interest in putting so much time into something that would likely be tossed next week! So this is what I came up with instead! I used retired card stock, printed the invite out onto the card stock, printed the details onto regular printer paper and attached that to the back. I stamped the nail polish image and hand wrote the 9.

On our Pinterest search, we found these cute treats. We didn't dip the marshmallows in icing, we just bought colored marshmallows! (pink- strawberry, and brown- chocolate/vanilla swirled) I used my fingers to split them open a little, and stuck the tootsie roll right in the top! We let the girls snack on these while waiting their turns

 

This was the first game we played- it was called Spin The Bottle, and they took turns spinning the spinner, and using the color of nail polish the spinner pointed to! They could pick any finger to paint. It was funny that out of 12 choices (one of these 13 shown didn't work) they still got lots of doubles!

 

Here was the cake! She doesn't like cake, so I made two 9x13 pans of brownies, and stacked them on top of each other. Then I cut it into the shape of a bottle of nail polish! She chose this bright blue frosting (from the store), and I had to do the top white because I got a little carried away with my crumb layer.... and she loved it. It was actually really tasty too!

And the final craftiness...we talked about making hair things, and I saw the idea to paint bobby pins with nail polish- perfect! So we bought some plain black clippies and bobby pins and gave each girl 3 clippies and 6 bobby pins. Here are the ones my daughter made- minus the really cool looking glittery clippy she wore to school today.....

So! There are some not-so-much-stamping ideas, but still some fun craftiness!

Fabulous

...might be an overstatement, lol...
This is a really simple card, but the image and colors suit the recipient!
I left this week with Spring Break, but I needed to make and mail a birthday card. I found a sketch, chose some pieces of card stock, a ribbon, and a stamp set and went! Not the best idea, I gotta say, haha, but here's the card, which is now in the postal system!

Supplies:
Stamps: Making a Point (hostess- Occasions Mini)
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise & Whisper White card stock
Accessories: Silver Ribbon (Occasions Mini)

Teacher Appreciation

Friday already! YEAY! And this one kicks off our Spring Break, which I am looking forward to enjoying! What about you? Got any special plans for the weekend, or for Spring Break?

This week our school has been doing Teacher Appreciation Week. This is actually the least effort I've ever put in to it, and that makes me feel bad because the teachers my kids have are fantastic. Between being sick and trying to catch up, and then everything else going on this week, I only managed to send a treat and a card on Thursday. Guess I'll have to do something extra nice at the end of the year....
Anyway, today I have both cards, using two different, but rather similar sketches, and the same stamp set. Isn't it funny how the universe seems to want the same shapes on the same weeks? Makes me laugh....

Up first, the card for my daughter's teacher. I used the latest Retro Sketch for this one. The note from the room mother said she likes blue, so here's some blue! I used this cute hostess set from the Occasions Mini, because it seems to me teachers tend to enjoy puns, and a pencil is perfect for a teacher, right? I put the card in an envelope and taped it to a king size Hershey bar, which is what my daughter thought she would like.

Supplies:

Stamps: Making a Point (hostess- Occasions Mini)

Ink: Island Indigo

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo, Whisper White card stocks

Accessories: Soft Sky seam binding ribbon, Neutral Buttons, Tag a Bag Accessory Kit (twine)

 

And the card for my son's teacher, which uses the latest Mojo Monday sketch! She seems like a purple-person, if that makes any sense, so purple it is! She got a bag of MnM's, and a 20 oz diet coke because that's what my son was sure she would like too, haha! (and no, that's not because of me...first he said "Lets get Snickers and Pepsi. Wait...that's you....", hahahaha!)

Supplies:
Stamps: Making a Point (hostess- Occasions Mini)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White card stocks, I Am Me DP
Accessories: Mini Brads, Vintage Faceted buttons, White bakers twine

Something fun

Today's is a card I sure don't know when I'll use, but I like it! One of the hostess options from the Occasions Mini is this fun little set called Making a Point. Its got some cute little phrases with little pictures to color in.
I love this phrase so that's what I used first, haha! I thought maybe some lipstick shades in an ombre kind of pattern would fit it nicely and! this sketch from Verve was perfect for that!

 Supplies:
Stamps: Making a Point
Ink: Basic Black, Real Red
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Melon Mambo, Strawberry Slush, Pink Pirouette card stocks
Accessories: Hearts Framelits Die, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Blender Pens