Jane's Baby Shower Card

I have the absolute honor of throwing a baby shower for one of my favorite people in the whole world.  She is doing the baby room in light blue with a dark brown tree trunk silhouette.  I just happened to have the perfect stamps to complement her theme. 



I hope she and all her guests think it's as pretty as I do!

Nate's Thank You Cards

The good news is...I got a full time job teaching at my son's school.  The bad news is...I haven't had much time for crafts.  It has been so busy around here that Nate and I are just now working on his thank you cards when his birthday was 5 weeks ago!!!  I think they are pretty cute and needed a post on my blog, so here you go.

Nate's Aunt Anna took the picture and we had multiple copies made.  I trimmed it down to fit on a 4.24 in x 5.5 in piece of paper and used the corner round cut for the corners.  The process actually morphed into cutting the background corners also.  I used Stampin' Up! Close to Cocoa card stock which I cut in half lengthwise and then scored.

We had twenty to write and it would take an eternity to get all of those done if I expected Nate to write them all, so I had him write "Dear [blank], Thank you for the [blank].  Love, Nate", scanned it in and made copies of it on Stampin' Up! Whisper White card stock so all he had to do was write the name and the gift.

Voila!  Easy, cuter and more personal than any store-bought card, and a fun project that Nate and I could do together.  I hope you like it.

Thanksgiving

What a wonderful time I had with my family in Houston.  My nephew loves to do crafts, so I packed up my Stampin' Up! stuff and took some of it with me.  Here is the first project we did.  It's a variation of the turkey in last year's SU! magazine.  Isn't it cute?

The Order is In!

It's like Christmas to me when I get a Stampin' Up! order in the mail.  The funny thing about it is that none of it is for me!

Christmas Gift Tags

The order has been placed and all the materials for the fantastic Christmas Gift Tags shown below will be on my doorstep in about a week.  I can't wait.  We can make some at my house soon.  I'll let you know as soon as I figure out a date.

Here is another picture of the same characters, but the alternate tag style.  These open up and something can be written on the inside.  So, who wants to make some?

Honorable Mention

What an honor!  The Christmas Gift Tag Project on my blog has been chosen as "The Late Night Stamper’s Blog Finds of the Day for November 4."  I'm not sure what all that means, but it's a compliment for sure.

[I did not come up with the designs, but I have given credit where credit was due.]  

Christmas Gift Tags

Here are the girls at the workshop yesterday.  We had so much fun that we want to get together again in November.  They decided that they want to make gift tags for Christmas gifts.  So I went home and started searching for some cute ideas.

These are a few of the cutest that I found made with Stampin' Up! punches.  Each is a little gift all by itself.  Look at the attention to detail:  ribbon on the Penguin, sparkles on the Santa and Reindeer, and crystal effects on Frosty's holly.  There are some pretty designs out there, but these were by far the cutest.  So here is what I'm thinking...we can make a set of 16 for $10.  The 16 would include 2 each of these shown above and 2 each of the same characters, but in the folded style shown below.  The backgrounds are made with a die cut used with the Big Shot. I can't wait to show you all what cool things can be made with the Big Shot. 

I think I'm going to make a set for my sister-in-law who is making our Thanksgiving dinner this year, and maybe a set for my son's teacher.     So, if you would like to make some of these before Christmas, send an email to TAGolden@sbcglobal.net or leave a comment.  If you host a class for your friends, there is a possibility of receiving hostess benefits which include free stamp sets and credit for free merchandise!

[Original punch art by Mercedes Weber.  Samples by Alesia Pearson.]