Gift for a friend

For Christmas I had this great idea that I was gonna start early and hand make a ton of gifts!

Ha!

So a ton urned into a few and here we are with one of the few things I made!

Its a small cork board for displaying creations, notes or pictures! I stamped the cork added a few embellishments and distressed it a bit!

Here is a close up of the bow and details. Thanks for stopping by!

Ginger bread houses

So every year we get the family together and make gingerbread houses....well I guess technically they are graham cracker houses:) See my moms blog on the right for a full tutorial on how to make them. So here is the crew with GrandmaThe girls decoratingThe babies eating! Kamili with her finished house

And my little Kai with her finished house!

New Years Eve and cards!

Happy New Year!Aaron had requested I made some cards for his co-workers to say thank you for the Christmas goodies he had received and to wish them a happy new year! Here is what I came up with.And on to new years...here is a picture of me and my honey as Kamili likes to say:)We went to dinner at Sushi Roku (which I love) and the headed out to a club to dance. Here is the guys at dinner
And us girls. We had a blast and didn't get home until 5am!

Christmas Cards and Family

Hey everyone! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~I know I am a little late getting some of this out but this holiday season has been a bit crazy:) Anyways here are the kiddos on Christmas day...the 3 middle are mine and the other three are my nieces and nephew. This are the best two shots I had of the 7 I took. Guess that is what happens with this many kids!
And even though I got my cards done in time, somehow the addressing of them is still happening:0 I know, I know, but really who says Santa is just for Christmas:)

Here is a close up of my Santa card..

And this is a chunk of the ones I made. I think in total I did 35 of these, and then used all the ones from my classes. Maybe next year I will start addressing in November!

Gift to me! Thank you Julie!

As most of you know I have had an AMAZING SSS this year! AT our December meeting we unveiled who we had and had us. I guessed right! Julie had me and you can check out all the amazing things she has made at her blog...simi stamper on my sidebar. So check out my Christmas gift! Ain't it perdy! Thank you so much Julie! I really love it! And she also made me this cute coin purse! SO cute. Julie you are very creative!

Teacher aide gifts

Kamili has three teachers at her school. Her primary teacher and then two floating aides. She absolutely adores all three of them. For Christmas here are the bottles I made for her two aides. Here is the close up of the little Christmas girl from greeting card kids. The background is Christmas collage. I hope they liked the gifts:)

stamp club project for Christmas

Making a coordinating scrapbook page and card is always a bit of a challenge. I want everyone to feel like they get equal value in there projects. This month I came up with a vintage style page and how yummy are these giant buttons. I absolutely love them!A close up of the sentiment
And the coordinating card.

Snowmen class treats

I love that Kamili is in Pre-school and now I get to make all these fun class favors and teachers gifts(which I will be posting soon so be sure to check back!) I was telling my mom who is also a stampin up! demo that I was going to put three oreos in a bag stacked up and tie the top when she said "and make a snowman"...well my response was, now I am:) So I took the idea of my snowman punch card and made these cookies come to life!Here is the close up of a red one

Since I wanted to use retired product I had to make a few colors to have enough for the class.I was really happy with the way they turned out. At first they didn't have boots, but Kamili was VERY upset that I didn't give frosty feet:)

Punches I used:

Hat-small tag punch and oval punch

Face-black gems from holiday mini, nose star punch

Arms-snowflake punch

Feet- medium heat from heart to heart punch

The bags are Wilton pretzel bags!

Holiday Parks and Rec Cards Wk4

So at the end of each session of classes I give my group a parting gift. This time around I made them these little M&M holders with a ornament tag. They were simple but they seemed to be liked! Especially when they have mint M&M's inside!

Ok so on to the cards...this card I cased from a sample I had made at convention a few years back. Such a quick card but really cute.

This card is a bit vintage. I used a faux stitching technique and I think it turned out cute.The last one we made was far from traditional. Black, white, and Sahara sand. We spritzed it with shimmer, although it didn't show up in the picture!

stamp club 3-d project for Christmas

So I have close to a zillion baby food jars, since my son thinks he is the hungriest man alive.(I am starting to wonder what 13 will be like) anyhow, I had to think of something cute to do with them. You may have seen my post in October with the Halloween one...well here goes Christmas! I came up with this little box to hold two stage 2 baby food jars. Here is the front view with the jars. And here is a somewhat birds eye view so you can see how they fit inside!