Shower Card & Gift Bags & CFC103

Going to my nieces Baby Shower today!

We know it is a girl so my daughter and I went to Carter's and got the cutest little outfits.  Do I want another baby, no, that yearning has passed know.  Super excited that I got Laurie Willison's newest card hanger die in the mail last week. Here is my card.

This is the card my daughter put together for her gift.

She is entering her card into this week's CAS-ual Fridays congratulations challenge.

Have a fabulous Sunday!

I'll be back tonight to add the supply list.

Mother's Day Wrap Up & MFW Gift Tag Challenge

I hope that all Mom's had a wonderful Mother's Day.

I wanted to take a moment to show you how I finished up my Mother's Day gifts for my Mom and my Mother-in-law. Jumping on the bandwagon with the 'tea' craze this year both Mom's got some loose tea and an infuser from David'sTea.  Then I used Laurie Willison's Card Hanger die to create custom gift bags that co-ordinated with the Mother's Day cards I made last week HERE and HERE. I die cut the card hangers from white and then stamped them using the same images as the card in the same colours.

I am linking up my tags to the Moxie Fab World 350 Cards & Gifts Tag Challenge.

Edit:  Ooops French side of the box showing!

Quick and easy!

CFC92 & SC Card Hanger

Happy Friday Everyone!

So glad that the weekend is here.

I have a card to share for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge which is 'wallpaper'.  Create a clean and simple project where we have stamped our own background.  I pulled  out my Impression Obsession chevrons again, I just love this stamp. It stamps beautifully using the technique taught in On-line Card Classes Clean & Simple Card Making 2.  Stamped the background, then the sentiment, threw on some washi tape and done! I am also submitting this to Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes.

Cardstock:  White (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: chevron background (Impression Obsession), Think Big Favorites #15 (PTI)

Ink:  Hibiscus Burst, True Black (PTI)

My daughter is going away this weekend to Niagara Falls with some friends for her girlfriends sweet 16, with her family of course.  Niagara Falls is only 2 hours from where we live and on the Canadian side.  She packaged up her gift in a kraft bag adored with Laurie Willison's, of Soapbox Creations, card hanger.  Simply adorable.

See card post HERE.

Valentines Treats

Happy Valentines Day!

I kind of miss the days when I would make Valentine cards for my kids to take to school for their classmates along with a tray of cupcakes or cookies.  I wish there were all the fabulous stamping products available then that there are now.  Even though they are teenagers now they still look forward to a treat on Valentines from their Number One Valentine--Mom!

I also have a couple of pillow boxes for then, the one with ribbon is Brooklyn's with nail polish inside and Ben's has the 'manly' twine with a gift card for the bulk store to buy study food.

Cardstock:  Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned paper: Secret Crush Heartbeat (Pink Paislee)

Dies: Framed Out #11
other: glassine bags

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop - September

It's the 25th so time for another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!  

It has been a difficult week, my father-in-law passed away last Saturday after battling aggressive lung cancer for the past 6 months.  We are so sad to see him go, a wonderful father, father-in-law and grandfather. My kids are taking it very hard, maybe because they are a bit older and understand better what happened.  They were very close to Papa and we saw them every week.  We have the funeral ahead of us tomorrow and then the business of healing.

I almost skipped this month but I didn't want to miss out on the fun and actually I think I needed the diversion.  So I created a little gift tag out of burlap and felt.  This would be very cool attached to a present wrapped in kraft paper or to a wine bottle.   Have fun at the rest of the hop.

All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Stamps: Winterberry
Ink: Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate
Felt: Pinefeather
Other: burlap, jute, Christmas twine (Divine Twine), Crop-a-Dile