Hey Valentine ~ You're a Treasure

Supplies

Cardstock ~ Real Red, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana

Ink ~ Black StazOn, Basic Black, Real Red, Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride, Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Hello Honey

Stamp Set ~ Hey, Valentine, You Plus Me

Tools/Embellishments ~ Fry Box Bigz L, Label Card Thinlits, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (heart), paper snips, adhesive, staples, cellophane bags, filler, glitter heart wand, gold glimmer paper

Hey, Valentine ~ Glad You're in my School

Supplies

Cardstock ~ Real Red, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana

Ink ~ Coastal Cabana Blendabilities, Black StazOn, Real Red

Stamp Set ~ Hey, Valentine, You Plus Me

Tools/Embellishments ~ Fry Box Bigz L, Label Card Thinlits, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (heart), paper snips, adhesive, staples, cellophane bags, filler, glitter heart want, googly eyes, ribbon

Paper Crafters Sampler ~ August Issue

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We've had such a great summer filled with lots of sunscreen, sunglasses, swimming lessons, horse shows, bbq's, wheat harvest, berry picking, playdates, sleep overs, s'mores, camping trips and occasionally a lazy day here and there. 

This month the design team has put together some really amazing and extremely varying projects for our "Welcome Back to School" theme. Not one project is alike and yet they all offer an eye-opening take on clever back to school projects. 

This months template is "My Little School Desk"

Here's a SNEAK PEEK

Stop by Paper Crafters Sampler and pick up your August issue and GET YOUR CRAFT ON!

Valentine Treats ~ A Class Act

I love Valentine's Day. The kids get so excited, especially since their classes have parties! Who doesn't love a party? I am lucky enough to get to help out at school for various things, and parties are my favorite too! So, I've been working very hard on treats for them to give to their friends. My daughter {Kylie} is in the 2nd grade and my son {Preston} is in preschool. I had a lot of treats to make, to say the least.

Preston only has 8 kids in his class. They are all boys! Can you imagine the craziness? I absolutely LOVE this class. It's always highly entertaining! I wanted something simple for them. They're going to rip into it anyway so I didn't want to put TOO much time into them. Here is what I came up with. I totally {dig} them!

Supplies

Cardstock ~ Real Red, Soft Sky, Whisper White

DSP ~ Fresh Prints

Ink ~ Real Red

Stamp Set ~ I Dig You (retired)

Tools ~ 3/16" corner punch, treat cups, hearts a flutter framelits, itty bitty banner framelits, dimensionals, glue, hole punch

Embellishments ~ red yarn from my stash. I think I got it at Wal-Mart and it matched PERFECTLY!

Kylie's class treats were a little more complicated. She wanted to give the boys an assortment of candy. For the girls, she wanted to give little mani/pedi kits. Because this was last minute and I couldn't order any little kits, I put a few things together for a fairly reasonable price. Little mini nail polishes, mini nail files, candy necklaces and a chocolate heart. I think I spent about $20 for the whole class! Here is what we came up with. They went together pretty easily. WHEW!

Supplies

Cardstock ~ Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White

DSP ~ Fresh Prints

Ink ~ Real Red

Stamp Set ~ Happy Valentine's Day (single stamp retired)

Tools ~ Hearts a Flutter framelits, Itty Bitty Banner Framelits, dimensionals, small oval punch, glue dots, glue

Wrap it up with Love and Cheer!

Okay, that's it. I demand we get another week before Christmas. I don't have near as much done as I wanted to. I swear the time has just been FLYING by these last few weeks. Wasn't it just summer? The kids have their school Christmas parties this week. So, I spent the last 2 days making treats. Of course I can't send them to school without tags. Now that I HAD to have this cute little stamp set, which I love by the way. I had so much fun with these. Both the tags AND the candies! 

Supplies:

Cardstock ~ Whisper White

Ink ~ Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette

Stamp Set ~ Color Me Christmas

Embellishments ~ Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Bakers Twine

Ingredients:

Peanut butter sandwich cookies, vanilla almond bark, orange tic tacs, black frosting,

Ingredients:

Nutter Butter cookies, pretzels, M&M's, candy googly eyes, Chocolate Almond bark

Happy Dance

The kids are back to school! I'm totally doing my happy dance. I kinda feel bad every morning as I peel out of the school parking lot. Kinda. I love my children dearly, but this mama needs a break! I'm definitely looking forward to getting back onto our normal schedule. Especially looking forward to that quiet time. Yeah, I mostly spend it cleaning something. At least my house can stay somewhat clean for more than 20 minutes. Today, I got to spend a little time out in my woman cave. I'm extremely behind on my projects. I think it's been over a week since I last stepped foot in there. So I locked myself in and went to work.

Since the kids are back to school, I needed to create a card for Kylie's (2nd Grade) teacher. I don't have ANY school-related stamps. None. Zip. Zilch. I totally had to comb through my stamp sets to come up with SOMETHING that would do. The sketch is from the Paper Craft Crew for challenge #57. The color combo came from The Paper Players challenge #161. I really liked how it turned out. Another fabulous color combo that I would have never come up with on my own. 

The sketch:

My take on the sketch and color combo:

Supplies:

Cardstock ~ Smoky Slate, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White

Ink ~ Strawberry Slush, Certainly Celery, Crisp Cantaloupe, Smoky Slate

Stamp Sets ~ Positively Chevron, Off the Grid, Gorgeous Grunge, From my Heart, Hearts a Flutter, That's the Ticket, and ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet & Numbers

Embellishments ~ Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, Hardware Clips Essentials

*white string (not SU)