Name tags for the boys backpacks

I wanted the boys to have a unique name tag for their backpacks, and I thought it might make them feel special to have them. 

Tristan is into the extreme sports images, and loves to skate on his Ripstick, and on his new soul skate, so the extreme skateboard image seemed really appropriate.

Caleb loves anything Luigi from the Super Mario Bros. games. So this is what I came up with for him. They were both thrilled with what they got.

Here is Caleb wearing his new Luigi costume.  He loves it!

 

Blessings - Brandi

Teacher Survival Kits!!

Our church does a Teacher appreciation luncheon every year for the Teachers of our schools here in Wellington and Samnorwood.  We serve lunch to over 100 teachers, and we put together these gifts for them.  They turned out great, and the luncheon was wonderful.

We have survived the first day of school.  Both boys enjoyed it, and I can’t wait to hear how today went for them.

Blessings - Brandi 

I love how this card turned out!

 

Yes, this is more retired designer paper, but this sure turned out cute. 

School starts Monday.  Finally spent today to get the kids supplies and back packs organized and ready to go.  Spent last week preparing for the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon that the church does every year.  It turned out great! Stay tuned for pics of that later this week. 

Blessings - Brandi

Animal Stories Cards!

I am trying to use up Designer Series paper that is retired, and not getting used. My other quest has been to make some super easy cards that can be easily made by anyone so we can send them to From Our Hearts! The following cards are the results of my efforts.

These first 2 cards are using animal stories. I converted this set to a clear mount stamp set, and it sure does make placement much easier for stamping.

This next card uses Awash with Flowers set. I didn’t want all the cards to be to juvenile looking, so I thought I would add a floral image.

And the last card again uses the Animal stories stamp set. I am very pleased with how these turned out, and hope that the upcoming card making events I have will prove to be very in recreating these fun cards.

Thanks for looking. Have a blessed Day! - Brandi

Forest Friends

These are some more cards I have made using some retired papers.  They turned out pretty cool I think.

The last cards was made using some scraps left from the other cards.  I really liked out it turned out.

Blessings - Brandi   

Because I Care

OK, I took some time to update  my blog today, so let me know what you think, if you still happen to be reading it.  These two cards are super easy and are using the one of the new level 1 hostess sets ‘Because I Care’. 

 

Blessings - Brandi

Extreme Cards

Here are some cards I made using some retired paper and cardstock. The stamps are the extreme stamps, and my boys just love these. I used some of these cards for the youth to make cards to send to From Our Hearts which is a not for profit organization that sends blank hand crafted cards to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan so they will have cards to send home.

Blessings - Brandi

Happy Summer!

Well, I am still here.  Life has been very busy.  I have been stamping during my business, and even taking some photos of my samples, I just haven’t been downloading those photos.  so here is a card that I made for a swap.  This is a stamp set that will be in the new catalog in July.  It is really a fun stamp set. 

Blessings - Brandi

Tristan’s Build a Bears!!!!

Tristan has been having fun making the build a bears using the Big Shot and the die cuts.  Back in February, he made a couple and took to school, as a result, he came home with several requests.  So on a Saturday a week or so ago, he spent several hours down in the stamp room creating to his classmates, and teachers requests, and interests.  These are what he made. The only thing I did to help him was show him which supplies he could and could not use, give him a clear space to work, and request that it all be picked up when he was finished.  (I wished I had gotten pictures of his little work area, but I didn’t).

Who says your bears have to be brown or black? Why not go for red?

Or yellow?

   

Or Orange?

At least he had fun.  And he was pretty creative too.  He created the megaphone all on his own as well.  Even gave 1 of the cheerleaders wrist bands. 

I need to get some pictures made of the projects I’ve been working on.  So hopefully I will have more to show you soon.

 

Blessings - Brandi

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, …….

Gene is in a community play here in Wellington tonight and tomorrow afternoon.  They are doing it as a fund raiser for our little local theatre The Ritz.  They are also doing a silent auction before the performance.  Each cast member had to bring something.  I have been following Ellen Kemper’s blog, and have CASE’d several of her punch art characters, including the 7 dwarfs.  I just love how they turned out!  She was putting a basket together using all 7 of them for a get well basket.  I took that and changed it bit to make an all around basket.  I think the end result is really great.

 

Here is a close up of Sleepy. He is on a box of Chamomile tea.  Notice the picture of the cottage on the box.

You can see Happy in the back on a Ritz gift card, and grumpy attached to some lemonade jelly beans.

Dopey is attached to a bag of pretzels, chocolate covered pretzels, and roasted pecans.  Bashful is hanging out on a couple of mugs with a little coffee sample.

Here you can see Doc attached to a can of chicken noodle soup, and Sneezy attached to a travel pack of Kleenex.  They were a lot of fun! Thanks Ellen for such wonderful creations.

 

Blessings - Brandi