Spider's Web - October's Kit

My first collection as the new owner of Created with Paper!! This kit was fun to work with... I love glitter embossing powder because, unlike ordinary glitter, the embossing powder keeps the glitter stuck to the paper!

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September Video

The "Flirty" collection from My Mind's Eye is such a pretty collection! It has soooo many items in the kit!

This time I thought this would be the perfect kit for some sweet pictures of my grandma. Hope you enjoy


Next month will be the my first Created With Paper collection as the owner!! I'm so excited! I can't wait! Watch out for special deals & our new owner opening...

Thomas the Tank Engine

My nephew is a huge Thomas fan so this was his birthday card this year :) I think it turned out super cute!
Ingredients:

Brilliant Blue, Basic Black, Ruby Red, Whipser White, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!), Sugar Dot (BoBunny), Night Light "Jack" (October Afternoon) - paper; "Thomas" dimensional stickers (EK Success), gold brads (Stampin' Up!) - accessories;

August Video - Free Bird

This month's kit from http://www.createdwithpaper.com/ is "Free Bird" from My Mind's Eye. This kit has sooooo many fun pieces!! I can't believe how many die cuts come with this one! The chunky chip letter are also one of my favorites. I totally love the bird in this set, so both projects ended up with the bird :)
The card will be a baby card for my old neighbour & the 12 x 12 layout goes into Evan's baby book.

Hope you enjoy the video!

End of Year Teacher Gifts Part II

These are the cards I made to go with the calendars I posted last time. All the daycare people got the flower card and the teachers got the blackboard cards. They both turned out so cute!

I saw the blackboard ideas in one of my old Stampin' Sucess magazines. I altered it & added my own twist to it :)

Ingredients:

Basic Black, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red, Whipser White, Chocolate Chip - paper; VersaMark, Creamy Caramel - ink; First Day - stamp set; Corner rounder, White embossing powder, Ruby Red 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Round Tab punch, Stampin' Up Billboard Sizzlit strip die - accessories;

To make the red tops of the apple, I punched out a tab in ruby red paper then slid the tab back into the punch from the bottom so that only the top 1/4" was inside the punch. Next I punched again to get just the little sliver of red. The stem & the seeds were just cut with sissors. Both the edges of the black board & the edges of the apples were inked with Creamy Caramel.


This card was also inspired by a card I saw in Stampin' Success.

Ingredients:

Not Quite Navy, Whipser White, Green Tea DSP - paper; Not Quite Navy (craft), Old Olive (craft), Baja Breeze - ink; En Francais, Botanical Blooms - stamp set; Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, rhinestone jewel, Old Olive ribbon, clear embossing powder, distressing kit - accessories;

To get the glossy look to the flowers I stamped them with craft ink & then embossed them with clear embossing powder. I love the way it looks on the handwriting background.

End of Year Teacher Gifts Part I

My oldest son had three teachers last year, my younger son had both a teacher & multiple daycare caregivers & they have a bus driver. Thank you gifts were a bit complicated this year :)

In an attempt to keep the price down as well as give a nice gift, I decided I would make "school year" calanders that started in July and ended in June. I wasn't sure what to use as a calendar base but I found some great 12 x 12 cork tiles at Wal-Mart. I could slice them down the middle with an exacto knife & have perfect 12 x 6 bases for my calenders. I also made cards but I'll share those in another post :)

Here's the calendar

I think it turned out great & even with all the embellishments, I think they cost around $10 each. I printed the month tags from Word & then stamped the month name, some decorative stamps & distress ink on each tag. It's a little difficult to see but 10 of the tags have white circle "reinforcements" around the hole at the top. I really think this little added bit, with the distress ink, made the tags. The big flower to the right was made by punching a scalloped circle, poking a hole to mark the center & then snipping down from each side of the scallops towards the poked center.

July Kit

As usual, I had a lot of fun with this month's kit. I'm always amazed at how much stuff is in one kit! I made a little boy's birthday card and four 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook pages with this kit. Of course, this means I still have lots of paper left so I'll have to get busy & print more pictures :)
The July kit is Cosmo Cricket's Girl Friday from www.createdwithpaper.com.