Boys' Day and Shopping Too

So it was a really productive weekend in terms of crafting and shopping! Yay! First let me share a picture of the cute Lesportsac bag I bought yesterday. It's one of their newest prints and I had a 15% off coupon. It was surprising that my hubby was okay with me buying it. I think he still feels guilty since I missed out on the tokidoki bag that was a really good deal on hautelook.com.

On to my Boys' Day post. Boys' Day is May 5th and I ran across this post on Dandelion Designs. See HERE. It inspired me to make these for my son's preschool class. Just stamp, cut and tape. I put a little label in the back with who it's from.

Hello Kitty pencils for the girls.

Car pencils for the boys. Originally I had wanted to buy Toy Story pencils that I had seen at Price Busters but when I went back they were all sold out. Should have bought them when I first saw them. I bought these at Price Busters too.

There are other Boys' Day ideas on Dandelion Designs too. See HERE. I had thought about tying the fish with string to make it look like a fishing pole but I got a little lazy and wanted to get onto other projects. And since all the kiddies will be moving onto kindergarten, I thought a little pencil would be perfect.

Before I go, I wanted to share some other shopping related news. Die Cuts r Us is having an anniversary sale! They have really great prices on TGF stamps and pretty good shipping prices. Sunghee over at Creativity in Progress opened her own store at After Five Designs. See HERE. She has some really creative ideas.

It's a little gloomy and stormy here but hopefully you're having a nice day! Thanks for reading!

Comments

Cheryl said…

Cute bag! Cute pencils too, esp the Hello Kitty! You're inspiring me to give stuff at the end of year preschool party, although I might just buy stuff, don't think I can make 20 things by the end of the month.

May 3, 2010 at 4:16 AM

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

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