An Angry Bird Christmas

Hi! What do Angry Birds have to do with Christmas?? I have no idea but they are everywhere, aren't they? Just stick a Santa hat on them and they are perfect for the holiday season. My kids and lots of other kids seem to like them a lot so I decided to make tons of Angry Birds! I had first seen this post HERE on Jenny's blog about some Angry Birds she had made and she provides the link to the original source. I just had to find my own way of making them with the dies/punches that I have.

So here's a photo of 47 Angry Birds made from just thin cardstock. I chose thin cardstock so I could cut more than one sheet at a time and so it would move faster. I used Spellbinders circle nestabilities for the bodies. The beak is a cat/bat ear from PTI's Halloween sweet treats dies set. The feathers on the head is from My Favorite Things daisy die. The eyes are punches and the eyebrows are hand cut. Yes, that was the most painful part. Hand cutting all those eyebrows! But without them, they wouldn't be Angry Birds!

So my 2 older kids and I decided that bookmarks would be the best to give away since they are older now. And if I had just stuck these on a package with candy it would surely have been tossed away. My daughter gave her class instructions not to throw them away. Hahaha. She also helped me with stringing on the twine and sticking the labels on.

A little close up photo. The bookmark die is from PTI.

We tied on some candy canes with more twine and they were set to go.

I made Angry Birds for my youngest too. He's too young to read so I decided to make ornaments for them instead. And these are made from FUN FOAM!! These came out so fun! The green tag is PTI's Tag Sale #4 die. We tied on some ribbon and bells, and added candy canes in the bags too. My youngest kid's teacher dressed up as an Angry Bird for Halloween too!

So I am finally finished with the kids' stuff. But I still have teacher gifts for my younger son's teachers to wrap. Thank goodness I still have the weekend to finish up. But I hate waiting til the last minute.

I have to share this photo of the pictures/cards my youngest made for his teachers. He keeps requesting that I post his projects on my blog too. Future blogger, I suppose.

Oh and if you haven't checked it out yet, I have been "spied" on TGF! See HERE. It's my first time ever being spied. So if you've got time, play along please!

Thanks so much for reading and hope you're enjoying the holiday season!

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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