Teacher Cards & Gifts

Hi everyone! Yay! Sister Stamps previews will be starting soon! Did you see how cute the stamps are for the June release? I'll be back later to share my Sister Stamps creations.

Today, I have some cards to share that I made for the teachers. These are all very simple since I made about 12. Then I realized that I usually don't make special school themed cards. Most of the time I give the cards I've been making through out the year. Otherwise my stash of cards is just out of control.

See, simple right? I used MFT's apple die and cut the apples with some red felt. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

A couple of other Thank you cards with different sentiments, also from Lawn Fawn. I really liked how the felt apple turned out.

Then I made some washi paper apples for the Japanese language teachers. I made 5 of these. These apples turned out so pretty!

And more sewing! These are longer than the ones I made for the children and also more complicated! Instead of ribbon, I cut strips of Japanese fabric which is so time consuming! Plus you have to fold over the edges and iron them down so they are nice and straight. Well, sometimes it's not always straight so hopefully the teachers aren't eyeing the stitching too closely. Ribbon usually has a ridge near the edge so I used that as a guide to sew straight but the fabric doesn't so I really had to concentrate. But I really do love the look of this key chain.

And this is for all the Hello Kitty lovers! This one was even more complicated than the above because the fabric is mostly white so you could see through the material when you folded over the edges. So I ended up using some fusible webbing and a strip of white fabric under it. But of course that made it bulkier and sewing was a bit trickier. I have a couple that I ended up tossing to the side. And yeah, sewing straight and near the edges was difficult on this one as well. I need lots more practice! But I think these turned out super cute!

If you're wondering how to make these, there are tons of tutorials, just Google it and etsy has lots of supplies. Just search for the hardware on etsy and you'll get lots of stores.

Hope you're enjoying the weekend! Thanks for visiting!

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.

all occasion tags

Hello! I have more tags to share today. I kept these simple too to be used on most any occasion. They have no sentiments on them. I used MFT's cute Birdie Brown Bitty Bears stamp set. These were on my wish list for a while and I kept going back and forth about purchasing them especially because I wanted the dies to cut them out too and those were very expensive! Geez, remember the old days when we used to fussy cut everything out by hand? This is the next 6 tags. There's also a cute bear with a Santa hat that I didn't include in the photos. This was a pretty quick project since I kept the bears white! Not much coloring on these tags but they are still cute and colorful. I thought I was going to be doing more stamping but I've actually gone on to crochet more! I've made 3 more crochet projects that I'll share soon. Sometimes I do get the urge to color something but these days it's so much easier to pick up some yarn and my hook and crochet

crafting this and that

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