"Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog Candy"

I was blog hopping this morning and came across a Blog Candy giveaway. I've never been to this website before, but once I was there I was hooked on their cute adorable stamps. What is really nice is their stamps for all different facial expressions you could imagine! I must put this on my GOTTA HAVE list!!
Here is their blog site:
http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-candy-good-through-oct-23-2009.html
Here is their store front website: http://www.peachykeenstamps.com/index.html
They are have a great yummy blog candy to give away too....what a time to find them! Who doesn't like yummy candy that doesn't pack on the pounds? haha
"Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Blog Candy" I just entered, might as well give it a try, it never hurts. Now off to go browse more on their store front and make my wish list!! See it never hurts to go blog hopping!
I will be posting some cute Halloween items that I'm making for Abby's school. I'm stuck at what to make right now, either a cookie stacker or a triangler box? Such decisions one has to make! LOL Have a great day everyone!

Giveaway!

I just was looking at splitcoaststampers on FB and came across an exciting giveaway. I wanted to share with you what she has to offer. Not only does she have this giveway but she also does have a great blog! Some great ideas to share. Hopefully one day I will remain faithful to my blogging! I will give it my great attempt now that the Fall season is approaching!
Here is her blog addy: http://www.mykraftnook.blogspot.com/
Give it a try!!! Never hurts to try and win and like I did, got hooked on reading her blog!

Have a great weekend!

Teachers Gift

It's been ages since I last posted!! Abby's last day of school was today, so it's offical SUMMER HAS BEGUN!
This week I made Abby's teacher a clipboard. Last year I made a 12 x 12 clipboard but decided to use an 8 1/2 x 11 one.
It's real easy to make.....I use mod podge for the glue....first thing is to glue the paper you want to use onto the board...this may be tricky...do a little at a time because the glue does dry fast. Try to get all the air bubbles out...once the back of the paper has dried apply a coat of mod podge on the top of the paper....let it dry before applying another coat. This year I tried to stamp an image onto the first mod podge layer(as suggested on another website)...I let it dry over night but once I tried to put on the 2nd layer of mod podge it smeared like crazy...luckily I was able to rub it off...I used a sharpie to outline and fill the image of where the stamped one was...I did the back and front of the clipboard....I let Abby write with sharpies on the back but before I used any mod podge....

More Glass Etching!

More Glass Etching!

Here is another present I made for my BF. This mug was a good find at Dollar Tree. My Mom ran across these, they are like big soup mugs. My Mom went back for more but unfortunately they were all sold out! boo...My assistant was helping me hold the mug for these pictures! She wanted to help her Mom out somehow. We filled this mug up with Hershey Kisses too! YUM

I made these ornaments for my Moms neighbor girls. Hi Kelly! She is like me, we buy all this crafty stuff and it sits there most of the time! We have this addiction to scrapbooking supplies and we can't help ourselves! haha The ornaments are a little tricky at first esp. if you haven't done too many etching items. The hardest part is the glass is not flat. So practice first on something that is flat.

St. Joesph presents

Well for Christmas at Abby's school they have an ornament exchange. Dave convinced me to make this ornament for one of her classmates. I was afraid since 1. it's breakable. 2. is it really exciting for a small child? I also gave them another ornament though. It did turn out cute though and I hope the little girl liked it. (it's hard to read what it says! sorry)












I also made gifts for the classroom. What I did was find some reasonable notebooks from the 1.00 store and put their names on top of the notebooks. I included a pen with it and inside the pen I put a piece of paper that said St. Joseph 1st graders ROCK!.
This is Ms. Toni's Bug Jar I made for her. She has a candy system, which the kiddos collect bugs each day and if you behave you can get up to 6 bugs. If you get 3 bugs you can get a piece of candy. So I thought she might like having this sitting out instead of her plain jar!

These are the gift bags I made for her teacher and the secretary at St. Joe's. I think I was making these at 1030 at night! I used my cricut to cut the bags, from the Tags & Boxes cartridge. I used my new stampin' up stamps! Love them..

Hershey Kiss Jars

Hello! I made these over Christmas time for Abby's great Aunts & Uncles. I thought they turned out adorable. I used my Pazzles machine to create the Hershey Kiss. I used vinyl and then I etched their names on the front. I hope they like them! I filled them with Hershey Kisses.

Valentine Boxes

Hello! It's been ages since I posted on here. But with Christmas and school getting back into the swing of things I will have more time to create and post new things! Atleast I hope so. It is sooo cold outside today, it's a great day to craft! Last night I was thinking of what I could do for Valentine's Day. I remember seeing on my Cricut a cute valentine box. So I made one, well I made a 4 in. box and it was teeny weeny. I was thinking what could I do with this. Well I put a little Hershey kiss inside and fits it perfectly. I thought my little girl could hand them out to friends around the neighborhood as the valentine. I have to make a label or something to add to it. But I thought it turned out cute.

Since I don't have the Cricut Expressions and I wanted a larger box. I decided to try and create my own box after this small one on my Pazzles. Well I stayed up until after 11 and made my version of the box. I cut one out last night too and it just needed some tweaks but it looks pretty good. I am going to cut another one out and fix it up and post it today. So off to play! Atleast I fed my husband lunch!

Here is my larger box I created from Pazzles. I added plastic with some small hearts and dots in side of it. That way if I put anything in the box it wont fall out. I can also delete the heart in the front of the box but I think it addes something. (Do you like my cranberry juice bottle i'm using! haha)