School Teacher Gifts

Each Box is filled with shredded paper, (I ran out of tissue so I just shredded some white paper...lol) individually wrapped chocolates and a gift card from Starbucks)
I cut out the rectangle on the tall boxes and then added a piece of transparency with glue dots to the inside....I just love how that turned out!

Okay so the last day of school isn't today...it's MONDAY??!! What is up with that?

lol.anyways, I made up all these little boxes for the kids teachers and one for the bus driver.

The kids were so excited to bring them to school!

I had made a few earlier in the month for the dance teachers and piano teacher but didn't get those photographed so I couldn't blog them but they were similar to these anyways.

I made these four all using paper from the same stack and colored the images with the same copics and used the same embellishments to keep it simple. I was still up until 11:30pm last night working on them so go figure!

Anyways, they were still so much fun to make!

I used Lauren Meader's Timeless templates to make them-"For KeepSakes" and "Get a Handle On It"

I have told you how much I LOVE Lauren's Templates right?? They are so fun and easy to use and so economical....at $5.00 a template you can't go wrong!

I used K&Company "Wild Raspberry" paper and Close To My Heart Creme Brulee cardstock.

The paper flowers were from my LSS and the buttons were My Mind's Eye and retired CTMH

The ribbon is CTMH-Creme Brulee

Of course my images are Tilda's from Magnolia and they are colored in with copics...stamped on Canson Magna paper. The two Tilda's from the Spring 2009 collection (running Tilda and Tilda holding the Bee) are from my friend Kelly....thanks Kelly!

The sentiment stamps are CTMH

I also used several different nestie's as well...including the scallop rectangle frame....so fun and easy-maybe if I have time I'll make a tutorial on how to do that...it's so easy and fun to do!

Thanks for looking!

And have an awesome Friday!

-Nicole M Bailey

Another Mother's Day Gift

I know this is late posting.....I really wanted to get this posted yesterday but yesterday was kinda crazy. ;O)

We went for Mother's Day brunch which was very nice, the food was good and I was able to visit with my parents and my brother and sister inlaw whom I don't get to see very often.

The children also showered me with beautiful keepsakes that they handmade-Emily even grew me a flower which was so sweet...I just loved it so much!

 

And then all I wanted to do was retreat into my scraproom and work on some stamping and scrapping. I haven't been able to do that much lately...my DH has been working A LOT and has been traveling A LOT lately!

Anyways, he had to work on Mother's Day too...so I didn't get any scrap time yesterday....

boo hoo for me! :o)

Needless to say it took me several days to complete todays project....

Here are the details:

Stamps: Whipper Snapper

Paper:Heidi Grace Designs-Baby Girl

Cardstock: CTMH-Sweet Leaf

Sentiment Stamp: CTMH-Say It In Style

I used another Timeless Templates-Get A Handle On It to make the box-isn't it just so cute? I hope you are enjoying my boxes-because I will be posting a few more over the next couple of weeks....I need to make some for dance instructions/teachers/piano teacher and the soccer coach---oh wait that's me! lol

I made the tag with my cricut and colored in the images with my copics. 

Thanks for looking and I hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!

-Nicole M Bailey

Happy Mother's day

Sorry about the long time no post....man things have been hectic around here! I won't bore you with the details.....but my husband has been away for 10 days and let's just say I'm starting to become unglued....

Anyways, I love Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates....so I tried another one-this one is the Keep {sake}. I just love this box it's so fun and versatile!

I made this box for my Oma who is visiting this weekend for Mother's day.  I plan to buy some little chocolates to put in the box. :o)

The paper is Nana's Nursery; which I'm sure everyone can tell is my FAVORITE right now. 

The ribbon is SU!

The flower images and the sentiment on the tag are CTMH-Simple Beauty

The tag is CM-I used an EK success border punch to trim it a bit 

I made the frame for the window with my nesties-one rectangle inside of the scallop rectangle-I cut it at the same time...and was very impressed that it worked!

I used some overhead transparency "paper" for the window. 

The button is My Mind's Eye

Thanks for looking-have a great day!

Chest of Drawers

OKay so loooong time no post!

My three older kids were home from school last week for spring break so things were really busy around here...too busy to stamp....but it was all good-I love when my kids are home from school because we can sleep in and stay up a little later and do what ever we want!

I did get a chance to make this super cute "dresser" though. It took me several days to complete it because I could only do a little bit here and there. 

I made it for odd and end embellishments. It fits perfectly on my scrap desk...and I must tell you I LOve it!

I made it using Lauren Meader's Timeless Template: Perfect Matchbox. 

If you haven't been over to Lauren's blog you HAVE to go check it out! She is so clever, amusing and talented! 

I used her idea to stack the matchboxes on top of each other to make a "dresser". 

Her templates are so easy to use and so cheap-you down load one for $5 and then use it over and over and over again. The one thing that I do need to invest in to make more boxes and such is the scor-pal. It's really hard to make those perfect score lines without it. 

I used 8 sheets of 8.5x11 sheets of cardstock to make the boxes and sleeves. I decided to use white cs just in case it didn't  turn out......I hate to waste colored CS! ;O)

Then I just attached patterned paper to make it pretty. 

Thanks for looking and have a great MONday!