Blessing Mix

I made Blessing Mix for my son's church and school teachers. Got the idea from Chick'n'Scratch

I used party favor boxes I had in my stash, wrapped with PP and attached the poem. Easy and cute (although they look horrible in the pic). Note to self: buy the candy corn during Halloween next year, it took me forever to find a Kroger that had any.

Mini Album

My bff threw her mom a 60th birthday party and I made this album with 60 pages for messages/well wishes and 12 pictures using the Lost & Found Madison Avenue "Cherish" line by My Mind's Eye.

Halloween

I made stickers for mini playdough tubs using SBC+ for my son's friends at school:

I made these for his teachers and a couple of special people, got the idea from Skip to My Lou:

Birthday Stuff using SBC+

My son wanted a Lightning McQueen birthday party. Here are some things I made for the party.

The invitation, printed as 4x6 photos: Thank You Notes, front and back, printed on 4x6 cardstock:

My bff made boxcars of the following characters, so I made license plates for the back of the boxcars, this was so much fun:

First Attempt at File Sharing

Creating Keepsakes posted this freebie today on Facebook from OScraps. They posted the files for Photoshop so I converted them to png files so I can use them in SBC+. The page dimensions are 5"x6". I will probably just save each page as a jpg and insert them into Word to print at home. I know SBC+ has a calendar feature but this was already done and I really liked the font, besides it only took a few minutes to fix up for SBC+. I hope someone finds this useful. I've gotten so many wonderful files from so many wonderful blogs, just wanted to give back. :)

april.page
august.page
december.page
february.page
instructions.page
january.page
july.page
june.page
march.page
may.page
november.page
october.page
september.page

Why I Love Crops!

I saw this template from CK's NSD, it was a digi template for Photoshop and I fell in love with it. I love anything with butterflies. Anyway, I made several unsuccessful attempts at recreating it in SBC+ until my last crop. A friend of mine showed me a picture that she shaped as the butterfly then cut into a grid and it hit me...I knew exactly what I needed to do to recreate the template. This is as close as I could get to it. The background paper and flourish are freebies from the CK NSD digifreebie kit and the large butterfly and title are from CM's Black and White Kit. I changed the opacity of the background paper, rubber stamped the flourish and for the title, I changed the color, glitterized it and added the 3D effect.

I couldn't think of any other recent pics that would fit the page except these (hence the color choice on the background/title).
This is a different version I made, I like them both. You can use either pictures or paper/color in each of the sections. I'll post the live templates just as soon as I figure out how to do that! :)

Thank you Crista!!

Lined Zippered Pouch

I had so much fun making this pouch today. I saw the idea on a friend of mine's Facebook page and it looked so cute I had to try it. I was afraid it was going to be hard but it turned out to be rather easy, thanks to the wonderful tutorial here (and the great advice on doing corners without a quilter's tool here). I used 15x9" fabric pieces and a 12" zipper, next time I'll try to make it deeper and use heavier interfacing (used light-medium weight kind this time). You can't tell in the pic but the lining is deep purple. I still need to press the sides.

And in my true fashion, I sewed the handle in backwards at first, I always do this and double-checked myself and still put it in backwards. But that's the beauty of sewing, you can always rip it out and try again! :)