who's a special helper??

I got an inspiration last night and went to my stamp room around 9:30. At my son's school, (actually, many schools I've taught at) they have a special helper for the day. I decided to make a male and female tag for the kids to wear.
It is totally NOT what I had in mind. And I DON'T like the girl one. At all! I need to get some round coasters from the dollar store this weekend to make some new ones. I think I'll make seasonal ones also.


Anyho...
bit of chipboard, few accessories and there you go. I used a new glue stick that I got at Stamping Bella last week. It is for adhering heavier things to projects. Whilst there, Emily was working on a page and glued some metal apples and shovels to her project.; At the end of the night, she was able to turn it over and wave it around. It didn't fall off. And so cheap. About $2.50! Of course, I scooped the last one. I've been using Crystal effects to adhere things for fear of it falling off. So now I'm trying this new one out. I glued the 2 pieces of chipboard together with it also.




Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Parental Unit tag

When my friend wanted the tags fro her baskets, they were labeled as one each for the 2 kids and then one for the parents. Well, I didn't feel like putting their names on it, so I called it "Parental Unit"

I went searching thru my plain paper scrap box and the colours of brown, turquoise and pumpkin pie came out. OOOOh. Lovely. Then i went looking for something a little more textured and tactile. The birds were singing to me so I found something with those colours. I tore some coordinations paper for the branches and already had the leaves cut form a previous project. The title was done with rub ons from the buck store. They aren't very vibrant, but did the trick. I just lOVE the texture in this tag. Oh yes, the circle on the top with the eyelet in it is actually a paint chip from Ralph Lauren. nice sample. I may have to try some more. :}


And now for a squirrel update:

I didn't go to sleep very soundly last night. I left the top of the living room window open with an apple on top to entice the rodent. And as I tired to drift off into slumber land, I kept hearing sounds and imagined/hoped that the squirrel gave into my plan. This morning as I came downstairs, I was very cautious, but didn't see any signs of it prowling thru the night and the apple was still there. "Maybe he doesn't like apples like the last one." I said to myself. So I went about daily business, Even going into the basement to do laundry.

When I came home this afternoon to greet DH, all the doors were propped open. Uh Oh!!
Seems it was a very quiet squirrel all day. Hubby came home, went to play with his projects in the basement and heard the squirrel! he chased it up and down the stairs for 45 minutes he said. dang thing wouldn't leave. So he got it in the front room and closed the door. the room with all the shelves, wine bottles, christmas decorations, baby gear, clothes, books. Many, many things to ruin with it's remains. Oh and a huge bag of mini chocolate chip cookie snack packs!! lets see if he likes cookies better. hrmph
I hope Dh does something about it tomorrow. Don't like living wit da rodents.

Thanks for looking and reading!
Amanda

Tag the Ballerina

here is the tag for Saskia's basket:
Image is Stamping Bella. The glitter paper is actually the cards front from a glitter pack at Michael's. Crown punch, ballet slipper Quickutz. Pink papers from Stampin' Up's mini designer papers (hostess set?) and the jumbo eyelet also. The letters are Quickutz, Metro font and the little flowers on the crimped vellum are from the mini punches from the Philippines.

Fun to make, but let me tell you... that ballerina is not very paper piecing friendly. lol That hair is something else. Stamped her on the kraft CS and on white. Lost her shoelace under the vellum. Oh well. I coloured her with Koh-i-nor pencils.



The tags have been delivered and placed ont he baskets. Cute. I put them in clear envelope type bags to preserve them a bit.

Thanks for looking,
Amanda

Tag it!

Yesterday, I sat in my stamp room, air conditioner on, children entertained downstairs, things around me and couldn't think of anything to do. accckk!! I was worried I was in a funk.

This morning, my friend called and requested 3 basket tags for the catch it all ones at the front door. ZING!! ideas were flowing in my brain. thanks for the butt kick Barb. lol Each one created gave me excitement to create. I definitely will make more of these.

Here is the one for Zane:


Inspired by the star theme (does cuttlebug have a star embossing folder??), I started with Papertrey's Textbox set and chose the stars. Versa marked it on Nearly Navy CS and embossed it 3 times with seafoam white EP.
The stars below were using the mini punches my mother in law brought back from the Philippines. put them on popdots with the nearly navy beneath it. The barely banana star was punched with my new SU star punch and the letters were rub ons from the dollar store. Everything was distressed with SU white craft ink. Jumbo brad in the 2 inch barely banana circle.
The tag is big: 3.5 x 5 inches. it fit into some clear bags I have.

it makes me smile.




I was going to show you all 3 tonight, but it's much to explain. So here are some big sneak peaks of the other 2. Check back tomorrow.



Thanks for looking,
Amanda