This, That and the Other~

A few of the things I've done in the past week~

 

Another card set, same flowers, different patterned papers, for Jay's Aunt Jane.

They were packaged up in a cello box and packed into a Priority Mail Box yesterday.

 Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: Gina K Designs Green Apple and Ivory, Pre-made cards by Memory Box,

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey

Other: Nestabilities Labels 14,  Memento Markers, Water bottle, Spritzer tool, Corner rounder, Distressing tool, Sanding block, Dauber, Linen thread, Dimensionals

 Re-purposed old strands of unusable glass garland that my mother in law was discarding. I unstrung and kept the whole ones, mixed them all together and put them into a decorative glass jar with a bow and stamped tag attached.

I could tell by her reaction that she had an emotional attachment to them - turns out they hold 50 years of Christmas decorating memories in them, from her kids to mine.  We gave them to her on Sunday so she could enjoy them this holiday season.

Stamps: Happy Holly Days by OCL, Simple Serif alpha by SU!, retired

Ink: Vivid! Brick, Coffee Bean, SU! Garden Gree, Memento Desert Sand

Paper: GKD Ivory, Lipstick red, SU! Brushed gold

Other: Nestabilities Petite Scallop Circle and Circle dies, wired ribbon, glass jar

 

 I ran out of the 25 cards I made earlier and needed a few more, so using the same set as the jar above I created a few of these.

Stamps: Happy Holly Days by OCL, peace from Everyday Flexible Phrases (retired) bu SU!

Ink: Vivid! Brick and Olive (discontinued), Memento Desert Sand

Paper: Gina K Designs Kraft, Green Apple and Ivory

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey

Other: Nestabilities Labels 14, Clip by Tim Holtz, red ribbon by SU!, Dauber, Sanding block, Distressing tool, Corner rounder, Dimensionals

And finally, this morning, being a last minute lucy for teachers' gifts, I ran to Subway after I dropped Brett off at school and picked up gift cards.  Using a kit of sorts that was given as a thank you for an Etsy purchase (thank you thank you thank you, you saved me today!) , I quickly put together these little glassine holders for the cards.  I did copy the clothespin snowmen from my dear friend, Anna (although hers were the smaller clothespin, much cuter and probably not done on the fly in just a few minutes!).  I coffee dyed (versus tea dyed as I already had coffee made) the doilies and little tags first and hit them with the heat tool to speed things up.  A little ink distressing on the tags, doilies and trees (pretty sure I want that die!) with Ranger Vintage Photo, an old SU! greeting and they were finished in a very short time.  Brett will take them to school tomorrow on the last day before break.

Enjoy today!

V.~

eta: the results of the white elephant were not wild and crazy.  My friend got them and hid the bag behind a couch cushion so they would be forgotten about.  :)  And they were, the most popular trade item for some reason (I couldn't wait for someone to take them from me as I got it first) was a Harley Davidson mug and coasters...blech, sorry, Harley fans.