Happy St Patrick's Day

Well it was really a perfect day for St Patrick's Day.  Sunny and close to 70 degrees.  I remember years when it was so cold and windy that it was actually torture walking up Fifth Avenue, but I wouldn't let the weather keep me away.

Many years have gone by since I marched with the NYC Transit Police Department, which was disbanded in 1995 and merged with the New York City Police Department.  For a few years after the merger we continued with our own Emerald Society.  Those were the days...

This year I broke out my St Patrick's Day stamp and made some cards.  I found some Irish sayings that fit perfectly around the edge of the cards.

Will you be mine?

Valentines day is right around the corner and I wanted to make cards for my husband and two boys.  I recently purchased a heart punch because I had some ideas.  I also found some inspiration from pinterest of course, using paint chips.  You can find lots of shades of colors and they are free.  I took one of each from the red family.

Baby Shower Favor

I was excited about having a baby shower at work because not only was I excited about a friend having a baby but I was dying to make a cute favor I had an idea for.  I had been itching to use my owl punch and this was the perfect opportunity.  I did a search of owl baby showers and found a cute phrase to put on the favor "Look whoooooo's having a baby".

I used the scallop square and scallop oval from Spellbinder to make the front and back of the box, I used the word window punch and owl punch from Stampin' Up.  The paper was a pattern out of the new Close To My Heart catalog.  They were the perfect size to be filled with Ghirardelli squares.

Make & Takes

One of the things I love about going to crops are the Make & Takes, little projects that help showcase some of the products one of the vendors at the event might be selling. The most recent crop I went to had a few make and takes, a scrapbook layout, a Christmas card, a Halloween treat box and a glittery diecut pinecone.



This card is a stamped image that I colored in with watercolor pencils and markers. In order to smooth out the pencil/marker lines we used a blender pen that gets filled with water and makes the colors look like it has been painted with water colors.




The treat box was real cute. The box itself was cut out of a piece of cardstock using a Sizzix. The hardest part of the box was the creases and getting it folded. I couldn't really get it folded perfectly but neither could anyone else, so I decided to use the ribbon to pull the rest of the sides closed. The image was stamped and cut out with a circle punch then backed with a scallop punch. Cute right!


The pinecone was a die cut from the Cricut that was already cut out for us to use. This was a real easy project with real pretty results, you could probably even do this with kids. We used a pen adhesive and just "colored" in the whole pinecone with the glue and sprinkled on the glitter. Simple!

How cute are these?

This past Saturday I attended a fundraiser crop at the Goshen firehouse. Fun time for a great cause. Usually during the crop some of the vendors will have a "Make & Take" to show off some of their products. The Stampin' Up vendor had a great Make & Take that I had to do because it was so cute. It is a gift card holder made out of a regular envelope. I thought it was such a great project that I immediately decided to share the idea with the mom's group during a "Get Your Craft On" night.

Here are a few of the Christmas gift card holders I did. I know Christmas is a few months away but it's never too early to get started.