Baby Shower Jar Candles

These are jar candles for the baby shower I mentioned in yesterday's post. These will be used for either prizes or as table centerpieces. If you couldn't tell she is having a boy, and the shower theme is blue & white.

This is the candle before...

and after.

Again I used Spellbinders and JustRite Stampers. 

Here is a close up of the baby feet.

a view from above.

Close up of the lid.

I embossed both the wording on the lid, and the baby feet.

I like how these candles turned out.

Baby Advice Book

My childhood friend is having her first baby. Her baby shower is next month so I have started to work on some of the things I'm going to make.  This is a baby advice book that the guests can write in giving advice to the parents-to-be.

This is the cover

Here is a close up of the label.

I used Spellbinders, and Justrite Stampers.

I embossed both the wording and the baby feet.

Inside cover and first page.

Closeup of the inside front cover. I inked the edges of both the front and back, inside and outside cover pages.

  First page...

back of first page, and the front of the second page.

The pages alternate white and blue.

Last page and inside back cover.

Close up of the last page...

and inside back cover.

This is the back cover.

I bound the book together with my Bind-it-all.

St. Patty's Day

I made this box for Saint Patrick's Day. I think I got the pattern from Splitcoaststampers, but I don't remember. I used Spellbinders for the circle and round scallops on the top, and the ovals and oval scallops around Happy St. Patrick's Day on the bottom.

Here is a close up of the top. The bear is a rubber stamp from Darcie that I colored in with Prismsacolor pencils, and  I embellished the shamrock with Stickles. I found both the shamrock paper and green paper in Michaels. The green paper is actually double sided so you get both the dark, and light green.

Here is a close up of the bear. I think he is really cute. I actually used the same stamp and made pins for my daughter and I to wear on St. Patrick's Day. I just stamped the image several times onto cardstock to make it sturdy, and then after coloring in the top image I used Modge Podge with gloss finish to seal it, and put a pin on the back.

close up of the computer generated greeting...

and then I made a Post-it Note holder that also holds a mini gel pen, and I got the instructions from: 

http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stampin_studio/2008/05/post-it-note-pe.html

I used Bazzil Bling for this, and I added stickles to the shamrock button. I got the mini gel pen from a pack in Target's $1.00 section, and that is also where I found the note pad.

They Liked It

So I took my Night at the Movies bucket to the party at my daughter's high school.  Look how many people wanted to win my bucket. Since there were not lots of people at the event, and quite a number of prizes to choose from, I'm happy with the outcome.  

Night at the Movies

I made this as a raffle item for an event at my daughter's school this weekend.  I bought the popcorn bucket at Bed Bath & Beyond, with a coupon of course.  The bucket is filled with 2 AMC Movie Theatre Tickets, a voucher for a small popcorn, 3 bags of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies, 12 boxes of assorted candy (the kind that they sell at the concession stand), and 2 bottles of Coca Cola. 

All of that is packed into the front of the bucket.   

Here is a close up.

This is a close up of the bow. I bought this from a lady on ETSY. It's hard to see, but the bow is made from real movie film reels.  This one happens to be film from the movie Dogma.  When you hold the bow up to the light you can see Ben Afleck, Chris Rock, and Linda Florentino.

I put the movie tickets, and popcorn voucher into a regular white envelope. Then I cut the ticket, and letters out using Mickey Font & my cricut. Here is a better look at that.

This is a look at one side of the bucket.

You can see all the candy...

and the other side...

the back side of the bucket has 4 bags

of microwave popcorn.

Finally I made a sign to go on the table along side the bucket that lists the contents. That way everyone will know what's inside. I decorated the sign with some stickers I picked up at Michaels, also with a coupon.

School Project

My daughter had an assignment for her freshman English class over winter break. She had to put together a book of poetry, that was to be made into actual book.  The rules were that there had to be a total of 12 poems. She had to write one of the poems, and one could be song lyrics. She also had to, as the editor of this book, write a summary of why she chose the poem, and give a biography of each poet. 

My daughter knew exactly how she wanted this book to look, and that she wanted to bind it together with the Bind-it-all. For the pages including the covers she selected the Gone Wild stack from DCWV. For the title she wanted to stamp, and emboss the words with glitter. I couldn't believe in my stash of craft supplies I had an almost exact match to the color of the glitter on the paper.  She used Justrite Stampers for the words, and Zing embossing powder for the glitter.

This is the cover.

 Page 2 (This page remained blank)

Page 3 (Contents)

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

Page 8

Page 9

Page 10

Page 11

Page 12

Page 13

Page 14

Page 15

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Page 17

Page 18

Page 19

Page 20

Page 21

Page 22

Page 23

Another thing my daughter had to do was write about herself. She decided she wanted it to look like the inside of a book jacket where it has the author's bio and sometimes a photograph. I made her a flap that we inserted between this page and the back cover to look like that. 

This is the page with the flap lifted up.  

Same page with the flap down.

and finally

Page 24

the back cover