SCHOOL ROCKS!!

Right now there are two things that I am addicted to. #1) is The Greeting Farm stamps (I love love love them) and #2) is altering composition notebooks for all of my little school age friends. I figure they can never have too many notebooks. ;)

I made this one for a friend of mine who's daughter recently started school. I just had to use Rock Star Anya from The Greeting Farm. She has just the right amount of spunk. The guitar is paper pieced with help from a clip art picture that I found and altered a bit.

I still have a stack of naked composition notebooks BEGGING to be made over. Hmmmm, I see a Christmas notebook/organizer in my future.

WE WILL MISS YOU HAILEY!!

I believe I have one of the greatest jobs in the world running a daycare and getting to play with children all day long. However, the one major downer of my job is saying goodbye to those that have outgrown me and are heading off to school. One of my little ones is starting kindergarten on Monday, and she will greatly be missed!!

There are so many things I will miss about you, Hailey, but here are my "TOP FIVE":

1) your smile.

2) that you are always such a big helper.

3) your sweetness.

4) how you always compliment me on my outfit or hair, even on my frumpy days!

5) your infinite knowledge of every commercial jingle out there in TV land and how you get those jingles stuck in my head for days after you have stopped singing them. "It's not a sandwich, it's a Tortada." LOL!

Here is a little something I put together to celebrate Hailey's milestone. The image on the card and on the front of the backpack are Whimsie Doodles digi stamps. Currently over at Whimsie Doodles, one of their Doodlelicious Divas, Sheri, is hosting one of their Whimsie Wednesday Challenges with a BACK TO SCHOOL theme. You have until midnight of Tuesday, August 24th to upload your creations to participate in the challenge. You can check out all of the details here.

The template for the pencil box can be found in my previous post and here is a link for the backpack tutorial from SCS. My older daughter made the most adorable glass bead bracelet for Miss Hailey to go into the backpack. She will be very excited to get it as she is always complimenting Brittany on her bracelets.

Make sure to check out the challenge and to check out Sheri's back to school project. It is adorable!!!

SUMMER'S DONE, SCHOOL'S FUN SET

WARNING: this post is picture heavy. I have also included the link for two tutorials/templates for some of the items that I made for this set.




Our niece Alyssa is getting ready to enter the first grade next week so I whipped up this back to school set for her that has a little touch of the summer that is nearly over. Altered composition notebook using "Hula Anya" from The Greeting Farm and paper from Flair Designs. The palm tree is a laser die cut from Deluxe Cuts.

Pencil box covered with the same paper mention above, decorated with ribbon and Hawaiian Paradise Stand-Out stickers from Provo Craft. The pencil box template is from the PCP 3D challenge "slide top pencil box" and can be found here.

Altered Altoids tin, which I spray painted, covered with the same paper and stickers as above. Inside the tin is a little surprise.

The tin holds fridge magnets that I made for Alyssa's mommy to hold all of her papers and wonderful art work that I know she will be bringing home. In keeping with the summer theme I used Hula Anya and Surfer Ian for the magnets. They are such a cute couple.

Here is a pic with the magnets out of the tin and separated. Kim over at the Club Anya & Friends blog, posted a tutorial on how to make these. Check out the link here. Her magnets are just adorable and she gives great directions on how to make them. They are super easy!! I have plans to make several sets for Christmas as stocking stuffers.

Last and finally is a altered Frap bottle that I stuffed full of little school supplies for Alyssa. The whole set was easy to make and I was able to make everything with one piece of card stock and one piece of patterned paper.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Our niece, Alyssa, just recently started kindergarten. Here is the backpack and card that I made for her to celebrate this milestone. The stamped images are all from Whimsie Doodles and the patterned paper is from the SU Bella Rose collection. We placed a pack of fruit snacks and a bracelet that my daughter Brittany made for her in the little backpack. Hope everyone is having a great week!

A BITTERSWEET PROJECT

Can you believe that the start of school is just around the corner? Where did the summer go? Harder to believe is that Miss Josie will be leaving my daycare at the end of the week to start her first day of kindergarten. I know I should be excited for her and I am VERY proud of her, she is growing up to be a sweet and adorable little lady. However, in all honesty, I am more blue then excited. She has been coming to me since she was a baby, I am great friends with her mom and Josie and her family have become part of our family. Just a week ago she got her ears pierced....yikes what's next, driving lessons?? Okay, that was a little bit of an exaggeration but you get my point. So this little project is for Miss Josie to celebrate her first day of kindergarten and her newly accessorized cute little earlobes. YOU ROCK JOSIE!! I found the idea for this project on the Whimsie Doodles blog. It was created by one of the DT members, Thanh Vo. She got the template from a SCS tutorial. You can also get the template by clicking here. The stamped image on the top flap is a digi stamp from Whimsie Doodles. The patterned paper is from the Blossoms and Butterflies DCWV paperstack. I used velcro for the closure of the flaps instead of magnetic snaps.

The backpack is the perfect size to hold the earrings we purchased for her. Fruitsnacks and other small treats would also fit inside comfortably. Thanks for visiting.