Valentine Tea

Here's a sample of the place cards I made for a Valentine Tea:

 

 

I cannot remember what I cut everything at or the name of the Designer Series Paper.  It was what was left of a retired pack from a few years ago.  The hearts are punched out using the Heart Trio Punch out of the Red Glimmer Paper.  The name was printed on Whisper White card stock with a computer printer.  I used the paper trimmer to emboss the lines.  The hearts are popped up with Dimensionals.  They looked very elegant on the tables.

 

 

 

 

Each mother/daughter duo brought their own teacup and saucer.  She choose one of her great-grandmother's (on the right) and I choose one that my husband gave me (on the left).

 

Each table had a different teapot that was loaned from one participant's vast collection.  The ladies setting the tables knew how much I like cats.  I would serve tea with this one any day!

 

 

Only now do I realize that I failed to get pictures of the gorgeous serving table.  For that I apologize.  We did enjoy the sweet fellowship, along with a plethora of tasty teas.  I relished the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and aunties that owned the different cups.  I especially enjoyed observing aged hands gracefully lifting delicate cups to smiling lips while hearts burst with love and memories.  And I will never forget seeing my girl across the table doing the same.



 



January's Winter Themed Bunko Night

Yes, I know January is over and I am just now getting this stuff on here.  It has been a busy month.  This month it was my turn to host the Bunko Night.  If you don't know what Bunko is, just Google it.  This group of gals skips the alcohol and we keep things pretty simple.  Well, most of us do.  Here's some pictures for you:

I decided to play with the Snow Flurries stamp and die cut bundle I got from Stampin' Up!  After perusing Pinterest I decided to try to sew the silver embossed snowflakes to make a garland.  Here's my flakey fail.  The presser foot ruined the embossing. 

 

 

Aggravated (because I had already glued 2 together to make it double sided.), I just went ahead and punched holes in them and hung them with thread.  Here are some that are hung from a plastic snowflake garland I already had.

 

 



Some on the chandelier.  These I just sliced up the middle of each one, stopping short on one end, and slid them together without adhesive.

 

 

My daughter suggested a few on the ceiling fan pull.  I really think she just likes to watch her Poppa duck under it.

 

 

 

The day of the party I went to the grocery store, then decided to duck into the Dollar Store next door. I found this center piece for 25 cents.  Yes, 25cents!  I got him, his 2 buddies, and a whole mess of decorations for under $5!  He's surrounded by plastic chunks that look like ice:

 

 

 

 

I had intended on getting pictures of the different snowmen scattered around the house, as well as the snowflakes on the windows, but here's the snowman my daughter made:

 

 

 

 

 

A hand painted plate that a student gave me a few years back:

 

 









 

A painting I did at a Painting With A Twist party: 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner was an almost salt free turkey chili served in snowman bowels that I found at Walgreens two years ago. Oh, dessert was a choice of brownies (made by my daughter), scones, and chocolate covered pretzels.

 

 



 

 

There were so many things I should have taken pictures of for you.  I stamped snowflakes on the score sheets, all the towels had snowmen, the prizes were all cut glass that looked like ice, and there were streamers on the porch to look like a snow flurry as guests walked in. 

 

 

Everyone looked like they had a good time, but they missed the after party.

 

  She had too much fun playing in the table cloths

with the plastic garland.

 

 

 

 



Christmas Tags

As a Christmas gift my friend, and Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, gathered together gift tag elements and put them together in a little kit.  I don't know all of the details about what she put into it, but I sure enjoyed assembling it all together.

Here's the front of the gift bag:

 

Here's the back:



 

 

Here's the un-assembled contents:

 

Here's what they looked like after I assembled them:



 

 

Some more:

 

I know how much I enjoyed this bit of craftiness, and I will enjoy using them on future gifts.  So she blessed me twice!  I really liked this idea.  This is an idea I just might incorporate in my future gift giving.  Leave me a comment and tell me what you think!



January Paper Wreath

I have been in a Bunko group for about six years now.  Every Christmas we do some sort of small gift exchange.  I'm sure you've heard of the one where everyone brings a small gift without a tag, then numbers are drawn so everyone takes a turn choosing a gift or stealing one.  To make a long story short, we did ornaments this year.  I ended up with a silvery snowflake that has bells on the tips.  How I adore snowflakes!  The mere sight of this little treasure set my mind off.  The results are as follows:

 

 

I used a 10' foam wreath form, white taffeta ribbon, a package of straight pins, and the Winter Frost DSP from Stampin' Up!  I cut the paper in 1/2' strips, curled the ends, and pinned them to the form.  January was my turn to co-host Bunko night.  The wreath started a whole snowflake theme for the evening. But that's another blog post. 

 

 

Here's my supervisor, Larry.  Let me know what you think of the wreath, or if you have any questions about it in the comments below.

Cookie Labels

This was a very fast project using Avery Labels and the Rich Regales color collection from Stampin' Up!  The images were from the Merry Minis and Holiday Wishes sets.  The image was stamped in one color and "Merry Christmas" was stamped in another.  The labels were adhered to Ziploc bags filled with home made cookies and a gospel tract.  The cookies are made by various churches and we all meet together to bag them.  They are to be given to the local jail for the inmates and guards.  The extras were given to the local first responders.

 

 

This is something so simple but for a brief moment will make someone smile.  For me that is what ministry is.  I encourage you to find some simple thing to share Christ's love.  I welcome comments and questions.  Merry Christmas!

 



Christmas Gift Card Purse



Here is a little paper purse that  I made for a friend.  It holds a gift card inside.  I was reluctant to use the green glittery paper but it was the best option from the supplies on hand.  I found the tutorial on Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.

 

 

Riding Hood Red card stock was used along with designer paper from My Mind's Eye.  The stamp set used was Many Merry Messages from Stampin' Up!  I used the Word Window punch from Stampin' Up! as well as the 1 3/8 circle punch.  I cut one of the poinsettias from the paper and used a Dimensional to adhere it to the green 1 3/8 in. circle.  A light green rhinestone was added to the middle of the poinsettia.  The circle was also raised up using a dimensional.  I used a Velcro dot to close the whole thing up.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this or any other project posted on this blog.



Bookmarks ForJr. High Book Club

I'm sorry the picture is sideways.

 



These are some of the bookmarks I made for my kiddoes book club.  This month they read a book by C.S. Lewis.  A quote from him was added to the back of each one.  The paper is from a Stampin' Up! 6x6 mat-pack.  The colors include: Going Grey, Handsome Hunter, Summer Sun?, & Regal Rose?  (some of the colors I'm not sure about)  The water colored flowers are from the Time Well Spent set.  The Scallop punch, brads, and glitter paper are all Stampin' Up! as well.  One yellow and one pink flower were from a bag of embellishments I got at a scrapping swap.

I found the instructions at www.feeling-crafty.co.uk by Bekka Prideaux.  I welcome comments and questions.