Happy Mother's Day Arts & Crafts at School

On Friday morning I headed to my daughter's school for the first of 2 arts & crafts classes I would be teaching.  My first class was full of very excited grade 1 students.  They were thrilled that they would get to make their mother's a surprise Mother's Day gift. 

Here you see all the materials that I prepped prior to heading off to the school.  Below you will see the sample that I created to show the class the project we'd be putting together.  

Before I left, the class was already asking if I could come back again, so I think it was a huge hit.  I went home for lunch and returned back in the afternoon to then teach my daughter's split class, Jaymee is in grade 3, but her class is a split class of 2 & 3's.  Boy, were they excited to see me come in.  Most of Jaymee's class had just done crafts with me at Jaymee's birthday party, and yes I know I haven't done the post for that yet, but I'm waiting on the pictures from my brother in-law, he is taking the time to edit them all for me.

These little purses might not seem like much, but each purse was a different color, and they got to color in the flowers any color they wanted, so each child had a creation of their very own.  They all turned out fabulous, and I know, I should of taken photos, but can you believe both times I went, I forgot my camera.  However, I do at least have my daughters creation that I can show you.  I think she did a fabulous job.

Jaymee knows my favorite color is blue, so she colored the flowers blue, and don't they just pop off the pink purse.  I especially love her message that she wrote.....that was another bonus, each kid also got to write their own little message to their mother's.

Happy Mother's Day!

Flowers, flowers and more flowers.....

Good morning everyone, today I'm going to show you what I was up to a few weekends ago with my mother.  She is making one of my dearest friends a cardbox for her wedding this summer, and my mom asked me to make her some paper flowers to decorate the top.  She wanted navy flowers, as my girlfriends colors include navy.  The closest we can come to the navy used, is Outdoor Denim, but did you know that if you ink up the cardstock with the matching color, it darkens the intensity of the blue, turning it almost navy.

Now my mother had me make about 2 dozen flowers, which as you will see she did not use all of them.  This is what she came up with.

Girls Rock Teachers Gift

So Jaymee's teacher from last year and her teacher this year both got some great news just last week.  They both got permanent teaching positions.  Yeah!

So as I'm designing a project for both classes to make for Mother's Day which isn't all that far away, I decided to make demo's to send in and use them also as congratulation gifts. Jaymee helped make the projects, we used the Girls Rock stamp set, and some bright colors to decorate these cute little purses that I cut from the Artiste cartridge.

 In this close up, you can see that the flowers are popped using 3D Foam Tape.  Each a level up,we just added an extra layer of 3D Foam Tape to add dimension.  

I also made this little 4x3 card that fits nicely inside. Jaymee colored in the letters, and did a fabulous job!

Mother in-laws finished gift, and a sneak peak at Chantilly Paper

Well my mother in-law's birthday is tomorrow, so I thought I had better finish her gift today.  My last post showed the Pemberley Monogram Stationary, so I thought I should make a box to put her cards in.  What is more simple than using the Artiste Cartridge and cutting a magazine style holder. So here is the finished product.

I also wanted to use my new Chantilly Paper from our New Idea Book, so here is a little sneak peak of that paper line and a birthday card for my mother in law. 

If you like these projects and would like to learn how to make these or other projects you've seen on my blog you can contact me via email, or if you want to purchase any of our new products you can shop on my website starting February 1st.

My monogram stationary design is scraplifted from Lisa Stenz!  Not sure if my measurements are the same as I was judging from the pictures.