Good as Gold

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I hope everyone wore green and didn't get pinched.
I did another little treat for all the staff at school.
No homemade goodie this time, but a lot of love went into these little treat bags...
Yep... I made 70 of these little guys over the last couple weeks. I love to make them to show my appreciation for all they do. Since this is my last year... I decided to do it up right.
Time to get working on their Easter goodie... stay tuned!

I Do

I DO love to create cards
I DO love a wedding
I DO love making wedding cards
I DO try to use their announcements
I DO hope they like it
I created this card yesterday for a new married couple in our ward.
I love to use some part of their original wedding invitation (hopefully they won't mind)

This time I used the J & T from the top of their invite.
I also used their announcement photo, scanned it, and made a little embellishment.
Here's a little closer look at the photo....

I created it using a template, the photo and pattern paper. (I'm really loving using Photoshop and my new digi tricks).
Inside (behind the J&T) is a little pocket to tuck in a gift card .... my personal gift of choice :)
I DO hope making a homemade- keepsakeish type card might make up for my lack of gift ideas.

Be Smart

I'm getting a bit better with my digital abilities. As part of my new Stake calling as a Smart Night director, I was asked to come up with a poster to advertise "Smart Night" for the youth.
Here's what I was able to come up with...As you can see I ran with the "Be Smart" theme. I had 12x12 posters made up for each of the ward's bulletin boards. Hopefully this will help get the youth to attend. It's a great way for kids to get a little extra help with homework.

I also created some coordinating labels to wrap around Smartie candies to pass out to all the youth in the stake to help them remember to come. ( 400 of them) We sat and stuck the labels on during Smart Night last night. Hopefully the theme will catch on and everyone will remember to come.
I even brought my big popcorn popper for treats!

A little lovin'

Just thought I'd share some of the goodies I made up to give away on this fabulous heart holiday

Parker's classroom valentinesValentine M&M cookies for Parker's class partyCan't forget the giant heart cookie for Parker's teacherChocolate Dipped strawberries for my Visiting Teaching sisters -
(as well as strawberry lemonade body wash and a fluffy pink loofah!)And 280 little chocolate dipped heart cookies for all the staff at the school Individually wrapped with cute little heart toppersI just love Valentines Day.... don't you?!

Classic Birthday

Just thought I'd share the card I made for Ryan's birthday.
Had to go with the Road King Classic Harley this year!
(notice the clock hands are on the 4 and 1 .... yeah, I had to point it out to Ryan too)

Holiday Heaven

I love holidays. I just get giddy when all the new decorations, goodies and favors come out. And nothing gets me going like Valentines Day. I mean it has red, pink, hearts and chocolate all wrapped up in one holiday! What could be better?!

After Christmas I was doing my usual bargan hunting for sales and I ran into these delightful morsels. Red and green swirled chocolate chips.
I love making festive cookies with them at Christmas time so I put them in the freezer until next year.
Today I had a brainstorm to try something .... what would happen if I separated out the red chips from the green chips...Voila.... I have the makings for Valentine and St. Patrick's day cookies! ( Yes, Ryan made fun of me when I told him what I did)
So I whipped up a batch of cookies for choir rehearsal tomorrow
And made a giant heart cookie for Parker's school teacher for Valentine's day. (I'll just stick it in the freezer until Friday)As you can see I also added a few chocolate swirled chips too... just to give it a little more chocolatey flavor. You never know what you can do with those holiday bargains you find.

Stay tuned... I have more Valentine goodies in store later this week.

Butterfly thanks

One last card to share that I created on my weekend Extravaganza!I was so excited to be able to use Tim Holtz Distressing Crackle paint (and in PINK too)
I took a close up of the butterfly so you can see the crackle a little better.
When the paint dried it curled the paper so it was a perfect fit for the butterfly wings... looks like he's flying right off the page.