An Angry Bird Christmas

Hi!  What do Angry Birds have to do with Christmas??  I have no idea but they are everywhere, aren't they?  Just stick a Santa hat on them and they are perfect for the holiday season.  My kids and lots of other kids seem to like them a lot so I decided to make tons of Angry Birds!  I had first seen this post HERE on Jenny's blog about some Angry Birds she had made and she provides the link to the original source.  I just had to find my own way of making them with the dies/punches that I have.

So here's a photo of 47 Angry Birds made from just thin cardstock.  I chose thin cardstock so I could cut more than one sheet at a time and so it would move faster.  I used Spellbinders circle nestabilities for the bodies.  The beak is a cat/bat ear from PTI's Halloween sweet treats dies set.  The feathers on the head is from My Favorite Things daisy die.  The eyes are punches and the eyebrows are hand cut.  Yes, that was the most painful part.  Hand cutting all those eyebrows!  But without them, they wouldn't be Angry Birds!

So my 2 older kids and I decided that bookmarks would be the best to give away since they are older now.  And if I had just stuck these on a package with candy it would surely have been tossed away.  My daughter gave her class instructions not to throw them away.  Hahaha.  She also helped me with stringing on the twine and sticking the labels on.

A little close up photo.  The bookmark die is from PTI.

We tied on some candy canes with more twine and they were set to go.

I made Angry Birds for my youngest too.  He's too young to read so I decided to make ornaments for them instead.  And these are made from FUN FOAM!!  These came out so fun!  The green tag is PTI's Tag Sale #4 die.  We tied on some ribbon and bells, and added candy canes in the bags too.  My youngest kid's teacher dressed up as an Angry Bird for Halloween too!

So I am finally finished with the kids' stuff.  But I still have teacher gifts for my younger son's teachers to wrap.  Thank goodness I still have the weekend to finish up.  But I hate waiting til the last minute.

I have to share this photo of the pictures/cards my youngest made for his teachers.  He keeps requesting that I post his projects on my blog too.  Future blogger, I suppose.

Oh and if you haven't checked it out yet, I have been "spied" on TGF!  See HERE.  It's my first time ever being spied.  So if you've got time, play along please!

Thanks so much for reading and hope you're enjoying the holiday season!

Oleander Bookmark

I promise this is my last bookmark!  I had colored this cute stamp, Oleander from Sweet November Stamps, to use on a Halloween card but she fit so nicely on the bookmark.  I love how she looks so innocent and sweet but maybe has something up her sleeve.  I made the little orange tassel to attach on the bookmark.

And green eyes ... for some reason I wanted her to have green eyes.

Thanks for reading!  Have a great week!

A Monster Bookmark

Another a little bookmark.  This one I made for my older son.  He loves this stamp from Dandelion Designs!  I think it is super cute too.

Some times when I stare too long at this stamp, I think their eyes could be their nostrils and you could stick some googly eyes on top.  Well, maybe it's just me.

It was my daughter's birthday the other day and I was going crazy trying to find the birthday card I had made for her some weeks ago.  I guess I hid it too well and I forgot where I hid it!  Usually I put all my finished cards into a little filing box but I couldn't find hers.  I searched for a good couple hours every where on my crafting desk and my cabinets and through all my papers.  Still couldn't find it.  And so I told my husband that I thought someone took it!  In retrospect, it sounds a little ridiculous.  So I decided to give her a different card I had made.  I knew that once I wrote in that card that I would find her original birthday card.  Doesn't it always work that way?  And sure enough after I wrote in the card, it sparked a little memory of me placing the card on my jewelry box in my bedroom.  Why did I hide it there?  So in the end my daughter got 2 birthday cards from me this year.  I think I need to exercise my brain more.  My memory is not what it used to be.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend! 

A Million Halloween Bookmarks

At least that is how many it felt like I was making.  I must've cranked that PTI bookmark die through my Big Shot at least 100 times.

Bookmarks for my son's kindergarten class.  At first I was not thinking and I was using my circle nestabilities to cut out the circle one at a time.  Hello!  I do have a circle punch too.  So I used that and it's so much faster for something like this.  The bookmark is made from PTI cardstock on the bottom and then their Halloween paper on top.  I stamped some images using PTI's Tiny Treats Halloween set.  (I love these stamps.  And I can't wait for Tiny Treats Christmas).  The neat thing about the acrylic stamps is that I could bend some of the longer sentiments to be rounded so that it would fit on the circles.  Saw that on PTI so had to give it a try.  My son colored them and he glued everything together.  He helped with the ribbon and I tied on the beads.

My daughter's set of bookmarks.  She did all of the coloring and gluing and the ribbon and beads too.  I helped her with some ribbon tying.

So my 2 year old has to get involved too.

My son also colored in these stamps from TGF's Spooktacular set and cut them out.  He glued them on to the tags that I die cut from Spellbinders tag set.  I was able to cut the tags faster since they are just construction paper so I cut about 4 or 5 at a time.  The "to" and "from" is from TGF's Signature set.

These are the assembled goody bags for his kindergarten class filled with some snacks, Halloween rings, erasers, stickers, pencils and bookmarks.  No goody bags for my daughter's class.  I figure they have outgrown them by now.

That's what we did on some of the days of their one week long fall break.  I love that my kids like to sit around and create things too.  And I'm so happy to have the Halloween treats all done and ready to go early cause before you know it'll be Christmas!  Time flies!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Easy Bookmarks

I think Edward was one of the very first stamps that I bought from TGF.  After reading the Twilight series, I thought this was so cute.  Anyway, I found a tutorial on how to make this bookmark.  It's really simple.  See HERE.  This was also the first time I tried coloring with Copics.  I only had about 4 or 5 different colors.  I made Edward's vest look like a different shade of blue just by adding more layers.  I still need a lot of practice.  The sentiments on the side are from Stampin' Up rub-ons.  I gave this one to Cheryl.  I just recently bought Bella, actually Camille so hopefully I'll stamp the 2 of them together soon.

This bookmark I made for my daughter who loves to read.  When I saw the Annika stamp from TGF, it reminded me of her.  Sentiment is also from Stampin' Up.

That is it for today and probably for a little while.  Now that school is out and summer's here, we'll be a bit busier.  Hopefully, I'll have something to share at the end of next week.  Thanks for reading and have a great week!