H2H Challenge - Back to School - P is for Pencil

No kids here going back to school so this weeks challenge was really a challenge for me. But I wanted to enter hoping I would win the prize package Christine is offering. I LOVE that Around the Block Stamp and have had to borrow it a few times from a friend of mine to make house warming cards. I remembered a cute back to school craft I saw in the September Creating Keepsakes magazine (that I borrowed from the same friend). I just had to make these pencils. Stopped by the Super America and picked up a couple of Rolo's and stole some Hershey Kisses from a co-worker. I added a cranberry ribbon and a tag. All product CTMH except the candy and aluminum foil. Here is my entry - thanks for looking!

It's time to get sketchy!

Here is my entry this week. I needed to make a birthday card for a friend so I decided to use the sketch challenge. I had a whole brand new package of Boom Di Ada Creative Basics. Then I remembered I had left over card stock, ribbon and the stamp set from the "From Me to You" kit from several years ago. The ribbon and inks matched the Boom Di Ada - perfect! And, since I had to make a card, why not make two? I have to cut an 8 1/2 x 11 card stock into 2 card bases, right? So while I was at it I made two cards.

The brighter pinky one will go to my girl friend for her birthday along with a little goodie in the gift bag. I used liquid glass to adhere the striped paper to the back of a clear button and used some sassy strands to keep the buttons from being "naked". I used an 8 x 10 piece of striped paper and adhered it to the front of a kraft bag. Then turned the paper over to the pink side, trimmed and stitched on my tiny sewing machine. A felt button in the middle of a Big Pinks flower and a "Celebrate" sentiment finished the bag. I might tie some ric rac around the handles later.

I wanted to do the other card all mono chromatic (all garden green). There are just some small pink dots on the B&T paper. I thought this might make the card more versatile - maybe to give to a man.

Thanks for looking.

Mini Cards

I took a Mini Card class at Archiver's last week. Cute, cute, cute cards!

I bought some extra paper and used their stamps to stamp a few extra images and came up with these regular sized cards that I think turned out cute too.

H2H Challenge - Tag you're it

Here is my entry into the contest this week. All products are CTMH except the tag base. Thanks for looking.