Mother's Day gift

Hi everyone! I am back from the Stampin' Up Cruise, and over the coming week or so, I will be sharing some pics from my fabulous trip!

For now, here's a cute Mother's Day idea using the Top Note Die from Stampin' Up, as well as the gorgeous Cottage Wall designer paper set.

You can easily make a little booklet by binding together a bunch of pages from the Top Note Die, using a binding system like Bind-It-All. The little booklet can fit inside the matching purse.

I added a mini lunch bag (from the dollar store) for the inside of the purse, and topped it with a Scallop Circle, with a little zelcro to close it.  

Inside the booklet, you can write all the things you love about her!

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Happy Mother's Day everyone!

Jo-Ann
 

Bunny Wabbit

Happy Easter everyone!

I thought maybe you'd like this cute little punch-art bunny that I made using Stampin' Up's Top Note Die and various punches.

This makes a great holder to put a cello bag of goodies inside (cookies, candies, CHOCOLATES!). I just used adhesive to close the cello bag, and attach to the inside, so it could be easily pulled out without wrecking the bunny :)

I used the Large Oval and Wide Oval punches for the ears, added the 1" circle and 3/4" circle for the eyes, and Wide Oval (cut off the sides) and 5 Petal Flower punch for the carrot. The little paw is made by cutting a Scallop Circle from Pretty in Pink cardstock, followed by punching it again with the 1 3/8" circle punch. The base of it is just a strip of cardstock (3" X 11") scored in the middle, and scored again 3/4" on either side of that first score line. This project was inspired by Kimberley Morris.

I will share some other critter versions of this box in the next few days!

Happy Easter!

Jo-Ann

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Wedding favors!

Last weekend, I was honored to be invited to a friend's wedding, and was even asked to help create some wedding favors beforehand! How much fun is that? It took us a while to get the prototype put together, but once we got going, it was fast to make these.  We had a great assembly-line going....

 

That's the bride, Emily, on the left; family friend, June, on the right and me in the middle.

 

Jen was there (left), orchestrating everything, and worked hard all week to get the wedding together.

Here are the finished products....

 

We used the Medium Cello Bags, Pink Pirouette and Regal Rose cardstock. We printed the words onto Whisper White cardstock, using the Stampin' Up Journalling Font CD (now retired). The Big Shot came in really handy to cut out the topper using the Top Note Die (5 at a time).

We also cut out the strip (with the printing) on the Big Shot, so that the edges would match perfectly, and glued that over top of the staple we used to close them. We stamped the hearts with the Love You Much stamp set, and punched them out with the matching Three Heart Punch. Add a little glitter, and you have a cute and easy Wedding Favor!

Hope you like it!

Have a great day!

Jo-Ann