Birthday Boy Tag for a Genius

My son is a science nerd. 

He is planning on engineering. He loves chemistry and physics.

I saw some hearts made from gears on Pinterest.

So I whipped up this tag for his birthday.

I cut out a bunch of Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers gears. I painted them with Distress Paint. I used gold, silver and pumice. I then inked Walnut Distress over and around the edges. I cut a rough heart shape from some extra manila and used that as the base.

 I layered my gears, some circles and metal gears and circles. 

I cut a tag from the Tim Holtz Thinlits. I cut out the periodic table from the Tim Holtz Laboratorie paper. I ripped a piece of poison advertising paper too. I glued on all that on the tag and inked the edges with Walnut. I embossed Happy Birthday in some copper embossing powder.

I glued on the heart and added a twill ribbon.

He liked it. Just smiled and said thanks. 

(That's a huge compliment!)

Vintage Girl Gift Card

Here is my version of Tammy's Gift Box.

I didn't have the Tim Holtz fabric so I used the Tim Holtz Paper instead. 

I made a stand-up card with the small easel die. 

The rest of her tutorial I followed fairly closely.

I didn't have the butterfly stamp she used. I made a Tim Holtz butterfly die cut (top right corner) but they ended up too small. So I hand cut butterfly wings and used a lace stamp to make butterfly wings. They weren't even, but I cut them apart and the girl covers it much of it, so I wasn't worried about that. (Usually that would bug me!)

Here is the girl I printed on cardstock. I've colored her hair and cheeks so far. This is the paper she will hold. It says "Gentle Thoughts of you Happy Birthday" Both stamps are old Stampin' Up stamps.

Here she is with blue bow, colored dress and wings attached.

This is a close up of the flowers and ribbon BUT on the white chipboard background. I ended up ripping it off and doing a black chipboard background. I liked that much better.

Even my husband said "Gorgeous!" He usually says... nice!

Love it.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Tammy Tutterow's Vintage Girlie Gift Box

I found this adorable antique picture turned into a gift box from Tammy Tutterow. I needed to make a birthday card for my mom and loved this idea. I made it into a card/easel picture. More to come.....

Absolutely Adorable

Birthday Boy idea......

My --soon to be 16-- son is SO hard to get birthday presents for! He only wants REALLY expensive items..... anyone else have this problem?

Anyway, my son has always wanted to learn to ski... (my husband's favorite sport) but when he hit a good age to learn to ski (meaning we had skis and boots that fit) he had spinal surgery.

Discussing ideas for this year, my husband was lamenting not being able to ski this year. He suggested maybe driving out to Colorado catching "end of the season" price deals for a long weekend and taking him along. I said "Why not?"

So... then I was trying to think how to "wrap" this as a gift.

I made this.

I cut a Tim Holtz ticket strip and stamped a couple different Tim Holtz ticket stamps. I used the date one and circled his birthday. I made a who, what, where ticket for his driver's license. A Free Ski Lessons ticket and a free trip to Colorado ticket.

The kicker (which I didn't get a picture of because it wouldn't all fit) is the last ticket.

It says

"GOOD ONLY IF DAD DOESN'T HAVE JURY DUTY"

We planned all this, and then my husband got the dreaded jury duty letter. So he has to call Friday to see if he has to come on Monday. If he doesn't, they leave! If he does........ I guess the ticket will be good for next year!

Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Daughter!

Shadows

This is one of my favorite tags ever. I love the contrast and blue is not one of my favorite colors!

I used Dyan Reavley's silhouette stencils I got from The Scrapbooking Studio.

I sprayed the tag in several of Dyan's blues. 

I traced the outside of the girl and boy. I drew the heart and then colored in the black. I retraced the heart in white to make sure the heart stood out.

I drew white circles in the blue. 

I filled in a little more black to make it darker. 

I retraced the black silhouettes in white again.

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Done.

Once Upon A Time Graphic 45

I found this Graphic 45 Once Upon A Time paper and HAD to have it (not that I could have resisted). It's actually Halloween paper! But it's all in fairytales!

I love it!

I made this for my classroom!

I bought a super cheap collage frame at Walmart.

I used the journal cards and background paper to make 5x7 "pictures."

The pictures don't do it justice. It's stunning on my classroom wall.

Twinkle

So it's finally in the 50's.

No more snow falling (hopefully-- I Love it, but a little tired of it).

Snow is melting like crazy.

But.......

I got the Tim Holtz circle dies from The Scrapbooking Studio and decided to try out this idea in my mind. I actually did it awhile ago (I think Christmas Break) but looked at it last night and realized I forgot to post it! I figured I'd better post it while it's still technically winter!

I cut the three sizes of circles out of white cardstock. I embossed Tim Holtz snowflakes on the circles. I sprinkled some glitter on. I globbed glue on the bottom of a white tag I cut out. I dumped glitter there too. I used the Tim Holtz branch mini mover die cut to make the arms. 

I cut a square and brim out of Tim Holtz black distress cardstock and sanded it. 

I cut the letters out of Tim Holtz Holiday Words. I glued those on the bottom part of the snowman.

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strength

I love the speckled background on this one and the quote is so long, 

I didn't want to add anything else.

Insanity

I've heard this quote for years and still love it. 

Extraordinary Destiny

I not only believe this but have seen it. 

CS Lewis is so inspirational.

Keep Reading!

yep.

Truely Glad

This is one of my other favorites. It's hard to see the flowers. 

Love the verse and how the decoration turned out. 

Yes!

Love this quote. Especially for school! This is one of the first I hung up!

The only thing you absolutely have to know..........

I love this quote and from Einstein! of all places!