Some quick teachers gifts

This is the last week of school for my oldest son-I can't believe Kindergarten is over already! Sniff!! Anyway, in standard Danielle fashion here I am whipping up gifts at the last minute. I found all the items at Home Goods. Oh, how I love that store!

All images are from CC Designs, My Rubber Ducky set, found at All That Scraps. They were colored with Copics and cut out with Nesties.

In these two tins, which I bought for $1 at Target, I added a bottle of bath and shower gel and a matching scented bath salt. The lavender bath salt was in a huge container so I bought the little glass canister at Michaels, also for $1, and filled it up. I have lots more left for gifts (and maybe some for me too!).


The ribbon wouldn't lay nicely on the tin when I tried to wrap it around and being pressed for time I just opted for a simple bow.


The two boxes below are some great big gorgeous and fantastically smelling Italian Luxury Soaps! Well, that's what the box says! One is lavender and the other is almond and they smell so good! I love using these! I just made really simple belly bands for these and added some ribbon and bows using ribbon from PTI.

I added Diamond Glaze and some glitter to the bubbles for a little sparkle. Aren't they cute?

I feel guilty that I didn't get fancier on the packaging, and kinda skimped on the tin decorations, but I feel like time is something I just don't have these days! I keep thinking that one day I will catch up, but I think I keep getting busier! But you know, Joeys teachers won't know I could have gone crazy on these and will like them just the way they are. We are our own worst critics aren't we?

Have a great day and come back tomorrow for the new Color Throwdown!

Teachers Gifts and the Scrappers Playground

I bought these yummy smelling Pumpkin Cream Roll candles by Village Candles from Home Goods a few weeks ago for my sons kindergarten teachers. He has two because he is in the dual language program and is learning Spanish along with his English curriculum. I also made a small candy bag for his bus driver. My son has had a, let say, not so easy time adjusting to kindergarten as he is not the center of attention anymore...and he needs lots of attention! I don't know where he gets that from because my husband and I are not like that at all. Anyway, along with the candles my husband said I should be offering his teachers money! Don't get me wrong, he's not bad, he can just be a bit trying, and they have to keep on him constantly. His spanish teacher called me laughing and said it's not just him (her kindergartener got timeout on his first day!) and not to fret. It also helps that he's cute ;)

I used the Spooky Sweets II from Papertrey Ink. I inked up the circle with several different chalk inks from Versamagic in an attempt to recreate this gorgeous image from Debbie Olsen, Thinking Inking. I used VersaMagic Perfect Plumeria for the cat and Spanish Olive for the sentiment. The circle is a combo of those two plus Pumpkin Spice. All of the circles were cut with Nestabilities. I inked around the orange scallop and added dots to each scallop with a purple fine point Sharpie marker. They are really a bit more vibrant and very pretty irl! The ribbon I wrapped around the top is Plum Pudding from Papertrey and it matches the Perfect Plumeria VersaMagic perfectly! Wow, say that three times fast!

The frosted tin tie bag is also from Papertrey. I stamped the images on it using Stazon in Opaque white and Jet Black. The tag is a Nestie and I just tied a knot on each end with black ribbon and adhered to the bag. I didn't want it to be too fussy for the male bus driver, who I suspect, will probably just toss it in the trash after he eats the M&M's anyway, gasp!!

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I also want to give a quick shout out to Scrapper's Playground. This is the awesome scrapbook store I shop at where I won the scrapper's dash and grabbed loads of great products! I took a card class there last night, taught by none other than The Enabler, and we made two adorable halloween cards (I will try to post pics of these soon) with the Lizzie Anne Designs set Little People. We each were given a set to keep and a watercolor brush which we used to color the images. We had so much fun! Then to boot, when I checked out (because you know I HAD to buy stuff after class) I got to pick a pumpkin from the patch which would entitle me to a discount on my purchase anywhere from 5%-31% (an October promotion) and wouldn't you know I picked a 25% pumpkin! Good thing too because I don't think my wallet can take much more!!

That's probably all from me for this week. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Peeps in a Jar

This is not a new thing but when I came across it here I thought it was so cute and would make great gifts for my boys daycare teachers. Little did I know that getting these squishy bunnies into the jar was going to be such a pain! What I mess I made! I actually had to empty the first jar twice and remake it to get everything to fit in. Some of the peeps are grotesquely staring out through the glass...some with crumbs on them, some with M&M's burrowed into their fleshy casings. Now doesn't that sound appetizing? I think I cursed making the first one...nope, I'm sure I cursed.
Anyway, I found these plain "craft" mason jars at A.C. Moore which I thought would be perfect to showcase the ingredients better than the traditional ones. Same exact shape, just smooth glass without any raised writing. I really enjoyed making the decorations for the lids. I used an adorable egg stamp from Elzybells and stamped it once onto Papertrey white cardstock and again on design paper from Imaginisce. I colored in the white image with copics and cut and pieced the eggshell from the dp and popped it up. Before I did the piecing I used a white scallop circle punch around each image to fit on top of the lid. I pierced each scallop and sponged a coordinating ink around the edges. I made 6 of these in different colors. Then I made the tag using my rectangle Nestabilities die and stamped the sentiment on it from the Papertrey Just Hatched stamp set. I realized that I needed to add the recipe to the jar also so I might re-do the tag and make it into a card instead and have the recipe printed inside. And after making these adorable little egg chicks there was no way I wasn't getting those peeps inside the jar...ugly or not! Okay, maybe I will just eat the ugly ones. Oh that sounds bad...I'd better stop now.

Here are some close ups:

I believe I added a little sparkle too with my Sakura Star Dust and Spica pens. It's hard to capture that in these photos. And here's where I found the recipe if anyone is interested:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123558