The Gift of thought

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I was asking my daughter what she wanted in her backpack for lunch one morning and she happily said, "the usual." Her body stood still and you could tell she was thinking on something then she said, "And I'd like a note in it too."

I was reusing the tags I made because I just couldn't stop putting something in her lunch box so she knew I was thinking about her during the day. But one day, I was in a hurry. She hadn't been saying one way or another about them reappearing in her lunch box so I left it out.

It's amazing how our little gestures, even gone seemingly unnoticed, are important. I'm glad that my daughter likes the little extras in her lunchbox and I hope I can keep them up without fail. I pulled together a new one for her Monday lunch this week and here it is.





A digital image from DigiStamp Boutique called Birthday Beau.
It was already printed out so I just needed to color it and find a good sentiment to add with it. And now a plug for recent Verve release set that has almost every sentiment you might need, it's the Small Phrases set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Details:
Stamps: Birthday Beau (DigiStamp Boutique), Small Phrases (Verve)
Paper: kraft (Hobby Lobby), Pumpkin Spice (SU), scraps of red, white (Wausau)
Ink: laserjet printer, tuxedo black (Memento), copic markers
Accessories: jewelry wire, shaper scissors (Fiskars), rectangle hole punch (Fiskars)

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Wishing a Great Year

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Hello and happy Tuesday! I was out of blogland this weekend, my computer lost it's video card to my hubby's computer and then we both ended up having to get new cards. I quick ship from Amazon and we are hopefully both back on the happy cyber trail again.

Last week I delivered three homemade baskets for each of my children's homeroom teachers. I made up tags to go on them and then started to think creatively with a brown paper bag.

For the tag I went with the apple from Paper Smooches, Falling for You, and paper pieced it together with DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack and some tan and cream cardstock. I wanted a unique sentiment to go with my apple assortment in the basket and looked on the web for something. I googled teacher appreciation and apples to see what I could find and came across "wishing you sweetness throughout the year" and changed it to include the tart moments because I had a couple of granny smith apples in the bag. Once approved from my mother-in-law, retired school teacher, I played with the font size and placement of the text using A Little Pot (free font) style text. Then some Offray crochet trim and black gingham ribbons with a few rhinestones and SU! scallop edged to finish it off.

The tag on a re-purposed paper grocery bag with hand-shredded bag filler. I put in about 7 apples of three different variety in the middle of the bag. The jars (below) hold homemade caramel sauce and chocolate sauce.

Details:
Stamps: Paper Smooches Falling for You
Paper: Flower Shower Spring Stack (DCWV), black and kraft cardstock (Hobby Lobby), Exact Cream (Wausau)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Large paper grocery sack, large format paper cutter (for shredding), blossom dies (nestabilities), circle punch (SU), stapler, 1/2 pint canning jars

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Coco Love

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I managed to leave out a tag for my lunchbox tags series last week. Like you haven't gotten enough tags, LOL.

This tag has my most favorite of all my teddy bear stamps, I think ever! I've got a few of them. It's Coco from DigiStamp Boutique. He just melts my heart every time I see him and I love how he came to life with the coloring I chose to use.

Last week I mentioned that DigiStamp was coming out with new September specials, there was a snafu but they are now available. If you like cute nativity scene's you'll want to go check them out. Can I say "Adorable angel!" Back to Coco... awwwwwww....

I hope you are all having a fantastic Wednesday, uh, Thursday! Thanks for stopping by today!

Details:
Stamps: DigiStamp Boutique Coco with little hearts, Verve Happy Phrases
Paper: scraps from the green and pink bin (Hobby Lobby and SU!), white cardstock (Neenah)
Ink: laserjet printer, Multiliner 0.05 black pen, copic markers
Accessories: nestibilites, button stash, Lydia's cotton thread Size 10, Michael's ribbon, Fiskars Razorback scissors

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Ink Free Quilt Block

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Last week an unexpected package arrived on our doorstep. Inside it were two amazing quilts for my kids that were made by my sister-in-law. The only true thank you I could imagine was a card with a paper quilt block on it.

My daughter spread out the quilt and looked at it and her smile grew to the size of the quilt itself, then she fell down open armed and hugged the quilt. That's how much she loves her new quilt. 

My son was on a rolling vocabulary of "WOW!" "It's [s]Piderman all over!" "Whoa!"

There were some goodies in the box for me too! Close to My Heart Stamps, Stampendous and Ranger embossing powders, heat gun, ink pads and chalks and blank calendar sheets. Oh, am I going to have some fun!

Details:
Stamps: None?
Paper: Watercolor Bouquet (K and Company), Smooth White (Neenah)
Ink: None?
Accessories: Martha Stewart Score Board, sewing machine and Mono Liquid glue

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sMOOches to You

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A super quick post today! I'm sharing a MOO-velous tag for, you guessed it, my daughter's lunchbox. This is a darling little image from Paper Smooches Chubby {cow} Chums with matching sentiment.

So much fun!

When are these lunchbox tags going to end? I'll have one more to share on Thursday... or Friday. Then I'll just quietly make them to stash in her lunchbox.

Details:
Stamps: Chubby Chums
Paper: Basic Black, Pink Passion, Smooth White (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Copic Markers
Accessories: 1/8" Gingham ribbon (Stampin' Up), mini - miniature clothespin, black rhinestone, circle, blossom and scallop circle dies (Nestabilities), Iridescent Ice glitter glue (Stickles)

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More Lunchbox Tags

I’ve decided I love coloring! Yes, again. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve had a desire to get the markers and digi images out every night, but it’s started up again while making "notes" for my daughter's lunchbox meals. Two of the tags have already been sent in her lunchbox, but the last one she'll find today.

I’ve colored up some DigiStamp Boutique images that were already printed and ready to color. I love these images and can’t believe how long it’s taken me to get back to them. Sally-Ann has a release today so it’s a perfect time for me to plug in a linky to go see what’s new!!!!!!

There’s Jasper doing the happy dance.




and Barney and heart

then my favorite monkey Valentine Marvin.

I can’t wait to see what’s new for September!

I’ll be back tomorrow with some more tags using Paper Smooches!

Where's the details? Just send me an email (found on my About Me section) if you have any questions or in the comments for this post. The names of the images are links to the DigiStamp Boutique store.