Cakeabella for Tori

A few weeks ago I mentioned about a day of stamping with friends. Patti had some Bella stamps. This one is Cakeabella, and I watercolored her with Twinkling H2Os. I used a little Prismacolor pencil in a brown shade to add a little color to her hair. She was a little too blond for my liking. I blended it with a colorless blender pencil.

The ribbon, flower, and most of the bling were all part of a blog candy I won from Patti a few months ago. The bling on the cake was from a clearance scrapbooking find at Target.

Tomorrow is my oldest great niece's birthday. She will be 17. I hope you all are enjoying your holiday weekend.

Happy Birthday Tori!

Stamps: Cakeabella, SU Small Script
Ink: Stazon Black
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Cool Caribbean, watercolor, Retired SU DP
Extras: wide grosgrain ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Twinkling H2Os, rhinestone stickers, fabric flower, Spica glitter pens, scallop edge scissors.

Enrichment Club Projects

These are two of the projects we made at the after school enrichment club I teach at my sister's school. There are only 8 girls this year, so that makes it easy. It runs for 6 weeks. We do 3 projects each week. We made these last week.

For the little mint patty basket on the left, I used Cambria's directions here.
These baskets are so cute. I will probably make some for my DH to take to the secretaries at his work. I'll also send some to in a care package to my kids whose are away. I have one son, Scott, our oldest, who lives and works in Pittsburgh. Our second son, Daniel is away at school at Northwestern. Daniel has a long tine girlfriend, Suzy, who is away at Illinois State. She is like a member of our family, so I always send her a care package too.

Stamps: Petite Patterns, Party Punch, Riveting Ink: Rose Red Paper: Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Whisper White Accessories: SU scallop, 1 1/4' and 1 3/8" circle, and SU Tab punches, scallop edge scissors, pale pink grosgrain ribbon and Pearson Chocolate Covered Mint Patties,

The Bag A Lope is filled with starlight mints. I used a standard business size envelope. I really like using the word window punch to make a hanger for the tag. The girls enjoyed making these, and especially using the punches.

Stamps: Love Ya Ink: Pixie Pink, Real Red Paper: SU WW, Real Red, Pretty in Pink Accessories: Tag, Small Tag, Word Window, and Double Slot Punches, Scallop scissors, gold cord, and red grosgrain ribbon