The Creation of The Mini Invitation

I am proud to announce a new "category" in MY SHOP... MINI INVITATIONS!

These are invitations the size of business cards.  The include all of the same information as a regular size invitation will include only smaller.  Here's where I got the idea!

I am terrible with keeping up with invitations I receive in the mail.  Wedding, birthday parties, baby showers, wedding showers, anything.  As much as I wish everyone I knew were more into digital reminders (e-cards, emails, etc), they aren't.  After going for Aaron's doctors appointment and mine I realized the one thing I have always been able to keep up with are the appointment cards from the doctors office.  These are the business cards that have the time and date of your next appointment on the back.  I keep them in my wallet.  I have always tried to keep a pocket calendar handy for writting important dates down but have always failed. 

Just the other day I remembered receiving an invitation from a dear friend to her daughters birthday party but I can't find the invitation anywhere.

I created these in hopes that there are LOTS of other people out there like me... disorganized.  LOL!  Seriously though, I can't be the only one.  I love how these turn out.  Not only will they be easier to keep up with but they will also save paper.  There are 10 (TEN!) invitations per page.  If you were to purchase regular size invitations you would be using at least 5 times as much paper as you would with these adorable little creations.

Let me know what you think.  I'm curious to know!

Oh, and check 'em out in my shop!  Right now these are the only 2 I have listed but I will have LOTS more coming soon.

Spring Has Sprung - Not so fast...

We had 2 gorgeous days of sunshine and warm weather... as of right now those days are out of site.  We've had rain and colder weather since then and I'm a little bit  very disappointed!  I'm ready for all that spring brings!

I don't have a new project to show off because this week has been pretty busy and a bit stressful.  I love my job most days but there are some days I begin to wonder if it's really worth it.  I should be thankful to have a job.  Hubby and I discussed that last night... about being thankful for more than I am and I started to tear up a bit because I felt so ashamed for not being thankful for more.  I'm in one of those moods I guess and I've got to snap out of it.  Do you ever get in those moods?

I'm hoping to work on and possibly complete 2 projects by this weekend.  We'll see how it goes because I'm needing some supplies and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get to the craft supplies store to get it.

Materials needed:

Mod Podge

Scrapbook paper

As you can see there's not much I need.  I have a ton of glue on hand but I don't think it will serve the purpose properly like Mod Podge would (covering plastic easter eggs with paper).  If you have an alternative to Mod Podge please, leave a comment, I'd love to hear it.

I'm also working on a couple of new items for my shop that I'm excited about.  I need to also take some actual pictures of the products that I have already listed that just have screen shot images.

Busy weekend, again!  What's your plans?

Pop Flower Gift Tags

2 page item

4 tags on 1 page

4 flowers on 1 page

Print and cut tags on cardstock

Instructions:

Print tags and cut out

Print page with circles and cut out

Cut along the dotted lines on the circles to make the petals

Curl the edges to make the flower pop

Glue the layers on top of one another to make the flower

Glue completed flowers to the gift tags

*I added glitter glue to the edges of my flowers*

This printable item will be listed in MY SHOP today!

Brown Paper Embellishments

I have never scrapbooked much.  Always wanted to but never had the money to invest in all the supplies necessary.  I created my very first embellishment.  This is a all in one print out.  You just cut and past it all together.  I even created a cute little button (4 holes in the middle have colors that match the circle that it's placed on top of).  Of course you can add some thing to it for more effect.  I happened to have some left over ribbon/netting/mesh stuff that was from a gift basket at Christmas.  So, when I was testing this print out I added that to it for a cute effect.  If you had buttons on hand, you won't have to use the one on the page.  I have some, but none that will match this design.

I simply printed 1 page on regular printer paper and 1 page on cardstock (for the button).

Then I wadded the page (regular printer paper) up to give some texture to each circle. (see my Easter Banner in the background? hehe)

Cut the circles out and hot glued them together.

VOILA, you've got a cute little embellishment. 

I was going to add these to my Happy Easter Banner but was happy with it just the way it was.  Once I decide what I'm going to do with these I'll update you.  Like I said, I don't do scrapbooks.  I might give these away with the FREE file to print some off.  We'll just have to see.

Check my store for this listing by Monday!

  
also on The Girl Creative

Happy Easter Banner

I've been seeing banners all over the place in crafty blog land and I was inspired to create a new item for my shop.  I've never done a banner in my home before and thought, why not start now!

I love how this one turned out.  I only wish I had a prettier place to display it for my photos.  I think I'll take a trip to a relatives house that has a gorgeous fireplace/mantel and have my own little photo shoot.  I might even leave my completed project there as a gift since I'm slowly but surely packing up my apartment.  

Anyway, enough rambling.  Here's the banner!

I hope you like it.  I'll have this item listed in my shop by Monday.

Weekend Plans 3/12/10 - 3/14/10

I was really hoping for a warm & sunny weekend but it doesn't look like mother nature is going to allow that.  It will be raining all day today and most of the day tomorrow.  Sunday will be pretty though, so that's good.  I have been planning to get 2 free tickets to The World of Coke for David and I to go and check out.  We've never been, but have talked about going quite often.  I got the tickets after entering lots of codes in on MyCokeRewards.com.  I don't drink a lot of coke, but my co-workers do and they don't use the points.  I also won a lot of codes on Listia.  

 

Tonight we'll be taking Aaron to my mother's house to spend the evening.  She will be taking him to visit my grandparents as well since they haven't seen him very much lately.  He'll have lots of fun there. 

Saturday after we get done enjoying our rainy day together at the World of Coke we'll probably grab a bite to eat somewhere that we've never been.  We'll get Aaron back that evening.

Sunday is church and afterwards we'll probably head over to David's mom and dad's to visit with them and let them have some time with Aaron.  

At some point in between these plans I'd like to get a couple of creative things started (and possibly finished).  I still have my 1st Dollar Store Craft that needs to be completed.  I also wanted to make a St. Patty's Day shirt for a friend's daughter but I don't have the materials for it.  I really want to get this done by Sunday so I can give it to her.  I may go to Walmart tonight to get what I need... if they have it.  If they don't, I may not be successful with this project or I'll have to change my idea for the project.  I also want to make an Easter wreath with lots of cute plastic eggs.  I also have a box that I am doing the finishing touches on the design that I want to get listed in MY SHOP.

What are your plans this weekend?

Whatever they are I hope you have a happy one!

Etsy St. Patrick's Day Favorites

St. Patty's Day Printable Giveaway!

I will be giving 3 LUCKY people a fun St. Patty's Day gift set from My Shop.  This set will include:

Lucky gift box

&

Lucky Charm coupons

You will be receiving a printable PDF file by email.

The gift box has a shamrock on the bottom and the top and it spells out "LUCK".  

It measures about 2.25" X 2.25" X 2.25".

The coupons include 10 that are the size of business cards.

Here's a summary of the coupons:
1 Free Towel
1 Free Car Wash
1 Get Out of Chore Free
1 Free Back Massage
1 Free Foot Massage
1 Free Breakfast In Bed
1 Free TV Night
1 Get out of Dog House Free
2 blank coupons for your or the recipient of the coupons to fill in. 

Perfect gift for your honey on St. Patrick's Day!

Ends: March 14th

Winners will be announced on March 15th

You will have plenty of time to receive, print and craft your little gift together by Wednesday.

Ways to enter:

#1 is a must, and for each additional item (additional entry) leave a comment that you did it.

1. Visit MY SHOP, come back here and leave a comment about your favorite item in my shop.
2. Follow this blog.
3. Follow me on Twitter and Tweet the giveaway.  Be sure to put @conner_ash and link to this post.
4. Post about this giveaway and link back here on your blog.

Learn To Count

So far I have 2 flash card printables in my shop.  

The one you see above are the number flash cards.  Sorry, I don't have a picture of the printed product.  I do have them and they turned out very nicely when printed on heavy card stock.  I created these for the children that love to count items to help them figure out what the number is.  The vibrant colored stars add a nice visual touch.  Not only will they learn their numbers, they can learn how to spell their numbers as well.

Go HERE to purchase this item.

Customizable Monogramed Note Pad Set - Printable PDF

 

I am very proud of how this design turned out.  2 files are included in this purchase.  The 1st one includes the large note pad pages.  2 per page measuring 4 x 10.5 each.  The 2nd one includes the small note pad pages.  4 per page measuring 4 x 5.3 each.

Everything in this pack can be customized; letters, color of the polk a dots, the line, the seal behind the letters.  If you see something else on the item that you'd like to be changed a bit that I didn't list, that can be done as well.

  

Go HERE to place your order.

Planning Mode

I've got a lot of plans for this little SHOP of mine. I'm really excited about it.

Some things I want to make:

• Gift boxes for Easter
• Special Mommy Coupons as gifts for Mother's Day
• I also want to offer different styles of gift boxes for other Etsy sellers that actually have a product to send out.

I'll be working on some unique gift box templates soon.