Birthday Card Set by Karen

Hello!  Karen here today with a fun birthday card ideas!

Do you still send out birthday cards to friends and family? I'm not always perfect at it, but I do enjoy sending out handmade birthday greetings. Last week I dug into my stash to look for a birthday card and discovered I was out (sorry to all those early August b-days).

When I need to make a lot of cards, I settle on one design that I can duplicate easily. For this set of birthday cards, I used my die-cut machine to cut and assemble several cupcakes. I find it easier to do several images at the same time and make a sort of assembly line process. To fancy up these cupcakes, I even added some glitter at their final stage.

Once all the cupcakes were assembled and dry, the cards were super easy and quick to put together. I used plain white cardstock for the base and two layers of patterned cardstock on the front. Then I added one or more cupcakes and a clear sentiment sticker or two. There are so many to choose from in SRM's collections.

As seen in the first photo, I packaged up a few to share. Five cards plus envelopes easily fit into a flat glassine bag touched simply with a ribbon, "just for you" sentiment, and a green stripe at the bottom.

Do you need more SRM Birthday stickers?
Check out the birthday section of the SRM Store!  

For this project, I used:

Glassine bags | Stickers by the Dozen, Take 2 Birthday | We've Got Your Stickers Plus Birthday | Fancy Sticker Sentiments Birthday | We've Got Your Invite Party Time! | We've Got Your Sticker Happy | Jute Twine Mint

Baby Calendar by Shelly

Hey y'all! Shelly, here.

Today, I'm sharing a sweet baby calendar with you. 

I thought this would be fun gift to give to someone who is expecting...they can completely customize it to their liking. :)

I simply only added a 'cover' to the front of the calendar,which I used some patterned paper and kraft cardstock for a mat. For the back of the calendar I just added kraft cardstock only. 

To tie things together for a gift, I added a little strip of kraft cardstock around my calendar and then added a couple doilies with a baby sticker in the middle. I also I added all the cardstock stickers pieces/etc. into a larger glassine bag and slipped it underneath the doilies and kraft strip. Simple and sweet, yeah?!...

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enjoy your day!

SRM Stickers products:

Glassine Bag 5.75"x7.75"

Glassine Bag 2.75"x4.25"

8x8 Keepsake Calendar

Calendar Numbers-Small

Calendar Months-Smalls/Snappy

Fancy Sentiment-Baby

Baby's First Year-Girl

We've Got Your Border-Baby Girl

White Lace Doilies 6"

White Lace Doilies 4"

Holiday Cheer Bag by Shelly

Hey y'all! Shelly, here! 

With all the holiday's being right around the corner, I thought it be fun to make a sweet little holiday cheer bag!

I kept things fairly simple for my bag. I started with my patterned papers and simply added different stickers to each one. After, I used some adhesive and added them to a piece of white cardstock. Once done, I carefully did some cutting and then placed aside. 

I then used a glassine bag and added a silver doily to it. Afterwards I added my sentiment piece, along with a few wood veneer stars and a little jute twine bow. Nice and sweet, yeah?!...

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enjoy your day and see y'all soon! 

SRM Stickers supplies:

We've Got Your Sticker-Merry

Sticker Stitches-Christmas

Sentiment-Winter

Stickers By The Dozen-Gingerbread Man

Silver Lace Doilies-4"

Jute Twine

2017 Mini Calendar Gift Set by Shantaie

Hello!  Shantaie here today with a fun idea. I challenged myself to create a more updated look and use of the traditional mini calendar, and to make it pretty enough to give as a gift. I set myself up for quite the challenge. After all paper crafters have been creating mini calendars for many years, how could I do possibly anything that hasn't already been done?

The answer was I couldn't. Not really. So I sought not to reinvent it, but to reinvent the way I might use a mini calendar in my daily life. I would most likely use it in tandem with my daily/ weekly planner, and I figured I would want it to be happy, colorful and loose so I could attach the month to my planner or on my desk.

What I came up with is 12 separate and distinct 3 X 4.5" pages cut from bristol, stamped in black with splashes of gellato in silver and pink. 

For January and February I used the love birds stamp set and for march birthday plans stamp set.   As you create your calendar pages, it is perfectly fine to stamp into the calendar area as long as you don't have large areas of solid black. The mini calendar is a clear sticker so your design will come right through! 

April's flowers are from the just believe stamp and May's sentiment is from love one another.  I love the big bold happy on June from the aptly named "big Happy" stamp set! 

For July I used Noah's ark and August Autumn blessings September (one of my favorite pages) uses the healthy plans stamp set.

We revisit Autumn blessings for October and Big Thank you for November, finishing up the year with Big Merry for December. 

I popped my calendar into a glassine bag, decorated it with patterned paper, ribbon, twine, a pom-pom and a sticker and my gift is ready to give!

 A mini calendar set not reinvented, but revamped maybe!

This bold and useful calendar is just a little different from the ones I might have made years ago, and 2017 is already looking pretty good! 

Here are all of the SRM goodies I used in my project.  

Oh what a lovely stash!

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SRM & The Twinery

Oh my!  All this week The Twinery blog has been featuring projects by their design team and I'm loving all of these projects.  Just need to share!   I'll be doing some "FLASH" blog posts over the next few days.

First up is Tiffany with a fabulous birthday project using SRM's glassine bags, birthday borders and Twinery twine.  Simply delicious! 

Stay tuned for more Twinery Design Team projects featured on the SRM Facebook.  

Love.Joy.Peace.Patience.Kindness by Shelly

Hey y'all! Shelly, here! 

Today I'm sharing a simple and sweet set of cards with you! 

I started with making my cards. Which I chose use a kraft cardstock base, along with SRM's Just Believe stamps. I stamped the 'sentiments/border' to go around my card and then stamped the flower in the middle. After I used markers with the blender pen to color my flowers. 

Once done, I added envelopes to my set of cards and used some white jute burlap twine to hold it all together. 

I then placed the set in a glassine bag and added it inside a kraft window box. Next, I added some burlap ribbon around the box. To top things off, I added a white doily with a sticker and piece of jute burlap twine. 

A quick and sweet little set of cards, don't you say?!...

SRM products used:

Kraft Window Box

Glassine Bag

We've Got Your Sticker-Hello

White Lace Doily

Clear Stamp-Just Believe

Jute Burlap Twine 

Burlap Ribbon

LePlume II  Color In Markers

 Color In Blender Marker

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gift Cat Combo by Lesley

Hello stamping friends! 

Lesley here! I cannot get enough of these sweet little kitties from Jane's Doodles!  I love this adorable cat stamp set called A Cat's Life from Jane's Doodles! SO super cute and fun to color. 

I paired the card with a Glassine bag...to hold a gift card. 

What a purr-fect pair!

A quick and simple gift combo!

Thanks for joining us today!  

Have a purr-fect day!

Guest Designer - Jennifer Pohl - Planner Perfection!

So excited to welcome Jennifer Pohl as a guest designer today with a focus on Planners.  Jen was our blog coordinator for 3 years and got SRM into blogging, Facebook and social media big time.  She is an incredible crafter and now she's turned her focus on Planners. She's simply wild about all things planners and SRM has so many products that are planner perfect!  Check them out HERE! We will be seeing more of Jen from time to time, sharing her planner goodness with us. 

And if you leave a comment on the blog today you will be in the running for winning the stash that Jennifer used on her planner….just in time for your October pages!

Now let's hear from Jen in her own words….

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Hello everyone, I’m Jennifer Pohl and I’m thrilled to be on the SRM blog today!  SRM stickers have been a part of my life for *years*.  They are the perfect product for party favors, birthday designs, gifting, and now --- planners!  I’m absolutely addicted to my planner; it’s a lifeline for all that’s important to me.  It helps me stay focused, organized, and assists me in staying on track with my life goals.  It’s so much more than a date keeper.

  

It’s not my nature to just jot down appointments and events on paper – I need to be creative.  I need to make it pretty.  I need to look at my planner every morning and feel motivated.  Today I’m featuring my October layout.  My objectives for October are;

• Take lots of fun photos of my children enjoying the events of the month
• Continue to try new recipes and record them on recipe cards that I can refer to in the future
• Be on time, and not let anything “fall through the cracks” as it’s sure to be a busy month

October’s layout is all about Halloween, my family’s favorite holiday.  I’ve decorated the month with SRM Stickers but left plenty of room for jotting-down important information.

I inserted an embellished pocket to store backpack notes for my girls.  

(I’ve been tucking notes for years and my girls look forward to seeing a little something from mom.  They’ve kept every note throughout the years!)  

I got ahead of the game by premaking little inspiring tags using SRM’s ‘Labels by the Dozen’ and ‘Live Life’ school stickers.

Also tucked into October is a glassine envelope containing recipe cards – all decorated with SRM’s Cookin’ stickers.  I’m on a mission to try new recipes and memorialize my family’s favorites each month.  

By the end of 2015 I should have a collection to help me head into 2016 with lots of dinner options.

The last October insert is a clear pocket for photos.  Lots and lots of photos!  We’re planning a trip to the pumpkin patch, haunted house, and we’ll be attending a costume party… So many opportunities for pictures.  I needed something special to hold them until I could scrapbook them, so I fancied a banner using SRM’s Halloween stickers.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed a peek into my planner.  Be sure to share your planner ideas on SRM's Flickr.  We'd love to see what you do!  And don't forget to comment for a change to winner some planner goodness from SRM!

  

Make A Wish Card by Tessa Wise

Hello!  It's Tessa Wise sharing a fun, girly birthday card with you today!

I think I have all my favorite things on this card!  A little stamping, an adorable 4" White Lace Doily, sequins, a Glassine Bag, and a We've Got Your Sticker - Birthday Sticker Sheet which has sentiments, images, and sticker stitches all in one!  I started with a pink card base and stamped some random pink dots diagonally across the card front.  I added a strip of pink patterned paper to the top and then filled a glassine bag with a gift card to my friend's favorite place- Starbucks!  

I adhered the bag to the card front and then added a folded 4" White Lace Doily over the top.  I folded the bag's flap down and added a sticker stitch from the We've Got You're Sticker- Birthday Sticker Sheet along the edge.  I added the cupcake sticker to a Medium White Scallop Punch Piece and then added it to my card front with some foam adhesive tape.  I added the sentiment to the bottom of the glassine bag.  The sequins were a finishing touch---playing on the circle theme and adding a little sparkle! 

I can't wait to send this to my friend - she's a girly girl through and through and is sure to love all the pretty details.  

Sweet Love Wedding Gift by Lorena

Hello there! Aside from the classic wedding registries, these days it has become very common (and convenient!) to gift cash to the newlyweds. But who says that cash can't be beautifully packaged, too, just like any other wedding gift? It's Lorena here today with an idea for that!

We've got your Sticker/Forever has tons of beautiful stickers perfect for decorating one of SRM's glassine bags. This bags add such a delicate touch! The size I used for this project also allows to add a handmade card with your wishes for the bride and groom.

Remember SRM's collaboration with 17 Turtles last month? I used one of the digital cut files to die cut the word "sweet" and, once again, I covered it with a couple of layers of embossing powder and heat set it. It looks like tarnished silver! Another idea if you don't want to mess around with embossing powder and a heat tool is to die cut the word from silver or glitter vinyl. Check out SRM's assortment of vinyl!

I adhered that gorgeous wedding bouquet to a piece of vellum and trimmed it, and the word "love" was adhered to a strip of silver cardstock. A twine bow in Platinum Shimmer helps to "tie" everything together (pun intended!). I didn't want to leave without sharing a closer pic of the silver embossed word. Look at that shine!

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy crafting!

Serendipity Stationery Set by Tessa Buys

Hello! Tessa Buys here today with a stationery set designed to send friends some warm and colorful greetings.

I started by creating three cards using the Serendipity line by American Crafts and SRM's Pastel Borders stickers. I used the same template for each card to save time, but alternated the patterned papers for variety. The green "hello beautiful" border sticker made the perfect sentiment.

Next, I filled an SRM glassine bag with color-coordinated sequins. Before I seal a card in an envelope, I like to add the sequins like confetti. I also included three self-adhesive envelope seals punched from left over patterned paper.

Last, I cut a piece of patterned paper to fit the back of an A7 clear card box, mostly just to look pretty and serve as a solid background to the stationery when packaged. I added a pen that I purchased from the dollar bin at Target and now I have a sunny and colorful gift to give to a friend who likes to send happy mail.

I see many more stationery and card sets in my crafty future. SRM's clear card boxes are just the thing to package handmade notes in a special way. Enjoy your day!