Carver's presents for his friends

Here's 3 of the 5 mini mailboxes Carver gave to his friends (and the one we gave to Chris). They were in the dollar section at Target. Then Carver and I found some stickers, notebooks, fruit snacks and nail polish (for the girls) to put inside the mailboxes. Carver picked out a sock monkey for Alijah. :)

Here's the one 'we' made for Alea and Sadie (Sadie's of course, has an S)

This is Alijah's - or Alea baby as Carver calls him. :)

Here's Chris's. He originally said he didn't want one but we gave him one anyways and Carver filled it up.

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #8

For this month's challenge, I finished something that's been sitting on my desk for a couple months - except for when Carver would take it to the living room and stuff it with toys, that is. I guess he'll be able to use it next year.

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Details:
Rhonna Farrer paper
Offray ribbon
scraps - paper & ribbon
New Arrival: Circle 2.5", Monkey 3.5"
Cuttin' Up 1.5"

Blast From the Past #10 BONUS!!

I found one more card!!! These were the invitations for Carver's first birthday party. It was a safari theme and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way they turned out!




Details:
Passport letters - Cuttin' Up 1/2"
Koala (and other animals not shown) - Create a Critter ?"
Black & Kraft - Recollections
Animal Print & Gold Shimmer - ?

Baby Girls

I made a batch of these because there's a lot of baby girls that we know and I wanted to have cards on hand when they're first birthday came around.

Details:
1 - Cuttin' Up 4.5"
Bazzill Chablis
Heidi Grace Baby Girl Dots
JoAnns ribbons

Through Rain, Snow, Sleet or Shine...

**I found my mojo!**

Over the last couple months, I have had two packages stolen and I have no idea how many envelopes. When Chris bought the property six years ago, he knew that the area was prone to baseball bat attacks but never this. What heard on the news that a couple areas in the harbor had mail theft but we didn't think anything of it. But after not receiving ANY mail between Christmas and New Years we decided it was time to get a secure mailbox.

We found this one, for cheaper than we budgeted I might add! It looks like a regular mailbox, as you can see, but when you open the door, there's a slot at the top where the mail goes. Then it drops into the bottom part where you need a key to open.


Details:
856 - Cuttin' Up (shadow feature) 2"
MAIL - Plantin Schoolbook 1"
Outdoor white vinyl

Some of the presents I made

This is the To Do book that I made for my dad. For as long as I can remember, my dad has always carried a scrap of paper in his pocket that he keeps notes on. So I decided to make him a book.
Front (the pacifier is there for size)

Back

The cover is: 3.75x2.5 and the pages are 3.5x2.25
I used Brushed Corduroy on the masks.
The masks are mini compass and Timeworks.

I made three of these 6x6 calendars. One for each of my grandmas and my grandpa.













Month Stamps - Technique Tuesday
Blank Calendars - Boxer Scrapbooks
Papers - DCWV Christmas Combo/The Stack III/Through the Year (not the right name but you get the idea), and Bazzill
EK Success bat punch
Cuttin' Up for the 2011 on cover

Cody's Christmas Card. He asked for money to go towards his Haiti trip.

The inside of Cody's card.

Jolly Holiday at 4"
White - Recollections; Green - Super Value Pack; Brown - Bazzill Mud Pie; Stardust Stickles

The front of Sarah's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, metal embellishments and ink
Ledger stamp - Unity
Phrase stamp, coffee stain stamp - Tim Holtz
Luggage Tag and 'S' - ? (i'll look when I get home)

The front of Jake's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, 13 stamp, hands stamp, Listen stencil, metal embellishments and ink
'J' stamp - ?

Halloween 2010

I made a trick-or-treating bucket for Carver to put all his candy in. It was super fun and I love how it turned out. :) The stickers were from Michaels and the bucket was from Artco Crafts in Tacoma.

The lid (Cuttin' Up)

'Halloween' (Designers Calendar)



Close up of the TINY spider (Designers Calendar 1")

Close up of the tombstone (Wild Card 5.5")


Close up of the spider (Stretch your Imagination, don't remember size)


Hop on over to my family blog, The Garland Fam, if you want to see pictures of Carver dressed up as a Sock Monkey!

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #2

First off, I'd like to apologize for not posting in TWO WEEKS!!! WOW! We've been caught up in sick babies (flu -- cold -- then fever yesterday and rash today). And to add to that, work has been pretty busy. This all means, no time for Tana to craft. :*(
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This is week 2 of our Clearing the Clutter Challenge. You can go to THIS post to find out all the details about it. Since I haven't had much time to craft I didn't get any 'big' projects off my desk. I did get a couple small ones done though. So I got something accomplished, right???

Project #1 - Halloween Cards

I've been procrastinating as much as I could on these. I don't even know why I send them out. The only reason why I like Halloween is dressing Carver up and candy corn. But when Carver was born, I sent out Halloween cards to all the babies that were born around the same time as him. And I expanded it this year to family.

Recipe:

Paper -- Black -Recollections; Orange - Bazzill 'Orange Slice'; Pumpkins (not pictured) - KI Memories 'Pumpkin Party'; Halloween words - DCWV Halloween

Designers Calendar -- Halloween 2", Spider 2.5"

Project #2 - Carver's Potties

We bought the green potty for Carver a few months ago and finally decided to spend the $4 to get a second one to keep at my mom's house. We bought them from Ikea and they only had the two colors. :( I kinda wanted the white one they had on their website.

Recipe:
Monkey --> Create a Critter 3"
Carver --> Cuttin' Up 1.5"
White vinyl, Ikea potty

That's all I got finished but I have a couple that I was working on but need some supplies to finish. You'll get to see those next time. :)

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Now hop on over to Lorie's blog and see what she's cleared off her desk.

What I've been up to lately

I've been busy making birthday cards. Here's the ones that have been given to their recipient. The rest, I'll have to show you later so it doesn't spoil the surprise. :)

This one is for my sister-in-law. She's a teacher and I wanted to use my new Printing 101 cartridge.

(Printing 101; Notecard - 4 3/4"; paper - all scraps; ribbon - JoAnns)

The inside of the card

(Printing 101; puzzle pieces - 1"; paper - all scraps)

A birthday card for my Dad. This is a Criss Cross card and I found the tutorial for it here.

(DCWV The Stack III and scraps; McGill Mini Tab Punch)

This last one is for a friend's daughter that just turned one! Her new bedroom is going to pink and white so we used that as a jumping ground for her card and present.

(S-Cuttin' Up at 4 1/2", Ladybug - Doodlecharms at 1"; Black & White paper - Target; Pink Gingham - Paper Pizazz; ribbon from Michaels)

Her present. We got her some wood alphabet blocks and the basket is to hold them in. I got the basket in the bath section at Target and weaved the ribbon through it.