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Best of the Blogosphere and Card of the Week: May 15-22, 2009

I'd just like to start this post by saying I feel incredibly blessed to be part of this community.  Look over to the right ... do you SEE how much money we've raised for Alzheimer's?!  The event hasn't even started yet!  We're going to meet our goal before we even launch!  I'm totally pumped.  You guys are the BEST!

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, click back to last week's post and and watch my video.  The Stampin' Out Alzheimer's Event begins on Monday.  There will be seven full days of contests, challenges, and freebies.  We have just over 40 sponsors, including scrap celebrities like Ali Edwards.  Come and join us -- you'll have a ball, we'll raise money, and it's going to be GREAT!  You can help by spreading the word...

Best of the Blogosphere lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

The Shout Out List (my favorite CARDS OF THE WEEK): The cards and projects that earned some extra love and attention this week. The best of the best. You people ROCK MY WORLD :D

Mother's Day:

Teacher:

Card Sets:

Wedding:

Friendship:

Wrap it Up:

Favors (Party favors...):

Thank You:

Birthday:

Gift Ideas:

Baby:

Boxes:

The Best of the Blogosphere: In my travels through Blogland, I discover a lot of projects, cards, scrapbook pages, tips, templates and tutorials that are all worth sharing. I want my friends to see the things out there that are special, inspirational, worth some extra notice. This list is everything I think is worth sharing... better read it... you could be on the list!

Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you'd like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I'm missing! Thanks!

And when you don't have any money... make it special.

It's kind of my rule of thumb. For some of you, it's "don't pay full price."  For me, it's, "When you don't have any money, make it special."  I'm Jake's room mom.  I love, love, love our teacher, but I have had a terrible time getting group support from our parents.  For our teacher appreciation week, I asked 16 parents to send in $3 for a group gift.  Four (4) responded.  That includes me.  Sigh.  There just isn't a lot of "wow" out there for only $12.  Time to be creative. 

My first order of business is to cruise my blog collection and see what ideas are out there that have really "wowed" me.  There are a ton, but I also always wait until the last minute, and needed supplies mostly on hand.  I decided that flowers/plants are always good, so I would start there.  I painted a small pot red on the bottom and the top and then tried to stamp on it.  Disaster.  I painted it again and used ribbon. Pretty cute, right?  Love this so far.

God bless Nicole Heady -- bring out the PTI Teacher set and make a cute tag to pop out of the top of the plant.  Perfection. 

Now, onto the candle, which I scored buy one, get one free at Hallmark (two sons + two teachers = great deal).  I jazzed it up to match.  I think it's visually top heavy, but I love the pom poms, so I decide this is good enough. 

Most precious part.  I don't know where I got this idea from... dare I say, it's mine?!  While I was covering the teacher luncheon, I asked each child to hold up a blank sheet of paper and let me take their picture.  When I got home, I used Photoshop to type letters over the blank papers so that it appeared that they were spelling out a word.  This is a great idea for "happy birthday" or "good luck" or whatever -- if you can get your kids to do the same thing.  You can pull together great last minute photos that look like the entire family was involved. 

We're almost to the end of the school year.. what did you make?  Still looking for ideas?  Check out what I've found around the Blogosphere...

Stampin' Out Alzheimers, Card of the Week and Best of the Blogosphere, May 16 - 22, 2009

Check out we're doing now....

Ignore that badge at the end... here's a better one.. the "real one". 

Jen Tapler, from Jen Tapler Designs, and I are hosting a 7 day stamping and scrapbooking event to help raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's Disease.  The site, Stampin Out Alzheimers.ning.com,  will feature challenges, contests, classes and more - with prizes donated from over 30 generous sponsors.  We've worked it as a "Pay to Play" community.  For a small donation (any amount will do), you'll get permission to join our online community which will be up from May 25 to June 1st.  The site isn't "live" yet - it will open soon and the events will begin on Monday.  I'd love it if you'd share the badge on your blog and help us spread the word.  We'd like this to be the largest community fund raising effort in the stamping and scrapbooking space.  Please help.

Best of the Blogosphere lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

The Shout Out List (my favorite CARDS OF THE WEEK): The cards and projects that earned some extra love and attention this week. The best of the best. You people ROCK MY WORLD :D

Mother's Day:

Teacher:

Card Sets:

Wedding:

Friendship:

Wrap it Up:

Favors (Party favors...):

Thank You:

Birthday:

Gift Ideas:

Baby:

Boxes:

The Best of the Blogosphere: In my travels through Blogland, I discover a lot of projects, cards, scrapbook pages, tips, templates and tutorials that are all worth sharing. I want my friends to see the things out there that are special, inspirational, worth some extra notice. This list is everything I think is worth sharing... better read it... you could be on the list!

Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you'd like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I'm missing! Thanks!

More Great Teacher Appreciation Ideas

Deena, from Be Creative, emailed me this fantastic teacher gift idea.  I loved it and asked her if I could share it with you. 

For more information about this project, check out Deena's post. 

To give you even more inspiration, check out these ideas from around the blogosphere!  (Remember that these boxes aren't always visible in a feed reader, so if you don't see them, click on over to the site and they will magically appear :-)  Also, click "read more" at the bottom of each box to see the items as a web page, complete with pictures!

Teacher Gifts & Cards:

Other School Ideas:

Teacher Appreciation & a Shout Out

I got the loveliest email today from Danni from Danni's Doodles.  Her email came right in the nick of time -- I was climbing the walls trying to think up ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week. 

Check out what Danni made for her teachers...

Doesn't this make you want to go back to school to be a teacher?    I love how she coordinated all the colors and the wraps with the apple.  She's got close up view and description of each item -- you can see them all on her blog post HERE. 

Interested in some other great Teacher gift giving ideas?  I have them in a couple of categories -- "teacher" and "school".  You may find a great scrap page in there too....

Please remember that these list boxes don't always show up in your RSS Reader, so if you don't see them, click on over to the blog. Also, you can hit the small "read more" button on the bottom of each list box to see the links as a web page -- complete with pictures.

Thanks for sharing your great ideas with me Danni!

3d Challenge Tuesday - It's In the Bag

This week, our challenge is being sponsored by Kelleigh Ratzlaff from The Digi Chick!.  Kelleigh has generously offered a $20 gift card to her store for the best bag!   In addition, the winner will also get a $5 gift card to ANYTHING on the Digi Chick store!

These templates are AWESOME and so easy!  You just print the design on to your patterned paper, cut, score and glue!  Presto, you look like Martha Stewart in minutes! 

If you want to get fancy, you can use digital papers and print it that way, then you always have an instant, printable, bag on hand!

OK, so take the challenge -- create a small gift bag, and upload it to Paper Craft Planet.  Use the tag 3d11.  You do NOT have to use one of Kelleigh's templates to win -- but they are so easy and fun, we know that you'll want one :)  We'll pull it into the album and pull a winner next Tuesday.  I can't wait to see what you make!

Check out what the other Supernovas have made:

Adela Rossol

Melanie Muechinger

Lynn Mercurio

Diana Gibbs

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Jen Tapler

Tammy Hershberger

Erika Martin

Lori Tecler

Jessica Fick

Sankari Wegman

Take the 3d Challenge.

Check out the 3d11 Gallery

Get more inspiration by joining the Hybrid Chick group, here on PCP!

Paper Crafting Best of the Blogosophere: April 4 - 10, 2009

I added a couple of things to make this blog more fun -- first, there are categories for Mother's Day and Card sets.  I also added Mr. Linky below -- I'd love it if you'd sign in/up if you are reading this and you'd like me to read your blog. 

Best of the Blogosphere lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

The Shout Out List (my favorite CARDS OF THE WEEK): The cards and projects that earned some extra love and attention this week. The best of the best. You people ROCK MY WORLD :D

Easter:

Mother's Day:

Card Sets:

Wedding:

Friendship:

Wrap it Up:

Favors (Party favors...):

Thank You:

Birthday:

Gift Ideas:

Baby:

Boxes:

The Best of the Blogosphere: In my travels through Blogland, I discover a lot of projects, cards, scrapbook pages, tips, templates and tutorials that are all worth sharing. I want my friends to see the things out there that are special, inspirational, worth some extra notice. This list is everything I think is worth sharing... better read it... you could be on the list!

Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you'd like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I'm missing! Thanks!

Very last minute Valentine's

Love, love, love this new printable Valentine's Day kit -- I whipped this out in absolutely no time flat for some neighbors today.  I just printed Jen's awesome bag toppers, and then printed the nugget labels to punch out for the top of the peanut butter cups. Adorable in no time.  That may be my new motto.

In Case of Emergency, Print This!

I'm trying something new -- and I'm really excited about it.  Jen Tapler and I got together to create this one of a kind Valentine's Day Card Kit. 

The Valentine’s Day Kit is all about covering your bases. Now you have four different, gorgeous cards that will work for anyone in your life -- a significant other, a child, a teacher... anyone! We’ve even thrown in a couple of quick and easy candy boxes, including Hershey Nugget labels, and two treat bags for those last minute gifts. All you need to complete this kit is white cardstock, a color printer, scissors and adhesive (pop dots and regular). You're welcome to dive into your ribbon and button stash or leave the cards "as is". You do NOT need Photoshop or any other fancy program. The entire kit is a pdf file that will open up with Adobe Reader (which you probably already have on your computer.)

“Hybrid” is just a word that means “computer meets traditional tape and paper crafting.” That’s what you’re doing here -- harnessing your most powerful crafting tool (your computer) and using it to simplify your paper crafting. The best part is that you’ll never run out of these cards -- you can print 20 treat bags for the cost of just your printer ink and paper.

We created some printable pages that you can use to recreate the cards with very few additional supplies. If you want to dress them up, we’ve given you some ideas there too. All you have to do is hit “print”, cut out the embellishments, add some tape and you’re done. You can look like a superstar in under 15 minutes.

Seriously, for the price of your Starbuck's coffee, your Valentine's Day needs are all covered.  Got to love it. 

Buy now for only $5
   
Special thanks to the following people for providing the digital supplies used to make this kit.  Please check out the links for full versions of the supplies or to look for other great project inspirations:

• Jennifer from Divine Digital for the Valentine’s kit digi papers and enormous inspiration.
• Amanda from Fonts for Peas for use of the Pea Faye font
• Regina from the Cutting Cafe for the Valentine’s Day Circle Words set
• Allison from So Sketchy for the card sketches.