Cards, gift set and album

     Cards 

Cards (flat and can be shipped with regular envelope)

Handmade Stationary Set

Card set with matching envelopes

Gifts (tiny note books gift set)

Tags that go can go with gifts or gift bags

Gift basket

Album (brag book)

Holiday cards (photo insert pocket card)

"little bird" get well gift by lauren bergold

i make loads of birthday, christmas, and even "just because" gifts... but i have to confess that i've never made a get well gift until now; i guess because they tend to be a "last minute" type of thing?  but it occurred to me that there's no reason i couldn't make a pretty little thing in advance, using the YOU MAKE LIFE FUN kit, to be ready should i need one:

i started off with this cute little wooden shopping bag, a $2 item from the "unfinished wood" section at the big box craft store.  i sanded the edges and gave them a quick coat of white acrylic. here's one of my crafty little secrets: if you know you're going to cover most of your project with patterned paper, there's no need waste time or paint on the bits that won't show! i used a small brush on JUST the edges and corners of this, inside and out.

of course you'll have guessed that the kit was the source of every other item in this project! i've used both sides of american crafts' "sunshine" paper, as well as pink paislee's "beauty parlor" and "old school". the flowers are prima, mounted on a little foam tape for dimension, and topped with an october afternoon "thrift shop" sticker sandwiched between two of the gorgeous cosmo cricket buttons. prima's gorgeous flocked rub-ons make the PERFECT finishing touch!

the little card is made from another october afternoon sticker, with a computer generated sentiment; the bird and hearts are die cut and punched from scraps of the same papers, and attached to wooden kitchen skewers. the pixie dust signature seambinding that came with the kit is gorgeous, but i had my heart set on *pink*... so i tinted it with a bit of glimmer mist!

i filled the container with my favorite vitamin c drops for the photo, (they're a cross between candy and vitamins... i eat them year round!) but i think any little wrapped candy or treats would work for this. personally, i am hoping that my friends will all be SO HEALTHY this year that i never get a chance to use this gift!  (but it's nice to be ready, just in case!)  :) :) :)

*Supplies*

Pixie February Kit "You make life fun"

get yours HERE!!!!

**Pixie February Challenge**

"The Land of Fairy Tales"

Come join us and play along!!!!

I Luv You Puzzle Blocks by Kirsty Vittetoe

Pixie January Kit "Love Notes" is sweet and lovely! Totally perfect for your Valentine's day project!

remember those puzzle blocks you played when you were little?

I thought these little wooden blocks are great for this project

six sides, six different look....

now my friend and her baby can play puzzle blocks together....

it's time to get the Valentine's Day project going......

Pixie January Kit "Love Notes"

Shop "LOVE NOTES" here!!!

If you are looking for 6x6 paper pad, you might like this one

30% off on all paper pad at The Pixie Shop

use code "SV-PP-30"

Shop HERE!!!

♥ Pixie January Challenge ♥

"Love Notes"

JOIN US HERE!!!!

"100 hearts" valentine minibook by lauren bergold

there are plenty of things you can do besides make valentines using january's LOVE NOTES kit, but if you want to make a few valentine-themed projects, i don't think i've ever seen a better bunch of products for the purpose!

and as a matter of fact, i'm a bit of an expert in this field, since my niece riley happens to have been born on valentine's day!  this year i made this little minibook for her, and i think it's rather adorable!  :)

you can see that, as in all pixie kits, the paper selection is not only beautifully matched, but perfectly balanced with regard to colors, patterns and scale.  since everything works so well together, most of the hard work is already done and you can jump right into the fun part:  actually MAKING your project!

90% of this little book is paper that i've trimmed, inked, outlined, diecut... or all of the above!  but for the cover i grabbed a couple of crate paper's chipboard elements (in this case, the frame and the flower) from the "random" collection.  you get an entire 12x12" sheet in the kit, and i guarantee you'll love them as much as i do!

i chose a short but sweet heart-themed poem for riley's book.  i formatted most of the text on my computer and printed it out on clear inkjet labels from the office supply store, but i used the fabulously bold pink paislee alphabet to highlight a significant word on each page.  

the blonde wooden letters are already gorgeous in their natural state, but for this project i decided to make them even more dramatic by staining them black using a permanent marker.

i used the same marker around the edge of each of my graduated chipboard pages.  the cover is approximately 5 1/2 inches square; whereas the last page measures 5 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches... so it would be big enough to hold a heartfelt greeting to the birthday girl herself!

having been lucky enough to receive a bind-it-all for christmas, i actually constructed and bound this book myself, and i liked the idea of staggering the pages to really show of the gorgeous patterns.  you could do the same thing using rings or ribbons to hold your pages together, or i happen to know there are also some cute mini albums in the pixie shop!  ;)

while this design was created specifically for miss riley's valentine's day birthday... i don't think your own nieces (or daughters or mother or second cousins!) would mind receiving"one hundred hearts worth" of your love... no matter when their birthday happens to occur!!! ♥♥♥

* Supplies *

"Love Notes" I want it all pack

$39 - get yours HERE!!

"Love Notes" paper only pack

$9 - get yours HERE!!

Or you can get the Wood Chip Alphabet on its own without the kit

$5.49 - get yours HERE!!!

Head over the our New Pixie Shop at Etsy to see "Love Notes" and the choice of packages you can choose from this month

Or you may want to shop at The Pixie Shop for all the other kits and embellishment items 

♥ Pixie January Challenge ♥

"Love Notes"

Click HERE to check out our January Challenge

or scroll down to see what our fabulous Pixie Challenge DT had for you!