Makeover Monday!

On your marks, get set, GO!!!!

Run, don't walk, to your nearest Michael's this afternoon to pick up my latest makeover item! I can guarantee you aren't going to want to miss picking some of these up for yourself! For just $1, I got 12 gift cards, 12 envelopes, AND a handy-dandy gift box. What's not to love about this steal?

Want to see it? Ok, I won't hold out any longer. THIS is what I bought yesterday at Michael's for one buck, with the thought of making them over into adorable little micro mini cards perfect for attaching to holiday gifts, or tucking into your sweeties briefcase before he leaves on a business trip! These are Mary Engelbreit mini note cards. They come in packs of 12 (12 cards/12 envelopes). I'm always on the lookout for mini-envelopes, so I was super geeked at the thought that even if I didn't want to use the notecards, for a paltry $1 I had 12 mini envelopes in my hot little hands! For that alone, the $1 was well spent!

I thought I'd makeover the mini notecards with a Christmas theme. These would make great teacher gifts! So I started rummaging through my holiday paper from last year and settled on last years Basic Grey collection. I had lots of scraps leftover, perfect for covering these little mini 3x3 notecards. On a little shopping spree I took Saturday afternoon, I was lucky enough to score the new Hero Arts mini Christmas sentiment stamps (in a package of 4), and I was excited to be able to use those on my mini's!

I wanted to keep the cards very simple, so I stayed away from doing anything too elaborate to the mini's. Just a simple sentiment on the front of each card, and that was it. I used three different paper patterns and covered 4 cards with each. Each grouping of 4 had a different sentiment on the front as well. The sentiments were stamped on SU kraft paper. I stamped them in Versafine Archival black ink and distressed the edges with Ranger Distress Ink in Walnut. Then I mounted them on scallop squares punched out of the Basic Grey scraps. All sentiments were mounted using dimensional tape to the front of the card. Because of this, I couldn't fit all 12 cards back into the clear box along with the envelopes. So, I put 6 cards in the box (2 of each design), and wrapped a red organdy ribbon around it so it looked all purty and sweet! The other 6 I just stacked up and tied an organdy ribbon around them without the box! You could always just put the other 6 cards in a clear cellophane package with a ribbon tied around the top too! I just love how this little ditties turned out! I have plans to make a bunch more. A cute little pack filled with miscellaneous sentiments would be cute too!

These were so SUPER easy girlfriends! What an awesome little gift, for so little money. You don't even need to buy new designer paper to cover these things, your scraps will do just fine! So, so, so much fun!

Well, Blogger is still screwed up. I'm still not getting any emails saying I have comments (one or two come through, but that's about it. I wonder if Blogger is working on this problem yet? It seems like it's happening to all Blogger accounts, not just mine. Is anyone's working yet? I hate it! I want my old Blogger back!

A bunch of you were wondering where who makes the sentiment I used on Saturdays' Scrap Stash Saturday card. It is from Wordsworth by Rubber Soul and it's called To Accomplish. Everyone always asks about this saying! It's such a great one.

Well, I'm hoping today or tomorrow I will hear from CARDS that they want to publish at least ONE of my cards that I submitted for their Feb 08 call. If not, I'll be insanely bummed out. The rejection is starting to take it's toll on my ego. Be thinking good things for me, k?

Have a wonderful day girlfriends!

Hugs,
Amy