Have you seen the Papertrey Ink Homepage? I think it looks great!
Now my 2 NEWEST My Timeless Templates are available!!
Card Couture © & Pack a Picnic ©
I think it was obvious I had a BLAST!! My head is still spinning with ideas. Plus, I know I am STILL making teacher gifts! I have several to complete, and I will share them when I am done 😀 I should get them completed this week in no time.
I had 22 teachers to get gifts for between Alexa, Noah and Amber! I had to get all the therapists and whatnot in there too. They are a VITAL part of our lives. Some have a couple that work with Alexa-don’t want to leave any out. Plus I also give the bus driver something too. You know she has NEVER even said thank you! She sees me everyday! I think that’s weird.
Amber had her last day of Pre-school. I was the ONLY parent who balled! I was shocked at how emotional it was for me.
How can MY BABY be going to school 5 days a week next year?!
You’d THINK I’d be jumping for JOY, but I’m actually very sad over the whole thing.
Amber is just growing so fast! (they ALL are!)
Here she is with her diploma! They also worked hard and made a REALLY nice book for each child with photos through the year, and info on each child in her class. The kids put their hand prints AND signed their name in every book! So sweet! I will cherish it forever!
It was at a park on a VERY rainy, then turned MUGGY day-So excuse my FRIZZED out, horrifying do.
Amber & I (thank goodness I had no makeup all over my face! I was a mess I tell you!)
Amber & Daddy
Daddy was too embarrassed by mommy crying to even THINK about getting emotional! LOL!
Now a quick family photo (Oh gosh I can’t believe my hair did that in public. It needed a time out!)
Sometimes those lunging exercises come in handy! We were squatting for a while. Normally Id be on my butt!
OH! How did I go from a BABY to kindergarten? How did I get an ALMOST 10 year old? I don’t feel OLD enough!! Jeepers.
Yesterday she asked me if I would have another baby! But one that wouldn’t grow up! LOL! (Um, NO! All done Amber)
I told her she was my baby, and would always be. She then said Mommy! I’m almost 5! I’m not your baby anymore. I’m a big girl!
OH! man! Why do they grow so fast? She is also an OLD 4. I think our family situation with Alexa made her more mature. Plus she absorbs everything around her. We are always teaching Alexa SOMETHING. She always wanted to learn too. OK I can see I’m going WAY off course here-sorry. Just emotional today.
OK this does tie into the PTI release! I swear!!
So I made EVERYONE my Pack a Picnic basket, OR The Card Couture template in some way, shape or form! I shared most of my peeks during the countdown.
I LOVE Vintage Picnic to pieces. You will see lots more here with that.
The Cupcake collection-ADORABLE!
I have to say I was totally inspired by Candice’s Fruitful set! I actually LOVE it. Weather or not you make jam, if you like fruit images, you will adore this one! I really LOVE the Fruitful sentiments too!
My favorite project was put into the Exclusive Idea Book for My Timeless Template: Pack a Picnic-so I hope you get to check it out!
So I packaged Strawberry Jams for everyone, and for Amber & Noah’s teachers also included a Strawberry Plant! (Alexa went with a Rose bush and another flowering plant for her teachers! Leave it to her to decide on something totally different! LOL!)
Fruitful & Fruitful Sentiments
I made about 12 planter sticks for all the plants in about 10 minutes! Seriously NOTHING over the top and fancy. I need QUICK!
I thought that the sentiment from Teachers Apple was PERFECTION for a plant gift!
Sentiment reads: Its not so much what is poured into a student, but what is planted by the teacher the really counts.
I used the strawberry image from Fruitful in the corner, then layered it onto a stick, and stuck it in the plant
The backs were signed by the kids.
These are the ones Amber did for Mrs. Slater & Mrs. Bartlett
I think it was cute. I wanted to cover the bottom, but didn’t want to ruin the instructions-so I let it be. Plus it gave me an excuse to do ONE LESS thing! LOL!
Now onto the Strawberry Jam!
Holy easy peasy! LOL!
I had my BFF Paulette’s mom MAKE me jam :D) Oh! boy is it ever YUMMY!
I then stamped some of the PTI adhesive/label sheets, and punched out my label, stuck it onto the front!
I had some fabric laying around, so I cut it up, and put it under the ring.
I then stamped the Made with love border, and punched out scallops.
Addressed it to whomever was on the list-and done in 20 minutes!
(minus the cutting fabric! and I had 22 jars to do-I only shot 6 here)
I think they are cute!
They can also be re-gifted easily if someone isn’t a JAM fan. Its the thought that counts!
So you don’t have to take TONS of time to give nice gifts. I love the clean and simple stuff (in case you haven’t caught on to that yet!).
OK moving on………
Heavenly Medley
Now we have Lisa’s set. I was SO inspired my her corner decor, that I used it for my focus.
I felt like this looked similar to a church window!
The bkgd paper is a velvet paper by SEI. I ran it through my cuttlebug to emboss it! WOWZERS is it ever LUSCIOUS!
I used the side of the Labels 4 nestability to create my own cool shaped layer! Punched the bottom layer, and I love it!
Scarlet Red is just gorgeous!!! I’m happy PTI is delving into rich tones now too.
I added adhesive pearls to be like berries.
I think its such a pretty card.
Well that is all for this post. I have much to do today.
You are JUST getting excited about this release and we are already on to the next one! LOL! Funny how that works.
Enjoy the day, and remember to STOP and hug your children! Amber asked me to color with her, so after I get one more thing done, I cleared my “to – dos” to do that with her. Before you know it, she won’t want me to “bother” her at all.
I also appreciate all the support and excitement you all share with me with each release, and daily here!
THANK YOU!
17 Responses for "Papertrey Ink June Release"
Such lovely teachers gifts! It’s so great that you put your “to-do’s” aside to spend time with your kids. I applaude you. I think we as parents don’t do that enough. And you are sooo right, the time window for the opportunity to do that is very small.
Beautiful gifts! Yes, very odd that someone would not say thank you – but maybe she doesn’t get gifts and was speechless at your thoughtfulness (just trying to find the good!) And YES, they do grow up fast and go to college and you wake up and say NO WAY am I old enough to have a kid in college!! Any way, again beautiful gifts..I stayed up until Midnight so I could purchase these templates right away! Your work is so details and the instructions are so easy to follow! Thanks thanks thanks!
Lauren, you never cease to amaze me with your talent!!!! I love all your projects from this months PTI release. You’ve given me some great gift ideas, you are such an inspiration!!! Thanks for sharing with us.
p.s. I would love your coffee house cookie recipe.
Lauren I LOVE everything!! I ordered that fruit set….( Um and a few others) I WISH it was here today I would LOVE to do that cutie pie strawberry idea.. what a GREAT gift… Hmmm I may have a strawberry in my stash! 😉 Just not a PTI one! LOL!!!
Beautiful creations!! I just purchased your card couture template. I can’t wait until my free time this evening to start creating!! 🙂
Lauren, I can’t say it enough, you are so amazing!! I love your blog and you are so inspiring. I can’t wait for my shiment to come in. Thank you!!!
Ho w fabulous, I love them all, and if I ever rec’d any of them , I would have been falling over myself to say thankyou!! How very rude of her!!
How cute your daughter is……
Your card is amazing and the gifts are beautiful. Thank you so much for always sharing your ideas!
Your “baby” is so beautiful, and I find it hard to believe you are old enough to be a mother–you look so young! I taught preschool for a year and remember graduation fondly, but with many tears for both parents and teachers. Now I get to watch them grow and change in first grade, but have the freedom to see a new set of young ones each year. To think you make amazing projects as well, you truly inspire me every day!
I wish my hair would look like that when it was muggy out! Mine turns into a massive ball of fuzz and ugly waves. You look **wonderful**! 🙂 My 2nd DD just graduated PreK this year, too – and there were four of us moms standing at the back of the room sobbing! I know how you feel – only I still have two more to go through preschool. I’m sure I’ll be a blubbering mess when it’s my little boy (my youngest)
I just snagged the Pack-a-Picnic template. I can’t wait to unzip it and see what others have done with it!!! 🙂 I *love* what you’ve done with it. I’ll definitely be using it later this month as birthday cupcake holders for a couple of friends. I’ll make them my special Caramel Cupcakes with brown butter-caramel-sea salt frosting…to.die.for…and tuck them in the Pack-a-Picnic boxes. Can’t wait to try my hand at using this template! 🙂
lauren,
those teacher gifts are soo cute.. where did you get those strawberry plants?? i am going to do that with my son’s teacher’s and make them pound cake to put in the picnic template.
once again amazing work..
charna
great projects! And by the way, you look fabulous!
you are awesome and your ideas are pretty good too – way to go mom – i know my 3 year old is already saying he is not a baby either – where does the time go
Ok, how cute is she! My Big girl just graduated High School! My little one starts Kindergarten! You look great too!
Ok, how cute is she! My Big girl just graduated High School! My son will start Kindergarten in August! Time sure flys! You look amazing Lauren! OH and yes Great projects as usual! ; )
had to play catch up..and now you’ve got me all sniffly. I LOVE that Heavenly Medley card! Gorgeous. The jam is done up so cute and what a neat idea! 🙂
Thanks for the reminder about spending time with the kiddos… Off to do just that!
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