I have been saving a bunch of birthday cards, bags and teacher gifts I’ve made over the past 6 months and now I need to show Denna how I did some circus-type flags so I’m posting them real quick. Without further ado – stuff I made:

These are gift bags I made for Aiden’s teachers last year. They have pinwheels on them made from paper and then attached to the bag with colored brads.

Aiden’s good buddy Alli had a birthday party just yesterday. When asked about the party theme, her mom said her family party was rainbow unicorns. I couldn’t find rainbow paper so I went pink and bling!

Decorations on Alli’s gift bag – more bling!

The two-layer unicorn on the outside of the bag done in a fun paper with raised dots on it. The letters in Alli’s name on the bag were all done in this paper with a different color per letter.

Card and bag together complete with rainbow paper.

Our buddy Sam is having a party tomorrow…nerf theme. Much to Logan’s dismay, I couldn’t find and cut an image of an actual Nerf dart….so I did a regular one instead. This is the card.

Bag and card together. Aiden helped me decide which colors were best for “Nerf” by bringing me several of our guns as samples.

Den: here is the shape I used to make the circus flags on Alli’s bag….

Connor, lover of football and son of ex-Iowa-football-player dad (Iowa: black and gold), turned 7 last April.

Logan’s friend from Kindergarten last year had a tropical-themed bday. The palm trees on the bag sort of fold off the bag at the leaves and have bling instead of coconuts. I did my standard “can’t think of anything better” cupcake card and decorated the “frosting” with cut outs of little Hawaiian flowers.

Baby shower bag and card….loved this one!!!

For the back of the cards, I used the birds that were left on my cutting board after I cut out the front of the card.

These are the end-of-the-year gifts I made for all the teachers last year: small magnetic boards. I bought oval canvases, painted them with 2 coats of magnetic paint and then put paper over that. For the magnets, I cut out flowers, but the green brads in them, modge-podged them to make them stiff and hot-glued each to a super strong magnet I bought at the craft store. The card had a corresponding flower and paper in the middle over the word “thank you”. The other flowers are the magnets holding the card to the board. This example was for Logan’s teacher and came with a wallet of his infamous “I’m gonna wear a fedora in my school picture” picture.

All three of the boards I did: 1 for Logan’s teacher and 2 for Aiden’s preschool teachers.

Another of Logan’s classmates from last year. Didn’t know much about her, except she’s a girl so I went flowers.

Our friend Ashley had a Barbie Bday last March. This is her card (just the blue). Bling a bling bling on this one too – fun!

The bag. Barbie has more bling in her hair as a pony-tail holder. So fun to do girl stuff sometimes!!!