For a Friend

One of my good friends last day at her 'old' job is Friday. She's my two older girls school nurse. She is the one who bandages my kids when they get there hand caught in the door, run into the door, fall and scrap a knee, get a splinter, or just need some TLC. She is not going far off, she's going to a local high school. Crazy, yes she might be, I hear high school kids are SCARY!!! She will be closer to her kids, same school, so that is a plus. I sure am going to miss her.

I decided to make her this little band aid tin and a few band aids to go with it. The band aids are just one inch by 3 1/2 inch strips and I used my one inch square punch for the middle. I stamped little dots with CTMH's "Dots All Around" and the heart with Scrappy Cats, heart stamp. Then I sponged the edges and adhered the middle to the strip. I put a few little sayings on the back of each band aid. Then for the tin, I used Foof-a-la "Hall Pass" paper and adhered it to the tin with red double sided sticky tape. Next I used SU's ribbon for around the top and the bow. I had some left over green that I decided to add to the mix. I cut a strip to fit the top and used my Marvy corner rounder. Then for the tag, I used SU's "Happy Hearts" (stamped in CTMH's Vineyard Berry" and CTMH's "Whooo Loves You" stamp set for the sentiment (stamped in Jim Holtz Distress Ink brushed corduroy). I free cut the red cardstock and then punched a hole and placed an eyelet. I attached the ribbon with stretchy silver elastic. On the back of the tin, I put a little band aid. I used SU's slit punch and then cut a square to match. I also sponged the edges and added dots with a marker.
The front...
The back...

K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

I got caught kissing! Kissing my stamps that is. I love how you can take a solid stamp "kiss" it to a stamp that has a pattern and wam bam you have a new image. I used CTMH's "Cottage Floral" stamp set for this card. The flower was a solid image. Then I stamped them in Hollyhock, Goldrush, and Indian Corn Blue. I then took and stamped the inked stamp in to Martha Stewarts "Clear Patterns" Stamp set and CTMH's "Spot On Backgrounds". Then I stamped it on to white cardstock. I did do this process a few times to get the 'just right' look I was trying to achieve. I then cut out two flowers glued them together and then used my crop-o-dile to punch a hole in the center of the flowers and put big black brads in the center from Spare Parts. I also stamped Celebrate in Brilliance graphite black ink from CTMH's "Shining Star" stamp set, then sponged my edges. I used my Martha Stewart edge punch on white cardstock and then sponged those edges as well with Jim Holts, Distressing Ink. Then I started layering my card on red and light blue cardstock. I love this color combo! The pattern paper I used was from Best Occasions. I placed the flowers up on foam dots and that completed my card. This was actually a really easy card to make. The hardest part, which really wasn't hard was getting the right "kiss" from my stamps. Thanks for stopping by~