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With a gift box as unique as the one I created for my father-in-law, I needed a matching card.  But after all the time I took decorating the box, I was left with very little time for the card (isn’t that always the way?)

This was what I came up with…and it was surprisingly simple!  I found the center of the front of the card and cut a straight line about 2" down from the top, then I cut a small snip on the side fold.  I used a bone folder to angle the collar fold from the center to the corner.  The tie was cut from left over SU! DSP (Dashing – retired).  The bottom part of the tie was cut free hand (after cutting a sample from scrap paper), the "knot" of the tie is actually SU!’s Tab Punch. Note: I found that a small notch punched using half of the 3/4" Circle Punch, helped the knot to fit under the collar better.  Finally I added antique brads to look like buttons and help keep the collar down.

 A tiny "spirelli" accent keeps the envelope from looking too plain.

Happy Father’s Day to all those hard working Dad’s out there…and to the women who stand behind them

Yes, I do read other blogs and I often find inspiration in my sisters-in-ink  With Father’s Day right around the corner, everyone seems to be re-visiting the old favorite, the shirt & tie…but nobody does it better than the Stamp Goddess, Amy Celona.   This weekend I needed to dress up a gift box for my father-in-law and using Amy’s matchbox as inspiration and a bunch of leftover designer paper (SU!-Dashing) I came up with my own shirt & tie box. 

My box is a bit bigger than Amy’s original…it’s actually 10"x13".  The collar hides the seem where the designer paper is matched up.  To get the tie size/shape right, I just played with copy paper until I was happy and then used it as a template for the DSP.

A beaded pin adds a little bling and makes a snazzy little tie bar.  

I think my father-in-law liked the box almost as much as he liked his gift! 

 This page was a gift for my daughter’s Kindergarten teacher.  She had her own daughter in March and is no longer teaching at the school, but for the past nine years she has watched Alyssa and her classmates grow from little Kindergarteners to these graduating 8th Graders!  It took several tries to get the second picture (with all the 8th Graders on the Playground)…Mother Nature, exams, etc. all working against us…but in the end we managed to get the shot with all of them in the same spots they were in 9 years ago.  WOW!  Nine years?  I can’t believe she’s been in the same school for nine years…and now she’s off to High School…where has the time gone?  <<sigh…>>

This page is made up of leftovers from Alyssa’s 8th Grade Scrapbook (and no, I didn’t help her!)  Not enough cardstock on hand for full photo mats so I got creative with these funky, triangle mats (IOW-I got 2 mats out of 1 rectangle!)  The stickers are Mary Engelbreit, the journaling was done on the computer (the poem is, God Made Teachers - author unknown), but the mortarboard and tassel are my own paper pieced creations

Update: Since posting this, I’ve actually had a few GACS Moms contact me and ask for their own page…YIKES!  How much should I charge?!?!