Making Planner Stickers With Two Paper Divas

 I was so excited to receive the brand new stamp set, "Cupcake Border" from the February release at Two Paper Divas.  Being on the design team, I never know what they'll send me to play with, although we are encouraged to let the Big Dogs know our favorites.  The cupcake border?  Yup.  One of my favorites.   I've got to say.... I have quickly fallen in love with every set of Two Paper Divas Stamps.  They stamp so clean and crisp, every time; they're super versatile as well, which leads me to today's project.  Using this set as a border is a no-brainer, so let's do something fun and different;  STICKERS!

Craft planners are super hot right now and numerous companies have dedicated entire lines of product to planners and accessories.  I'm on numerous design teams and yes, I have to have a planner or I'd lose my mind trying to keep up with everything.  Making it decorative and fun is an added bonus!  Below, I've stamped and colored a couple rows of my cupcake border.  You can do this on plain cardstock, but I thought it would be fun to use up some scrap paper so I grabbed this Adornit blender paper and stamped on the diagonal line, which is kind of cool to have some extra pattern on the cupcake liners, don't you think?

If you don't want to fussy cut each image, then just use a little circle punch or trim out squares around your image.  It really was quick work cutting out my images.  Now, I love my Xyron sticker maker.  I have several sizes but the 2.5" is perfect for this little project.  I just crank my images through the machine and they come out fully adhered, edge-to-edge, onto this sticker paper.

Now, I can toss this entire sheet into my planner pocket and decorate it for birthday reminders or other party events.  But, don't limit yourself there.  Use these as little embellishments on your other craft projects or to decorate your monthly calendar at home or work.  Let the kids do something fun with it!  Are you a craft seller?  Good golly, make up a bunch of these and sell them!  You can really deck them out with bling and glitter glue if you wish.

Here's an entry on my planner for later this month.  Perfect!  As you can see, I added some "sprinkles" on my cupcake, using a white gel pen.

 I hope you've been inspired to think outside the box with your stamps.   

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

*If you don't have a sticker maker, just run adhesive across the bottom of your cardstock before fussy cutting, then place your "stickers" on wax paper or scrap leftover sticker sheets for storage.  (I save ALL my leftover sticker sheets.  They come in handy for so many things!)

Visit the Two Paper Divas Blog for daily project inspiration and on Wednesdays for the Design Team Roundup.  Check out the new February release right here:

http://www.twopaperdivas.com/product-category/whats-new/

Shop Two Paper Divas for a wide selection of clear stamps, digital stamps and accessories

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Simon Says Stamp January Work It Wednesday Challenge

Additional supplies:

Tombow Dual Brush markers

Kuretake Zig Clean Color brushes

Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue, Frosted Lace

Ranger Black archival ink

White gel pen

Megan Hoeppner Planner Stickers/Websters Pages

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Fall Festival Fun Sponsored by Ribbon Resource, DCWV and Xyron

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Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a Fall Festival hosted by Children's Rehab and Early Intervention.  I was asked to do crafts with the kids and we had such a great time.  I had some wonderful sponsors to donate products for this event:

The Ribbon Resource - May Arts Ribbon Retail Store

Xyron

DCWV

I helped with a little of the decorating, including creating the banner pictured above.


Die Cuts with a View - Cardstock Stack - White Core - 12 x 12 - Bright Metallics

I used DCWV cardstock to create the banner shape and letters, cut with my Cricut Explore.

Next, I ran my cut letters through my

Xyron - Xyron 900 Creative Station Sticker Maker

to turn them into giant stickers which easily adhered to the banner, then strung everything up with some orange baker's twine from the Ribbon Resource. 

"Orange & White Baker's Twine" - $4.95

from: Ribbon Resource

(That's me above, sitting at the craft table, ready and waiting for the kids to arrive!)

This turned out to be a HUGE event!  Hundreds came through the doors.  Batman was there, the Fire Department was there with their truck, even old Jack Sparrow, that crusty pirate showed up with this fetching pirate by his side.

Here's the staff who put this event together and really got into the festive spirit.

I had parental permission for this photo, however due to confidentiality reasons, I chose to augment some of the photos.  The kids had so much fun making their pumpkin stickers.  I let them or their parents write their name on the stickers, then they embellished them with some other fun goodies I brought along.

This little cutie, below, is the granddaughter of one of the staff.  She had so much fun decorating her pumpkin.  I cut, oh, a bazillion pumpkins with my Explore using the DCWV cardstock.  Well, maybe not a bazillion, haha.  

"2mm Paper Cord Parrot Green" - $3.95

from: Ribbon Resource

The kids cut little green stems using the Ribbon Resource green netting or paper raffia and we adhered them with the Xyron adhesives.

I wish you could have seen one little boy's face when we cranked those pumpkins through the Xyron sticker machine.  His eyes got soooo big!  The kids thought that was the coolest thing ever, making stickers out of the pumpkins.  I knew it would be a hit, and I was right!  

From start to finish, it was crazy busy.  I was the first station when the kids walked in the door so there was a line and no time for me to get all the photos that I was hoping to get.

The staff had stations set up outside for games and inside, they had a maze of rooms decorated so the kids could trick or treat around the inside of the building.  In case of inclement weather, this was a really smart plan.  They even had the conference room set up for a cake walk.  Wow!  

(I'm kind of digging that bacon costume.  Yum!)

The kids had such a great time.  There were so many volunteers, including children of staff members (pictured above) who helped pass out candy and man some of the tables.

Jack Sparrow was so gracious to take pictures with the kids.  This was the first time to have a Fall Festival here for these special kids and it was such a huge success.  I'm so happy to have had a small part in it.

These little guys below, went from the sticker station, back outside to do more fishing; another fun station that was a big hit.  

This event was scheduled for 2 hours but went waaaaay over!  I hope you will support these wonderful sponsors and give them some of your business in the future.   I've included some links throughout this post, where you can shop and show your support.  Thanks again, Ribbon Resource, DCWV and Xyron for sending me some of my favorite products to work with and donating to this very special event.  You are so appreciated!

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Leaves and owls Thinking of you card

I had to come up with a quick card for a sweet lady in my church who broke her leg.   Ouch!   I had previously run some paper through my Cuttlebug and had several cards prepared with this leafy embossed design but nothing else.

So I had this great stamp from  the  Unity Stamp Co    and made a cute tag for the card with some washi tape,  button and string.   I love owls and didn't have time for anything fancy so these are just some cute stickers.   I had also punched the edge of the paper with a Knock Out edge punch and added some green Stickles glitter glue,  dotting the holes.   Hope this makes my friend feel better.....

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