My Little Sunshines

Hello everyone. It's a lazy Sunday morning around here. I've got laundry and cleaning to do today so of course I am procrastinating. The girls are officially on Christmas break, woohoo! We had a fun time with family and friends last night at Eric's parents.

Today I thought I'd show you something I did for the girls last week. We didn't do an official advent countdown this year but I've been hiding little gifts in the tree for the girls here and there. So here's my lineup to start my project...I purchased some of those miniature candy mints that the girls love so much. I then gathered up some goodies to make some treat sacks for ballgame day. The candies are so colorful and cheery.....I thought the sunshine sentiment from JustRite's Romantic Sentiments would be just perfect for some tags to attach to the goody bags. This set will be released January 1st. I stamped the sentiment using Papertrey Smokey Shadow ink to match the lighter grey tone in the October Afternoon polka dot patterned paper I'm using. I then stamped a star circle border from JustRite's Just A Note Borders and Corners set in Papertrey's Summer Sunrise ink. I punched out both images with layered circle punches. I then adhered them to the tags I created that were stamped with a flourish stamp from Papertrey. I stamped the girls' names using Smokey Shadow ink and a Hero Arts alphabet stamp. Glitter and Papertrey Lemon Tart Vintage Buttons finish off the fun tags.

I tied the tags to some opaque gift sacks I had in my stash. A fun little gift filled with sweetness!

You'll notice that the tags say *Thank you for being my sunshine every day*. After I gave the girls their little gifts that morning, we headed up the bus. As usual my little sunshines had to bicker. This time is was about who would hand out teacher treats to their favorite teachers. Josey finally decided that she just wouldn't hand out any treats, Jordan could do it all. It was also freezing but she decided that Jordan and I weren't worthy of her presence in the blazer and that she would just walk to the bus. The girls were arguing back and forth so much that the bus was here before we could even get in the vehicle. Needless to say, Josey did indeed hop in the car and ride to the bus with us. Ahhhhhhh, gotta love my little rays of sunshine. :) They keep life sassy for sure!

Did you check this out? For your convenience JustRite has compiled a Punch and Die Compatibility Chart HERE. You can check out the JustRite blog to see all the images from Romantic sentiments, being released January 1st.....and you'll notice that JR is moving to Typepad.

Hope you're having a great day! I think I am officially done using Christmas themed stamps. I need to take a day to clean up my stamp room and rearrange my stamps. It's always fun to move on to a new theme and holiday! Now......back to the laundry and cleaning.