Day 1 of PLAID Project Week: Each day we are doing a drawing for a Mod Podge Gift Pack (read more about that here). Each day has a challenge or question that qualifies you for the daily drawing. For our first day, we want to make sure you will be able to keep up to date with all the latest crafting techniques by signing up for the RSS feed, or subscribing by email to the PLAID blog. Head on over to PaintMePlaid.com right now, sign up, and then come back and leave us a comment here to let us know that you did.
Herb Garden Gift by Kristie Larsen
Today's project was using the foam 'Simply Stamps Alphabet'. My herb garden is growing like gangbusters and a friend is having a birthday so I thought a nice cutting of some herb plants would make a great gift. I picked up some small terracotta pots at my local craft store.
Using some hybrid ink and the Plaid Simply Stamps Alphabet, I stamped the names of the herbs right on the pot. You have to be a bit careful to roll the stamp on to be sure you get the entire image stamped evenly. These stamps are a fun size but a bit difficult to manage since they are mounted on a thin piece of stiff plastic. They get great ink coverage and stamp really well.
I finished off my two pots. One with Thyme and one with Rosemary.
Then it was time for potting! Using a trowel I cut out some of my thyme plant and repotted it in is new home!
I made up a tag and card for my friend using Pink Persimmon stamps. I overlayed my stamped images and offset it for some visual interest. I used rectangle die cuts and added an eyelet and twine to finish off the look. The sentiments are from Vintage Greetings and the flower images are from the Flower Garden stamp sets.
I paired the card with the tag by using the same colors, scallops and wood-grain impression. I simply changed the sentiment and stamped more flowers for my focal point.
Together you can see what a great gift it is. One that is simple to make but keeps on giving!
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Love todays project and will have to try it out.
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I subscribed to the blog by email. Thanks for sharing so many creative ideas.
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I subscribed in RSS feed. Love this project.
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cute projects :)!
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Posted by: steph | September 07, 2010 at 02:40 PM
That is a super cute project! Signed up for the email notifications for the blog :)
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I signed up for PLAID emails :) Very cute project :)
Posted by: Lexi Bridges | September 07, 2010 at 11:17 AM
I subscribed by email. What a great gift idea for gardener friends. It would be especially nice for someone who really doesn't have room to garden.
Posted by: Noreen | September 07, 2010 at 07:23 AM
I signed up for emails! This is a great project!
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I add Paint Me Plaid to my Google Reader. Love the Herb Garden Gift.
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Thank you, I subscribed to Paint Me Plaid for my RSS feed.
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I'm already a subscriber to the Paint Me Plaid blog. Love the eyelets BTW, nice touch.
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Very nice idea! I am a subscriber of paint me plaid!
Posted by: Kristi | September 06, 2010 at 07:11 PM
Great project! I love the tags and the card. I also went and subscribed to Plaid's emails!
Posted by: KimR | September 06, 2010 at 06:29 PM