Grow Where You are Planted

I keep thinking this is Thursday but it really is only Wednesday. Geesh! Wishing my life away or another senior moment (the more likely of the two!)

I didn't just make tonight's project all in one night or even all in one weekend. I've been working on these for quite some time. Tomorrow night is the annual Girl Scout Recognition Dinner and I usually try to make something for each of the leaders that comes to the dinner. So this year I went with a garden theme. I bought little flower pots; added a bulb in each pot and then decorated an outside wrapper that kind of gives you an idea of what will happen when you actually plant the bulb.

I made 60 of these so it did take me a while. I had them all packed up before I realized that I hadn't taken a picture so I only unpacked one box; so you won't see all 60 of them.

I used a two-step Spellbinder's set that I found at Micheal's one day quite by accident in the clearance bin. I have never seen these sets before. They have stamps and then dies that cut around the images. And the price was marked at 1 cent. No lie! So I took them to the register and the girl actually rang them up for 1 cent. I couldn't believe it. I was in shock. But that 1 cent came in handy for this project. The flourish stems are from a totally different set.

And on the back of each I added a little thank you message to each leader. You can see the scalloped edge better in this picture. I used a variety of border punches; mostly Martha Stewart and EK Success.
Well, now I have to load everything up for the dinner and go make my lemon bars. It's a pitch-in dinner. So I hope you like my little gifts!

I am entering these challenges:

• Moxie Fab Gift challenge
• Sentimental Sunday challenge: for a special woman (in this case women!)
• Hiding in my Craftroom challenge: use scraps (every flower was a scrap piece)

That's it for tonight. Have a wonderful Friday Thursday!

Donna