...TeSc145...tAke 2...

..again...here's this week's sketch...

...still really cute...

and this is the bear project that I started last night... it wouldn't fit on the card base I had already made, so last night's effort morphed into an elephant... :) ...scroll down to see the birthday elephant card...and this sweet little bear sat on my desk over night wondering what was going to happen to her...

The little bear was way to cute to just leave sitting there all lonely...and I did still have the idea in my head... so, I tried again...

I apologize now for all of the pictures in this post...but this is one of those projects that you think is going to be a disaster and then it ends up being something waaaaaaaay cuter than it was in your head...ok...at least to me it is :) 

This is a sweet little bear stamp and flower from the Taylored Expressions ~BeArY SpEcIaL~ and ~BeaRY SpEciaL AcceSoRieS~ sets that are on sale at TE right now :)

I told you she was way to adorable to leave on the desk to get crumpled and rumpled...

I ended up using one of the spiffy TE Perfect Package Card Boxes...I LoVe those things!!  Plus, it seemed like a better size to incorporate both the bear and the sketch layout.  

This one is going to hold my neighbor's birthday gift...She's turning 5 in October and just started Kindergarten last week...I'm going to put in a small stamp I ordered with her name on it and a gift card to a book store...She can use the name stamp to label the inside of her new books so that everyone knows they belong to her! 

 I know that she LOVES containers...so I knew her present NEEDED a package that could still be used (and re-used)  after it was opened...plus it doesn't hurt that it's personalized!

I decorated each side of the box in coordinated paper from the My Mind's Eye~Lime TwIsT pad...such AmAZiNg colors and fun patterns...and layered them onto some PTI cardstock.

...a ~CUTE AS A BUTTON~ label, some sparkly letter stickers,  and a few buttons threaded with baker's twine and it was all done!  I hope she likes it!  It's going to be hard to wait until October to give it to her...

Thanks for looking! :)  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!