Free Printable Gift Tags and PrintRunner Winner

We have a PrintRunner winner, scroll down to the bottom of the post to see if it's you! 

You're welcome to print these gift tags for your personal use if you'd like.  You'll need to save them to your computer and then print them as an image using the picture manager program on your computer, or you can insert them into a document to size them, edit and add names, and then print.

The image below can be printed as a borderless 4x6.

Our PrintRunner winner is Denise, congratulations!

*Please e-mail me by Sunday night to claim your prize.  Looks like you'll have those birthday party labels! :)

Stenciled Job Board/ PrintRunner Giveaway is Ending Tonight

A quick reminder that the PrintRunner giveaway for 250 free stickers ends in less than 3 hours at 10 pm MST today.   (The entries are low so you have a pretty good chance of winning!) 

My kids last day of school was on Wednesday, so today I went through all of the tags on our job board and color coded them with stickers on the backs.  Each of my kids jobs and the jobs for each room has it's own color so it should be easier to sort through them when we rotate jobs each week.

This job board isn't as big as it looks, only 6" x 17", but it's been a huge help! 

You can link to the tutorial here.

I'll be back soon with a winner, and hopefully again tomorrow with a new project to show you!  I'm just hoping the rain clouds will part long enough for me to snap a few pictures. :)

Have a fun Friday Night!

Featuring: Dripping Roast Beef Sandwiches with Melted Provolone



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I've made au jus sandwiches many times over the years, but never with french onion soup until just recently, have you tried it?  It's really quite good!

We've eaten it with provolone cheese and with cheddar cheese, toasted and untoasted, and liked it all.  I'm not sure how I like the peppers though, I think it's a preference thing, but the french onion soup is the secret ingredient, it really makes the sandwich.  (You might even want to use more than one can of soup.)

This is a simple recipe to remember for a day when you don't have a lot of time to cook dinner.   Let me know how you like it if you decide to give it a try!

 

Today's Fabulous Find...
Dripping Roast Beef Sandwiches with Melted Provolone

PrintRunner Sticker Giveaway ($40 Value)

This giveaway has closed.

It's been quite some time since we've had a giveaway around here, so when PrintRunner e-mailed me asking if I'd like to give away some of their stickers to one of you lucky readers, I was all in!  This is what's up for grabs:

250 Stickers on Premium Sticker Stock

Details of the Giveaway Prize:  Stickers

Sticker Shape:  Standard Stickers

Flat Width: 2"

Flat Height: 3.5"

Quantity: 250

Paper:  Premium Sticker Stock

Colors:  Full Color (4 Color Process), Black and White

Proof: NONE

Ready to Ship In: 3 Business Days

*Giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above. 

A winner is allowed to win only once over a two-month period.

"PrintRunner.com was established with little more than a small press and a dream. Ten years later our company became one of the foremost quality printers in Southern California. Our commitment to provide the best value and high quality full color printing at affordable price made our company grow. PrintRunner is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California."

Ways to Use the Stickers 

When you order standard stickers at PrintRunner you will be asked to upload an image that is 2" x 3 1/2". 

This image could be anything:

Gift Labels

'Made in the Kitchen of' Food Labels

Your Business Card/Logo (great if you have a shop)

Holiday Gift Tags (include a family photo if you like)

Happy Birthday Gift Tags

I designed these simple tags (using a fake family) to give you a couple of ideas of what you could do with the stickers. There is a large amount of printable labels/tags that are free downloads from various sites that you could use if you don't want to design your own. 

Your stickers might say:

Made with Love By

Enjoy!

Just a Little Something From

Merry Christmas! or Happy Holidays!

Happy Birthday!

*It would be so easy to package small gifts in a brown paper bag, fold the top over, and then add a cute colorful sticker to hold it closed, adding a personal touch to the gift.

You can try PrintRunner's sticker printing through their online printing services. 

How To Enter:

One Entry:  Leave a comment on this post

This Giveaway will end on Friday, May 25th, 2012 at 10pm MST.  

The winner will have 2 days to contact me (after their name is announced) to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen. 
If you leave me your e-mail, I'll contact you if you win.

Good luck!

*Disclaimer: Thank you to PrintRunner for providing this giveaway, I will receive a set of stickers of my own for hosting this.

Fabric Covered Magnet Board and Covered Glass Stone Magnets

I thought it would be fun to have a place to include random pictures of my family (the one's that usually end up on the refrigerator and then sometimes on the floor) as part of the photo gallery wall I'm working on.  I decided on making a fabric covered magnet board.  They're kind of fun to make, have you made one before?

They're easy to personalize (with fabric and frame choices) and are a great way to use frames and fabric remnants that you might already have on hand.  I think a framed magnet board would also be a great inexpensive small gift idea.

You can print the quote here at Poppies at Play.

I bought the frame for $2 at a thrift store and then painted it with Rustoleum's oil rubbed bronze spray paint.  The corners are all chipped up, but the dark paint hides it well.  The details on the frame match the mirror that I showed you here and is the same fabric I used to hang the moss wreath.

How to Make A Fabric Covered Framed Magnet Board

You can buy small squares of flashing? at Lowes for .56 each (they're used for roofing and are next to the rolls of sheet metal).  For a small project it's cheaper than buying a full roll.  I had to trim one of them with tin snips (wear gloves) so that it would fit.  I sprayed the frame's cardboard backing with spray adhesive glue and then stuck them on.

Press the fabric first with an iron so that it's wrinkle free then place the metal backing over the fabric (right side of the fabric down).   Bring the fabric to the back and glue it in place, pulling it tight as you go.

How to Make Fabric Covered Glass Stone Magnets

I've Mod Podged paper onto the back of glass stones many times so this time I wanted to do something a little different and glued fabric over the top of them, I really like how they turned out.

The magnets I used are strong enough to hold a 4x6 photo but one a little larger would have been even better.

My magnet board is already filled with snapshots of my kids and a recent certificate of achievement from school and will be a place where we can proudly display the kids drawings as well--it's great!

More projects will be coming--I've just got to make up my mind on how I want to finish them.  Sometimes that's harder than actually making them. :)

Today's Fabulous Find...Fabric Covered Magnet Boards

Linking up to:  Lil' Luna