Congrats!

We hope you enjoyed Nancy and her amazing work as much as we did! Doesn't she have a fantastic eye for composition and color? Plus she's just a super cool girl. We were lucky to have her!

The Winner of the July Club SEI kit that Nancy featured friday is...

Janell!

Hooray! We hope you love this kit and all the fun patterns that go with it. Now, if you didn't win you can still head over to Club SEI and sign up for one of your very own. (It's like Christmas every month!)

3rd Thursday - Christmas Mint

Club SEI's December kit will feature Christmas Mint. This collection has a charming combination of traditional holiday colors and sweet candy colors. The papers are treated with elegant pearl, mint foil, and varnish accents. Click here to see what club members can make with this kit. Every month Club SEI does something new and this time it is this gingerbread house designed especially for club members! If you aren't a club member, you can still sign-up and receive this kit.

This bread gift box was made using the December kit leftovers. We got our instructions here. Happy 3rd Thursday!

3rd Thursday

Next month Club SEI will be featuring Sophia. This beautiful collection is currently only available to club members. Click here to see all the goodies included in the kit. The flocked papers have an amazing texture and the colors are cozy and inviting. Don't worry, if you aren't a club member, you can still sign up and receive this kit.



These projects were made using the click-n-prints available to club members on the club website with each kit. Just another reason to join today!

Thurd Thursday: Kalia

Want a quick leftover gift that says, "Thanks a bunch!"? Well we have a perfect solution on how to use flowers straight from your garden. Using our Kalia line, that is featured in our July Club SEI kit, we created mini pop up notecards. We also used the paper from Kalia to wrap a 4" inch terra cotta flower pot.
The template for the flower pot is available to all here on the blog. Just click and print the template below and simply trace and cut. The note cards featured in the above photo can be made using one of the pop-up techniques found in the July Club SEI kit.

Thurd Thursday's!

We wanted to give our viewers and especially our Club SEI members a day when additional ideas will be posted pertaining to their upcoming club kit. Thurd Thursday was born! On the third Thursday of every month we will give a few additional ideas on how to use the supplies provided in their upcoming Club SEI kit. These ideas can also be completed at home with other products if you're not a member.

Today's post is spotlighting En Route. Club members will receive this as the June kit. In addition to the projects included in the kit, we came up with Road Trip Games:


This project was completed using the Click and Prints available on the Club Member's website. We also used a few items from the add-on pack. (An add-on is a pack of extra items that can be added to a monthly Club kit.) The Road Trip Games include travel bingo, scavenger hunts, 8 game starter instruction cards and a folder we made to hold them all in.

For all of you travelers out there here are some summer road trip ideas:

• Take small toys that your children haven't played with in a while and mix in a few new toys. Wrap them all up and let your child open one "present" each hour.

• Put together a song book of your children's favorite songs. Sing them in the car as you travel along.

• Get a map of the place you're traveling to. Let the children mark off different landmarks and towns on the map as you pass them.

Club Member's, click here and sign in to download your Click & Prints. If you're not a Club SEI member, this is a wonderful month to join!

Club SEI's Tiny Money Holder

For all of you viewers out there who are Club SEI members, here is an idea for your May kit. Anyone can make these lovely money holders and they're so simple. Here are the 6 simple steps:

• Cut a 6 ¼” x 2 ¾” piece of Brocade (paper name)
• Score in from the edge 3” from each side, leaving a ¼” gutter in the center to create the spine of the book
• Cut a 1 ¼” piece of Brocade (back), score in ½” from each side, leaving a ¼” gutter in the center
• Attach the small piece to the larger piece, matching the gutters together
• Fold cash in half, creasing each piece
• Use ribbon to bind money to book, wrapping it around the spine and center fold of money, and knotting on the outside of the book

And you're done! If there are any questions, please comment!

Mimosa leftovers are yummy!

We had quite a few requests to show you what we could make with all the little scraps that might be leftover in a Club SEI kit. What will be leftover in April's kit is mainly paper so we made some fun paper projects! This makes it easy because you can make these projects with any papers that you might have lying around and make multiples.

The first project is a set of adorable scalloped boxes. You can make them with just one lid, but I thought it was cute to add another lid to the bottom. I made a scalloped box template that includes both lids. The template is for an 8.5" x 11" sheet, and be sure to print on the side that will go on the inside of the box so that the print lines are hidden. The papers I used for the pink & orange box were Mimosa & Mango. The green box was made from the Chartreuse & Key Lime papers. Just cut all the solid lines and then fold on the dotted ones. Place glue on the sections that are marked with the dot and close in all sides. The final size of the box ends up being about 2" x 2". Just finish it off by filling it with your favorite candy or a small surprise.

The little roses would be an easy project to do with children. I got the idea from the Dozi Design's Flikr page. You should really browse through her images. Her ideas are so beautiful and inventive! She explains how to make these flowers better than I ever could. Once I was finished with them I punched them into a piece of styrofoam with a t-pin and placed them in a tea cup. (Isn't the tea cup cute? It was an Anthropologie gift from my friend Rachel)

Lastly, the candy bags toppers were really simple. You can print the quotes onto an 8.5" x 11" sheet. Use the extra scraps of paper that you will have leftover from other projects. Just fold over a strip of paper and staple the candy bag closed. Done!

These ideas are great for Mother's Day. These projects were made for one of the most wonderful gifts we all have, our mothers. Hope you like these projects! And let me know if you have any questions.

-Dorthea