Sunny Day Designs

Bags....

2010-03-21T23:16:00.005-04:00

In my pre-homeschooling days I had a little more time and I attempted to be one of those super crafty, together kind of gals who DO craft fairs. A friend and I spent tons of hours working on products and driving all over the country side setting up tents and tables and decorating booths all in the hopes of selling our homemade goodies. She was/is in the jewelry business and had beautiful pieces and mannequins and mirrors and looked very professional. I had a hodge podge of anything I could think of to make. I had ribbon belts, hair bows, felt bows, reversible fabric headbands and bags and purses and tutus... yep even tutus... the list goes on and on and on!!! We did one show in the Spring and then worked all summer to be ready for the fall festivals and Christmas Bazars. I did pretty well... BUT it was A LOT of work and it was hard with 2 small children an after school job and the tag business. Once Christmas was over I kind of gave up the craft fair business. BUT, I had many super cute crafty items left over, I kept them in a tote under my desk... just in case the perfect opportunity came along!!! I began peddling my wares out of the back of my mini-van. Eventually all the bags were SOLD and since I had GREAT plans for a purse making company I continued to purchase fabric for bags... only I kind of forgot to keep making the bags and purses. Friends would ask and I would drag out my fabric tub and they would pick it out and I would promise to make them one and sometimes it took a REALLY REALLY long time... Now I find myself with fabric oozing out of totes and cabinets and driving me CRAZY. I have organized and photographed all the bag fabric I have and am going to attempt to make bags for everyone that would like one. Below you will see some examples of completed bags, a list of prices and pics. of my fabric stash, grouped by color combination. If you are interested you can leave me a message or send me an email and we can work out the details.

Fabric #'s 1 & 2 have been purchased and are no longer available.

#s 15 & 18 are SOLD. There is enough for a small bag of #17

Pricing...

Tote/Diaper Bag $40- 13" h 16" w 6"d 13" strap drop
Lg. Purse $25- 11" h 13"w 4.5"d 10" strap drop
Med. Purse $20- 9.5" h 11" w 4" d 9" strap drop
Small Purse $15- 8"h 9.5" w 3.5" d 8" strap drop

FREE download - Easter tags or labels

2010-03-19T23:49:00.010-04:00

Happy Easter!!! FREE Easter tags or labels!!! Just click on each image and then print!!! These images are FREE for personal use ONLY! They fit perfectly in a 2" punch... print them on card stock to make cute hang tags or print them on sticker paper to make cute labels!! You can also glue them to a toothpick and make cute cupcake toppers!! Please leave me a note if you use them... I would LOVE to know what you do with them!

Easter Cards

2010-03-19T22:46:00.003-04:00

Wow... it has been awhile since I have posted on here!!! I am trying something new. I am going to post some Easter themed cards on here for you to download FREE. I am not sure how it will work so this is an experiment. The cards are FREE for personal use ONLY and can not be used for commercial purposes. Meaning they can NOT be sold. I hope this works... if you use them please let me know! Thanks!!

Click on each image and print!

Heading Out!

2009-10-16T13:35:00.002-04:00

I will be leaving on vacation bright and early tomorrow morning. I have closed the shop while I travel... we should get there Tuesday and I will be finishing up orders that have already been placed once I get there. Yes, I am taking all my supplies. I am not sure if I will open back up while I am gone or if I will wait until I return on Nov.7.

See ya later!

October Specials

2009-10-06T13:44:00.000-04:00

I fixed it, I fixed it!!! But I lost my background and the header is too small..hmmmm... I guess it needs a bit more work!

However... I do have new specials for the month of OCTOBER!

5 bag tags for $20

2 sets of 50 cards for $15

36 Round Labels for the price of 24 ($8)

I also have my Christmas labels and cards in the shop!!!

And the winner is....

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Kelly L.!!! She purchased the 1,000th item!!! Thank you so much!!! Kelly happens to be a repeat customer and it was nice to see a familiar name!!

Since you all are so awesome I now have to close the shop for a couple of days to catch up!!! I will re-open just as soon as possible.

Oh and did I mention we were given a golden retriever puppy 2 weeks ago? Charlie is the sweetest thing and has become great friends with Max our lab. However Annabelle our other lab doesn't share such nice feelings. Luckily she is busy with her 7 pups born last week. It is never dull on the farm!!!

p.s. as you can see I somehow messed up the layout even more and can't figure out how to fix it. Not sure how I got my entries to be centered like that... anyone know what I did?

Special!!!

2009-07-30T18:26:00.000-04:00

My Etsy shop is at 994 sales... just 6 more items sold and I will have reached 1000 items sold in the last 2.5 years!!! I am so excited so I am offering a special. Buy any 2 items and receive a bag tag free. I am also throwing in a $25 gift certificate to the buyer of the 1000th item!!!

Thanks so much for your support and purchases over the last couple of years!! My customers ROCK!!!

Saturday Morning....

2009-07-25T09:33:00.001-04:00

I went to bed last night with the intention of getting up early, finishing up a couple of orders, hitting the post office and then enjoying an afternoon date with the hubby and some good friends. But the weather had other ideas. We had a huge thunder storm blow through last night and with it went our power. Luckily the laptop is charged and ready to go... too bad the printer and laminator are not. If your order was ready to go out today, I am so sorry, it will most likely be Monday unless they are able to get us up and running here shortly. I hear more rumbling heading this way... might as well curl up with a good book and enjoy it. Did I mention my kids spent the night with my parents? I actually could sit and read and not be disturbed!!! Whoo hoo!

Hope you are having a nice relaxing Saturday and I hope it's SUNNY!

Back to School Envelopes

2009-07-21T12:31:00.000-04:00

It is almost that time of year already!!! Start the school year off with these easy to use stylish envelopes!!! One thing is for certain... your child's teacher will LOVE them!!!

Design _"Sports"
Designed for use with 2 children-

Design- "Dots" They can be done in any color

Design "Basketball"

soccer, baseball, volleyball & football are also available

Design "Cupcake"
Design "Apple"

You can purchase these right here on the blog or in my Etsy shop
Personalized School Envelope - $8 for a Set of 25- Shipping is $2.25

It is easy peasy... just click on the button below!!

Bare with me...

2009-07-16T23:51:00.001-04:00

As you can see my design is under construction... I am teaching myself enough html to re-design my blog myself... as if I don't have enough to do already!!! I have figured out how to get the background on... now I just have to figure out how to get the white in the right places... oh and the header to be the right size etc... I am only working a few minutes at a time. Let me know what you think of my progress or if you have any helpful hints!!

Have a Sunny Day!!!

New Made 2 Match designs...

2009-07-15T13:36:00.001-04:00

July was my busiest month last year and has become my busiest this year!! Things have really been hopping around here and I LOVE it!!! Earlier in the month I had a request to match a couple of Gymboree backpacks. The designs are simple, but I like the way they turned out. Check them out for yourself and let me know what you think...

Happy Birthday AMERICA!!!

2009-06-30T08:57:00.000-04:00

I love this country, I just do. We are a very patriotic family and have service men galore. My grandfather was a Marine, my father was Air Force, my brother was a Marine and my hubby was Army. Several uncles have also served. I am proud to be an American. I think we live in the GREATEST Country. I don't think it is perfect, but I do think we are GREAT!!! In honor of July 4th, which also happens to be my Mom's birthday, I am going to showcase some RED WHITE and BLUE from ETSYkids... the group I belong to on ETSY. Enjoy!

Vacation!!!

2009-06-15T11:09:00.000-04:00

The girls and I are headed out sometime Tuesday morning!!! We are going to meet my best friends and roommates from college!!! I am go excited, we have not all been together in about 4 years! It will be a short trip as we will be back on Saturday. If you placed an order on June 12 or before I am trying to get them out to you before I leave. If you have questions or would like to place an order I will be back Saturday to answer all of your questions!

Thanks... have a GREAT week!!

Kori

Summer is Here!!

2009-06-02T10:32:00.000-04:00

Whoo Hoo summer is here and I am DONE with my other JOB!!! It was so pleasant to wake up Monday and know that I didn't have to rush, rush, rush to try and get everything finished before I left for work at 2:30! Summer is my busiest season for the shop and I LOVE it! I am hoping to add some new products and of course new designs!!! What are all of you up to this summer?

Bird Scouts...

2009-04-03T18:46:00.000-04:00

My daughter, G-girl, LOVES nature. Just loves it! She has often borrowed her Daddy's binoculars to watch things off of the back deck, looking for birds or deer or even wild turkeys (I guess those are birds also, just not the pretty kind). My parents, whom are native Californians, absolutely love all the different varieties of birds we have here in Indiana. They feed them daily, have a bird book to identify when they see a new one and spend a lot of time learning about them. G-girl spends a lot of her time there helping feed the birds, making bird houses and using the binoculars and book to identify the birds she sees.

Because of this interest that they share, my parents got her her own bird identification book, binoculars and birding journal for her 5th birthday last fall. The girl carries those items around with her religiously. She can name just about any bird she sees and will often come to me describing a certain bird for me to look up. A few weeks ago she came to me and told me that if I put some money in her bucket she was carrying around, I could be in her club. The Bird Scouts. I am not sure where she came up with the name but I was pretty impressed. She had her birding journal and a pen and showed me where to sign ...after I put my money in the bucket.

She has it all planned out, her club that is, she has a basket full of items she might need for a Bird Scout meeting. The bird book, binoculars, pens, paper, my money and other random little objects that would fit in her fruit basket. I asked her what we, as Bird Scouts, were going to do in our club. We are going to look at birds and draw them. Talk about birds and do fun stuff. The only problem I have seen so far is that she didn't make anyone else pay to be in the club.

Now on to the reason I am telling you about it here on the design blog. She has been requesting a Bird Scout tag. Lucky for her I had a customer request a bird and owl tag....

Poor girl had to wait until a customer requested something similar before her mean ol' mama would make here one!! If the owl looks familiar, she is from my Hoot Hoot design down below!!

Anyone want to be an honorary Bird Scout?

An assortment of products...

2009-04-01T00:48:00.000-04:00

I started out making just bag tags. After about a year and several requests I began selling my designs as calling cards or enclosure cards and then I finally added Mommy calling cards. Since then I have added a couple more products...

Have you seen my AWESOME school envelopes?

Your child's teacher will LOVE you!!! A pre-printed and adorably decorated envelope with your child's name, teacher's name, grade and the best part... little check-able boxes that make sending money toschool a breeze. You can use the money "options" I have included or choose your own. They are totally custom-izible and will save you so much time on busy school mornings!!!!

Did Susie remember as you were walking out

the door that she needs lunch money? Just grab an envelope, check off "lunch money", stick the money in and let Susie lick and stick. The money makes it to class and the teacher knows exactly what it is for with out having to decipher your hurried hand writing... every body wins!!!!

They come in packs of 25 for $ 10. I have several designs to choose from.

2009-03-27T00:56:00.000-04:00

Round Labels...

I have had several inquiries about my round labels. I really am still making them, I just had to take them out of the shop because I was out of stock. I was given the opportunity to make a ton of them for a cute little shop that is just getting started called "fourmycupcakes" and I used every last one of them. That's a LOT of labels. Alas, they have been re-ordered and will be back up in the shop tomorrow. Thanks so much for your patience!!

The Goods

2009-03-26T22:47:00.000-04:00

I will start by saying I am self taught and am still learning and experimenting... But for right now this is what I use

Program? I use Adobe Photoshop 8.0

Computer? A Mac PowerBook G4, which is new to me this week. My hubby conned me into swapping with him over the weekend. I think I actually like this one better, the screen is bigger and the monitor is more true to color than my macbook. Although I just realized it doesn't have the cool camera built in. The girls and I have had a BLAST photographing ourselves with it!!! I should also mention that I use a double screen. I have a flat screen that is hooked to the laptop that I use when working at the desk. I have been able to set it to match the colors that are printing... a big help!!!

Printer? Konica Minolta magicolor 5450 It is a color laser and I LOVE it... now. When hubby first brought it home I wanted to send it back. What I didn't know when we got it was that color laser printers use CYMK colors... Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black. Every last one of my designs were done using RGB colors and let me tell you, they are NOT the same. Nothing printed out the color it was supposed to and a lot of it looked rubbed off. This is because laser printers are VERY picky about their paper. They like really silky, smooth paper that is made especially for laser printers... go figure!!! Now that I have those 2 things figured out I absolutely LOVE it!! But if anyone knows by chance why the print menu is in Spanish I would really like to be enlightened!!!

Paper cutter? Fiskars Rotary Paper Trimmer My beloved paper cutter. I started with a hand held and have graduated to this. It is so easy!! There are measurements all over it. The blades last a really long time and the protective cutting strip is a cube so it has 4 sides. I have discovered a little trick with it... The blade does not cut exactly in the center so each side can be used twice. When the groove gets too deep I just turn it around before flipping it to a new side. I LOVE how reusable it is. It is really well made, nice and sturdy after 2 years of hard use!!!

Laminator? Pro-Lam 100 by Akiles This laminator is fairly new. It is much more heavy duty than the one I was using. Using 10mil pouches limits the type of laminator. I burned my very first one up because I didn't know the thickness of the pouch would make a difference. It was made to handle up to 7mil. I didn't realize this and burned it up in 4 months. A little research lead me to purchase something that would handle the extra thickness. My second laminator has now been moved to emergency status only. Although it could laminate the larger size pouches it was not made to JUST laminate the heavier duty pouches. When I started having trouble with it after a year I figured something a little more heavy duty would be better.

Any Questions? Did I forget to cover anything? If I missed something you are curious about just let me know!!

The About Me post... I know you all have been wondering!!

2009-03-24T10:51:00.000-04:00

I'm Kori, the wife of "That Guy" and mother of Gigi and Moe.
We live in rural Indiana in an old farm house... life is interesting!!

For as long as I can remember I have liked making things. I had an old bluish green "Make it book". It had been my mother's when she was a child. I would sit for hours flipping through the pages and making things.... Yarn dolls were one of my favorites. I also remember having an old metal sewing machine. It was a really little and had a hand crank. I don't remember what I made with it, but I do recall sitting on the floor in front of an end table and "sewing" when I was about 4. At 9 I joined 4-H. I had a lamb and was in cake decorating. Neither were what I had expected so I did not repeat them the next year. Instead I began raising pigs and sewing!! I absolutely LOVED raising the pigs and hope my girls will desire to do so when they are older!! Learning to sew was one of the best things that I have ever done!!! It is one of my greatest pleasures... I can do without food if I have a good sewing project.

Another blessing in this area was my Grandmother. She is a master seamstress and crafter. I would spend weeks of my summer break with her and LOVE every minute. Her machine had all kinds of fancy stitches and she always found the cutest buttons. She also taught me the love of crafting. She is mainly a tole painter but she can do ANYTHING. We made little boxes out of old Christmas cards, bread dough roses from a loaf of bread and tacky glue, painted little plaques, she let me try everything. Those weeks with her instilled in me a love and appreciation for Hand Made items.

My paper career began while I was in high school. I worked for a man I knew from church at his printing company. I never actually applied to have a job, he needed help one afternoon on an especially large project and two years later I was still showing up each afternoon. I did a lot of collating, copying and shrink wrapping. It was a GREAT first job. Thinking back, I really did learn a lot while I was there. Thanks Desert Printers for the experience.

I went to college at Milligan in East Tennessee and majored in Elementary Education. The only thing I liked more than crafting was kids. I found that with kids I could still use my craftiness. I never ended up with my own classroom. I found a great career with the YMCA in their after school programs. I was able to use both my teaching skills and love of crafts with the Y kids. I am forever grateful for my YMCA experiences and friends!!!

My love of paper and craftiness paid off when I was able to make my own wedding invitations...sans kit!!! I scoured the internet for lavender card stock and opaque vellum paper. I purchased my first rotary cutter and oval hole punch. I cut each one, deckled the edges of the vellum, punched 2 holes at the top and added a ribbon. I made all the little cards also. It sure saved a lot of money, but they took forever!!!

I made my first set of luggage tags as a gift. I had been given 3 as a baby gift and had tried to purchase some, but found that I could only buy them over the internet and couldn't find a shop locally. When I explained this to my husband, he said... "Why can't you make them?" Well because I don't have the little pouches and loops and I wouldn't know where to find them. I was a lot less internet savvy back then!!! He then informed me that he had a laminator upstairs and he thought it came with some. What???? My mom then also informed me that she thought I could buy the pouches and loops at the local office supply store. Really???? I had NEVER even heard of these and they were at the local office supply store?!?! I whipped up a couple of cards and fired up the laminator. They came out so cute!!! I have since learned, through trial and error, about laminators, paper, film thickness and quality. You see all laminating pouches are NOT created equally and neither are the loops that attach them to your luggage. (I will post later about the products and equipment I use.) I began giving my bag tags to all my friends as baby gifts and I began getting questions and requests. My husband suggested I sell them. Hmmm... ok... and where would I do that??? He suggested I check Ebay... Really??? Oh my goodness they do sell them there!!! So I tried my hand at it and well I don't sell there anymore but my business is going strong almost 3 years later!!! I have learned a lot in that time and am continuing to do so. For the most part it has been a lot of fun. I am so thankful for my customers and hope everyone has a great experience!!! I also want to thank all of those friends and family who were so supportive in the beginning. Several sent me lists of possible names or design ideas. You all ROCK!!

Not a very good bloggy start!

2009-03-24T02:10:00.000-04:00

I had the greatest intentions to get this blog going but it just seems to keep getting put on the back burner. While on Spring Break from my other job this week I am going to try and get it going.. again!!!

Say HELLO to Olivia the Owl

2008-08-26T11:21:00.001-04:00

Olivia is another custom design to match a backpack and lunch bag. Isn't she CUTE!!

HOOT HOOT

New

2008-08-19T22:15:00.000-04:00

Hi, Welcome to my design blog!
YES... I am finally getting this started!!!

These Bag Tag Designs were made to match a couple of backpacks by
Hannah Anderson
Introducing....
Lily Pink

Tiger Cub