Holiday Project

Everything went by so quickly for Christmas that I didn't have time to post these! The are sooo stinkin adorable, and everyone loved them! These are Cake Pops. I recently found this crafty creation while cruising around online. If you would like more information on cake pops and how to make them go to http://www.bakerella.com/ She has a new book out that is so much fun! I had alot of fun making these, even though they were a little time consuming. It was worth it in the end because everyone who received them loved them!

Christmas box

I made this gift box earlier this week. We still have Christmas get-togethers after Christmas here, so there are still small gifts to give away... The box was inspired by the glittered patterned CS from My Mind's Eye. There are so many fun papers in the pack. With this box I used Choc Chip CS on the bottom. The box top is out of the glitter paper. I had an oops while scoring the corners so I had to devise a way to hold the corners together better--and then came up with the Choc Chip corners--1/2 square folded in half. The edging around the box was done with Martha Stewart edge punch in Buckaroo Blue CS, and sponged with Choc Chip ink. The swirls are die cuts from Quickutz. I love them! I dipped some of the brown ones in iridescent white glitter and it turned out the same color of blue. The snowflakes were punched from Kraft colored CS, glittered and then sponged with Choc Chip ink. The tag was made using Basic Grey stamps in Choc Chip ink. Also used are ribbon and jute twine. Aside from the oopsy on the corners I thought it turned out ok...

Christmas Treats

Things have been soooo busy! I haven't had any time to do any paper crafting. I miss it! Anyway, I had a few minutes and threw this together. I had to think of a small quick gift... I used one of Anna Wight's new Christmas sets... I just love the sheep!

Other items used:

• SU retired tags
• Whipper Snapper Anna Wight stamps
• Lasting Impressions buttons
• Martha Stewart holly punch
• Copics

Gingerbread Man

I cannot believe we are into The Holidays already! Where did the year go?? Yikes! Only 38 days until Christmas....it is coming so quickly! I sat down and made these this weekend. The gingerbread man is from Whipper Snapper. Other supplies include: SU Cranberry, Kraft, and Vanilla CS. SU Christmas DP, Nestabilities, Lasting Impressions buttons, assorted ribbon and ric rac, Quickutz tag die, 'business card holder' tin (from http://www.effectuality.com/), Prismacolor, A Muse 'Sweet Holiday Wishes' sentiment stamp, Whipper Snapper Gingerbread man, Coluzzle pillow box template.

Great gift card holder idea!

I was so excited when I was surfing through Julie Buhler's blog and found this great gift card holder! It was perfect timing for me since I have about 5 gift cards that need holders. Julie plans on creating a tutorial for this great little item soon, so keep watching! You can also see the dimensions to the gift card here. From looking at the pictures on these two blogs, I was able to put it all together. I will give you a hint: Punches from Stampin Up! In the meantime, stay tuned on Julie's blog to see the tutorial!










Items used:

• SU W White, R Red, brushed Gold CS
• Whippersnapper Jingle Balls stamp
• Doodlebug Winter stamps
• SU R Red ink
• Jingle bells
• Glitter, Stickles
• Ticket corner punch,
• Ribbon, Gold cord
• Prismacolor pencils and gamsol

Gift wrap

I stated a while back that I bought this gift wrap I fell in love with. Granted, the colors are not very Christmas-y but I love it anyway! The best part about it is that it really doesn't have to be Christmas to use it! This gift is for my mom. Because of that, and the fact that she is a crafter and appreciates art, I bought some pretty ribbon to go with the packaging! The ribbon actually quite expensive, so I know she will appreciate it when she see's it. I'm not real great at making bows, but I gave it a shot anyway. I found wired silver cord that works great for tying the bows! I just had to share!

Wise Men

Ahhhh!! I finally have some time to post... This is another Christmas card I decided to make. I found this SAH-WEET little Christmas stamp on sale for 50% off!! It's made by Stampendous! There are several coordinating stamps sold seperately. The name of the group of stamps is The Nativity Cast. They are sooo stinkin cute!
*
*
*
*
*
So, here's the story behind this card... I spent a while stamping out several images of this stamp on the Vanilla paper and then colored them in with Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, and stickles 2 days before we had to go to this party... Well, during the two days, I was busting my buns to get food made. Sooo, it came down to crunch time and, as always, this happens and that happens.. So I didn't get my cards done in time. Well, since we had over an hour to drive, I decided I would make my cards in the car (risking getting car sick!).

Well, we got started down the road and after 10 minutes into the drive I pulled out the supplies I packed. I brought with me several stamps (greetings and background), an ink pad, paper, trimmer, ribbon, the stamped pieces, and a corner punch. I spent about 15 minutes cutting my 8.5 x 11 CS in half and scoring them. When that was done, I pulled out the little starburst stamp out (from a SU set--wood mounted) and stamped the background. All was good. Sooo, ok, now its time to put the little saying on the front. So I reached into my bag to find the acrylic block (which already had the stamp on it), and to my surprise, IT WASN"T THERE!!! Oh Crap!! Now what am I gonna do!! The card just isn't complete without the saying!! Much to my dismay, I came to terms with the fact that we weren't turning around to drive 40-some miles to get my stamp, and that no saying on the card would just have to do. The next step came.... I pulled out the saying for the inside of the card. OMG!! No acrylic block! Hmmm, is there anything I can use??? I'm sitting there thinking, a-ha! what about the DVD tin? So I inked up the stamp and stamped the inside of one of the cards, thinking that this was a great idea---NOT! The stamp only stamped about half of the saying.... GRRRRRR! Ok, now I just wasted a card. Now what am I gonna do??? So my husband got the bright idea to use the back of a CD cover. I gave it a try and it worked!! Finally something worked out!!

I pulled out the smaller pieces and spent a good 10 minutes wrapping the ribbon around the gold pieces of all of the cards. Ahhh! Finally, that was done. Then I took all of the stamped pieces and rounded the corners with a punch (flinging the little corners everywhere in the car, no less). When I got finished with that, I reached down into my bag and would you believe it??? The mono adhesive was GONE!!! ARE YOU KIDDING???? Where was my head? Going stir crazy at this point! Now what??? We spied an Office Max and stopped there on the way to the party (still having about 30 miles left to go).. Certainly they must have some Tombow! NOT!!! GRRRRRR!! Ok, now I'm thinking what now? Elmers? Horrible thoughts were going through my head about having a mess in the car, and not being dry by the time we got there... But! Then I got the bright idea that Scotch double sided tape would do the trick--more of a pain in the butt--but it will work. AHHHH!! Now I can finally finish the cards!! Long story short, I was literally signing and sealing the envelopes when we pulled up to the party!!! Can you say STRESS???? BAH HUMBUG!! LOL ... The lengths I will go to to get a card done!

Needless to say, here is the dreaded recipe LOL:

• SU Artichoke, Vanilla CS, Brushed Gold CS
• Prismacolor pencils, gamsol
• stickles
• Scotch Double-sided---pain-in-the-butt tape!
• Printworks stamp set
• Stampendous Wise Men stamp
• SU Snow Flurries Stamp set
• Ribbon
• corner punch

This card was actually the original card--the way it was supposed to be!!!
Enjoy! and Happy Holidays!

Tis the season...

I found this stamp last year. I, for the life of me, cannot remember where... Anyway, the stamp is made by American Art Stamp.... I saw the Tea Bag Holder pattern and was trying to think of something besides tea to put in it...... I was in Joann's yesterday and I spied these individual packs of Tylenol and Advil. Ah-ha!!! The light went on! I thought it was perfect for this.

The stressful recipe:

• SU Real Red CS
• SU Dashing DP
• Stressmas Stamp by American Art Stamp
• Tylenol
• Gold Brads
• unknown rub on
• double circle punch
• SU Real Red ink
• Ribbon
• Tea Bag Holder pattern ( scroll down to find it once you are on the link page)

This is what I came up with....

For my Christmas Card!!! It took a little playing around, but I did it!! I hate being so indecisive about my Christmas cards.... I always end up making several different ones... Anyhow, here's what I came up with... I just love this moose from Whipper Snapper!! He's so stinkin' cute! I came up with the saying and thought it was perfect! Who knows, maybe there is a stamp out there that says this, but I thought it fit!

The Designer label was punched out with Vanilla CS and then I drew the outline of the punch in Artichoke. I shaded the circle and the holly leaves with Artichoke ink. The moose was stamped on white CS. The white didn't match the vanilla so I sponged Creamy Caramel around the moose...

Here's the recipe:

• Stampin Up Cranberry Crisp, W White, Vanilla, Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke CS
• SU Artichoke and C Caramel ink pads
• Prismacolor pencils and gamsol
• SU Holiday Thyme DP
• unknown ribbon, and SU linen thread
• punches: circle, holly leaves, Designer Label (SU), Ticket corner punch
• Printer
• SU Snow Flurries stamp set
• Whipper Snapper Moose stamp
• LI buttons, kiwi and cinnamon
• SU Artichoke marker

Sleigh Bells

Oops! I meant Sleigh Balls! LOL. I'm starting to get more in the Christmas mood.. I decided that the worst part of making my cards is stamping the images out to color. Sooooo.... I spent all night last night stamping out images. With all my craft mess I *dread* digging something else out of the pile... so stamping alot of images at one time works for me! I spent last night coloring with my Prismacolor pencils... I used the Whipper Snapper Sleigh Balls stamp for this one. These snowballs are sooo cute!!

Here is what I used:

• SU Artichoke, Cocoa, W White CS
• SU Holiday Thyme DP
• Quickutz snowflake die
• Whipper Snapper Sleigh Balls stamp set
• Distressor
• SU Basic Brown, Caramel, and Black inks
• Prismacolor pencils and gamsol
• ticket punch
• ribbon and SU linen thread
• antique gold brads
  
  

Gift Bag

Here is a gift bag I just made.. This was really fun to make! I can remember a time when the only way I decorated one of these was to put a topper on the bag... *sigh*.. But this is so much nicer! There isn't much for stamping on this. In fact, its mostly die cuts!

Here is what I used for this..

• Plain white handled gift bag
• American Crafts Cardstock
• Bazzill CSSU Whisper White CS
• SU Taken With Teal ink
• SU retired Little Holiday Wishes set
• SU Dazzling Diamonds and retired Blue Brilliance glitter (more like Teal)
• Xyron (used with glitter)
• Sizzix snowflake die, tag die, mittens die
• Coluzzle Circle
• Silver cord
• Wired irridescent ribbon
• Craft feather boa with silver tinsel

The snowflake on this was put throught the Xyron and then glittered with Dazzling Diamonds. The picture does not show it very well.... The mittens were glittered with Blue Brilliance and Dazzling Diamonds. I found the boa and the ribbon at Michaels. The back side of the bag also has the striped cardstock and the darke teal across the top. I thought it turned out really cute!!

Holiday Snowman

Here is a quick and cute little Christmas card I made last night.
I bought this snowman stamp last year on clearance--who could resist? The snowman stamp is from Penny Black. The image is colored in with SU ink refills and blender pen solution.

Here is the recipe:

• SU Certainly Celery, Cranberry Crisp, W White CS
• SU Rose Red, C Celery ink refills, Cranberry Crisp, C Celery and White Craft pads
• Ribbon from Michaels
• Gold Brads
• Corner rounder
• SU Snow jumbo wheel and Snowflake Spot sets
• Penny Black snowman, and Paper Trey greeting
• Cuttlebug die
• Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
  

Christmas List DVD tin

Have you ever bought anything and said to yourself "I'm gonna make a bunch of those!" ??? About 4 months ago I bought a huge box of these DVD tins for super cheap. Up until now I haven't touched them! They have been in plain sight and every time I walk by I think about making one but never do... Well, after blurfing for a while and seeing the countdown to Christmas I decided I had better get my buns in gear for Christmas!

At any rate, here is my first tin... and here's what I used:

• SU River Rock, Cranberry Crisp, Wild Wasabi CS
• SEI Doodley Doo Holiday CS
• SEI Doodley Doo Holiday rub-ons
• SizzixWingoZingo alpha die
• AMuse naughty/nice stamp
• SU Cranberry Crisp stitched ribbon

The pad on the inside has magnets on the back side. I like this idea because the pad can be pulled out and won't flop around inside the tin.