Be Mine Valentine Box-SSS Wednesday Challenge

Good day all, today I am sharing a fun project that I made for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is to make anything but a card. They are showcasing products from We R Memory Keepers and I just happen to have a few things of theirs. 
I like how easy they are to make and they are the perfect size to fit a yummy treat with maybe some lip gloss or earrings, etc..  I will be making several of these for some good friends for Valentine's.

I made these little boxes using the We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board from an old Laura Bassen video tutorial. I also used a We R Memory Keepers Embossing folder on the white strip to make some thick stripes. I stamped the hearts and sentiment using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and my MISTI. I used my Black Wink of Stella  brush marker on the black part of my big heart to give it some sparkle. Speaking of sparkle I added some Crystal Clear Sequins and Silver Heart Confetti from PPP with my Ranger Multi Medium Matte. I adhered the big heart with some mounting foam tape for some dimension.  On the back I secured my flap with a little Velcro circle. 

I tried to provide links to most of my supplies, I mostly get them from Simon Says Stamp but there are some I get from amazon, or from the manufacturer.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, Happy Crafting!

Birthday Card Set

Hello everyone, today I am sharing a project I made for my Card swap group. This month's theme is Birthday.  We were supposed to make a card and tag for this. We also started to use sketches each month to change things up a bit.
I don't know about you guys but I like to coordinate things together. So I ended up making my tag to match my card and I went ahead and made a matching envelope also.  I love the colors and had a great time creating this set, I hope you like it too!

Supplies:

Stamp & die set from Sizzix-Lori Whitlock

SSS Christmas 3x4 stamp set

SSS Happy & Smile stamp set

Memento Tuxedo Black ink and marker

SSS Audrey Blue ink

I used my MISTI for all of my stamping

 I stamped the sentiment for the card using Versamark and then heat embossed it using Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder.

SSS Nested Circles dies

My Cuttlebug was used for all the die cutting

SU 2 3/8 scallop punch and also the 1 1/4 scallop punch

I colored in the images with EK Success colored pencils

I used my ATG to adhere everything except I used the 3M Mounting Foam tape on the party hat and the small scallop circle on the tag.

I used the Zig two way glue pen to add some Crystal Art Glitter to the hat for an added bit of sparkle.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope I helped inspire you in some way.

Happy Crafting!

School Christmas Tree

Hello all, I hope you are all having a good day!  I finally got my computer to load these pictures. I have been having a little technical difficulty with my camera and computer working together.

I am sharing with you today a big project that happened back at the beginning of December.  After Thanksgiving break my son's teacher asked for my help in Decorating a Christmas Tree.  The first grade was asked to come and decorate the tree at our local bank. The Principal put my son's teacher in charge of the project, and then she came to me knowing that I am crafty.
We all loved it and thought it turned out really cute!

I made all the ornaments using my Cricut. Cartridges used are Doodlecharms and Locker Talk. The school provided me with the paper. I ended up making about 24 of each of the buses, scissors, & glue. I made 120 apples and we put all of the kids pictures on the apples and had them right their name on the back. We used some other school supplies like the crayons and pencils to help fill it in.

The Teacher provided the bow and I just added the school initials in the center.

Thank you so much for visiting today! Happy Crafting!

M&M Christmas Treat Stacks

Good day everyone, today I am sharing with you some goodie treat bags I was asked to create from a super sweet customer. She wanted these simple and fun treats to give to some co-workers and young women from the community that helped her out during the holidays.  I made these super quick because she contacted me to make them about a week before Christmas.

I created these cuties using the Lunch Box Notes Dies from Simon Says Stamp, an old stamp set from CTMH-"Christmas Greetings", and the stocking stamp came from an older SU set called "Color Me Christmas". I stamped all the images using Memento Tuxedo Black ink using my MISTI tool. I used simple Crayola watercolor paints for the coloring. I added some stickles in "Stardust, Green and Christmas Red".  I filled 1x8 cello bags from Clear Bags with some holiday M&M's and then used some twine to put it all together.

I had a lot of fun putting these together and they make such a fun little, inexpensive treat to let someone know that you are thinking of them. I like how versatile these can be, you can make these for any holiday or celebration just change the candy and what's on the tag and your all set.

Thank you for visiting my blog, I hope I have inspired you to create something for someone in your life today! Happy Crafting!

Bookmarks!

Good day to you all, I know it's been a whole year since I posted and I didn't even realize how long it had been. I haven't stopped creating though, I had a busy year with my crafting. I made a lot of product for a couple of booths that I did and then I had orders to fill from some customers.

Today I am sharing with you an order I did for 3 school classes for Christmas. These orders took a long time since overall I made 78 of them. One class had 22 students, another 27 and the last one 29. 
Unfortunately I only got some pics of one order. I ended up delivering the other two orders before I took pics, so on the last order I hurried and took some pics so that I could show you what I did, just envision 78 of them instead of only 29.
Even though it took a while these were really fun to create.  The teachers loved them and I hope the kids did too.  I know when I was making them my son really wanted a shark one, and he was so excited to go and read a book so that he could put his shark on the pages. 

I wish the pics could be better but I was in a hurry, I would have put a solid color backdrop behind them if I would have had the time.  I tried to take some pics at different angles so that you could see how they open up to fit on the corner of the page.  The gorilla, shark, snake and lion are some of my favorite ones because when you put them in your book it looks like they are eating it. 

All of the images came from the Cricut. I used my Cricut Explore Air and the Animal Bookmark Corners & Page Pals cartridges.  I adhered them all with the Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue.  I can't tell you what paper I used because it mostly came from my scraps.

Thanks for visiting my blog today and happy crafting!

January Card Swap-"Sprinkled with Fun!"

Good day to you all, I have a card to share with you today. I am meeting with my card swap group on Wed. and our theme for the month of January was Birthday cards.  I love it because my Birthday is in January on the 19th to be exact.  

I made my card with my new Christmas present a Cricut Explore Air! I am still learning all the tricks to it, but it has been fun so far.  

This picture shows both the outside and inside of my cards. I don't normally put anything on the inside so that the ladies I swap with can put what they want inside when they give it to someone. But the outside doesn't actually say "Happy Birthday" so I wanted to put it inside. 

I used the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge for the sentiment and the cupcake is from the

 Once Upon a Princess cartridge.   I used Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, and Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks for all of the shading on my paper.   The background is from a We R Memory Keepers Chevron Embossing folder that I used in my Cuttlebug.  I used my ATG Gun and the Tombow Mono Multi Glue for adhesive except for the cupcake which is popped up with some Mounting Foam.  I used Multi Medium Matte to adhere the sequins that came from Pretty Pink Posh.  To add some shimmer I used the Clear Wink of Stella brush pen on the words and cupcake. I also used some Diamond Stickles on the cupcake sprinkles. 

Here are some close-ups of the front of my card and the inside sentiment. 

Thank you so much for taking a look at my work. I hope you like it and that it inspires you to create some fun Birthday cards to share also. 

Happy Crafting!

Tombstone Treat Boxes!

I have some fun Tombstone Boxes to share with you today that are perfect for some yummy little treats, or just decoration! 

For this first one the box, skull and name came from the Happy Hauntings Cartridge. 

I used Memento Grape Jelly to shade around the name, Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink for shading around the skull and Black Soot Distress Ink to shade the tombstone.  I popped up the skull with some foam adhesive and used a white gel pen for the definition around the tombstone. 

This box was also cut with the Happy Hauntings cartridge. I used some Memento Grape Jelly Ink for the shading. I stamped the sentiment and spiders in Versamark ink and then heat embossed them with some black embossing powder from Stampendous.  The stamp sets used were Perfect Fit-Halloween from Close to My Heart and the spider came from the My Pink Stamper Spookalicious stamp set. 

Thank you for stopping by today, happy crafting!