Today's project was to
get some treat baskets and place cards made for our
Thanksgiving dinner. I know Halloween hasn't even come yet
but I want to give you plenty of time should you
decide you'd like to make these little baskets.
I used a 3 oz. paper
dixie cup for the treat basket. Carefully take one
apart to make your pattern. The turkey is made using SU's
Scallop Punch and the Spring Flower Bouquet for the beak and
feet. You are going to cut out 4 scallops and cut them to
have 7, 8, 9 and 10 scallops. The body has 3 scallops on the
bottom and 1 at the top. I sponged ink on each layer to
bring out a little more color. I used glue stick to put it
together. Use your black marker to give him eyes. and you
are done. I used my Crop-O-Dile to add a couple of rivets to
the sides for the ribbon to go thru. The pumpkins on the
place card holder is made with the oval punch and the the
star punch for the top. Again I sponged some color on top of
my pieces.
Chef Recipe Card
Look at our cute chef using
our Voila stamp set. I just love him and he comes with
accessories and an additional stamp set you can get with extra items
for the tray. You can get a lot of use out of this stamp set for
recipe cards and cards.
I used DP and stamped the
chef on Whisper White Cs. The chef is colored with our
watercolor crayons and an aqua painter. The Bon Appetit is
stamped directly on the DP. I layered the recipe and used our
corner punch to add the corners. I printed the recipe on White
CS and cut it to fit the page.
Thankful Banner
I've done a couple of these
banners now and each one is different. I added some flowers to this
one in pretty fall colors.
I used our On Board Garland
Greetings Chipboard Kit and Apple Cider DP. The On Board Garland
Greetings Chipboard Kit is $15.95 and the Apple Cider DP is $9.95
and is only available until the end of November. In addition to the
Thankful Banner you can also do the words Noel and Joy. There are
lots of accent pieces also. You can do the banner in a evening. If
you would like to order the kit please contact me and I'll be happy
to help.
A Trio of Muffins
I promised a friend to do some food
containers this week and here is one that is pretty simple. You could
stamp on the bags if you desire but I just did the cards. The recipe is
on one side and the instructions on the back for making it. If you want
to convert your favorite recipes look for recipes that have less than 2
1/2 cups total of mix to fit in the bags. I mixed all of the dry
ingredients together instead of trying to layer them. The bag in the
back has a topping with it and I used our small cello bag for it, it is
the perfect size. These are decorator bags for decorating cakes.
These are the recipes I used.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
Ginger
Spice Muffins
Pecan
Pie Muffins
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Project: |
Muffin Mixes |
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Paper: |
White CS, Purely Pomegranate |
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Ink: |
Purely Pomegranate |
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Stamp Set: |
Perfect Presentation - a level 2 hostess set |
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Guava Thanksgiving with a Side of Pomegranate
I got another new stamp set and decided
this morning to use it to make this card. The stamp set is SU's Autumn Fest.
I inked up my Sanded background stamp with Groovy Guava and stamped it on
Vanilla CS. I then sponged Groovy Guava, Pomegranate, Really Rust and Close
to Cocoa lightly over the top. Then I used my embossing buddy to wipe off
the card. I then stamped the leaf images on the card front with Versa Mark
and embossed with clear. I decided at this point it needed some acorns so I
stamped them on with Close to Cocoa and Versa Mark so they could get
embossed. I then used my brayer and my Groovy Guava and Pomegranate again to
go over the top. I did four areas kind of like squares but not uniform. Wipe
off excess ink. I then added ribbons, some cut out embossed acorns and a
Happy Thanksgiving saying. Here is the card.
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Thanksgiving Card |
| Paper: |
Groovy Guava, Pomegranate, Vanilla |
| Ink: |
Groovy
Guava, Pomegranate, Really Rust and Close to Cocoa |
| Stamp Set: |
Autumn Fest |
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Have a Happy Stamping Day!
Time to Start Thinking About Christmas Cards- Snowflake
Sunday
I've done 3 cards today to show you.
The first card is a simple card to do. I stamped snowflakes using Snowburst,
Soft Sky ink and embossed the top white panel. I decorated the snowflakes
with rhinestones. I stamped Joy on a tag and cut it out with a 1 1/4 Circle
Punch and layered it with the SU Scallop Punch cut out of Soft Sky. I also
ties a white ribbon on before gluing the layers.
My second card for you today is a
Christmas Card using non-traditional colors. I used one of our In Colors,
Purely Pomegranate to make the card out of and the crimped band. I took a
piece of Pink Passion and ran it thru the Cuttlebug with Snowflakes on it. I
stamped the snowman and joy images from Perfect Presentation on Shimmery
White with Purely Pomegranate ink.
My third card is also a snowflake card.
I used Always Artichoke CS, Fall Flowers DP and Artichoke SU Ribbon. I used
SU Season of Joy stamp set for the images.
Look What I Found!
We had our annual fall garage sale this
weekend in our sub. Thursday night I found a old box that had been packed for
quite some time, at least several moves ago. I was really thrilled when I found
my first find but the second one was really cool. I'd forgotten I had either of
these. I found vintage rick rack and a really old tin stamp pad from the
American Stamp Company.
The pink rick rack is even wide with a
silver thread in it. I just love finding stuff like this! The stamp pad says it
is always ready to use and is self inking. How fun is this?
Here's a better picture of just the stamp
pad.
Can you tell I am in a fall mood today?
This is an easy recipe card with little or no stamping depending on your mood. I
used True Friends to stamp the background. I
did stamp the background where the recipe is on the card but the rest of the
card is our delicious Apple Cider DP. I used the crimper to make the band and
tied a piece of hemp around the band. How easy is that?
Here are my last Halloween projects for
you. It is hard to stop for me because I love Halloween. How cute would these
Tootsie Roll Pops be for your school party? They are in a plastic glass I found
at Dollar Tree. You get 8 cups for a dollar. I then trimmed a little florists
foam so it fit inside the cup for the suckers to go into.
The stamp set I used was Batty For You. You
get 8 different Halloween stamps with this set and I find myself reaching for it
quite often. I really like the fact that some of the images are suited for googlie eyes which adds another dimension. I used SU Scallop punch and our 2
circle punches. I used Snail to stick the discs to the suckers.
This is a CD I found at Staples, I used the
stamp set Autumn Apparitions to stamp the case and the tag is made from Batty
For You. There are a couple of images in the Autumn Apparitions set you could
also make the tags from. What a great way to serve a cookie!
Halloween Fry Box
One more Halloween project for you. I
promise I'll stop (or try to) after this one for awhile and move onto other
things. I've actually got some Christmas (lots of it) and Thanksgiving projects
and cards that I am anxious to start.
Actually I just remembered another school treat so I am going to do that
and then try to stop. Can you tell the kids on my street are going to get really
good treat bags this year from me?
This is a french fry box dressed up for
Halloween. Again, another perfect treat for school or the office! You will find
the template here that I used.
TEMPLATE Since I started stamping I look at everything in a different way,
just wondering what I can alter it into! If you drink the Starbuck's drinks you
can get at the grocery store, save those bottles, wait till you see what you can
turn those into.
I used the stamp set Autumn Apparitions for
this project. To decorate the front I stamped the L shaped stamp on the white
CS. I stamped the pumpkin and cat on whisper white. I cut them out leaving a
little of the white CS showing. I applied the pumpkin to the box and used a
dimensional to raise the cat up a bit. The bag holding the candy corn is our
small 3 x 5 Cellophane bags and there are 50 in a package for $3.95. I stamped
the word BOO on White SC and placed it inside of the bag after I tied it.
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Halloween Fry Box |
| Paper: |
Pumpkin Pie CS, Whisper White CS, |
| Ink: |
Black and Pumpkin Pie |
| Stamp Set: |
Autumn Apparitions |
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Candy Treat Holder
This holder is made with a half sheet of
Pumpkin Pie Cardstock. The image was stamped with Black StazOn from Haunting
Halloween. You can't see it
in this picture but the image is layered and the corners rounded. The treats
inside the holder are in our small cellophane bags I talked about above. The
Pumpkin Pie ribbon is holding the holder together. There are 3 candy bars in the
bags.
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Project: |
Candy Treat Holder |
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Paper: |
Pumpkin Pie CS, Whisper White CS, |
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Ink: |
Black and Elegant Eggplant, Marker Pens |
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Stamp Set: |
Haunting Halloween |
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