Happy Easter!!!

Just a quick post today to wish everyone that celebrates a very Happy Easter. We will be getting together today to celebrate Easter and three birthdays that have fallen very close to Easter Sunday. Quite often we have had our celebration at our cottage in Turkey Point and we do a slow-cooker dinner but this year Easter has arrived early and it's still a bit too cold to spend time there, and probably very muddy too. I also made a cute candy holder for our great grandson, it's small and only holds a little bit of candy.

I found the template for the box on Split coast Stampers with instructions and a video for using the Stampin'up dies and stamps. I don't have either so I "winged" it to make the bunny. I put the plaid on the ears and bow tie as it looks more masculine.

Here is the back of the holder I used a white pom pom for his tail

The back triangle tucks under the bow to close the holder up, as you see there won't be any chocolate overload in this gift box.

Thanks for looking today and I hope your day was AWESOME!!!

It’s a Red Alert at Shopping Our Stash

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Shopping Our Stash has a Red Alert out for challenge # 181 and this one will last two weeks. We need to have a break for Christmas.  For this challenge I made mini treat holders. I found the tutorial for it at Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie. They are simple to make although I didn’t have the tag die from Stampin’ up I used one of my other dies and a punch.

The image is “having a ball” from House Mouse Designs coloured with copics and punched out and layered on a scalloped punch out.  As I didn’t have the candy I can’t show the side view but an individually wrapped York peppermint patty fits in there perfect.
Thanks for stopping by today and remember the Red Alert challenge lasts for two weeks. 

A Very Easy Valentine Candy Holder

I receive e-mails from a very talented Stampin’up demonstrator, she had quite a few different ideas for treat holders. Here is the one I used from Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie. I made 16 of these and handed 15 out to the bowling ladies on Friday, they were very happy with them. I think they can be made for any holiday you want to make a number of treats for.

The heart stamp I used was one of the first ones I ever bought when I started stamping it’s from PSX which no longer is in business, shame too because they had beautiful stamps. I inked them with versafine crimson red. The” for you” is from Stampin’up Sale-A-Bration Punch Bunch, possibly last year or the year before, I added the ribbon and a bit of bling to the flower. I just used up the image that wasn’t perfect, I forgot to take a picture of the “good” ones lol.

This shows how the peppermint patty sits in the holder, I added some heavy duty tape to hold them in place.

Thanks for stopping by today and put a little crafting in your day!!!

Just a little Valentine Treat

I was going to a girls lunch out on Tuesday and decided I would like to make a Valentine treat card. The card is 3 X 3 inches square. I made 16 of them but only needed 5 so I have been having fun handing them to some of my friends. I even made the envelopes too.

The papers I used and even the 12 X 12 cardstock is at least 5 years old. I had two packages of the valentine paper and the 12 X 12 cardstock I bought when I was doing recipe card swaps and it was more economical to use as the cards were 4 X 6 and you get 6 out of one sheet. The opening was cut with my spellbinders heart die and the frame as well.  the wrapped chocolate heart was attached with some heavy duty tape. I also used the patterned paper to make envelopes to match, You can just see the corner of it behind the card.

Thanks for stopping by today and come back again, you are always welcome to see what I’ve been crafting.