A Sweet Elf Gift.....Just Add Warm Milk

Hi everyone!!

I have a great gift idea to share~ 1 of 8 actually completed for my son to hand out to his teachers for Christmas~Of course I ran out of the paper I wanted to use to complete the rest of them :(

Anyways...

he is in middle school and even though treats for his friends are no long acceptable..LOL... he still wants to take something in for his teachers...alittle something to wish them a Merry Christmas.

Using a fun file from SVG Cutting Files and the sentiment stamps from Jaded Blossom I made this

"sweet" hot cocoa gift set.

Inside the Elf fry box is a package of Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix, 2 Candy Canes and a small bag of Marshmallows. Yummmmmm!!!

I embellished the bag with an adorable wooden spoon from Trendy Twine, stamped using a sentiment from Jaded Blossom's Hot Cocoa stamp set and tied onto the bag with some gorgeous White Tinsel Ribbon, Candy Cane Trendy Twine and some small jingle bells.

So cute, super easy to put together and sure makes for a fun gift idea.

Supplies Used:

Paper~ 

Bazzill Iris Eyes Cardstock, white, black cream (stash)

Stamps~ 

Jaded Blossom~Hot Cocoa

Cuts/Dies~

SVG Cutting Files~Elf Fry Box

Jaded Blossom~ Fancy Topper Die (layer die)

Embellishments~ 

Trendy Twine~Mini Wooden Spoons

Trendy Twine~Candy Cane

Sparkly Sweet Craft Notions~ May Arts Sheer White Tinsel Ribbon

jingle bells, stickles, treat bag

Hot cocoa supplies :)

So there is my project for today. I hope you enjoyed this sweet treat!

I am off to do some more Christmas Decorating!

Have a GREAT rest of your Tuesday!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Jaded Blossom~ Anything Christmas

Scrappy Moms Stamps~ Silver or Gold

Ribbon Carousel Blog~Anything Goes

Paper Issues~ Christmas

Just B Creative Crazy~ Dec Linky Party
Craftin Desert Divas~Tags (does a spoon tag count????)

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes
Everyday is an Occasion~Sunday Funday #15

Paper Playtime~Anything Goes

Got Candy????.......{Halloween Treat}

Good morning 
and 
Happy Hump Day!!

I am back again with another fun Halloween treat idea...this one using a file from the Silhouette store that was SO easy to put together!
Here it is...hope you like it :)

I used the Candy Corn box file from Lori Whitlock and cut my colored pieces using scrap from my stash. I machined stitched the layers onto the box but before putting the box together I stamped my sentiment from Jaded Blossom's~ Got Candy stamp set.

Once the box was assembled, I added a button from my stash and some Totally White Trendy Twine.

So there is my project and short and sweet post!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a GREAT hump day!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Craftin Desert Divas~ Halloween Party

Paper Issues~ Halloween

Simon Says Stamps~ Halloween

Cameo Creations~ Lots of Candy

Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Fall/Halloween

Cupcake Inspiration~ Challenge 233

Thanks for Coming to My Rescue.......{Challenge Card}

Good Morning everyone!!!
I hope you are all having a GREAT weekend!!!
If you are looking for my Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Birthday Blog Hop card and giveaway please click HERE

I wanted to pop in and share a card I made to enter into a few challenges. It is a perfect boy card, which I always find very difficult to make. 

Hope you like it!!

I love the CAS design of this card and that adorable Kawaii copter is just too cute...don't you think??? 

Here is a close-up of that cute copter from SVG Cutting Files~ Kawaii Transportation. I cut him out using my Cameo and popped him up using foam pop dots on a mat of Kraft Cardstock and designer paper from DCWV~ The Boyhood Stack. Before adding him to my mat, I did die cut some My Creative Time~ Stitched Cartoon Clouds and ran the designer paper through my sewing machine.

I finished my card with the Jaded Blossom's Super Hero stamp set for the sentiment and added some Trendy Twine Totally White as my "rescue" rope :)

Supplies Used:

Paper~  Kraft, scraps from my stash

Designer Paper~DCVW The Boyhood Stack

Stamps~ Jaded Blossom~ Super Hero

Dies/Cuts~ SVG Cutting Files~Kawaii Transportation

My Creative Time~Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies

Embellishments~Trendy Twine~ Totally White

Brad

sewing machine

Well there is my card for today.
I want to thank you all for stopping by and hope you have  a GREAT rest of your day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

SVG Cutting Files~ Boys and Their Toys

CAS(E) this Sketch~ #46

Cameo Creations~ Pattern Paper

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Pile It On~ Cool or Warm Colors

Inspired By a Song or a Book...{TKJ}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

Inspired By a Song or a Book

I went with one of my favorite books ever~ Harry Potter and made a fun birthday card that any Harry Potter fan would love....

Here is my card....Hope you like it!!

I started my card by using a piece of Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock as my card base and then adding my layers of designer papers from Pebbles Tricks and Treats paper pack. Next I stamped my image from Jaded Blossoms ~ My Favorite Wizard on some Buff Ivory Cover Weight Cardstock, and colored it using my copic markers. Then to embellish my card, I added some Black Twill Tape, Earthy Hemp Cord and a fun witches hat charm.

So there you have it....

my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Have a Monster Sizes Birthday.....{Everyday is an Occasion Birthday Hop}

Morning and Happy Friday everyone!!!

(If you are looking for my 3GJ Back to School project please click HERE)

Jill from Every Day is an Occasion 

is celebrating her one year blogiversary and I am so excited to be a part of the birthday celebration!

Today you will be hopping from blog to blog gathering birthday inspiration and helping Jill celebrate!
You should be coming from my sweet and uber talented friend
Lisa
If you are just popping in to say hello please head on back to 
Jill~
she is the start of the hop and I know you will not want to miss any of the fab projects along this hop! 

Now that all the lineup stuff is out of the way I am so excited to share my project with you!!

I found this fun tutorial on how to make an easel gift box with drawers HERE and it has been on my list of want to try for so long now! I was finally able to get it done and here it is.....

Hope you like it!!!

I have a few pictures to share of this fun project! I must say it was so easy to put together and would for sure make a GREAT birthday gift! I DO plan on making more

The inside holds so much! I did end up putting a small pillow box inside the drawer along with a few wrapped chocolates but there is still room to add a gift card plus some other goodies!!!

And when the box is all closed up and the drawer pushed in it sure looks cute doesn't it??

Supplies Used:

Paper~ Kraft Cardstock, white, yellow, pink, black, green and blue scraps

KaiserCraft Blast Off Collection designer paper

Stamps~Jaded Blossom~Monster Mash

Dies/Cuts~ SVG Cutting Files~Monster Bash

Circle and Scallop~Silhouette Store

Embellishments~ Trendy Twine~ Lemon Tart, Blue Berry

stickles, white gel pen

BLOG CANDY!!!

Jill went to Summer CHA this year and gathered some goodies to giveaway to all of you. Please enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win the goodies! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

So there is my project! I sure hope you have enjoyed it!

I am the last on the lineup and I have posted the whole list below incase you missed anyone along the way!

Thanks so much for stopping by, Have a GREAT Friday and holiday weekend and

Happy Blogaversary Jill!!!!

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Blog Hop Line-up

Jill 

Holly

Arin

Angi

Court

Shelly

Lisa

Jessica ~ ME~

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Entering this into the following challenges:

SVG Cutting Files~ Anything but a Card

Just Be Creative Crazy~Just Because Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Sunday Funday~ Linky Party

Craftin Desert Diva's~ Anything Goes

Copy Your Favorite Designer.....{TKJ}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

Copy Your Favorite Designer

I want to start off by saying I have a whole bunch of favorite designers....People who I am inspired by on a daily basis, whether it is their crafting style, amazing sense of color or their incredible talents based on all those wonderful sketches out there!

But for my card today I chose to copy the very talented 

Lesley Croghan from Always Playing with Paper

And the card I copied is from a post she did for Seize the Birthday and Color Throwdown 

which you can see HERE. 
I went with the card LO from Lesley's design and made it into a Back to School card.
Here it is....

I started my card by using a piece of Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock as my card base and then adding a mat of Flute Corrugated Kraft Paper. Next I layered some Blackboard Stock Paper and an image that I colored  in the Silhouette Studio

 (sorry I am not sure where the image is from...if you know PLEASE let me know so I can give the designer the proper credit...it was an image that was sent to me without the name). Before adding my image to the card, I used my punch to add a notebook border, my Ink Blending Tool to add some white ink as well as my sewing machine to add the stitch marks (without the thread as you can see).

Then to finish my card off, I die cut an oval piece of Blackboard Stock Paper and well as a smaller white piece so I could stamp my sentiment from Jaded Blossom's~ School Rules stamp set. Again I added more white inking around the image using my Ink Blending Tool

So there you have it....
my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps~ Back to School
Scrappy Moms Stamps~Back to School

Just Be Creative Crazy~Just Because Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Sunday Funday~ Linky Party
Love to Create Challenge Blog~Back to School
Craftin Desert Diva's~ Anything Goes
Cupcake Inspiration~#225

Back to School~Challenge #58...{DTC Guest Designer}

Good Morning Everyone and Happy Hump Day!!

I am super excited to be sharing my
project for today as a  Guest Designer over at

Decorate to Celebrate
Thanks Amy for the opportunity to share my project!

The Challenge ~#58 is Back to School and Classroom Favors

For my project I made these adorable...and I mean adorable Kawaii Sucker covers. The file is from SVG Cutting Files and is so super easy to put together! I can see making tons of these (and have not decided if I am making more for my son's class or if I am making them for the Teacher's Back to School Lunch)

Anyways....here they are! Hope you like them!!!

Supplies Used: Paper~ Bazzill Cardstock (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) Black cardstock  Stamps~ Jaded Blossom~ School Rules Cuts~ SVG Cutting Files~ Kawaii School Lollipop Covers Extra~ Trendy Twine~ Berry, Lemon Tart, Holly Blue Berry White gel pen suckers

I hope you have enjoyed my project for today and will play along in this week's
Decorate to Celebrate Challenge
Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!
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Entering this into the following challenges:

SVG Cutting Files~ Anything But a Card

Cameo Creations~ Back to School
The Pink Elephant~ Anything But a Card
Die Cuttin Divas~ Back to School
Scrappy Moms Stamps~Back to School

Just Be Creative Crazy~Just Because Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Sunday Funday~ Linky Party
Simon Says Stamps~ Back to School
Divas By Design~ Use some Twine

Back to School w/Ribbon......{3GJ Challenge #24}

It is a happy day over here....

I am hosting the new challenge over at the

3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog

and

this week's challenge is~ 

Back to School w/Ribbon

This week's challenge will be open for 3 weeks, August 16th~ September 5th , so plenty of time to create and share!!

Our challenge is being sponsored by

with a $10 Gift Certificate to the 3Girl JAM store!

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Now onto my project.....I wanted to make this adorable backpack I purchased in the Silhouette store a while back along with a mini notebook that fits inside...so here it is...hope you like it!!

I used papers from The Paper Loft~Everyday Life collection along a mini composition notebook I had in my stash....

Here is a better picture of the two. I added stamped sentiments from Jaded Blossom's School Rules stamp set, a fun new flare button from 3JG as well as the gorgeous Latte crinkle ribbon from 3GJ. 

And here is the handle and straps of the backpack...Doesn't the ribbon look beautiful on it?????

Supplies Used:

Paper~ The Paper Loft~Everyday Life
Kraft

Stamps~ School Rules (Jaded Blossom)

Dies/Cuts~ Backpack (Silhouette Store)
Lowercase fun Dies (MCT)

Embellishments~ Latte crinkle Ribbon (3GJ)
Flair Button (3GJ)

I sure hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with us over at the 

3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog!

Remember this challenge will run for 3 weeks so lots of time to get your

Back to School w/Ribbon projects in!!

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday!! 

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Jaded Blossom~ Back to School

Just Be Creative Crazy~Just Because Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Sunday Funday~ Linky Party
Craftin Desert Divas~ Linky Party..Back to School

Birthday Blog Hop/Challenge #20.....{3GJ}

Good Morning everyone and welcome to the 

3 Girl Jam Birthday Blog Hop!!

The purpose of this fun hop is to celebrate all the June Birthday's 
(Julie's sister in particular) 
as well as to showcase the awesome 3GJ crinkle ribbon! 

You should be coming from the talented 

Abby

If not head on back to 

Julie's 

to begin the hop...there are lots of awesome birthday celebration projects along with some GREAT prizes up for grabs!!!!

If you have not checked out the 3GJ store lately you are missing out on the most recently added color.....

Red White and Blue Bundle!

Red (a true red), Blue (basic blue), and White with Red and Blue edges 

Such a great bundle for all those patriotic projects....the 4th of July is right around the corner...and this is a must have for sure, so with that being said I have a birthday card to share using the White crinkle ribbon.... Hope you like it!!

Supplies Used:
Paper~Kraft Cardstock (The Kraft Outlet), Echo Park~ A Perfect Summer (Annies Paper Boutique)
Stamps~ Erkle and Merkle Face Assortment (Peachy Keen Stamps), Fish On (Jaded Blossom)
Cuts~ Cute Whale, (Miss Kates Cuttables) Birthday Party Hat (Miss Kates Cuttables)
Adhesives~ Tombo Stamp Runner, Mono Multi Liquid Glue
Extra's~ Red, White and Blue crinkle ribbon (3GJ), White Gel Pen, Chalk, sewing machine, glossy accents

So what do you think??? Isn't this cut from Miss Kate's Cuttables adorable with her Peachy Keen Face??? And the crinkle ribbon is a perfect match to my papers!!!

BLOG CANDY!!!!

I have a 50% off your entire 3GJ purchase coupon for one lucky hopper!

Thats right...50% off ANYTHING in the 3GJ store so that value is unlimited!!

How sweet is that???

Only things you have to do:

~be a blog follower here~ you will want to see if you are the lucky winner
(I will announce that winner on Monday June 17th)
~comment on ALL the blogs in the hop
(you will not want to miss all the great inspiration)
want another entry...

~Like the 3GJ FB page here and comment that you did

It is now time to hop on over to the

3GJ challenge blog

for some more inspiration and all the details for  
Challenge #20!!

Thanks so much for hopping with the 3GJ DT!!!

~Here is the entire line-up in case you get lost along the way~

Julie

Jessica B 

Kendra 

Julie O 

Rebecca

Nicole

Mackenzie

Carri

Scrappin Madge

Cheri

Elizabeth

Abby

                         Jessica~~~ ME~~~

3GJ Challenge

Tag You're It! {The Kraft Journal}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!

It is a busy morning on my blog....I have both my Trendy Twine and The Kraft Journal posts going live at the same time so please make sure to check them both out!!!
For my Trendy Twine post click HERE

It is time for a new challenge over at The Kraft Journal!

Before I share the challenge and my project I want to say 

Thank you ALL so very much for the sweet comments both here and on fb about me joining 

The Kraft Journal! You all made me feel so GREAT!! I am super excited about this and hope you will hop over to TKJ and play along in our challenges!!!

Speaking of challenges....this week's challenge is....

Tag You're it!

we want to see all those fun tags which brings me to my project.....

I made this fun tag ....Hope you like it!!

Isn't this a fun tag??? 

I bought this stamp set~ Java Time from Jaded Blossom especially for this project (since I knew I was joining the team I was thinking ahead...LOL)

So I started out with a mini burlap tag and cut a piece of Brown Kraft Cardstock to the same size to attach to the back of the tag....That way I can still write a message to the recipient. 

I then stamped the adorable image onto another piece of Brown Kraft Cardstock and colored her partly using my copics and some white gel pen.

Using some Red with White Polka Dots washi tape, I washi pieced....Ha a new term... her hair bow and coffee mug. 

How adorable did this turn out!!!

I know I will me washi piecing alot more!!!

Here is a close-up of the sentiment from the same Jaded Blossom set...I just added it to a banner die cut from My Creative Time~ Vintage Stitched Label Die after I distressed the edges with my Ink Blending Tool and some gathered twigs distress ink.

Here is the completed project with the tag attached to the Small Kraft Coffee Bag w/Window using a Hinge Clip.

So what do you think??? I hope you like my project and will check out what the rest of the DT has created HERE.

I would love to see you play along with this challenge as well :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges

My Craft Spot~Tags

Rain or Shine......{PKS Challenge #1....plus a few more}

Hi Everyone!

I am back with my second post for today (to see my first one click HERE)

 and my entry card for the Peachy Keen Stamps release challenge #1

This is the challenge....

RAINY DAY CHALLENGE - Create whatever you'd like for this challenge, but give it a "Rany Day" Theme.  Stormy skies, clouds, raindrops, whatever your heart desires!  

and here is my take on it.

I hope you like it!!!

(if you click on the picture it comes up a lot nicer)

Here is a close-up of the adorable cloud with her cute PK face.

In the white spot below her face I ended up adding some glitter using glossy accents and sprinkling some CI Paint~ Resplendence Angel Dust.  I did the same thing with the rain drops also...

So what do you think????

I am pretty happy with the way this turned out.

Supplies Used:

Paper~ White cardstock, Studio Calico Here and There collection

Stamps~PKS~Snow Cuties  Bugbites~All Year Round

Dies/Cuts~ Jaded Blossom~ Fancy Topper Die, Umbrella, Cloud and raindrop~ Silhoutte Store

Ink~ Brilliance Graphite Black, White Gel Pen

Others~ sewing maching, chalk, Creative Inspirations Paint~ Angel Dust

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Entering this into these challenges as well:

Peachy Keen Stamps April Release Challenge #1~ Rainy Day Challenge

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Little Scrap Pieces~ April Showers
Cut it Up~ Wet

Creative Inspirations Paint~ Spring Colors

Cupcake Inspiration~ Photo {Green, Yellow, Blue}

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Thanks so much for stopping by tonight and I will see you all back here tomorrow...

I have 2 DT projects to share, both of them going live at 6 am EST

~Trendy Twine and The Kraft Journal~

I hope you will check them out!!