Ornament Chocolate Holders

Hi there, here are some holiday gifts I made for some colleagues & family.

I got this idea from Renee Cooper who was the Customer Spotlight in the Sept 13th Cricut Chirp newsletter. She made these really cool pumpkin crates using the ice cream cone cut from Sweet Tooth Boxes and I thought this cut would make great ornament crates.

I made a whole bunch so there's a lot of pictures ahead. At the end of this post are the instructions and materials I used:





















I filled them with Mini Hershey Kisses or Dove Dark Chocolates.

For a family member I put a gift card in it by standing it up in the chocolates.

Goody mix:
-Cardstock: White Glitter, Brown Glitter, Bazzill Brown T9-943, Bazzill Basics Rain Forest
-Patterned Paper: Bazzill Basics Glazed Christmas, DCWV Glitter Christmas Stack 2007, Debbie Mumm Holiday 2008, SEi Alpine Frost, My Mind’s Eye Festive & Frost Signature Christmas Short Stack with Glitter, , DCWV Glitter Christmas Stack 2008
-Stamp: CTMH No Peeking (Tag, To & From)
-Stickers: Jolee’s Boutique Snowflake Repeats, Holiday Time (Wal*Mart)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Prussian Blue, Blue Iris, Dark Moss, Deep Green, Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Dark Brown, Merlot, Maroon
-Punch: Martha Stewart Artic Snowflake
-Cricut Cartridge: Sweet Tooth Boxes – ConeLy1 & ConeLy2 cut at 9 ½”
-Misc: Tops to real ornaments, Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Ribbon, Button, DMC Floss 519, DMC Floss 300, DMC Floss White, Crop-A-Dile Tool, Black Eyelets, Rhinestones, Red Jingle Bell

TFL!

Christmas Gift Tags

I hope everyone had a very happy holiday season!

Here's some more holiday gift tags I made a couple friends to use when they give their very yummy holiday treats to family and friends. This time I stamped them on a 3" circle piece of white card stock and adhered them to some ornament shaped card stock which I used George and Basic Shapes to create using 1” and 3 ½” circles and a 1” x 1 ¼” rectangle:







Baking Ingredients:
-Cardstock: Bazzill Brown T9-943
-Patterned Paper: Bazzill Basics Glazed Christmas
-Stamp: Stampendous Fluffles Baking, CTMH No Peeking (To & From)
-Punch: Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edge
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC924, PC949, PC911, PC941 PC942
-Cricut Cartridge: George and Basic Shapes – 1” and 3 ½” circles and a 1” x 1 ¼” rectangle
-Misc: Adhesive, Gamsol, Black & Silver Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Ribbon, Crop-A-Dile Tool, Silver Eyelets

And here are some wreath tags I made last year to attach to my own holiday "treats":





And I attached them to these really cute candy containers I bought at Michaels which I filled with some Cherry Hershey Kisses:



Trimmings:
-CS: Bazill Basic “Palo Verde”, Capers”, “Mocha Devine” and “Ruby Slipper”
-FCI: Colorbox “Dark Moss” and “Deep Green”
-Stickles: Burgundy
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC988 Marine Green and PC941 Light Umber
-Cricut Cartridges: JOTS - Wreath with the base cut at 2 ½” and the Holly (Base Shift) cut at 2 ½”

Hope you like!

:)

Baking Up a Batch Just for You!

Last year I made some tags for a friend of mine that likes to give her very yummy baked goods as gifts to friends. So I thought this stamp of Fluffles from Stampendous would be great to make tags:



Here's the back:



Baked Goods:
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics Palo Verde, Mocha Devine and Ruby Slipper
Stamps: Stampendous Fluffles Baking
Stickers: Jolee’s By You Snowflake
Misc: 1/8” Eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Adhesive, Prismacolor Pencils, Colorbox Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Hot Gun

TFL!

Want to see what I got for Christmas!!

Two baby girl kittens, click to see a little photo album...

Wreath Thank You

Happy weekend everyone! I'm doing the usual trying to catch up on stuff. :)

Here's a thank you card for Scott's mom and step dad for their generous Christmas gifts plus my birthday present.

If you haven't read before on my blog on how they have a cut your own Christmas Tree farm. Carolyn, Scott's mom, makes many many wreaths, swags, mailbox cozies and kissing balls using prunings from all the different trees they have, scotch pine, concolor, scotch pine, fraser, balsum, korean fur, etc. And real berries and rose hips from her own bushes. And every year she lets me make a 24" wreath for my parents and a 36" for myself. Did you know that between all the different trees you use to make a 36" wreath is about an entire tree! And she also lets me bring home a bunch of prunings to fill my window boxes. This one is outside my dining room window:


Here's the wreath I made for myself, besides the ribbon everything on this wreath is real and those berries are actually rose hips. For those that do not know what those are, they are the bud that is left behind on a rose bush if you do not cut the blooms off:


And a mailbox cozy:


So onto the thank you card...I thought I would make it with a wreath from JOTS:


As always, I just love stickles!




These are some great computer fonts from scrapNfonts, CK Bella & LD Dirty Drusillus




Wreath prunings:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Bouquet", "Snapdragon", "Palo Verde", "Safari", "Mocha Devine" and "ruby Slipper"
-PPs: Creative Imaginations Sonnets "Terra Cotta Paisley" and "French Poetry"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: "Dark Moss", "Olive" and "Yellow Ochre"
-Stickles: Burgundy
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC988 Marine Green
-Cricut carts: Winter Woodland for the fonts cut @ 1 3/8" with a shadow
JOTS for the Wreath with the base cut at 6 1/4" and the Holly (Base Shift) cut at 5 1/2"
Beyond Birthdays for thank you cut at 2" with a shadow
-Misc: Gamsol, Thread, Sewing Machine, EK Success Edger Punch "Snowflakes" for the flap on the envie (not pictured), Adhesive

TFL! And feel free to leave a comment as I love to get them...

More Twelve Days of Christmas

Hi, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and about to have a very Happy New Year!

Here are some boxes that hold 12 miniature Hershey candy bars that I made using Regina's The Cutting Café's Candy Box.

I made a bunch of each of these to sell as Christmas favors or gifts for people to buy. My finance's mother owns a cut your own Christmas Tree Farm, so every year we go up to help out and she suggested that I bring some of my stuff to see if it will sell. I did sell a few...not including the ones she bought. ;p

Here's a picture of us getting our freshly cut tree:


I had made a couple of these boxes last year for myself to give as dinner favors and gifts to friends and colleagues.

Regina's boxes are always fun to work with and with this particular box there also comes templates to cut out the candy wrappers if you want to use them to cover the Hershey wrappers to make it more custom.

So here they are...

This paper is gorgeous, huh? It's from SEI in their Alpine Frost collection (glitter stack):








I went a little Americana on this set (paper from DCWV The Fall Stack 2007):








I really like this music paper I got in a stack from My Mind's Eye "Festive & Frost" Short Stack with Glitter:






Other materials:
CS: Bazzill Basics: "Tropical", "Capers" and "Mocha Divine"
Glitter CS: DCWV
Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "French Blue", "Celadon" and "Olive"
Punches: Cuttlebug Ice Crystal Die & Embossing Combo and MS Alpine Snowflake
Cricut Cart: JOTS for the Holly cut at 1 1/2"
Misc: Red Rhinestones, Red Ribbon, Adhesive

TFL and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Christmas at home 2008

Hi, I thought I would share a few pictures with you of my holiday decorating and some pictures of the kids opening their gifts. It was a full house at my house, but it was great...it was with my amazing parents, my brother and lovely SIL (with a bun in the oven), my fiancé’s two children and my fiancé’s wonderful mother and stepdad.

First we had the kids, just the four of us and then everyone else showed up between noon and 1:00.

I'm so bummed out though, I can't believe this but I completely forgot to pull out the camera after everyone showed up!! So I have NO pictures of them this year AND I was going to have my dad take a picture of the four of us in front of the tree. Well the good thing is, I have a tripod and we have the kids again this weekend so I'll still be able to get that shot.

So anyway, here's some pictures that I hope you enjoy...

My fiancé’s mom and step dad own a cut your own Christmas tree farm. It’s a lot of fun to go up and help out. My soon-to-be mother-in-law makes the most beautiful Christmas wreaths, swags, mailbox cozies and kissing balls. Here's a tree from their farm with my large house village:


And she lets me make a wreath for my parents and one for myself and here’s the one I made for myself. It’s a 36” wreath and it takes an entire tree to make it!


And here’s the mailbox cozy:


Here's my little house village, which is located in my bedroom...that little door leads to the attic, kind of cute huh? We have it set up on a time for the lights to go on late afternoon to midnight.


Last year we put the artificial tree out on the deck of my bedroom, this year we didn’t get around to it but I thought I’d share this one as well.


Presents!




My fiancé and his son AJ:


And here’s one with Alyssa.


I'm a bit of a Disney nut, this is only a fraction of the Mickey Mouse Christmas decorations I have...




And the stocking were hung:


:)