Christmas cards

I've been working on Christmas cards on and off in the past few weeks. All of my ideas come from other peoples websites, so they are not my creations. I have modified a few of the ideas, but I am not claiming these as unique. I've been having some Christmas card making workshops at work so I am constantly trying to find nice ideas!

I fell in love with this first card, and it was also the first one we made at my workshops.




This next one is also one I fell in love with. It is time consuming but well worth it!



I also adore this one. It is very classy. I might choose this one for an upcoming workshop.




Ah..... how I love the holiday season :)

Happy Halloween !

celery mummies

Here are some cute little celery mummies. I used vegetable cream cheese inside the celeri and then added little strips of ham. It was SO cute! I found this idea in one of my magazines once again, but I don't remember which one! I will link it once I see it again.

I brought these to work and they disappeared really fast!

Spooky Snacks for school

This morning I was up at 3 am working on snacks for Maelie's class!! They are not allowed any junk so I found these alternatives online on the FamilyFun website.

Here is a monster mouth with his tongue sticking out! The recipe called for almonds for the teeth but I used cheese since nuts are not allowed at school.



Here is a blurry close up:



Next I made some severed fingers. There are made with string cheese, a tiny bit of cream cheese to hold the nail, and green peppers.



Here is a little close up:



For work I made mini caramel apples and some cupcakes with Halloween sprinkles on then. I can;t wait to see the other stuff at work!! It should be fun!

trick or treats

Yesterday evening, i worked on finishing some Halloween clored generic smarties treat bags. I find them pretty cute!! I added a little glitter on the tag to make the little pumpkin stand out. Not sur if this will be for the Halloween party or for work!



More projects on the go!! stay tuned!!

Halloween party invitations!

I had these coffin invitations in mind for quite a while for Maelie's Halloween party. I had prepared some pieces here and there so this week I finally sat down and finished them all. Maelie was SO proud of them!




When you open them up, a piece of cardstock is rolled up and inside, so when you unroll it, you get the invitation with a skeleton attached to it! The leaves are not on the actual invitation. It was just my attempt to hide the specific info. Too bad there were no bats in my choices.



I will be working on party snacks and games and treats...so I will share them as I go along!

Halloween copy cat

I found this idea on Inking Idaho except she had made it for Christmas. I thought it was such a cute idea!! But then when i saw the pumpkin Lindt chocolate... I thought i HAD to try it out for Halloween!!



When the little card comes out, there is just enough room for a nice little Hallowen note! So cute!!

candy boxes

I LOVE the candy box die for the Big shot...

Here are a few things I made with it for a swap we had at Tracie's house:

the gift!

Here is the gift from the sneak peak! I am so happy Kath was able to get it during her first week at work after maternity leave... I knew it would cheer her up!!! She has taken interest in knitting in the past year or so... so I figured she would need a few gift tags to go with her creations!!

dangerous mudslide

So what do you do when someone sends you a note and includes a recipe for mudslide cookies with it??



You make them! That's what!



Amazingly tasty....!

Sneak peak

I hate waiting when I make a surprise for someome!! I just want to give it to them right away!! I get SO excited!

I have to be strong though and keep my surprise a surprise. Even if it kills me!!

But here is a sneak peak.



That's IT. You will not hear anything else about this until it has been given!!

a gift for my boss

My boss was away for a week so I decided to make her a little welcome back gift! She is really awesome... so I wanted to brighten up her office a little and make her smile on her first day back to work!

Hmmmm... as of today, there were only 3 flowers left in the pot... I wonder what happened?? :)

Where has my mind been?

Thinking of Halloween....



Only 2 and a half months to go!!! gotta get a move on!!

new cards

I went to Tracie's house yesterday and brought along some tart & tangy water bottles. The ladies enjoyed them so I though I would post the link to the recipe for the sachet holder again. I found it on Nancy Riley's blog iStamp.


I've been working on a bunch of cards in the past week! Here are some of them:



The original idea for this one would stem from here. But I got the idea for the owl one on Stampin' Connection.



These inspiration for these three below come from Angelstar Stampin' Creations.






The two cards that I haven't credited yet, I will add the info later because I have to look for the links and I will be late for work if i procrastinate some more!!

New owl punch

Today, Natalie, Sonia and I got together to work on some owl cards! They both ordered the Stampin' up owl punch and it was delivered today... so it was a date! We sat down with ideas we found online.

Natalie sent me a card from Rose's world today. All three of us decided to work on a card inspired by this one. It's always interesting to see what different ideas we come up with! Look at our results....



Mine is the one with the striped orange ribbon. I LOVE that ribbon!!



When I saw this sample on Jill Hilliard's blog, I fell in love! I HAD to make this card immediately! I added a ribbon and leaf though to just add a bit of color.


We ran out of time today as it was getting late, but the next sample we want to work on is this one from Angelstar's Stampin' creations.

It was an awesome evening!!

a quick textured card

Yesterday as I was tidying up my craft table (which is my kitchen table), I couldn't help myself but try a quick card! I copied the idea from Becky Roberts of Inking Idaho. I just need to add a sentiment. When I went to add the flower to the right, I noticed that with my choice of ribbon, it actually looked better on the left, on top of the knot. I also layered it in Old olive cardstock, and asked Maelie her opinion on the top part. Do I leave it green or do i cover it in white textured cardstock? Her suggestion was to leave it green. It's too bad that you can't feel the texture on a picture!! It is the charming part of the card!

2 more cuties

Today I worked on these two cards. As usual, they are not my creation. I copied them from other talented crafters!

This one is based on a card I saw on Andrea Walford's site. I LOVED the idea of a strip of glitter! So I just used different paper but kept the general idea and layout.



This little ladybug one comes from Flowerbug's Inkspot. I fell in love with the little ladybugs! They are so cute!

Summertime

Here are two cards I CASED that remind me of summer!

The first card was copied from Flowerbug. Thereare always AMAZING projects on there! I just turned the card around and added leaves instead of the vines because I didn't have that die. I think it looks fuller with the leaves, so depending on the look you were aiming for.. there are so many ways to do it!



This next one, I am actually looking for where I found it! As I mentioned before, I print out the ideas and so if there isn't a watermark on them, I don't usually remember where they came from. I don't take credit for the ideas if they don't come from my head. I LOVE copying ideas and give credit to the right people when I have the info.



Both cards have glitter and look a million times better in person!!

Baby card

We recently had a new baby in our family... so we had to work on baby cards! We found this idea on Sandi Maciver's blog. I made it in blue. Natalie made it in pink.



Isn't it SO cute??

watermelon cards

I decided to try making these cute little watermelon cards today. I got the idea from Heidi Tekunoff on Stampin' Connection. I can't link to that site because it is only for SU demo's, but it's important to give credit!




I made one card in french and one in english. It was a very simple and cute card to make! I LOVE it! It's much better in person... you can see the cute green bling!

I'm a copy cat!

I CASE'd 2 cards this weekend. Problem is, I printed out the pics of what I want to make a while back and sometimes there is no link on the print out!

So my disclaimer: these beautiful cards were not invented by myself. They were copied.

The pics are a bit dark, but I didn't have time to take them outside for a photo session as I am still in my jammies and need to get to work! LOL

birthday chef card

Here is a card I worked on this weekend for a birthday today. So many of my cards are "girlier", but I needed one for a guy. So i had to avoid flowers!!

Last day of school

Here is the card Maelie gave to her teacher with a gift card for the movies. I got this idea here. It was very easy and SO cute that I would have liked to give it to myself!




Here are a few boxes for some teachers.



... and a few packaged chocolate covered pretzels.



Here are Maelie's water bottles packed up and ready to go!