Cards

What is the candy that no matter what time of year it is you think….Halloween!  Yep!  Candy Corn!  There are so many fun craft projects with candy corn.  Don’t you love these wine bottles?  I may have to give them a try…..

At convention one of the presenters showed us this adorable treat bag made with the Sketched Dots Tag a Bag Gift Bag.  Don’t you love it?  I have to admit that I was going to try to recreate it but I had a problem when I inked the bag.  It didn’t seem to dry very fast, even when I used the heat tool.  I knew I couldn’t use that technique in my Halloween class so I came up with my own little treat bag.  I do think I’ll have to try this one from convention again.  It’s so stinkin’ cute!

So finally, here’s the project I came up with.  I call it a treat bag card.  Instead of inking the treat bag directly I just kept the bag plain and designed a card to go in it!  Much easier to replicate in class.

Instead of inking the bag I just inked a piece of card stock.  Now I had a cute candy corn card to put in my bag and I still had room for treats!  🙂

I thought of putting one of the cute spider web doilies on the front under the “trick or treat” but I wanted to make sure you could see the candy corn.

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Isn’t this bear adorable?  If you like him you need to check out his little buddies fox and hare in the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set.   Stinkin’ cute!

Did you notice that I used my favorite corrugated paper on this card?  It just adds so much to the card.  I really miss Stampin’ Up!’s textured card stock.  Even though the texture was subtle it added a little something-something to the card.  But now they have corrugated card stock!  Woo Hoo!  I wish they had it in ALL the colors!  🙂

I did have to “fancy cut” the bear since there aren’t any framelits for this stamp set.  I tell you…a girl gets spoiled….!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

If you’re like me, you love a deal!  Do you ever check out Stampin’ Up!’s Weekly Deals or the Clearance Rack?  Do you know that you can check them both out on my website?  Both can be found at the top of the left-hand section.

Below you can find this week’s Weekly Deals.  Hmmm….what should I order?  I think I’ll definitely get some of the Old Olive Baker’s Twine.  It will be perfect  for those Christmas projects!  What are you going to order?

I just checked out the Clearance Rack.  Wow!  There’s a lot of stuff on there.  Do you remember the Halloween Wreath from last year?  Well, they have the kit for it in the Clearance Rack now for only $10.79 (item #135866).  They were pretty darn cute.  There’s still plenty of time to order yours and get it ready for the big day!

Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!

Hello!  Isn’t this the perfect card just to send someone to let them know you’re thinking about them?  I received the original of this card at convention.  I didn’t change it too much but I did have to add another layer or two!  😉

That’s the great thing about participating in swaps.  You get so many great ideas to use as is or just as a starting out point for your own idea.

Have you tried out these fun new Greetings Thinlits yet?  They’re perfect for adding a little greeting to your card.  You can’t tell from the picture but on this card I actually die cut the “hello” out of the red card stock so that see through to the black.  What a fun idea!

When you use these Thinlits the best way to cut them out is to use wax paper and a dryer sheet.  Place the bottom cutting pad on the Magnetic Platform.  Now place your dryer sheet, card stock, wax paper and then finally your Thinlit before adding the top cutting pad.  Run through the Big Shot and you ta-da!  Your greeting should pop right out.  No poking through all of the little holes to get the card stock unstuck from the Thinlit.  I love this little hint!

Don’t forget to use the fabulous new Fine-Tip Glue Pen to adhere your greetings to your project.  Have you tried this new adhesive?  I LOVE it!  It makes adhering small things to your projects a snap!  The great thing about this pen other than the wonderfully fine tip is that the lid has a pin in it so that the tip never gets clogged!  Check out this Stampin’ Up! video for more tips on this great new product.

Here’s another fun little tip I used on this card.  I actually colored my Basic Rhinestone Jewels with a red Sharpie marker!  Yep…you can color both the rhinestones and the pearls.  A great way to match the colors on your cards.

So much information for you!  Ha!  Have a great day!  Take care and Happy Stamping!