Vintage Bunny Decor

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have a quick project today---no stamping---just some diecutting, fussy-paper-cutting and a little bit of layering to make a sweet little Easter decoration!  Check it out:

This isn't real big; it's only about 3 1/2" tall.  I used the largest Excellent Egg die to cut out some digital papers that I got from Crafty Secrets almost ten years ago!  I mounted the diecut egg on another  egg diecut, cut from some sturdy cardboard, then printed out an Easter postcard from the Graphics Fairy, scaled it to fit my egg and did some fussy-cutting of the bunnies and the sentiment, which is popped up:

I added a little crochet embellishment on the top and that was it!  I did create a little easel for the back so that it could stand up easily:

I am going to enter this at Inspire.Create, where they're looking for anything but a card, as well as Shopping Our Stash, which is looking for spring and/or Easter! And Little Red Wagon is looking for animals, so I am tossing it in the ring there as well!

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	none
Card stock & Papers	Computer paper, Chicken Farm Digital papers (Crafty Secrets), Digital Vintage Postcard (The Graphics Fairy), Cardboard
Ink	none
Accessories	Crochet Trim (ret), Thread
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Excellent Eggs Dies

FMS315 and Inspired By #75 Snowy Gift Bag

Happy Monday, peeps!  Did you have a good weekend?!  Ours was a WHIRLWIND, it was all fun but I will be happy to chill a little bit today!  I have another gift bag I made for the hostess who invited us to dinner on Saturday night!  It uses the theme from Inspired by All the Little Things as well as the sketch from FMS:

I apologize for the poor photography, but it was a challenge to get a good picture!  

I used some retired holiday papers; the Swirly Scribble die in some pale green glimmer paper; a banner and some ice skates and a snowflake!  I added some sequins and some glimmery ribbon as well!

And here's what was inside the little bag:

 

My friend has a beautiful home and her favorite color is red!  I hoped she would like a little hand-knit Santa!  In hindsight, I wish I hadn't added the glitter, but she said she loved it!  If you'd like the pattern, you can find it at Garnstudio HERE.  I changed mine up a wee bit as I didn't have the right yarn for the beard, and I didn't felt mine, but I think he is still cute!  And speaking of Santa, he came a little early to Cassidy's house:

This is Eden!  Personally, I think she should be called Star...look at that little star on her chest!

Do you think Cassidy loves her?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Stamp Ink Paper challenge!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Sage Glimmer Paper (Close to My Heart), SU Christmas DSP (ret, can't remember the name of it)
Ink	Pool Party
Accessories	Lost Lagoon Shimmer Ribbon, Snowflake and Star Sequins, (all ret), Petite Cafe Bag
Tools	Big Shot, Swirly Scribbles Thinlit, Ice Skate Die (Impression Obsession 335-A)

PCC222 Scottie Christmas

Happy Monday, peeps!  We had a nice weekend....attended John's work Christmas party, went to an open house, participated in a little craft class with some neighbors, got our tree...it's not UP yet, but we got it!  Today, hopefully, we'll get it up and decorated!  I am still making Christmas cards and I was in a Scottish mood, so I snagged the Paper Craft Crew sketch for this week and went to work:

These papers from Carta Bella's Christmas Delivery are some of my favorites for this year!  They matched my little Scottie (I think the name of the company is Lost Picture Stamps....they used to be on etsy) so sweetly:

The green banner is from KaiserCraft's Home for Christmas pad; the stitched mat (Lil'Inker) is cut from Old Olive.  I made a tag from an old Cuttlebug die and stamped the sentiment (Our Daily Bread Designs Mini Tag Sentiments) on it in Riding Hood Red ink, then added a candy dot and some twine:

It will be in the mail ASAP!  Thanks for popping in today!

Here are the crafts we made on Saturday....the first was my introduction to felting; we made a little felted snowman with washers, wool roving and some other craft supplies:

Every time I look at him I laugh, because his orange "carrot" nose looks more like a beak than a nose! I'll do better next time!

We also made a quick little folded star ornament.  My neighbor used this tutorial to show us how to make them:

I still need to add a gold cord to the top for hanging, but I wanted to share it, it was so pretty!  Easy, too!  I plan to make some more of these!

Enjoy your day!

Winter Shadowbox

Hello, peeps!  Happy Monday!  Today I am sharing the Winter Shadowbox I created for a class.  I must say, it was a lot of fun to create and the girls who made it said they loved it as well!  Lots of goodies to peruse:

 

I know the photo is not the best as it is hard to photograph through glass, but hopefully you'll get the idea!  The frame is 8x8" and is from JoAnn's, and each square is 2".  If you have any questions about any of the supplies, just send me an email and I'll get you all the details!  I will tell you that the designer paper is from Lawn Fawn, and each square is backed with Smoky Slate cardstock!

 

And 'tis the season:  Cassidy visited Santa at Dutch Wonderland last night....what a beautiful background and I heard the lights and decorations were very pretty!

Enjoy your day!  I might do some cookie baking today!

Shadowboxes

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Just a quick post today, I thought I would show you the project some of my customers made last night at Stamp Camp:

I originally got the idea for these shadowboxes from Julie Davidson; you can see her spring one here. There are lots of these out in blogland; it's so fun to see the ideas that everyone comes up with!   For my fall one, I used stamps, papers and products from several different companies.  (It makes me feel good to use those stamps I've purchased over the last twelve years, LOL!)   The frame is from JoAnn Fabrics.  Everyone seemed to like it, and I am looking forward to making one for winter as well.  Here is the summer one we did a couple of months ago:

If you have any questions about any of the products, just let me know!

Another photo from Dutch Wonderland....hatching from a dinosaur egg, LOL!

Enjoy your day!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players post, too!

Blue Kissmas Tree

Hi all, hope you're having a great Saturday!  This is a quick little post for today!  I have made lots of these cute Christmas trees with Hershey's kisses using Brenda Quintana's wonderful directions.  You can find them HERE.    I saw these pretty blue kisses at my local Ollie's store, and thought they would make a spectcular tree too!  So here we go: .

I used Pacific Point for the frame, and I did not use a Rollo for the trunk, but rolled up a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock and adhered it on with Crystal Effects;  I also used the "merry" from the Christmas Greetings dies, cut from silver glimmer paper and adhered it with a couple of glue dots.  I think this is so pretty in the non-traditional color!

I did find I needed to add about 1/8" more on each side of my frame to make the kisses fit a little better!  

No pix of Cassidy today, but I thought I would share with you what I found on my kitchen table this morning:  Amidst all the Christmas prep, we are getting NEW WINDOWS!  So my tree decorating is on hold, the house is a mess and DH had to trim the holly bushes in the front of our house to remove the storm windows....so he put some berries in a jar.  Aren't they pretty?

And since we are having temps about 25 degrees above average for the next few days, it is working out pretty well!  Enjoy your day!  I'll be back tomorrow with a new Paper Players challenge!

CCCB286 Oh Deer

Hi, everyone!  Hope you’re having a good week so far!  The City Crafter Challenge blog is encouraging us to get ready for Christmas with this fun inspiration photo:

The last couple of weeks have been spent making some items for a little craft show at my local Curves, and a couple of items had a deer theme, so I thought I’d share those.  The first is a card using a Tim Holtz diecut deer in Baja Breeze, mounted on some old, old Christmas paper I’ve had in my stash:

I am smitten with the sentiments from Papertrey’s new set called O Holy Night; such lovely snippets from verses and carols, I just love them!  It was stamped directly on the DSP with some Early Espresso ink. 

I also had a couple of these small jar candles from another project, so I pulled out some seasonal DSP, again featuring deer silhouettes, added a banner greeting, some twill ribbon and a tiny star-embellished tag, tied with some linen thread!  I love the country look of this one too…I think country and Christmas go together so well! 

We had some unseasonably warm temps yesterday, and Cassidy had no school, so I took her out for a long walk in the afternoon to collect acorns and hazelnuts; she likes to toss them in the creek that runs behind our house!

Into the creek they go!

Enjoy your day!