Chocolate Centerpieces!!!

My dad just had his 60th birthday and we gave him a Surprise Bday party. For the tables, we actually just spread chocolate out on them, but later I thought how simple and cute this would have been.

I just cut these two Hershey's kiss/chocolate chip shaped papers out of brown cardstock and cut a slit in the top of one and in the bottom of the other and put them together. How easy is that?! These are actually only about 4 inc tall? But if you did them larger and put Hershey's kisses around them, I think it would be adorable! You could also stamp a sentiment on the paper kiss if you go larger.

Bummed

Okay-I really did do some Valentines projects, but then gave them away before I remembered to take pics of them. Bummer!

I made some cute little post it holders to sit on desks with the clear acrylic frames. I used the stamp "I Stink you're Sweet" (with the skunk) and used the colors: bright pink, black and white and even found a heart shaped post-it notepad to put on it. They really were cute. Then I added an RSVP pen with matching paper inside it. I put them in a heart shaped basket along with a candle and candy and added some fru-fru-ey (sp?) ribbon to the handle and my kids gave them to their teachers for Valentines Day.

I so wish I had pics of them! I also found some apple shaped post-its and thought they would be too cute done the same way with my Teacher-bella stamp on the acrylic frames. I'll have to make one soon and show it to you.

I had planned on making more to go along with the notepad holder, but didn't have the time, so maybe I can work on some more projects this week. But then again, I have 3 other cards/projects I started before the holidays that are still unfinished as well as several ideas I have wanted to make since then as well. I need to find more time!!!!!!!!!

Have a great day!

Additions

I don't usually show these step by step processes, but maybe you can give more criticism this way? I also don't usually take this long to figure things out. But I am out of the habit of stamping.

Do you like this clip on it better?

I think I am done with this card. I like it now, not a fav, but I do like it.

Much better...

It's getting there...

Step by step...

I tried adding background to the pink too, but I didn't like it-decided I liked it blank.

Princess Card

I mdae one of these in another color scheme last year for one of my nieces when she was baptized to help her remember that she is a daughter of Heavenly Father, therefor a daughter of royal birth. I told her when she wears it, to remember how much her Heavenly Father loves her.

So, I made another for another niece this weekend-different colors though...and the way they look in the pic is not as pretty as in person-they are so saffron and ???? a dark lavender.

Anyway...I still like it. I love how it matches the necklace box. And I love this poem. (I printed it from my computer.)

Too busy though?

Too many Dots

Here is another effort at the color challenge and Sketch challenge combined (again) this week.

SC214 & CC204A: Creamy Cameo Olives
(Creamy Caramel, Cameo Coral, Old Olive)

I don't like the way this card turned out. I like the colors...and the layout, so it's just me that messed it up. :) Too many dots...and it needs background stamping...I had planned on doing it and then somehow got ahead of myself and didn't realize that I had skipped that step, until the whole thing was put together...maybe I'll try again.

I tried to bleach out the middle of the owl inside the embossing of it (the owl is embossed on.), but it only seemed to somewhat work on this color. I've done it another time when it worked much better...have to keep working on that.

I also altered the size of the card to a larger square.

Ever heard of challenges?

How long has it been? FOREVER!!!!! Hopefully I am on the upswing back!
I got this "new" (retired) set off ebay and it came today! Even my husband said it was good one! Great for valentines from my boys right? I love it! Among others, I also want Darling Dragons, and have looked for Scouts at play for years? but never catch it at a price I will pay and miss it when it goes for less.

Anyway-wanted to make a cute card and the fastest way I know is by using sketches and color challenges, so here are this past week's challenges together! SC213 and CC203 Not my best work, but it's still a fun card and a start back. :)

CC203: Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point

FTTT Sat!!!

I missed yesterday's FTTT, but had planned to post this. (I am just a little under-the-weather and not working at my normal pace.)

I found this pkg of three frames in Target's Dollar Spot (but it was $2.50...they suck you in there! and then put things in there at a higher price! Darn Dollar Spot!) LOL It was still a good deal. (Even cheaper than the $1 store I figured...) They came in white, black or a natural wood color. (And honestly, I got some of all three colors for different places in my house.) One thing I was unsure of was if they came with a hook in the back to hang them up on...it is always such a pain to have to add those...BUT! They did! In fact, they all came with black ribbon attached to a clippy thing on each side of the frame, so Yeah! :)I recently took a bunch of pics of my daughter (collage of them above) and had so many I liked, I thought this was a perfect and inexpensive way to display them...so I printed them as 4x6's (so cheap!) and got three pkgs of these frames and for under $10 for everthing...wala!

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Questions for any of you reading this-what do you think about adding some of the rub-ons to the frames? I'm kinda unsure here... 1) of how well it will work-they aren't a flat frame, 2) Do I like it better this way and then if I get them on and don't....?? 3) Color of rub-ons? Black would look sharp, but there really isn't anything else black in her room...I am planning on painting her room soon and decorating it all. I was going to make her a lavender and green bedspread (I bought the fabric 2? years ago) but she is sooo infatuated with pink, I am rethinking that...then I thought pink and green...but now I am thinking pink, yellow and brown? I think I like that last one best, but don't know that she will...

I'm also thinking of blowing one pic up to put a larger one in the center...of course I would have to add a couple more around the outside to make them all go around the larger one...but I think I could find some more poses I liked. ;)

Suggestions/Comments/Ideas on all of the above?

(The pic is them laying on my l.r. floor...I haven't put them up yet-waiting to paint first.)

Dorothy's shoes

I had the idea of this card before Christmas, but just recently found the time (or TOOK the time) to try and all of my ideas together. It honestly is not "good enough" for me still-not what I envisioned still, think I can get better still...but here it is for now...apparently a work-in-progress. (It's taking me awhile to get back into a groove with stamping. The more often I stamp, the faster and better the cards seem to come, and I haven't stamped in forever!)

I used the pine needles from the Fantastic Foliage set to make the Christmas tree and added some rhinestones for some sparkling Christmas lights. Then I used the shoes from Humor in High Heels for the shoes and some red glitter embossing powder to make them Dorothy's shoes. Originally, I only embossed them (the outside of them). Later I decided to add some glue and more glitter to cover them all.

The sentiment I printed on my computer and kinda did a play on words between the show "Wizard of Oz" and the Christmas song. Get it? ;) I wish they had included a stamp with this set that said "There's no place like home". You could use it as a miss you card that way, also as card to let people know you moved, or as a housewarming card, all kinds of things...

Anyway-it's a work-in-progress like I said...maybe I will have it perfected for next Christmas! Haha!

(Sorry the pic is not that great too-took it at night, when I had to use the flash...it is an olive type freen, real red, and so saffron in color.)

Club night-Perpetual Bday calendar

For our stamp club night this past week, we made a perpetual Birthday Calendar (a calendar where you list people's bdays that you can hang and use every year).

I actually started one of these several months ago and actually included a corner of it in a pic of sneak peaks to come, but never finished it....so Yeah! I finally did now!

I like some months better than others. The cover is really simply embossed, but honestly it will never even show. It was a great project for the beginning of the year and we used all kinds of products, from embossing, to water colors, to markers, to ink, to all kinds of stamp sets, and on and on!

The pages were just made on the computer (I have them in Word if anyone wants me to send them the attachment, just let me know.) I have a binding machine as well, that we used to bind them all together.

I think I like April, July, and November the best. Originally I thought I would stamp more in the middle and all over, but after doing a few, I decided that I liked it better at the top and bottom alone. I needed to stamp off more on a few though, b/c when I went to write in bday names, the ink was too dark and made it hard to see the names on some. (Ex: Jan)

After the pics were taken, I also used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole in it to hang on a nail as well.

Thanks S!

True?

Stamping is cheaper than therapy.

Yummies!

This post is just for fun...thought someone might benefit from it. (I'm also posting it on my family's blog, so sorry if I am doubling up posts for some of you...)

Made these yesterday and they are just soooo easy and yummy...I thought I would share. (My variation of the PB Kiss cookies)

Take one box of chocolate cake mix. Add two eggs and 1/3 cup cooking oil and mix. Drop spoonfuls onto cookie sheet and cook at 365. It's hard to tell when they are done, since they are brown anyway. Cook until they begin to crack all over the top and take out. Put Mint Hershey's kisses on top and let cool.

Wala!

(These cookies are also good made without the kisses and adding chocolate chips, white choc chips, PB chips or Andes mints ships to the batter instead.)

Target's $1 spot

Here are a couple more finds I got last week at the Dollar Spot. I'm excited to do some fun things with them soon.A box of notepaper to alter (above) (Funny sidenote too: On Splitcoast under the Technique challenge for today, they are making origami boxes which resemble this too. They look so cute and easy to boot! I might try one later today if I can find the time. Here are the directions from splitcoast if you want to look it up.)
Keychains where you can insert whatever you want (above)
Here are a few examples where I just printed from my computer to give them away to children at church this year for birthdays. The pics are all related to the theme for the year. They can put them on the zipper of their scripture bags.

I also want to stamp some. They would also be great for ID's for backpacks.

More posts later this week!

FTTT FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

Well, I have several things in the making for FTTT, but here's a blast from the past for this week...

MAILBOXES are back at TARGET's dollar spot!

Here are a few that I did last year...

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They are so easy and fun to dress up and fill with whatever you like. I have given baby gifts away in them, teacher gifts (filled with post-its, decorated paper clips and pends, notepades, stamped magnets on tile, etc.) and even given some away empty as a thank you for babysitters!
They usually go fast! Go get 'em now!

Promises! Promises!

It feels like it has been forever since I have posted or had to time to "create" something...and I actually do have so much I want to share-just have not had the time to finish and post. Later this week though-I promise! :)

Hope that everyone had a great holiday season!