Christmas card

I thought this picture that I took looked so Christmasy that I wanted to make it into a Christmas card for my DH. I think notecards are going to be a must! Happy Holidays to each and everyone of you! :)Shellie

Frosty Wonderland

I woke up this morning to a Frosty Wonderland in Hutchinson, MN. Everything is covered in a beautiful white frost and I just had to snap some quick pictures of my crab apple tree.

Plastic Purse made from box

Nicole Heady is my idol! lol. She keeps coming up with the coolest ideas every month and I don't know how she does it! If I could have half of her creativity, I'd be in heaven. Yesterday on her blog http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2007/12/2-1.html she showed us how to make a cute little purse using the plastic gift boxes for cards that they sell at Papertrey. Well since I don't have any of those boxes, I decided to try using the plastic boxes that PaperTrey packages their stamp sets in (I knew I was saving them for a good reason!). It's so easy to make these purses. All you do is cut the box in half, and then line the inside with decorative paper. I added a flap to my purse but you wouldn't need to. Then I just used ribbon for my handle. I punched a hole on each side of the purse, threaded my ribbon through, and tied a knot. This purse will be so fun to slip a gift card into or another small gift. Here is a full view of the purse.

And here is a close up of the purse.

Daycare Christmas Ornaments

I decided to start giving my Daycare children hand-made Christmas ornaments, starting with this year. So here is this year's ornament. I stamped the snowman onto transparency sheets and colored it using pemanent markers. Then I wrote the childs name and the year. I cut it out into the right size circle, rolled it up, and slipped it into the ornament. I filled the back half of the ornament with fake snow. The snowman was a $ stamp I bought at JoAnn's.

hand made gift boxes...

Today I am sharing 2 gift boxes complete with ribbon and bows that I made using nothing more than paper and tape! Thanks to Jacki (a fellow Gingerwoodie) for sending me to this http://picasaweb.google.com/wyobart website for the instructions to make these boxes. I do not know the owner of the website other than her name is Susie. These boxes are so fun to make and absolutely stunning in my opinion! To make the 2 boxes shown, I used papers from DCWV (winter and Christmas) packs. The nice thing about using these packs is that every paper cooridinates!

Here is a lime green box, with plaid lid, and polka dot ribbon/bow.
This one is a cranberry red, with green patterened lid, and polka dot ribbon/bow.

And here is a close up of the bows. These boxes end up being 4 x 4 inches - just the perfect size for my hand made Christmas ornaments I am making for my daycare children.

Christmas tree ornament and card

Karen, an online friend of mine, told me about this http://www.tallmouse.com/projects/xmas/apricelessgift/index.htm cute little project. I loved the idea of it but wanted to make mine a bit different. So I decided to turn mine into a Christmas tree ornament for my parents, and my siblings. I like to give each of them something little for every Holiday and thought this would be nice.
The box was purchased at Target in the wedding section. You get 50 plain white boxes for around $12.00 I believe. I stamped it with snowflakes using Encore inks. I then wrapped the ribbon around it, and made the bow out of cooridinating paper. I added silver cording for the hanger.

This is the card I made to go with the ornament. Just like the box, I stamped snowflakes using the Encore inks. I will simply slip it behind the ribbon when I present the gift to my family members. They can either leave it there, or take it out before hanging it on the tree. It reads:

"We took an ordinary box as empty as can be, we filled it with a special gift, and wrapped it carefully. But please don't ever open it, just leave the ribbon tied, and hold it tightly near your heart, because our love for you's inside."

Little snowman

I had a lot of fun making this card. The snowman is a clear stamp from one of the $ sets that G studio makes. I stamped him, colored him, and then cut around him. I cuttlebugged the bottom paper to make it look like piles of snow. It was fine but I thought that it still needed something else so I stippled "snowqueen" radiant pearls over it and that did the trick. The background paper is from DCWV winter set. You can't tell from the scan but this card has dimension to it. The snowman is raised with 1 layer of foam tape, and the cuttlebugged snow is raised with 2 layers of foam tape.

Snowflake nugget tin

I LOVE making nugget tins and today I am sharing one of the 4 that I made last night. I used Encore Metallic inks and in person they are nice and shiny. I think the inks look really nice paired up with the silver of the nugget wrappers and the silver of the tin. I happened to find the perfect ribbon to match and the silver cord adds the final touch.

Christmas gift bag

Today I wanted to share a plain white gift bag that I spruced up a bit. All I did was take 3 cooridinating background papers, tear the top edge of each one, and layer them onto the bag. Then I took matching ribbon to tie the bag shut. Inside I put some fun lotions and bubble baths and had it as a door price at a candle party that I hosted.

Wanna know how I decided who got the gift? Well if you look at the post below this one, you will see a candy wrapped in a decorated christmas label. I put that, along with undecorated ones, in a candy dish and set them out at my party for the guests. The one who picked the decorated one won the gift! It was pretty fun waiting for someone to pick the decorated one...it was ALMOST the last one picked!