Halloween treat tin

I made these cute Halloween tins to give my family. I plan on filling them with peanuts, candy corn, and m&m's (tastes like a snickers bar). Again, all papers are from the DCWV Fall paper pack - I just love how all of their papers go together. I added black ribbon around the edge of the cover. For the top of the cover I cut a circle out of black with orange polka dot paper (again in the same fall pack) and added an orange button. Sorry that the pictures are not of better quality, I think my camera is on it's last leg.

Thanksgiving treat tin

This is one of seven treat tins that I made to give for a Thanksgiving treat. I stamped avery labels with the label stamp from the PaperTrey Halloween set using SU inks. Then I covered Hershey Nuggets with the labels. All of the paper used on the outside of the tin is from DCWV Fall paper stack. I added the button for the finishing touch.

Never enough bottles...

Boy did I find a deal yesterday! I was able to buy 2 cases of these nice glass bottles for 2 cents a bottle! That's right - 150 bottles for only $3.00! They measure 4.5 inches tall by 1 inch wide. I am in the process of moving all of my beads from drawers into these bottles. They will look so pretty sitting on the skinny shelf that is right above my craft desk.
I have been busy cleaning and organizing my craft room and it is almost done - look for pictures of the new space this weekend.

further testing shows...

NOTE: Yesterday I sent an email to clearsnap to ask them about this issue - I will let you know what they say should they get back to me.

It was suggested that maybe the pigments in each of these colors had settled to the bottom of the pads, and to rub the pads with the back of a spoon to bring the pigments back to the pads surface. I went one step further and actually re-inked each of my pads. These are the results. The squiggly line was done by dipping a paint brush into the ink itself, and the flower was done by inking it from the freshly inked pad. I do not see any drastic change - do you?

Are our eyes deceiving us???

Yesterday Patricia asked the question on Gingerwood "Am I Crazy?" She was wondering if 2 of the colorbox chalk inks looked identical in color. So I did a test to see and here are "my" results. Decide for yourself, but in my opinion, these 3 colors are so close that they could be perceived as identical to the naked eye.

Envelope and Card with no stamping...

(envelope)

(card)

Today I thought I would share a 1st b-day card, with matching envelope, that I made for a special little boy. They were both made using DCWV papers. The packs that I used to make the card were "Nana's Kids"background papers and the Spring solids. I just love the DCWV paper packs - lots of nice papers for a reasonable price, especially when JoAnn Fabrics has them for 40% off. There is the cutest alphabet background paper in the Nana's Kids pack and I thought it would be cute to cut out the blocks to spell his name. Then I took cooridinating paper to make the cards bottom border. That is one of the nice things with DCWV paper packs, the papers all cooridinate.

The envelope was made using coordinating paper from the same pack as the card.

I think it turned out really cute and was so fast and easy to make - that's the best part!

http://www.diecutswithaview.com/ check it out if you have never seen the DCWV paper.

Gotta love tins!

Today I thought I would share a picture of my latest online purchase - TINS! Are these not the coolest things or what? As you can see in the photo, the tea tin has a cover with a seal so that nothing will spill out. I can think of so many things to put in the tea tins. Besides the normal tea, hot chocolate, or flavored coffee mixes, I'm thinking of things like Puppy Chow, Gorp Mix, Chex Mix, a stack of homemade cookies, homemade fudge or caramels. How about bath salts with a nice shell as the scoop? If you have an idea, please share it with me!

Now onto the little tin box with the clear cover. I bought these to put Hershey Nuggets in - a dozen fit perfectly in this box! I'm sure I will come up with other things to put in these tins as they are so cute!

Thanks to Gingerstamp, owner of Gingerwood http://www.gingerstamp.com/ telling me where to buy these for cheap, I have been able to buy the tin box for only 80 cents each, and the tea tins for only 98 cents! I purchased them from "Specialty Bottles" https://www.specialtybottle.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=33 Great service and very fast shipping!

A card to share

Since my room still isn't in any shape to create, I thought I would share a card I made a while back. I love using paint chips on cards and here is just one example on how I use them.

bloggin...here I go....

I've enjoyed reading people's blog's for quite some time now and decided that maybe I should start my own. So, here goes. I hope to start sharing my stamping and crafting addiction with you all very soon...first I need to clean and organize my craft room so that I can actually create some things again. As you can see from the photos, it may take me awhile but once it's done, it will be so nice!