I made these gift bags for my female friends at my local postoffice. I am in there everyday mailing my EBAY items and they take very good care of me. I love bringing them little gifts once in awhile.
I found a really fast way for these flowers. I just cut 6 scallops, layered them and punched a hole for the brad. After I put the brad in, then I just took the top scallop and squished it toward the center. I did this with all the scallops but the bottom one. Then I just pushed them all down again.
Everytime I read about these flowers they would say to crumple each one separately. Who has time for that. This was so much easier and did the same thing.
Both of these cards I cut on the fold. It opens on the top. For the neck line, cut into cardstock with a circle punch, just enough to make the neck line. Then with the other color, cut alittle larger piece for the neck line.
First item "snowman soup" is the hot chocolate, marshmallows, candy kisses and candy cane for stirring. I also include for some of my friends a very small bottle of peppermint liquor for fun.
Second item I used a plastic sleeve 1" by 8". I got them from clearbags.com
Third item was just a large candy bar, but I made these for my son's co-workers.
Fourth item is a pillow box. It is clear and I also got them from clearbags.com. The size on them is about 2"x4". They fit the nugget candy bars well.
All gifts would be good for teachers, co-workers, bus drivers, etc.
For this card I punched a bunch of branches, mine was a "Martha stewart" punch. I did them in all colors of greens. The only problem was I put them thru a Xron machine and I could not get all the glue to just stay on the one side of the branches. On some of the top branches I just used a dab of double sided tape. I just kept putting the branches in a circle, no order at all.
For this card I used the "Spellbinders" mitten die. This was the 2nd largest die. I used two different sayings for my mitten cards 1. mittens warm your hands friends warm your hearts 2.warm winter wishes, warm winter wishes
These 2 cards I cut the shape and then embossed them. I used stickles on the snowflakes. I buy my colored jewels in the dollar section at Michaels. When I see different colors, I buy them so I have all colors on hand. You just never know what color you are going to need
All the paper and ink was from CTMH. These cards are so fast.
The ornament border punch that I used on these cards is from "Friskers". I bought it at Michaels. I am not that fond of Friskers punches, they just don't seem to work as well as others. I did like this one though because there is so much "ornament" stuff out there for stampers.
CTMH has a great deal in November. Spend $100.00 get the stamp of the month free and another set of your choice free. plus from me you get 20% off your order. WHAT A SUPER DEAL.
THEY FOLLOWING CARDS WERE MADE BY USING THE ORNAMENT PUNCH FROM STAMPIN UP.
The bottom card I used a mask to do the ornaments. I started with the blue one, masked that and then did the red, masked that then stamped the last one.
The vase card I just cut off the bottoms of the punch to make them look like a vase.
We have a great promotion this month at CTMH. If you spend $100.00 you get the stamp of the month FREE plus you get a $22.95 set FREE. This is any set of your choice.
These are all CTMH stamp sets that I used. Sorry the photos just do not do justice to the cards. I was posting at 4 a.m. and I guess my camera was mad at me.
Great News for November from CTMH. If you spend $100.00 you not only get the Stamp Of the Month FREE but you get another $22.95 set FREE. You get to pick any set you would like for your $22.95.
So, go to my web site to order in November or email me at kings48661@aol.com
GREAT NEWS IN NOVEMBER from CTMH. Purchase $100.00 of product and receive your stamp of the month FREE and also another $22.95 stamp set also FREE. What a great deal.
Order on my web site or email me at kings48661@aol.com for your order or any questions.
You will also get a special bonus just from me also.
The pencil case is the plastic type that you get when school is starting. You can get them really cheap and I just buy all the colors I will need for the year.
I wanted to show the new paper and stamps from CTMH.
The Halloween paper is so bright, I just love it.
The Christmas paper is very traditional. All the stamps are CTMH. On the X-mas cards I used the same color of paper and just reversed the colors. It gives two different looks.
I made about 10 of these cards in an hour. They were so fast and I wanted to show 2 different styles using the same set.
The card says "sending happy thoughts" on the outside. I thought if you made a bunch up you could stamp the insides when you needed them. Happy birthday, Get well, Just wanted to say hi, etc.