Fall Welcome

Merry Christmas Eve! I am still amazed at how fast this month has gone by! This is a gift that I made for my mother in law. She has a fall theme to her home along with lots of orange and brown tones. Hopefully this will fit right in with her decorations by the front door. I did have the kids sneak and ask her if she would hang something mom made for her. hee hee  She said yes so hopefully this will be well liked.

I first stamped out welcome using Letters in Blossom onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. My letters are colored using copic collections:

My leaves are from Falling Leaves that are stamped out the same and colored with the came copic collections. I have them all cut out individually and popped up onto dimesionals.

My paper is from the Color Made Easy Terra Cotta collection and Pistachio Collection. Added a few rhinestone flourishes along with the hints of fairy dust for sparkle. I really do like how this turned out and I hope she does as well. Enjoy your time with family and friends! Merry Christmas!

Mitten tutorial

Supplies

You need designer paper, solid card stock, ribbon, cord or twine, adhesive and embellishments

Step 1

For the shape of the mitten I simply drew around my hand on a piece of computer paper and curved the lines to look like a mitten. After traced I added the curves to look like mittens do and cut around the template. This gives you the option to make them any size you desire. You will want the back of the mitten to be sturdy card stock and the front can be more of a designer paper that is more flexible

Step 2

Next add adhesive to the outer layer of the solid card stock the base. You can do most of the thumb section as nothing will fit in that spot and it adds a bit of sturdness to the mitten.

Step 3

Adhere the mitten front out of the designer paper and press to secure the edges together. This is what it will look like with the hot cocoa inserted. This will help secure the edges as well by pressing down with hot cocoa in place

Step 4

Decorate as desired. I used Cute snowman for my image and some felt snowflakes. The edges of the mitten have some fake stitching around the edge as well. Hope you enjoy making some hot cocoa mittens

Cocoa Mitten Tutorial

Check out the Whiff Of Joy Tutorials and Inspiration Blog today as I have a tutorial on how I made this fun little hot cocoa mitten! Perfect little gift for friends, teachers, neighbors or whoever is left on your list this Christmas.
This Hot Cocoa Mitten tutorial can now be found at  SweetandClassic.com.  Hope you have a wonderful day!

A Happy Hello

A quick card today as I have family in town. This is a springy feeling card using Flourishes set Sentimental Favorites that I stamped onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. Like the fun shapes? They are using our new dies, this one is Perfectly Pierced Classic Window.

My papers are from the Color Made Easy Poppy collection and a piece from the Rich Browns collection as well.
These darling little flowers are from Prima and they seemed to fit the springy feel. I added some flourished rhinestones and some white lace trim with a bit of pink satin center band ribbon to the bottom. Voila! I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Birthday Wishes

Happy Friday! Christmas is just a few short days away, are you excited? The kids are out of school already and they are excited and enjoying break already. We got a little bit of snow flurries the other day but not much more than that. It is coming don't you worry! hee hee  Over on Flourishes Blog today we are showing some of our favorites and mine right now is the Winter Blossoms. Oh how I love this set infact all of the Blossoms Collection is just about awesome.

I stamped my image onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. My flowers are colored using copic collections:

Once colored I layered my blossoms panel onto some Color Made Easy Crocus Collection paper. Then grabbed the Color Made Easy Collection True blue for my base and added some of the  Echo Park Winter Wishes paper for another layer.

 Needed some ribbon and lace so I grabbed my white crochet lace for a layer, then tied off some Color Made Easy Crocus ribbon for a bow that is tied off with a Color made Easy Button. Voila a birthday card that I already used for my Mother In Law recently. yea! Be sure to check out the favorites from the Design Team Today:
Christine
Cindy
Julie
Danielle
Tammy
Heather
Silke

Christmas Goodies

Every year we make some goodies for our friends at Christmas. Well I say "we" loosely as I do all the baking. ha! However the kids and DH love the leftovers after all the gifts are packed up. I always make chex party mix, rice krispie treats and then a new recipe for the third goodie. This year I packaged up the goodies in these clear window bags. Used some dp for the top and bottom panels. My sentiment panel is using Flourishes new die Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass. Before I took the die off the classic white cardstock that my die is cut from I sponged some caramel ink to shade the background a bit then I stamped my sentiment from Christmas Classics that is stamped using memento tuxedo black ink.

The poinsettia is from Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia die as is the leaf. I have them all popped up on dimensionals with fairy dust added for sparkle. Tied my red wrinkled ribbon around the top with two bells from the local craft store and voila! Wonderful little goodie gift that I might add they all loved and ate instantly. hee hee  Hope you have a wonderful day!

Masculine gift tag

Good Morning! Today started early and I am already exhausted, it's only about 10 right now. EEK! My Whiff Of Joy winner is listed below this post if you are looking for that!
Well I worked on some more gift tags for a friend of mine and several masculine ones were needed. This is what I came up with, what do you think? I like how it turned out and not too frilly other than a little ribbon. The Timeless Tuesday Challenge today is the 200th challenge, whohoo!  The challenge is Dec the Tree Trimmings. My tag doesn't fit the occasion as it does not go on the tree, but it does go on a gift. Check out the FLLC Blog and play along if you have time.  

I stamped out my images from Naturally Merry onto classic white cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. I colored my images using copic collections:

Once colored and cut out (yes we have SVG file and Silhouette cut files for this set) I forgot as I was already cutting! Anyways added some dimensionals to the back and set them aside. Grabbed some of the beautiful Color Made Easy Pistachio collection paper and die cut out the fun Perfectly Pierced Classic Window for the shape.

Then matted it down onto some Color Made Easy Rich Browns paper for the last layer. Tied off my ribbons from both the Color Made Easy Ribbon Collection Pistacchio and Rich Browns with a button and some ivory jute. Those fancy brad looking items are called Candi in Metallique Steel and I really am loving these on projects. Voila a masculine gift tag. I hope today is great for all of you and happy stamping if you ahve time!