CDS New Lantern and Secret Bench

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Well today has been crazy as I was at the school today helping with the last of the Colonial days celebrations. I completely forgot to get my post pre-set for me and just now remembered. Clear Dollar Stamps new Templates are available today! You can see all the templates HERE or HERE.
This first one is called Secret Bench. The top of the seat lifts up and you can put candies or notes inside if you wish. The little pillow is made out of some chocolate squares with a scripture on the front.

Next is the template Lantern. This can be made either open if you have a baggie of goodies you want to put inside such as I have. Or you can added vellum or clear cardstock and add loose candy that way. The tag is from Antique ornaments with a bit of ribbon and silver cord.

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and Friends. Thanks for stopping in.

House Mouse Warm and Cozy Challenge

Welcome to House Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge 109 Warm Fuzzies. This challenge was brought to us by Vicki. Our sponsors this week (2 Prizes/2 Winners)DDD-3 Digi Downloads /Pizzazz Aplenty-$10 Gift Pkg Embellishments. Hope you get a chance to play along with us.
With all the cold weather and snow lately the hot chocolate has been in mugs across the table a lot lately. Infact we have gone through a whole deal of cocoa and it wasn't even the second week in November yet. ha! This house mouse is a new one for me and a gift from the twins. It is called Hot Cocoa Social. hee hee perfect! Used my MFT dienamics snowflake and added it to my ribbon bow with some silver cord and a button. This card speaks for itself on the warm fuzzies in more was than one. ha!

On another note finished re-upholstering the dining room chairs. My hands are hurting so bad from removing the staples but its worth the gorgeous dining chairs now. I will have photos for you later this week of before, during and after. Thanks for stopping in. Have a creative day!

CDS Thankful Blog Hop

Welcome to Clear Dollar Stamps Monthly Blog Hop, this month is Thankful. If you just arrived here from Shell's Blog you are in the right place. If you are just joining us head back on over to the CDS Blog and start at the beginning. For hopping along with us one lucky winner will receive a $25 Clear Dollar Stamps gift certificate for digital images! winners will be announced on Wed. Nov 23rd on the CDS Blog.

Simple card today as time is crazy at my house. I like how the sentiment is the focus though. I used Leaf Hellos for my card today. Added a bit of stickles to the leaf for fun. A button twine combo to tie it all together. Your next hopping place is over onto Jerusha's Blog. Have a creative day!

Birthday Surprise hop

Flourishes has a very special birthday today as it is Julie's birthday. What better way to celebrate with everyone from a far than with a blog hop of birthday cards for you. So head on over and wish Julie a happy birthday and see what everyone has created for Julie!

For my card the beautiful Orchids were talking to me so I colored them up in some girlie pinks from the Lenton Rose Copic Collection. These Orchids fit beautifully in our new Tailor-Made Classic Keyhole Die which is too cool! What card is complete without some pearls and lace to finish it off. This card is going out late to Julie however I know she will forgive me. :0) I hope you have a minute to wish Julie a happy birthday!
Be sure to stop by and see all the other birthday creations from everyone for Julie:

Jan Marie Caruso
Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Sharon Doolittle
Stacy Morgan
Tammy Hershberger
Beate Johns
Cindy Haffner
Heather Jensen
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Heather Jensen
Iwona Palmountain
Kathy Jones
Mona Pendleton
Yvonne Hagane
Laura Fredrickson

Snowglobe Gift Tag

Happy Friday! Flourishes is showing you a few last minute creations with the new sets from November. Don't forget the new release bundle ends today with the extra discount of 10% off the bundle pack.

This is a large picture so you can see the tag up close. Today I made a gift tag to show you with the Joy is in the Air set. I stamped the globe out on classic white paper then adhered that to some more paper to make the tag. Colored with a variety of the Copic Collections as you can see. The rim of the globe has liquid glass to make it shine and the snow has stickles for sparkle and yes again neither show in my photo. Sorry! Check out the fabulous creations from the DT today:

Christine
Cindy
Julie
Dawn
Danielle
Barbara
Tammy
Sharon

See you back here tomorrow as it looks like I have a post everday for the next week. Have a wonderful day.

Flourishes Mini Blog Hop

Over on the Flourishes blog we are doing a little mini blog hop with alterables. This summer at CHA a few of us fell in love with the Kaiser booth and the fabulous new alterables they came out with. This dress form below called Mannequin Die Cut had to be the favorite of all I believe. So we all decided to dress up and show you what we made.
For my dress form I have painted it in just some basic craft white paint front and back. Once this was dry I added scor pal tape to the back and actually layed it over my designer paper with all the edges left hanging out. I then took a knife and cut along the frame so that it was an exact fit for the wood frame. These gorgeous roses are actually not lavendar they are a caramel stone, however I sponged just the tips of them with some lavendar ink so you get the best of both worlds on color. Now you can add flowers in all colors just look at the variety! Here is a close up of the mid-section to see the lace and flowers closer. I just adore how this turned out. The wrinkled lavendar ribbon is perfect width as it doesn't hide the cotton ecru trim that I added at the waist and the same at the bottom. No dress is complete with out a few pearls.

This is a gift for a friend of ours teenage daughter and I know she is going to love it. Now hop on over to the girls and see what they came up with today! Miss Christine --- BLOG CANDY and Miss Cindy. Have a wonderful day!

Totally Stampalicious is going 3D

Totally Stampalicious is going 3D today with the challenge. This is the time of year when we're making little gifts for those special people in our lives so let's see what YOU'RE giving away this year. I used the adorable Poppi Cocoa for this darling stocking. It comes in red and green for a dollar at hobby Lobby. So I picked up a few as they make quick little gifts for friends children and it looks like I went to a lot of fuss. These will hold hot chocolate packages and a bookmark that I still have to make. The stocking is flet and really soft feeling which I like. There is liquid applique on the marshmallows and stickles on the penguins hat, however hard to see in the photo. Some ribbon and a few tiny bells added to the loop top and voila and easy peasy gift! Hope you get a chance to play along with us this week. Don't forget about our:
Stampalicious Dessert Menu
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