An Easy Hostess Gift (dressed up)

My good friend Stephannie is having her annual wine and cheese tonight and she has a different theme each year.  This year it is "Summer in December" so I wanted to make a small hostess gift that could go along with the theme.  

Here is what I came up with:

While at Target I picked up a cute little box in Christmas colors that could be filled with candy.  I picked up some yummy Lindt Lindor truffles to go in (dark chocolate and peppermint).  I wanted to decorate the box and since her theme was a summer theme I used Paper Doll Dressup to make a Summer Santa, a Palm tree and a cute sun (both Santa and the sun have a cute peachy keen face).  I just recently ordered some of the snow writer makers from http://www.markersupply.com/ because I had seen it several blogs (arrived in 2 days)!  I used it on Santa's beard and the brim of his hat.  I LOVE how it turned out.  I also did a little bit of embossing on the sand part of the palm tree to make it look more sandy!  Now I just hope I can keep from eating the candy before we get there!

PS:  I also plan to give her a snow marker inside of it because she is a crafter like me :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a crafty day.

Halloween Goodie Bags for Preschoolers and Teachers :)

Hello.  I saw these adorably decorated crayon boxes over on a My Creative Time designer's (Cathryn) blog http://inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-creative-times-july-stamp-release.html back in July and immediately bought the stamp set with the intentions of doing this (a similar version of it) for my daughter's preschool class.  Then a couple of weeks ago I was in Target and saw cute little Halloween notepads in the $1 section (6 in a pack) so I bought those also.  I decided this week to put them in with the crayons to make a goodie bags...of course that meant I needed toppers.  I also decided to make some goodie bags for her two teachers using an idea I had seen around on Pinterest and other sites. 

Here are the bags for the kids:  For the crayons I used the My Creative Time all around Halloween set, some plain paper from AC Moore and some patterned paper from K&Co.  For the bag toppers I used Art Philosophy to cut the square in 2 sizes, then I scored it in the middle.  On the top layer I added stitching via gelly roll pens, either a ghost from Paper Doll Dress-up or a pumpkin from Create a Critter.  Of course they needed a cute little Peachy Keen face :)  I printed the names all one piece of card stock on the computer then cut out using the center point feature and one of the cute tags on Art Philosphy.  I then used the Happy Halloween sentiment from my Pink by Design Guess Who set to add the sentiment.  Lastly, I used the bonus stamp that came with Septembers new order stamps from My Creative Time on the back of the bags :)

 

Here are the bags for the teachers:  I used the same process for the bag toppers as above but I printed the sentiment on orange paper first, then cut the square using Art Philosophy.  I then cut the ghosts from Paper Doll Dress-up and used some cute Peachy Keen faces on them.   I plan to make some of these for my office staff as well this weekend for Monday.

I hope the kids and teachers enjoy their goodie bags!  TFL!

St. Patrick's Day Part 2 :)

So I think maybe I overdid it for St. Patrick's Day this year...but the kids enjoyed it :)  I ended up making the boys a small little goodies using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge and just attached a think of mentos to the back.  I put them on their seats in the car before I picked them up from school, they loved the little surprise.  My won son loved it so much he took his leprechaun to school the next day to show his friends.  So sweet.  We also did the green macaroni and cheese.  It was just as delicious as when it is the regular old white receip I use (Ina Garten's recipe, it actually has tomotoes and bread crumbs on top but I did not take a picture after I did that part).  My hubby also made himself some green beer to go with his card I made him.  I could not decide which card to use from the Spring Holidays Cards cartrdige so I did a double sided card for his using the 2 I could not decide between!  Hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's Day!  TFL.