Beautiful Baby

We just had a couple of friends who had babies. Duane's cousin had a baby boy, and some friends had a baby girl. And no baby cards on hand! These were really fast to put together, and I just love how they look like baby onesies!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Beautiful Baby (retired)

Ink: Groovy Guava (retired)

Paper: Whisper White, Groovy Guava DSP (retired)

Accessories: Metallic Eyelets, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Groovy Guava Ribbon

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Beautiful Baby (retired)
Ink: Blue Bayou (retired)
Paper: Whisper White, Blue Bayou DSP (retired)
Accessories: Metallic Eyelets, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Blue Bayou Ribbon

November Club

It's club time again! We have a great Thanksgiving card, and 2 cards that go with home-made gifts. Nothing better than a home-made gift these days!

Okay, so this first card really makes me smile. I just LOVE the 3-d pumpkin. I am not sure that it will mail well, but pop an extra stamp on it, and I bet it would! The bottom edges of each layer is torn (great therapy to tear paper) and sponged.


Here is a close up of the 3-d pumpkin. It is made up of 8 scallop oval punches that are sponged on the edges. And a litle piece of scrap Old Olive curled up for the stem. :)

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Falling Leaves

Ink: Soft Suede

Paper: More Mustard, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Accessories: Soft Suede Ribbon, Scallop Oval Punch

Technique: Sponging, Tearing

Anyone make home-made salsa, jelly, bread, cookies, pasta? Anything that you make and give as a gift would look great topped with this cute little apron, don't you think? Write the recipe on the card and makes a great gift topper. Make sure you fill in the yum factor! :)

Recipe:

Stamp Set: From the Kitchen of

Ink: Choclate Chip

Paper: choclate chip, Real Red, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Old Olive Ribbon, Sleigh Bells Ribbon, Round Tab Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Jumbo Eyelets

And this last one is great packaging for those of you who gift photo cd's or dvd's for Christmas. This is a great CD case that I found a tutorial for here. Very easy tutorial to follow!

This is a shot of the back of the CD case.
Recipe:
Stamp Set: Sweet Celebrations (retired)
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Paper: Kraft, Old Olive, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall DSP
Accessories: Velcro circle, Rich Razzleberry Ribbon, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Build a Daisy Die, 5/8" Jumbo Brad

See ya gals tonight! Anyone want to join club? Contact me!

Crystal Lite anyone?

This would be a 're-claimed' Crystal Lite container that I have altered into gift packaging! Take advantage of items in your house that you would normally throw away and turn them into hand-crafted items!

This was easy to do - just wrap some DSP around your container, and then do some festive ribbon.

The best part, I think, of the whole package is the bow on top!! I am in love with it! You can find the tutorial here. Its WAY easy to make! This packaging AND bow used 1 sheet of designer paper. Looks quite fetching, don't you think? It already has a gift in it. Can you believe I already have a Christmas present ready and wrapped? me neither . . .

Recipe:
Paper: Ski Slope DSP (retired), Real Read
Accessories: Alpine Ribbon, Brad, Dimensional, Glue Dot

I think I will have to add a gift tag to it too. Don't want the recipient to already know what they are getting their gift in! :)

Merry Snowmen

Now, if these are the cutest little row of snowmen, I don't know what are! :) I love coloring their hats and scarves, and using the chunky glitter for the snow is perfect!

Yet another round of my Christmas cards. This one was super easy and very geometrical!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: The More the Merrier, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White

Accessories: Dimesionals, Chunky Glitter, Sponging

Felt Flurry Christmas

This will be the first of many Christmas card posts I have coming. I decided that if I started earlier this year, I would have a better chance of getting them done on time! (and not stress about them).

This card uses quite a few retired items . . . I hung onto the fabulous felt flurries from the Holiday Mini last year. They look great on a Christmas card, and the card is perfectly mailable with a few flurries on it! I used Tombow adhesive to adhere them to the card.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Best Yet (retired)

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White, Ski Slope DSP (retired)

Accessories: Dimensionals, Felt Flurries (retired), Baja Breeze Ribbon (retired)

Now if only we would get some real flurries around here . . .

Tile Coasters Class

Okay guys! The tile coaster class is here! These make the perfect gift for someone (or yourself!!) You can personalize them, or leave them generic and have some on hand! I am here to help you create beautiful hand-made gifts for this holiday season!!!!

I will provide the tiles and the stamps (you can use whatever I have on hand) - you provide the creativity! I will have samples on hand for you to look at, but you can do whatever you like! I have 8 or 10 craft ink pads - if you have any you want to bring - feel free!

Here are some reminders of tiles I have done here.

So - here's the deal. $8 gets you a set of 4 coasters (with felt pads on the back so that you don't scratch your furniture) wrapped up in ribbon.

My house - this Sunday the 8th. I'll do it open house style from 4-7:30 p.m., so you can come when it is convienent for you!!!

RSVP to my email: tiffbell@hotmail.com or cell 697-1387 if you are coming and how many sets of coasters you wanna do!!!! Let me know by Friday the 6th so that I have enough supplies on hand!

Candy Stocking Stuffer

Halloween is over, which means it is time to start thinking about Christmas! I don't know about your family, but my family gets really excited about stocking stuffers. Overboard, is actually a better word! This year there are going to be lots of handmade stuffers! These may find their way into a few stockings . . .




The ribbon is tied around the candy bar and works as a slide to get the candy out of the belly band wrapper. These candies were on sale 2/$1 last week at Walgreens. I sure do LOVE a sale!

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Christmas Punch
Ink: Wild Wasabi (retired)
Paper: Real Red, Wild Wasabi (retired), retired DSP
Accessories: Bashful Blue Ribbon, Dimensionals

Mini Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! These are 2 quick cards I made for Lynsay's kiddos. Little 3x3 cards are a fun way to go if you don't want to do the whole card!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Booglie Eyes (retired)

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Old Olive

Accessories: Black Embossing Powder, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Eat Drink and Be Scary

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss (retired), Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Ghostly Greetings DSP (retired)

Accessories: Black Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Curly Label Punch

Hope you all have a great day! Can't wait to see all the great costumes tonight! I better dig out my kitty cat costume! :)

Happy Halloween!

Well, it's that time again. Time for treats at work. And boy, have I created a monster. There would be some very disappointed people if I didn't do treats. And these are so cute and easy! The pillow box die is a great little candy holder! (Hint: Don't try to run too many layers through your Big Shot at one time to save time - it ends up cutting on the portions that are supposed to be scored. I ended up doing about half of them over again!)

This is retired Halloween paper from last year, and now that I have used almost all of it up, can justify buying new Hallween stuff next year!


Here is all 20 of them for my work peeps. All filled with Halloween M&M's!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Eat Drink and Be Scary

Ink: Tangerine Tango

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Retired Halloween Paper

Accessories: Black Ribbon, Small Tag Punch, Large Tag Punch, Crochet Thread

Mom's Halloween cards

I just love to share my love of stamping! And Sunday I got to share with my mom! She loves to craft as much as I do, but doesn't have the time, so I invited her over on Sunday to make Halloween cards with me, and these are what she came up with. They turned out great, and she was tickled with the results!!

Recipe:

Stamp: Eat Drink and be Scary, Lovely Letters

Ink: Basic Black, Versamark, Pumpkin Pie

Paper: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Not Quite Navy

Accessories: Pumpkin Pie ribbon, Black Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Texturz Die

This is a great stamp set, cuz you can use it for Halloween or Thankgiving - depending on whether you use the jack-o-lantern face!

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Autumn Harvest, The More the Merrier

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie (pastels), Old Olive (pastels)

Paper: So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White