Little Paris gal

It's been a long time since I posted anything but I love this card that I made for a card swap and decided to take a minute to put on my site.  She's a new stamp I bought and I love her Parisian look.  This paper pad has great colors as I love stripes with brick red and navy.  Interesting colors for a gal card but I love the end result.  The flower didn't match so I used my copic to color it for a perfect match!

This sentiment is from the limited edition "thank you" set sent at the end of the year by PTI.  It included a larger saying as well as this one.  I don't recall where I saw this card layout but had saved it for future reference and thought it went well with this paper combo and stand set.  It's hard to find masculine themes but I always like to have one handy!

Gift card

Here is a quick gift card box I decorated for a friend coming home with our son for the holiday.  Love these GC boxes from Taylored Expressions as they come with the insert and have so many possibilities.  The reindeer from this Paper Smooches "Santa Paws" set make me laugh!

A few gifts

Wow - been so long since I posted!  Here are a few things I have given to the recipients so now I can show them!

This apron is for my manicurist who I've known her entire adult life!  She wears aprons each day to keep the acrylic dust from her clothes so I always help her collection grow...

While I was at it, I decided to make this one for my crafty friend's birthday as she's always baking amazing things ... plus it kept with the theme of the black cake plate I got her for Christmas ...

and her "I Love Lucy-ish" card!

TE Blast from the Past Blog Hop

I'm excited to see all the creations for this month's Blast from the Past blog hop!  This month's theme is Thankful and this great sketch by Sankari ... 

When I got out all of my TE stamp sets, I realized that I only had one that actually said Thank You on it - eeks - how can that be?!  Soooo ... because I am thankful to be married to an amazing man, I thought this stamp would work well with the sketch and the sentiment from "Kitchy Kitchen" fit it so well ...

With my only set that had a "Thank You" in it (the "From the Heart Funnies" set), I decided on a sewing theme using the "Sew Happy" set as well.  Since I had just opened up my latest TE order, I had sitting on my desk the "little black dress" paper pad which I love!  How can a girl not zero right in on that cheetah print!  So one thing led to another and pretty soon it was combined with hot pink and a little bling ...

(No matter where I took the picture, the ribbon looked red but in real life it matches the sparkly paper dress form!)  The flowers were made with the new Loopy Flower die just cut to different lengths to create different size flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy the rest of the hop.

Cindy

A fuzzy cupcake!

My last gift idea was a fuzzy, cozy pair of socks wrapped up as a cupcake! How cute is this? I've seen this idea on several blogs and had purchased the cupcake containers from Taylored Expressions a while back so decided to give it a try. Took a couple attempts to get the sock to look like icing but, with the help of a rubber band to hold the bottom, I think I succeeded! I found a template to make the cupcake liner, tied a little ribbon, added a label, and it's ready to give to my friend who loves cupcakes AND cozy socks!!

Gift card holder

A cute idea for those you may be giving gift cards to this holiday can be found here - http://addinkandstamp.blogspot.com/2010/12/snowman-gift-card-holder.html.   This would be something easily mass produced as you could have all your circles cut and then assemble quickly. I made mine to fit into a legal sized envelope and will use to send a December birthday gift card!

Holiday gift idea

Now that my friend's and I have had our monthly Craft Night, I can share the few things that I made.  Our theme was to bring a gift idea ... so here's my first one. 

I can't tell you how much I love this idea!  I saw it on the link below and just modified for the holidays. Hurry as Bath and Body Works has these little soaps five for $5! Her directions are awesome and something easy to mass produce for teachers, friends, etc. (The only change I made to her tutorial was for the oval where the soap slips in - I used my oval nestie and it worked out perfectly.)

http://pinkbuckaroodesigns.blogspot.com/2010/08/halloween-soap-holder-tutorial.html 

I'll post another idea tomorrow!


Thanks for looking,
Cindy