Candy Jars

My sisters and I do not exchange gifts anymore. We just all get together and eat and play games on Christmas Eve. Works great for us because we don't have the stress of buying gifts. We just take that one evening during the holidays to relax and enjoy each other. After all, that's what it is all about! Big sis (me) can't follow that to the letter! Never has been able to! I always do stockings for everyone (even my dad!)... Since I don't have children and doing for my nieces is my only way to get to do all that fun stuff, my sisters tolerate my breaking the rules! :) This year my stockings are all packed and I don't even want to think about trying to find them in the maze of boxes at our house in Sabinal... So, I am giving gift bags and baskets for Christmas this year. Will contain all the same fun stuff. I made these jars today to put in my sisters baskets. I was finishing up packing my stamp room when I found these two empty Starbuck's Frappacino bottles that I had already washed and cleaned to make some of my ribbon holders. I decided that I could make a couple of candy jars instead to put in their baskets this year!

I just put a leftover rub on on the front of each jar (actually more than one on the front of each jar!). Then I tied a red and white striped ribbon around the neck of the jar. To cover up the logo on the cap, I put white rub ons on red cardstock and punched out using the 1 3/8" circle punch. Then I punched out a white 1 3/4" circle punch and attached the red circles to these. I adhered the circles to the caps with gold brads. Since the bottles were already prepped, this was quick and easy!

Hope you all have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

DS Paper Ornament

I went to my niece's Christmas program at school yesterday. They had the halls decorated with the coolest ornaments made out of construction paper. I really looked them over and came straight home and made one! So this is courtesy of Kountze Intermediate School!

Believe it or not, this is made from a 6" x 6" piece of DS paper! It is cool enough to be stand alone...

However, it is only 1/6th of the star! Isn't this the coolest? And it only took 1 1/2 sheets of DS paper. This one is made with Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss DS Prints.

When I get a few minutes, I will post a tutorial... However, it will be after this weekend. Gotta get this stuff packed!

Side note: When I made this, I used snail... Don't recommend you do that. Especially not in areas of high humidity like down here in Southeast Texas! My star was pretty sad looking this morning!

More Monkeys

With all the packing that has been going on, I haven't had much time to do any stamping or scrapping! :( The fact that a LOT of my stamp room is already packed doesn't help either! While I was going through my samples to decide what to give away and what to keep, I found this and decided to post. It was so EASY, but I think it turned out adorable.
This is just a white SU bag. I scalloped one end of the cardstock and then folded it in 1/2. I used riding hood red and chocolate chip cardstock. The piece of checkered paper is from SU's Bella Rose DS paper. I added a piece of chocolate chip 5/8" grosgrain ribbon and the little frame from the styled silver hodgepodge hardware... And Voila'... A cute little gift bag with little effort at all!

Almost Homemade Christmas Ornaments

For the Stampin' Up! Christmas party Sunday night, we were supposed to bring an ornament to exchange. Most everyone brought homemade ornaments last year. As usual, I waited until the last second and then just couldn't manage to think of anything... So off to the store I went to purchase an ornament...
I found these cool ornaments at Joann's. I thought their turquoise blue, brown, off white and gold stripes were just funky enough for me. Then on the way home, I remembered that I had some leftover Christmas rub-ons. I then rubbed on some images in the middle brown stripe and Voila'... Almost homemade!

Christmas Tin

We are having our Stampin' Up! Christmas party tonight. We are doing an ornament exchange. Have to bring the ornaments wrapped.... so, I decided to kill two birds with one stone!

Courtney's challenge for this week is polka dots. I know this is not a card, but I managed to make a Christmas tin to wrap my ornament in and use polka dots... Lots of polka dots! There are even brown polka dots on the red trim on the little ornaments. Camera just didn't capture that very well!

Hope you all enjoy!

Another Teacher Gift

Hey guys! Forgive for the late post. Just been a crazy couple of days. I went with 4 of my girlfriends to eat and see a movie at lunchtime! For someone that has worked almost every day of her life since high school (and, believe me, that is a lo-o-o-o-ong time!), I felt so decadent. It was fabulous!

Anyway, here is another great idea for a teacher or classmate gift.

I found these tins at a local dollar store. They had incense in them. I found them over a year ago. I bought all they had. Gave away the incense, washed them and left them open to air. I decorated using my star die for the Sizzix Big Shot, Stampin' Up!'s star punches and the Rock Star Card Elements Kit.

So, you never know where you will find the perfect little container to decorate and use!

Christmas Light Bag

While shopping on Friday, my sister was stressing about what to get her daughter's classmates and teachers for Christmas. If she included all the teachers (like dance teachers, speech teacher, day care teachers, etc.), she was going to have to get 60 gifts. If you spend $5 a person, that is still EXPENSIVE! So, I talked her into making the gift bags that are all the rage on the internet right now. For this one, I used all Stampin' Up! paper, cardstock and ribbon. I used a die from Sizzix to make the cute little light bulbs.

She added some playdough and candy for the kids and either a small lotion or large candy bar for the teachers. All those gifts and still within her budget! Miracles do happen!

Hope you like!

Christmas Bagalope

Hello all! Sorry it has been so long since I have posted. No camera, holidays, packing... You name it. So many things have kept me away. But I am back now!

I made this cute little bagalope for Created By Courtney's Challenge, but with no camera, I wasn't able to get it posted on my blog until now. But I just had to share it! It was just too stinkin' cute!

For those of you who have never heard of a bagalope... It is a little gift bag made from a plain old envelope. I have my sister's camera for a couple of hours, so I will create a tutorial and post later! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Bella Rose Frame

This is Kaytee. My niece that wants my husband to go to work for Walmart... Ok, ok... I know that that she is too cute for words, but please try really hard to look past her and look at the modified frame...



This is one of the projects that we made for the accessory club Friday night.



This accessory club was featuring specialty brads. This frame uses rhinestone brads as the centers of the flowers.



All products are from Stampin' Up!



Happy Stampin'!



Kim

Pennant Banners

I am having so much fun with my Big Shot Die Cut Machine! I have been creating some pennant banners for the holidays. Below are pictures of the ones that haven't already been claimed by my family! It's amazing how easy it is to make cute decor items when you have the right tools!

This is a more fun Christmas one!

This is a more traditional themed Christmas one!

And you can't forget Thanksgiving! Really it is more of a fall one!

I can't wait to make more!

Happy Stampin'!

Kim

More Flurries

Here is the gift bag that I designed for October accessory club. These bags like this are so simple, yet so cute. It is easy to move from Christmas to birthday to just because...



Happy Stampin'!



Kim

Monkeying Around

My niece, Kaytee, needed a monkey shirt for school tomorrow... Something to do with red ribbon week. I think the theme is get the monkey off my back... Anyway, Kayla appealed to me to stamp a sock monkey on the front of a white t-shirt for her. I tossed and turned all night last night worrying that my stamping technique on fabric wouldn't be good enough. So, I found this adorable monkey on a piece of fabric. I cut it out and adhered it to the shirt... I thought it came out so good that I had to post it!



Happy Stampin'!



Kim

Ribbon Scraps

Do you ever feel like you are drowning in a sea of ribbon and fiber scraps? I know I was. One day when I walking through a local craft store, I saw a bottle with felt flower petals in it. Presto! The idea was formed. I could do the same thing with my ribbon scraps!


This is made with a Starbuck's Frappucino bottle (small one). I decorated the lid, tied a little piece of ribbon on the neck of the bottle and decorated the front of the bottle with a Stampin' Up! rub on. Voila! A different bottle for each color group of ribbon scraps! And they are pretty enough to leave out on a shelf for all to see!


Now I am not digging through baggies with individual scraps of ribbon (how I saw in a magazine to organize your ribbon scraps!) for that perfect piece of ribbon. They are all displayed in view for me to see most, if not all, of the yummy pieces of ribbon and fiber that I have! I wonder what else I can put in jars like this? Starbucks is going to love me for my Frappucino purchases! LOL!

Happy Stampin'!

Kim