A Gift for Coffee Lovers

I've accumulated soooo many die-cut/printed elements through the years and just toss them into what I call my "doo-dad" box as I go along without using them. I decided to just sort through the box and pull out some elements and make something with them, and I came up with this gift card. I'd printed the Starbucks logo for a project a long time ago, so that's where this gift card holder started. I pulled die-cut white and kraft circles, along with a stitched heart die cut, and layered them all up on a die-cut circle that was cut from a herringbone background I'd made with strips of Coastal Cabana dsp. I pulled out the green and teal cardstock snippets and designed a gift card. Here is what it looks like opened...

The stamped sentiment panel was done with a Gina Marie Designs stamp and I added a couple strips of matching dsp and cardstock to dress it up inside. There is no gift card in the slot - just a piece of white card to show you how the card is inserted. I used the SU! word window punch to create the opening to hold the card.

I'm going to enter this into these two challenges ...

Pixie's Snippets Playground #337 - must use snippets

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - anything but a card

Thanks for checking in and I hope your Monday is off to a good start!

Carol

Gifting Lottery Tickets

My husband and I no longer exchange Christmas gifts other than gift cards or cash. This year I decided to get him some lottery tickets because they're more fun than plain cash. I used a bank money envelope for the template, tearing it apart carefully, and adjusting the width and length a wee bit to accommodate the size of the tickets. I used a piece of SU! dsp, and added a few Lawn Fawn stitched snowflakes in vanilla cardstock, along with a KaiserCraft Merry Christmas die-cut sentiment. This envelope opens at the top, just like a money envelope does. It's plain and simple - just the way my husband likes it.

I'm sharing this with the Simon Says Wednesday challenge which is "Gift it."

Thanks for checking in and have yourself a wonderful Tuesday!

Carol

Wedding Champagne

A couple in the neighborhood has a daughter who's getting married this coming Saturday. I wanted to give her a little something, so I took one of her wedding invitations and cut it apart to make a tag for a bottle of champagne. She's having an outdoor wedding and her invitation was composed of sunflowers, gold colors and woodgrain. I took a piece of the wood-grain panel and cut it to size, punching hearts on the bottom with a MS heart border punch and used vanilla cardstock to in-lay the hearts. The sunflowers were hand-cut from the invitation and placed on top of the wood-grain panel, adding some neutral lace trim to the top with tiny pearls. I used a MS doily punch for the lower borders and gold-embossed a SU! "congratulations" at the top. The medallion with their names was taken from the invitation and attached with the gold twisted twine (also from the invitation), and I made a mat with a Gina Marie Designs stitched circle die. The stringed clear beads were a find from a store close-out that I bought probably 7-8 years ago - knowing I'd find a use for them one day. The decorative bow was recycled from wired gold ribbon on a gift we received a long time ago, and it all seemed just perfectly festive to wrap up this bottle of champagne!

There is nothing prettier than an autumn wedding, and I wish this couple much happiness!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday!

Carol

Valentine Treat Boxes

I've made a whole basket of these Valentine square pillow boxes for hand-outs this year. Each one has 4 heart-shaped candies inside. I made them with assorted colors and the die-cut designer papers I scored at Tuesday Morning stores. The papers are already printed and the hearts are already cut out, so all I did was  trim each one to fit the SU! square pillow box diecuts, and add some SSS die-cut hearts in matching colors. The white hearts were done with a SU! heart punch, and a retired SU! sentiment stamp I found at a yard sale a long time ago. I added a metal heart-shaped brad to each one and tied them up with some ribbon from my stash.

I love making these pillow boxes and enjoy handing them out to friends even more. My husband (who does the banking) will be taking them to the good folks at the bank as well.

I'll be taking these over to the Snippets Playground #213 because I used snippets to make each one.

Thanks for checking in on this Friday, and I wish you all a great weekend ahead!

Carol

Little Card...BIG thanks

 Happy day after Christmas! I hope your holiday was special and you all enjoyed yourselves! Today I'm sharing a little set of gift cards I made for my neighbor. These are 3x3 cards, all made with 2 sets from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps that I was lucky enough to win! The main sentiment is from "Big Thanks" and that little swirl is from "Calm & Gentle." Each card is the same design but with different colors. I added a snippet of coordinating ribbon to each card, and stamped the swirl onto the envelopes too. The box was made from white cardstock, and I colored the stamped image on the sides with Copics. My neighbor loved them :)

Here's one in real red...

and here's one in Pacific Point. I can't seem to use enough of this color lately!

For those of you expecting heavy snowfall today - stay safe and warm! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Carol

A Gift Set

I've been working on making some gift boxes of cards since Christmas is just around the corner! I made a matching box that coordinates with the cards using a pinwheel pattern and dsp from the MME Moments paper pad. Here's the top of the box...

And this photo shows how I decorated the sides of the box with matching dsp.

And here are the 6 cards that will go into the box with envelopes. The buttons were done with a MS punch and made of navy cardstock, so they're flat for mailing, but the box has a real button on it :) The divine twine is from Pizzazz Aplenty and it's the perfect color of yellow & white that matches all the papers. I used PTI white card stock, along with navy and dusty yellow colors. The sentiments were all computer generated and the ribbon was from my stash. Click each photo for a larger view :)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your Monday is a great one!

Carol

SSS148_TLC367_CAS160

Here is this week's sketch challenge 148 from The Sweet Stop Challenge Blog...

And here is my take on the challenge. I just sent a box to OWH last week that included Mother's Day cards, so now it's time to work on some Father's day cards. I pulled out all things masculine for this one, including the Super Dad Symbol digi image from SNSS. I added a panel of red that I embossed with the diamond plate ef, added some screw brads, eyelets, and twine to match. The yellow dsp is by Echo Park, and the blue is from the Paper Co.

I made this set of 3x3 cards for today's CAS160 to use a monogram, and for the TLC367 to use one color/no color - stamp with one color ink, and don't do any other coloring in of the image. I combined both these challenges and made a set of gift cards with a matching box. I used Just-Rite monogram stamps with a few scraps of purple and lavender, embossing with a square lattice ef and adding a paper flower. Each card has a different outer design, and if you click the photo you can see the tiny gemstones I added to the design.
That will do it for me today, but thanks so much for stopping by and make it a great Monday!

Carol

Just Us Girls #9

The challenge over at JUGS#9 this week is to make your best holiday gift box or bag made from a template. I didn't use a template for this box because I learned how to make a box for anything by reading Sharon Johnson's blog where she has a great tutorial for making boxes. I made this box using PTI white cardstock and decorated it with PTI dsp (hugs and thanks Silke) and ribbon, including a matching tag. Here are the cards that are going into the box. I used 3 different Sarah Kay images and coordinated the water coloring to match the cardstock. Each card has a different embossed top note die cut that color coordinates with the card base. I stamped the images on water color paper and colored them using Tombows, then cut them with a Nestabilities Labels 4. I added a little matching ribbon on each one too. The sentiments were done with a word window and a modern label punch, and each is different. I used a rolling Inkadinkado stamp for those. This set is going to my neighbor because she's such a thoughtful and kind person and we're extremely fortunate to have her (and her DH) living next door!

That's my best boxed gift so far this year, but I'm working on more, so hopefully I'll have more to share with you soon!

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for the fun challenge ladies!