Halloween Treats for Austin's class

Today, Kristine, Lily & I worked on Halloween favors for Kristine's son to give out in his classroom at school.  I had seen this really cute idea on the LeeAnn Greff's website and thought it would be great.  Since the kids will be getting plenty of candy, why not give them cheese puffs as a treat instead?  LeeAnn used cheese balls, but I like the cheese puffs better, so I went with that for mine.  So, we set out to make about 20 for Austin's class, as well as I made a few extras to give to my co-workers.  

First we placed a post-it note punched out with the 1-3/8" circle on a piece 2-3/4" x 2-3/4" white card stock and sponged Pumpkin Pie and Perfect Plum on it.  Then we removed the post-it note so that we had our "moon". We then stamped the single image - Haunted Forest (#123841 - $9.95) over that, added a bit of Dazzling Details to the trees, mounted it to a 3x3 piece of black card stock and attached them to the bags.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  Hope the kids (and my coworkers) like them. 

Kristine had just gotten the new set in the Holiday Mini - Out on a Limb and we decided to see what a different tag would look like using that cute little witch.   

Isn't she just too cute??!!?? 
Leave a comment and let me know what type of things you are creating for Halloween treats.

Thanks for stopping by - visit again soon.

Happy Stamping!

Linda

Faux Silk Technique

We tried our hands at another cool technique to make this beautiful Fall card.  Faux silk is done by stamping on tissue paper.     

Miriam and Brandi working hard on their projects.  For beginners, they have really taken off and are doing a great job. 

Miriam is really enjoying learning about her creative side.  It is so rewarding to me when someone gets excited over the projects they create... especially when they thought they couldn't do it!!  But - - see she did do it!!

Thanks for stopping by to see what we have been working on.

Happy Stamping!

Linda

Fall is in the Air

We tried our hands at a few "new" techniques - at least "new" to us for some of our Fall projects.  One of our cards was from a beautiful card I saw and modified from one created by Mary Fish (one of my fav demonstrators).  We did a little "rock-n-roll", a little faux suede and then a little Big Shot work to create this nice card using the Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Poppy Parade colors.

First, we created the unique layer by cutting a top note from Poppy Parade and then turning it half way around on the die and cutting it again - making the cool matting under the flower.  Then we used the rock-n-roll technique with Poppy Parade and Early Espresso ink to make the medallion from the Day of Gratitude Set.  We then created a faux suede flower using the 5-petal flower punch.  This technique involves using your bone folder to break down the fibers of the card stock until you are able to split the layers apart, creating the suede-ish look of the flower and topped it off with one of those wonderful new Antique Brads.  We then used the sentiment from the Seasonal Sentiments  on a piece of Very Vanilla to which we added some sponging around the edges in Poppy Parade to add more depth.  We used the Mat Pack to add some dimension to the upper right corner and there you have it an awesome card!

Next we worked on our 3-D project for the day.  We made a matchbox out of Chocolate Chip cardstock and used some left over designer paper scraps from last year's Autumn Meadows. 

We cut three (3) leaves using the Big Shot and Leaves #2 die.  Then we misted the cut leaves with some water and crumpled them up.  When we unfolded them, we added just a bit of chocolate chip ink to give them that distressed / dirty leaf look.  The greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set stamped on a scrap of Very Vanilla punched out using the Modern Label punch.  The finishing touches were to add a button with hemp twine wrapped around the box and threaded through it to tie a bow on top.  Now how cute is that!!??!!

The matchbox held some Hershey's nuggets wrapped with scraps (1" x 3") of scraps of Autumn Meadows to complete our little gift for someone special. 

Hope you enjoyed these projects.  I'll post the other projects we completed at class soon.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Linda

Punch Art Bookmarks

Found a cute bookmark on Flowerbug's Inkspot using punches to make bookworm. She has some really cute punch art ideas that I plan to be borrowing soon. My friend's daughter, Lily had a recent birthday and I got her a few of the books off her summer reading list and I wanted to add a little bookmark for her - the little "bookworm" that she is.

You can't really tell in the pic, but I ran the background CS through the Big Shot with the checkered impression plate.  I used several punches, 1-1/4" circle, 1" circle, 1/2" circle, large oval, word punches and slot punch.  I think she turned out kinda cute.  But - I couldn't forget her little brother, Austin.  So, I made another one with basic colors for him. 

I hope they will both like them.  They were fun to make and I think they are just too stinkin' cute!!  I LOVE their little glasses - just makes them have such a cute personality.  :o)

Thanks for looking.  Now I have to get to work on some Thank You cards.

Happy Stamping - Linda

Manly 3D Project

I cased a 3D project for my class from Inkspired Treasures - it's an oragami shirt made to hold a few candies:

Using some of my old retired designer papers (uses an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of paper) to make a few mens shirts to give a little chocolate treat to them. Even men like some CHOCOLATE!!