A Nugget full of Chocolate

I purchased these metal tins a few years ago and decided I needed to try to use them up.  These tins fit 12 Hersey Nuggets pieces perfectly!  Wrap each piece of chocolate with a 1" x 3" piece of designer series paper, wrap with coordinating ribbon and add a tag - and you have a great gift!  You can even add a gift card to the tin as an added special gift!

The chocolate in this tin is wrapped with All is Calm Designer Series Paper.  The tag is also made from paper from this set and die cut using the Party Pennants Bigz L die and the Big Shot.  I decorated the tag with coordinating All is Calm washi tape.  A soft sky tree punched with the tree punch and a silver glitter star top off the tag; both were added to the tag using dimensionals.  The greeting is from the Endless Wishes photopolymer stamp set stamped with Lost Lagoon ink. 

 I tied the tin up with Lost Lagoon ribbon and used Pear Pizzazz 1/4" cotton ribbon to tie the tag to the ribbon around the tin.

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Making Spirits Bright Wine Bottle Tag

I love making wine bottle tags!  They look so cute on the bottle and everyone I give them to adores them.  What's nice is that you can get 4 tags out of 1 piece of 8-1/2" by 11" piece of cardstock (each at 8-1/2" by 2-3/4").  Just score at 2-3/4" and punch a whole in the 2-3/4" square.  Then decorate as you see fit! Another great way to use up the scraps or extra elements you create and end up not using on another project.

For this tag I used a piece of paper from the Trim the Tree Designer Series Paper Pack and a bow using the Bow Bigz L die for the Big Shot.

The stamp on the tag is form the Making Spirits Bright stamp set from the 2014 Holiday Catalog.  I colored in the images using markers and the silver stampin' dazzle marker and other colors that coordinate with the Trim the Tree DSP.

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Gift card full of stars!

I have another project from the Crafty Chicks Handmade Holiday event to share with you today. This project is a gift card holder with a belly band that slips off and on so that the gift card holder doesn't need to be glued shut.  All of the ladies loved the word "belly band" ;0).

Stampin' Up! has a gift card framelit for the Big Shot in the 2014 Holiday Catalog which makes creating gift card holders so simple!  When the ladies first came to the staion to make the gift card holder, they were worried about how they would cut out the holder form the 6" x 7" piece of cardstock I gave them for the project.  Then they realized it was a die cut, they were very impressed!  

The belly band was created by wrapping a 1" by 12" piece of Under the Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper.  Then I die cut stars using the Stars Framelits die from other designs in the Under the Tree DSP pack.  The large star was stamped using Cherry Cobbler stamp pad and the Many Merry Stars photopolymer stamp set from the 2014 Holiday Supplement.  

The greeting was stamped using the metallic gold encore pad and the Endless Wishes photopolymer stamp set.

I have another stamp camp on Friday where we will be making more holiday giftables and decorations.  Can't wait to show you what we will be creating!

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Golden Deer

I just had to play along with the Friday Mashup Challenge this week (FM188). Who could resist creating a holiday project with silver or gold??  Plus, I had an idea playing my mind from the Stampin Celebration inspiration challenge (SC92) so I couldn't resist taking time away from preparing for stamp camp this Friday (which, as of today I only have 2 of the 5 projects designed - stress, what stress??).

I have to say, I am not much of a gold person, I prefer silver, but a deer silhouette in gold glitter paper just had to be created!  I don't really have a die cut of a deer silhouette so I went to My Digital Studio and "what to my wandering eyes should appear, but a silhouette of a beautiful deer",  I downloaded the Remembering Christmas stamp brush (shockingly I did not have it already) and uploaded it to my Cameo and happily cut-out a few deer. Best birthday present ever!

In need of a few more tags, I decided to make these pretty guys into a tag.  The fluffy wreath was also inspiration from the Stampin' Celebration inspiration challenge last month.  I think that was one of my favorite inspirations thus far!

Here is a close-up of the image.  For the wreath I punched white filter paper with the 4-petal flower from the itty bitty punch pack.  For the wreath base I used the 1-1/4" circle punch and then the 1-3/8" circle punch to make a frame. Then I stretched a few glue dots to the frame and added the filter paper flowers one by one to the frame until it was full.

I decided to mount this beauty onto a cherry cobbler tag using the angle tag topped punch.  I stamped the background of the tag with the hardwood background stamp with cherry cobbler ink.

The greeting is from the Endless Wishes photopolymer stamp set (another favorite), stamped with versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Hope you enjoyed the tags.  I love them!  I may be cutting more of these deer silhouettes out to use this year!  After stamp camp that is!!

Merry Stampin' Celebration! Sketch Challenge

Time for a new Stampin' Celebration! sketch challenge (SC93)!  When I designed the sketch I had so many ideas in mind for how to create a project with the sketch.  I actually had a valentine's idea in mind, but when I went to create the card for this post, the All is Calm Designer Series Paper sitting on my desk called to me!  

The trees in the gray paper inspired me, especially with the strips of silver glitter paper and my star confetti punch sitting on my desk.  And thus another Holiday card was created!

For the ribbon I pulled out both the soft sky and silver 1/8" taffeta ribbon since I could not choose which one to use, obviously I ended up using both!  I like the way it turned out, almost like a little ribbon explosion on the card of glittery stars!

To add more silvery shine to the card I used the metallic silver encore pad on the edges of the smoky slate cardstock base.

The sentiment is from the Endless Wishes photopolymer stamp set.   Love the handwritten greetings in this set!  My handwriting is awful, so I am always happy to have such nice handwritten styles to use!

The other designers from Stampin Celebration created such gorgeous projects with the sketch!  Can't wait to see what you create with this sketch challenge!

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All is Calm Gift Bag

Today I am sharing another project we made at the Craft Chicks Handmade Holiday event.  This one is a gift bag!  I used All is Calm designer series paper for the banners and the tag.

The silver tag was die cut the Part Penants Bigz L Die.  I added island indigo trees punched using the Tree Punch and a greeting from the Endless Greeting stamp set stamped using basic gray ink onto Pear Pizzazz cardstock.

For the ribbon, I tied silver satin ribbon around one of the handles and tied soft sky 1/8" taffeta ribbon around it in a bow.

The bag was purchased at the local crafting store.  Decorating gift bags is a great way for me to use up any scraps of designer paper I have lying around! 

Hope you enjoyed the project!

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