Carrots for the Easter Bunny

Hopping in to say "Happy Easter" and to share a basket full of carrot treat boxes made for the OHM bunnies!  The carrot comes from the 'Hopping Down the Bunny Trail' image set.  This set has several three dimensional projects including some very pretty eggs.   Check it out! 

 

Master J. visited to see what the Easter Bunny left at our house and I couldn't help remembering the fun we'd had in previous years with five acres to search for eggs!   However, we had a lovely dinner with our family and enjoyed a game of "Oregon Trail."  We still haven't made it all the way to the Willamette Valley before dying of dysentery but we got very close this time!  Thanks for visiting with me today.  : )  Christine

St. Patrick's Day Purses

Well, it's done - signed, sealed and delivered - and our home of twenty years now officially belongs to a new family.  SO many memories, sigh!   On the up side, we now longer have to pop up every day to feed the chickens, light the wood stove and clean the wood floors.   More time for crafting, right?


This little purse has been around on Pinterest for some time and I did track one version to my friend, Scrapalette's blog here.  I used a label from Winter Woodland, and sliced the smaller inset label to form the embellishment on the flap and the body of the purse.  I did not add a handle as I wanted to make it look like a coin purse suitable for both boys and girls.

I welded four shamrocks together to form the border and cut it in glitter paper.  I added a button tied with twine as the closure.   The 3 inch treat bag holds 3 chocolate coins and one lucky 'gold' coin.  (I was so worried that the children might try to eat the plastic coin, that I used my alcohol marker to color the clover green so it looked a little different.  Crazy, I know!)

Here's the stamped sentiment on the back:-

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Time to think about Easter.   : )  Christine

Yappy St. Patrick's Day!

Last July, the paper crafting world lost a mentor, a friend and a lovely, talented, creative and generous lady, Sheila McShea AKA She's a Sassy Lady.  I had the honor to contribute to her blog and every now and then I still have an idea and think, "Yes!  Sheila will like that so I'll use it as my Sassy post this month!" I call them my 'Sassy' moments.  

So my latest 'Sassy' moment started when I found a really, really cute chihuahua cut from the Four Legged Friends cart and used it on my DGD's Valentine card.   It's soooo cute and when I'd finished the project, I had the idea to adapt the card for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, birthdays, Christmas etc, etc by changing out the heart in his mouth and adding a hat and appropriate images.   DS makes this easy with the "Save As" option.  It's kinda like the Cricut version of the Tim Holtz crazy dogs.  I think Miss G will enjoy receiving each installment of the collection.  : )

Here are the cards I've made so far.  Don't you just love the little St. Paddy's Day hat? 

"Yappy Birthday" with cuts from Doodlecharms,  To You From Me, and Charmed.

Here's the Valentine's card that started the process.  Cute, cute, cute!

 I am linking my St. Patrick's Day chihuahua with the Cute Animal challenge at BBTB2 here.   (How serendipitous is that?)  Thanks for visiting with me today.   Miss you, Sheila!     Christine

Red and White Easel Gift Box

I came across some very cute monogram necklaces (at a great price!) while shopping at Macy's for something entirely different.  I could not resist picking one up for one of my DGDs.  I needed a fun gift box for it, and since the challenge this week at BBTB2 was to use the colors red and white, all I had to do was find the right box.


This very versatile easel box, from Lori Whitlock's To You From Me cart, was easy to personalize with an 'S'  from Monogram Motifs.  I had major problems, however, with scoring the heavy, white cardstock that I chose for the box base.  It took me three tries to get the score lines in the correct place using my score board and I eventually resorted to drawing them in with a pencil clamped in the Explore instead of the score tool.  (I did write the measurements down in my recipe book so that I can replicate this size box should I need to in the future.)  I am SO hoping the new DS solves the scoring problem and fixes the alignment problems that sometimes occur.

This was such an interesting challenge and I love the simplicity of the two color box, even though I had to add a tad of pink to the top! 

Have a look at the variety of entries at BBTB2.  Wow!   Thank you for visiting with me on a rainy Sunday afternoon.  : )   Christine

You Octopi My Heart!

I could not resist this stamp set by Lawn Fawn, but the accompanying octopus is sooo teeny and does not have a lot of character IMHO.   Cricut to the rescue with this oh so cute octopus from the Birthday Bash cart. 

Since this card is for my science - minded DGD, I quickly realized that I would have to create some extra legs for my octopus and so I sliced and welded in Design Space only to find that because I wanted the extra legs a darker color, it was just much easier to duplicate the octopus and trim away two legs.   Lesson learned!   I eliminated the birthday packages that the octopus was carrying by closing the eye in DS and then I substituted a layered heart from Doodlecharms.

I distress inked the background using my Groove, added some dew drop bubbles and heat embossed the sentiment.   Such a fun card to make!

I am linking my card with the Valentine challenge at BBTB2 here.

and the Valentine Challenge # 294 at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog here.

If you are 'last minute - ing it' like me, there's tons of inspiration on both sites.  Thanks for visiting with me today.  : )   Christine

Mickey and friends Valentine Treats

This is my favorite kind of project!   I downloaded the svg for the free Tootsie Roll holder from the amazing Dreaming Tree company,  redesigned it to feature the new Mickey and Friends 'Love at First Sight' images in DS, stamped the heart using my Misti, used up some remnants from my Valentine Really Reasonable ribbon stash and added confetti made with a Martha Stewart punch.  Plus, I am so pleased to have found a use for a little of the purple Glitzy Glitter paper that has accumulated in my Glitter Paper drawer.  Yahoo!

Don't you just love those Mickey print then cut images?  Sooo cute!  Here's a look at the back of the project:-

Take a look at the fabulous Valentine projects over on the BBTB2 page here.  Don't you just love Maureen's frame?   I feel a scraplift coming on.  LOL!    Thanks for visiting with me today.   : )  Christine

Snowflake Treat Boxes

Just a quick post to share a couple of the snowflake treat boxes I made for the children.  The box comes from  Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 and I 'tweaked' the top by adding a little tab to keep the box closed as I wanted to glue the second, glittery snowflake down flat.  The box is 3.5 long and 1.5 wide and fits 3 or 4 candy treats inside. 

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on either side of the box using Hero Arts Unicorn pigment ink and Ranger white embossing powder.  I am totally in love with this look right now!  I have to give a shout out to Sunny Studios for the lovely little snowflake stamps from the Snow Kissed set.  They stamped perfectly!

Thanks for visiting with me today.  : )  Christine