Chalk Talk Tags

I'm an office supplies afficionado.. are you? .. especially if they are colorful!  I was buying ink for my printer when I saw these cuties close to the check-out counter.  I know... impulse shopping!  But they were so colorful and useful, and... I knew just the people who "needed" them!  lol!  Maybe my friends like this kind of stuff as much as I do.  (yes, I know they do, lol!)

They were already packaged and I had an idea what I could do to dress them up a little for gifting:  Tags and ribbons!!  Our new Chalk Talk tag stamp set would be perfect!

The largest tag in the set has just the right saying; I stamped in in Black onto Whisper White card stock then die cut it with the matching Chalk Talk Framelit Dies.  So easy to get that trendy chalkboard look with these tools!

I cleaned my stamp then colored just the "something" banner with a marker, stamped it on Whisper White then cut easily it out.   It is popped up on Dimensionals for emphasis. The gifts were tied with some of my very favorite retired Stampin' Up! ribbon.  I am pleased to report that these little gifties were well received!  : )

Chalk Talk set  #130631w  $25.95;   #130634c   $18.95

Chalk Talk Framelits    #129983    $24.95

The two Chalk Talk items may be purchased separately but if you like to stretch your dollars to include more goodies, then you may want to consider  purchasing the Chalk Talk Bundle! 

   

The Chalk Talk stamp set and Framelits dies can be purchased as a BUNDLE for a 15% SAVINGS:
 

Chalk Talk Bundle – page 12

Chalk Talk Stamp Set and coordinating Chalk Talk Framelit dies:

     $43.25-  #132731   Wood-Mount Bundle

     $37.25-  #132730   Clear-Mount Bundle

Hope you enjoyed; I had to take the pictures early in the morning and the light is a little funky!

Thanks for visiting!  Come back soon!

Margaret

Happy Hello Simply Sent Treat Boxes!

One of the fun things about Stampin' Up! events is that demonstrators make gifts to give to friends, downline, and upline.  Just seeing the creativity is even better than the chocolate and candy treats most of these contain (seriously!!)  They also are great inspiration for making treat containers for other occasions too!

 

I want to share a couple today made with the Happy Hello Simply Sent Kit available during Sale-A-Bration free with a $50. order!  This is one I made for gifting at the Dallas Stampin' Up! Regional and filled with gum, chocolate kisses and mini candy bars.  So easy to package using the new 5" x 11-1/2" Gusseted Cellophane Bags from the Spring Catalog. 

Love these cards and the different creations I've seen with them (did an internet search).  This little box is easy to make using the ingredients from the kit, the Simply Scored Board for scoring, of course, and the Paper Trimmer.  A little Sticky Strip and they're done!  I added the Riding Hood Red leaf stem diecut with the Leaves Sizzlet and the Big Shot.  The Riding Hood Red Taffeta ribbon is retired Stampin' Up! but was so right for the gifts that I just had to use it!

made by Connie Stewart

Connie made these treat boxes for the Regional.  She made a similar box, decorated it and filled it with Little Debbie Strawberry Shortcake!  Then she went a step further and used the envelope, cut off the color printed flap, adhered it to the bagalope she made from the remainder of the envelop and decorated it with the Oh Hello set from the Spring Catalog.  These have had Ghirardelli Squares (more chocolate, umm!) in them!  

Happy Hello Simply Sent Card Kit    #130149   Free w/ $50. order during Sale-A-Bration 2013

Here are the contents of the Happy Hello Kit:  8 printed, die-cut cards (4 printed with "Hello" greeting; 4 blank); 8 printed custom die-cut envelopes (Daffodil Delight pattern on flap); 24 Daffodil Delight Card Stock sticker flowers; 8 Basic Gray Card Stock sticker strips; 8 pieces precut Basic Gray Baker's Twine--exclusive to this kit! (ea. 18"); 8 adhesive-backed rhinestones.

And here is the way the card looks made up according to the kit directions (which are, of course, great for notes and greetings):  

Happy Hello Simply Sent Card Kit (c) Stampin' Up

Remember that there are only thirteen days left of Sale-A-Bration.  It ends on March 22, so make your list, check it twice and then be sure to select your free Sale-A-Bration products (one for every $50. in products ordered, no limit!) from the brochure HERE!   You may order through your demonstrator, or if you don't have a demonstrator, I would be happy for you to order through my online Stampin' Up! Store

Thanks for visiting today.  I'll have more treat boxes from Regional and other projects for you soon!

Margaret

My Little Valentine Candy Bar Treat Holder

Here's an idea for using one of the current Stampin' Up! Valentine specials:  A delightful candy bar treat holder made with products from the Sealed with Love Simply Sent Kit and the My Little Valentine stamp set!

The Sealed with Love kit is FREE when you purchase the exclusive My Little Valentine stamp set which is only available for order until January 21!  This kit can be seen in the Holiday 2012 Catalog on page 35 with a list of contents, which includes 10 precut double-sided envelopes and 10 notecards in two designs, along with Baker's Twine, Dimensionals and printed paper "buttons".  I folded one of the notecards in half, added "Just because" (new vintage Sale-a-Bration stamp) and will use this to tuck in a note when giving it to a friend.

The chocolate bar inside was wrapped in a Pool Party print from the new Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper... which is a Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek!  (Sale-a-Bration begins January 22!)  A tag stamped with one of the stamps in the My Little Valentine set, layered on Pool Party and a new Sale-a-Bration button was tied on with Real Red Bakers Twine from the Sealed with Love kit. 

 

The candy was slipped into one of the kit's pre-cut and scored envelopes and tied with Calypso Coral Ruffled Ribbon.  That narrow Pool Party ribbon is also part of a Sale-a-Bration bonus product;  I curled a short length of it and added it to the bow.

To see all four of the sweet stamps in this set and more information on this Valentine Special, please click on the image below:

You may order all these products online (remember Sale-a-Bration products will be available beginning January 22, 2013) through my ONLINE Stampin' Up! STORE and your order will be delivered directly from Stampin' Up! to your door by UPS!  If you are a local-to-me customer, if you wish, you may contact me to order: mraburn @ cox. net (remove spaces before using address)

Stay well and stamp!

Margaret

Treat Bags! (No Tricks)

Happy Friday!  Today I have some fun Treat Bags for you made with Stampin' Up!'s new 1 x 8" Cellophane Bags from the Holiday Mini Catalog and some punches and die cuts!  

I made five of these but realized I just photographed these two; each I made is a little different.  For the topper on the left, I used the a stamp from Grateful Greetings and colored the words with various Stampin' Write Markers before stamping on Daffodil Delight cardstock.  I used the Scalloped Square Duo die and the Tangerine Tango back is diecut with the larger circle on the Perfect Pennant Die new in the 2011-12 Catalog.

The topper on the right begins with the cute pumpkin "Got Treats?" stamp from the set of the same name.  The Scallop Circle Punch and the 2" circle on the Circles #2 Die were also used.  The frizzies on the top are simply short pieces of 1/4" grosgrain ribbon that have been "frizzed" by cutting off one woven edge of the ribbon then pulling out the crosswise threads.  I attached this with Snail adhesive.  I did use Sticky Strip to adhere the bags to the toppers because it is strong and will hold the weight of candy or whatever you fill the bag with.

Pull out your trick or treat stamps, your favorite color cardstock, punches and diecuts!  Punch, layer, stamp and just have fun coming up with your toppers for treat bags for little (and big) goblins!  Then fill with your favorite yummies for gifting!  Then start thinking what other holidays you can make some treat gifts, like Christmas, Valentine, Easter....!  Hmmm!

Cellophane Bags, #124134, 50 per pkg., page 11, Holiday Mini Catalog, $2.50.

Got Treats, set of 10:  #119114 $24.95 (w); #120627 $17.95 (c), pg. 10, IB&C.

Grateful Greetings, set of 12: #116511, $36.95, pg. 27, IB&C

Perfect Pennants Die, #123126, pg. 221, IB&C, $32.95

You are invited to order any of these or other Stampin' Up! product from my official Stampin' Up! website if you don't already have a local demonstrator; your order will be shipped directly to you by Stampin' Up! and UPS!

Thanks for visiting today!  Have a great weekend!

Margaret

Perfect Setting Die: Cupcake Gifts

Just a few more hours to go and the Perfect Setting die for the Big Shot will be retired!  This makes me sad because it makes the cutest paper cups into which you can set your cupcakes!  It also does much more!!

 

For our recent stamping retreat, we (the planning team) made about fifty-four of these as "pillow gifts" for those who stayed at the hotel on Friday night.  I cut these all out of the current In Colors cardstock, punched out the "lids" from White cardstock and the largest circle punch.  Then Jann, Connie, Leslie and I all worked on them: gathering ribbon, hot gluing, attaching lids, etc., and also helping Jann make the little pins which were placed inside the cupcakes!  We were busy bees!

 Here's the box we were putting the completed cupcake gifts into for distributing to the guests' rooms.  They all looked so pretty together!

The above picture shows how the diecuts from the Perfect Setting Die look.  These can be used for many other projects besides these also!

I ran all the ones for the retreat as well as this one through the Big Shot with a Textured Impressions Embossing Folder to give it even more cuteness!  : )  What fun these cupcake holders  would be to present your delicious cupcakes for a party, luncheon or any celebration and impress your guests!

#115961 Perfect Setting Die, reg. $42.95, currently discounted 40% to $25.77!  A real deal in my book!  : )  Available until midnight tonight (MT), June 30, 2011.

Any Stampin' Up! products can be purchased online through my Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website and Online Store HERE!  Orders will be shipped directly to you from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for visiting today!  Hope you get everything you need from the retiring catalog and have a great weekend with family and friends celebrating our freedoms!

God Bless America and our wonderful military personnel and families!

Margaret

Designer Paper Bag Tag and Mini Purse

As I mentioned previously, I was involved with several other demonstrators in doing a retreat last weekend for about fifty-two stampers!  The planning committee (of Leslie Bumgarner, Connie Stewart, Jann McCollom and myself) made several gifts for the participants such as a bag tag, early registration gift, and others which I will post at later times.  Today's projects are the tags we made for the participants bag which held some supplies and also held their projects once they completed them and another gift for those who registered early.

Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper was adhered to a square of the light paperboard in the back of a package of DSP then cut with the Big Shot and the large Scallop Circle Die.  The guests' first initial was diecut from Pacific Point cardstock with the Serif Alphabet Dies then adhered to the tag.  This was tied onto the handle of white paper gift bag for project supplies and completed projects.  Isn't that DSP gorgeous!!


The next project is a mini purse made from the 6 x 6" In Color Designer Paper Pack which is a Level 1 Hostess choice in the current 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog (expires June 30!).

We made around fifty of these little cuties for our guests (and one for each of us, lol!).  This one is shown in a Poppy Parade print; there are several patterns in each color so we combined them for a fun look!  The flowers were punched with the BoHo Blossoms Punch and attached with Silver Mini Brads, as were the handles.  An Oval Punch of Poppy cardstock is the closure under the flower; Velcro holds the purse closed.

Side View

Inside View

Four chocolate candies were wrapped with the same DSP and placed inside for a little treat!

 Here they are, all ready to be given out!  Aren't they colorful?!!

These purses were found on Stampin' Connection, a part of the Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website and a wonderful source for sharing and inspiration for demos; they were posted by France Martin and also on her blog; thanks, Frenchie, for the inspiration!

I hope you enjoyed these projects!  Thanks for visiting today! I'll have more projects soon!

Margaret

Eat Chocolate Chocolate Holder

The new Occasions Mini Catalog holds new stamps and products to delight and inspire us.  One set that has wide appeal is the new Eat Chocolate set (of 4) which features... chocolate, of course!

It's fun to stamp with and also to give cards and gifts which feature this set.  This project today is a little bar of real chocolate wrapped in a Two Tag Die-cut of Crumb Cake cardstock which has been embellished to make it a special little gift. First, the large flourish from the FREE Sale-A-Bration set Bliss was stamped on the tab underneath the ribbon and the sentiment label in Rose Red ink.

The image and words were stamped in Early Espresso, punched out with the Decorative Label Punch then Crystal Effects was added to the candy image and the Rose Pink Fine Supernova Glitter was immediately sprinkled on.  After the Crystal Effects dried, the edges were sponged with Rose Red ink.

I used the new Sweet Buttons Embosslit to cut and emboss (at the same time!) buttons from Rose Red cardstock.  Linen Thread was tied around Marina Mist Striped Wide Grosgrain ribbon then threaded through the button and tied.  On the back the remainder of this saying ("I am that friend") was stamped and punched out with the Word Window Punch and adhered.

This version of the holder uses a different stamp.  The chocolate portion was stamped a second time, the "bar" cut out and added directly over the first stamping with Dimensionals to accent it.

 Thanks for dropping by!  I have more for you tomorrow!

Margaret

Elegant Lines Matchbox Gift

One of the great items in the Stampin' Up! Catalog is the Matchbox Bigz XL Die (#114890).  You can do so many things with it, more than I realized when I first saw it.  Here's a pretty little matchbox in Cherry Cobbler cardstock that will hold four chocolate nuggets, which can be wrapped in coordinating paper if one wishes.

Above is the box closed and standing upon it's side.  The outside layer was embossed with the Elegant Lines Embossing Folder after it was die cut with the Big Shot.

The above view shows the cover removed; the box portion will hold four nuggets, other candy or some really nice jewelry (a girl can dream, can't she, lol!).

A similar view but higher above.  The "Thanks" was stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink and punched out with the Scallop Oval Punch; beautiful Victorian crochet lace trim is wrapped around the outer cover and a clear Rhinestone Brad was added to hold the lace together.

You can visit my Stampin' Up! store here and see the new Occasions Mini products as well as place your order.

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a great day!

Margaret

Christmas Money Holders

Here are some of the money or check holders that I gave for Christmas.  You know, money is always the right color and just what young families need so I felt I couldn't go wrong!  lol!  I had fun making these because I love all the colors and I got to use that beautiful & sparkly Candy Cane Christmas Designer Paper which everyone else loved too (we know because it totally sold out!!)

Strips of white cardstock were treated with the Scallop Edge Punch then adhered underneath the edge of the front flap to dress up these holders and make them more festive.  Then a strip of the Candy Cane Christmas DSP was adhered to the top of the flap; the red stripes in this paper are glittery which adds so much to the project!

I also got to "play" some more with that wonderful new Northern Frost snowflake Decorative Strip Die for the Big Shot die cut machine!  In just one pass through the Big Shot, it produces eight various sized perfect and beautiful snowflakes!  Love them!  I layered them on a Scallop Circle punch out in a coordinating color to emphasize them, then centered them with nice red rhinestones left from other crafts I had done.  This was adhered to a belly band of cardstock to keep them closed.

The size of the cardstock for the folders is 8" x 6-3/4".  I scored it at 3" and 6-1/4".  I then punch half a circle in the center of the 3" portion, folded it up and adhered it, forming the pocket with a circular "notch" which aids in retrieving the money or check in the pocket.  (Sorry, I didn't think to take a picture of that!)  I cut a strip from the remnants of  each sheet of cardstock 1" wide and long enough to wrap around the folder to make the belly band, adhered it then added the snowflake embellishment I described above.  I stamped the "Merry Christmas" greeting from the A Cardinal Christmas set in the lower right corner of each folder. 

Here are some individual pictures of the folders:

The snowflake die used is found in the Holiday 2010 Mini Catalog (which ends January 3) will be carried over to the next quarter so it will be available for purchase the next few months also!  You may order it from my Stampin' Up! website here  or contact me to order!  Also, don't forget the Filled with Love promotion from now until January 24 for your free package of Bitty Buttons!  (see the promotion information on the upper right corner of the screen).

 

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you're having a joyous holiday season and will enjoy the New Year festivities this evening and tomorrow!  Be careful out there tonight!  I hope to watch the Rose Parade tomorrow before football takes over the television for the rest of the day!  Lol!!

Margaret