Two Of My Favorite Things...

**Update: See the comments for measurements and brief instructions to make this tea bag and chocolate holder!

For the inaugural stamping session in my new craft studio, I invited 7 good friends to a tea. We crafted, then we had a tea luncheon and then we crafted some more! These are the favors that I made for each guest. (You can come back tomorrow to see the project each guest made - HINT: CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY CATALOG!)

I did use some retired products, but I'm really glad I still have them! I used the specialty paper that is behind my sentiment and decoration. It has rose gold accent "bubbles" all over it and my tableware was gold, white and pink. The decorations were made using Springtime Impressions Thinlits, Mini Treat Bag Thinlits for the "enjoy" (retired) and Sweet Cake Framelits for the Soft Sea Foam leaves. The vellum leaves were cut out using the Flourish Thinlits. The vellum stitched banner behind the "enjoy" is from the NEW Farmhouse Framelits Dies, which is available starting today!

Farmhouse Framelits Dies	147922
Price: $32.00

Farmhouse Framelits Dies

147922

Price: $32.00

I love the details on these thinlits! You can save 10% if you purchase the bundle, which includes the Farmhouse Christmas stamp set:

Farmhouse Christmas Photopolymer Stamp	148478
Price: $17.00

Farmhouse Christmas Photopolymer Stamp

  148478

Price: $17.00

Farmhouse Christmas Photopolymer Bundle	149941
Price: $44.00

Farmhouse Christmas Photopolymer Bundle

149941

Price: $44.00

I will be showing some festive Farmhouse projects when it gets closer to Christmas.

The inside of my tea party favor holds my favorite things - tea and chocolate! There is a Stash Earl Grey tea bag and a Ghirardelli chocolate square. YUM.

I'm celebrating the Holiday Catalog going LIVE today by putting together my order. I have some $5 coupon codes that I earned in August to help me save money. Don't forget to use your codes before they expire on September 30th!

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Easter Favors

I used the Sending Love Glassine Sheets from the Occasions Catalog to create these bags using Mini Treat Bag Thinlits. 

My little banners were cut out of designer paper scraps using the Banners Framelits. Here's to Cheers stamp set was perfect for my "Egg-Stra Awesome Easter Wishes" sentiment. I used Stampin' Write Markers to make my own ombre right on the stamp itself. Then I cut out around the sentiment using the Stitched Shapes Framelits.  (added between catalogs)

Stitched Shapes Framelits  145372  $30

I hope you enjoyed my treat bags today! Let me know what you think in my comments section. Have a great day!

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Spring in the Window for March Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for March 2017. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our 2017 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month we are featuring Spring or Spring related projects. We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

Recently I looked out my window and saw lots of new blooms! Here in Southern California, we have been in a drought for at least 5 years. This year we are slowly climbing out and everything is GREEN for a change! There are new buds and blossoms everywhere. I decided to make happy framed window looking out at some window box blooms and a vine-covered wall beyond the window.

My perky blooms have pearl centers. I added more pearls to the right of my heat-embossed sentiment.

I hope you liked looking. I'd love for you to leave me a comment! Happy Spring!

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop! 

1. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
2. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
3. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
5. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
6. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
7. Becky Retzer at Just in Thyme by Becky Retzer
8. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
9. Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
10. Debbie Crowley at expressivelydeb...
11. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
12. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin'
13. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin'
14. Rae Harper-Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
15. Karen Hallam at Karen's Stampin' Habit!
16. Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin'
17. Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
18. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
19. Lisa Pretto at InkBig Academy Stamps
20. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
21. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations

Graduation Pinkness

My oldest niece is graduation from high school today! Way to go! I made this card for her and it was inspired by the gift below. I used one of my favorite stamp sets from last year--"Tin of Cards." It's a real keeper and I use it often.

Gold Embossing Powder and Gold Foil Doilies lend a classy element to the bright Melon Mambo card stock. I added some Metallic Sequins and embossed hearts for good measure.

  

And here is the gift that inspired all those gold elements. The Kate Spade pencil bag will hold this lovely dotted Mini Treat Bag. I used the retired Fancy Gold Vellum to layer over the Melon Mambo. It really mutes the color a lot. More gold with the Bow Clip and Embossed tag from "You're So Sweet." The money and holder were placed inside the dotted bag and then put into the gift bag below. I love the layers and layers that make a gift seem all the more special.  

I hope you enjoyed looking at my special card and gift. If you need Stampin' Up! supplies to make your creations, just use my Online Store. I'd love to be your demonstrator.

Seize the Cake for PPA294

This week's Pals Paper Arts Challenge is a fun sketch by Design Team Member Dawn Tidd.

The sketch inspired me to make a Clean and Simple birthday card. I really wanted to use my Metallic Glitter Tape (free from the Sale-A-Bration brochure) for a little sparkle on this cheerful birthday card. It was so easy to lay across my Love Blossoms Designer Series DSP and a perfect platform for the heart from Mini Treat Bag Thinlits which holds my stamped sentiment.

I added the teeny flower stamped from Something to Say and punched out using the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack. An enamel dot leftover from Christmas time is perfect in the center of the flower.

#134177 Wood Mount $30

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March Customer Thank You Card

 

This is my March "thank you" card for all orders that my customers place! Isn't it fun? I CASED it from a card Kimberly at Stampin' by the Sea. 

Kimberly used a different animal print from Go Wild DSP Stack and her accent color was an orange and her animal from Zoo Babies was the giraffe. Her doily was a Tea Lace Doily. I used Zebra print from the paper stack, so I made my zebra image Melon Mambo and then used the coordinating card stock on my card. The star and stripe patterns are from the It's My Party DSP stack.  I used the Metallic Foil Doily in silver to coordinate with the strip of negative stars that I cut from Basic Gray using the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits. I also used different shapes for my zebra "tag."
 

I hope you liked looking at my card today. Won't you please leave me a comment? I love to read them!

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Love is in the Air for PPA284

Welcome to this week's Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge. This week's sketch is brought to you by Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards. I hope you will check out her blog and her style!  

The bow from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits is shimmering from Clear Wink of Stella

In the close up, you can see that I smudged my heart background onto the Melon Mambo card and the half-heart Doily (from the Love Blossoms Embellishment Kit) using Melon Mambo ink and the Hearts Decorative Mask. It matches the heart theme on the Crumb Cake from the Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack.

The sentiment is from the Bloomin' Love stamp set. I used two different inks, stamping one at a time and perfectly lining the image up. This is why I love photopolymer stamps!

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Sweet Treat For You

Hello Sweet Blog Friends! I am LOVING one of my new stamp sets "You're So Sweet." The set has stamps that coordinate with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Die and is sold as a bundle saving you 15% when you purchase both items. What could be better than that sweet, calorie-free treat!?

I embossed the image onto a print from the Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack using VersaMark and Black Embossing Powder. My treat bag is embellished with Crumb Cake Stitched Satin Ribbon and an Antique Brad that I make sparkle with a single Basic Rhinestone. 

The package is smart and great as a masculine or feminine gift for any treat-giving occasion. I slipped a fun pack of chocolate candies inside, but the bag is big enough for a gift card or other small surprise.

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PPA236 Sketch to Enjoy

The sketch by Kerry Willard Bray is a fun one, so I hope you will join us at Pals Paper Arts and play along by creating a card using the sketch as a starting point. Then, you can take a photo, post to a blog or gallery and upload your link on our blog. You'll by "playing" along and exercising your creativity!

I chose my color scheme from the Birthday Bash Specialty Designer Series Paper. Using a Calypso Coral card base, I created a mat in Night of Navy and then gave it some texture using the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder and my Big Shot.

I really wanted to use the CUTE Calypso Coral Pom Pom Trim (new in the Occasions Catalog), so I made the horizontal line in the sketch with two pieces of it. I used Mini Glue Dots to adhere each pom pom. The Whisper White banner was created using the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits. "Enjoy" was cut using the same thinlit set and a Birthday Bash print. My teeny vertical flags were each cut from prints in the Birthday Bash paper. I used the Bitty Banners Framelits. The entire element was adhered using Stampin' Dimensionals to lift it over the pom poms.

Come back tomorrow. I will show the card that I made when I first sat down to make this one. I completely forgot that I needed to follow a sketch! I got all excited using this same color scheme and the Birthday Bash Specialty Designer Series Paper!! That's what happens when you haven't created in awhile ;-)

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