Christmas Tag

Merry Christmas Eve to all my crafty friends!  Just a really quick post today.  I made some sweet treats for some friends and neighbors. 

This really quick and easy tag is cut from Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.  I sized it in the Cricut Craft Room and then also used the same cartridge to cut a rectangle out to fit in the center of the tag.

For my sentiment, I used MCT stamp Just For You from the Just For You stamp set.  Very super easy for a quick tag you might need for your last minute gifts.

Wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas!  See you again soon here in blog land!
 Chao --C

Christmas Gift

Hello my crafty friends,
I'd like to share with you today a gift idea I learned from Ruthie over at September Ninth, and her second day of My Creative Time 12 Days Of Christmas. 

Start out with a bottle of hand soap, or any kind of clear bottle doesn't have to be hand soap, I was even thinking you could do this with body splash etc.  But for this project, I chose the lime green, Cool Cucumber scented hand soap for my project.

Now here's a tip:  When choosing your soap bottles, think about the labels that are adhered to them.  These bottles, had a clear plastic sticker on one side and a paper sticker on the other.  The clear plastic sticker came off pretty easy, but the paper sticker was a little more stubborn.  We, I say, WE, because hubby helped :-) with the Goo Gone to get the sticker off.  I have to say I've never used Goo Gone before...so just make sure you leave yourself some time to work off the stickers.  Once that's done this project is a breeze.

 

You'll need some transparency film you can get at your local stationary store or online, I bought mine on ebay really cheap.  Use Stayz On ink for your image. If you don't use Stayz On ink, you'll find the soap will be a solvent and remove any other type of ink you use.  
Cut a few  strips, measuring the size of your bottle, cut it short of course so it will fit.  The stamp I used for my image is from MCT It's a Magical Season stamp set.

I had a few that my stamp slipped...it's very slippery on this film...you can see in the picture above the last part of Season is a little 'thick' where it slipped a little. But I think it's still usable.  Once your image is stamped on the film, let it dry for a few minutes.  Then remove the spout of your bottle, and roll your film a little so that it can slip into the bottle.  Use the spout if you need to move it around. And place your spout behind the image.  Viola!  A great Christmas Gift!

Click HERE for Ruthie's post on this project.   Click HERE to view her video. 

 

That's it for today. Chao! --C  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simply Crafts December Winner!

Ok, I have to say I really like Christmas....the decorations, the spirit, and yes, the presents. The whole thing just gives me warm fuzzies inside :-)  
You may have already seen my win from Emma at MCT, but I have to share with you another one...and yes, it feels just like Christmas getting presents in the mail!!!

Each month Simply Crafts Challenge Blog has a really simple challenge. Once a Month! No Pressure!   Come on and join them next month.  They will tell you what the challenge is and you post your project.  Random.org picks a winner.  Easy, Cheesy, Right!

For December we had to use the reindeer cut from Doodlecharms.  This was my entry.  Again, remember, I was chosen by random.org, so everyone has a chance to WIN!  That's the best part!

Click HERE to see the original post.

This months winner, won a stamp set from Peachy Keen. Yea!!!! 

Have a great weekend!!!!!    Pssstt...it's almost Christmas!  Chao for now, --C

Reindeer Poop

Hello all my crafty friends! 
Today I'm sharing a project for the December Simply Crafts Challenge Blog.  This month's challenge is to use the Reindeer from the Doodlecharms cartridge.  (there's still time to enter, check it out HERE)

So I had a thought in mind of what I'd like to do, then a co-worker asked if I'd make a Reindeer Poop treat baggie for her. 

I cut out "Reindeer" and two "P's" using the cricut craft room, caps cut at 1 inch and lower case at .681 inch and welded the letters for "reindeer" together.  I then cut two reindeer about 1.236w x 1.597h inches from the Doodlecharms cartridge and used them for the "O's".  I hid the cut face so I could use my Peachy Keen faces Critter Faces Set A Medium  using a boy and girl face and added a red bow. 

I colored in the eyes with white jelly roll pen, then when it dried I used Glossy Accents (I love this stuff) and to top the faces off I used sparkly RED glitter glue for their noses.

I then glued them to background cardstock and viola!   Glued the cardstock to a snack size baggie and again Viola!  Fill it up with candy, I used Peanut M&Ms (my fav), so this reindeer poops whismically! LOL    Quick and easy and super cute! 

That's it for today. Chao for now! --C

Countdown To Christmas

My, my, it's been a long time since my last post...a MONTH.  All is well over here, have been trying to get everything all ready for the holidays...did some traveling for Thanksgiving and making card sets for family and friends.

I wanted to share a Christmas Countdown I made for my sister's kids.  Their Elf on a Shelf was writing the countdown on napkins....and I was like, "Nope, that's not gonna work" so this is what I made and was sent from their Elf's, "Mr. Mint" secretary from the North Pole *tee hee*

 

 

The base is 12 x 12 from Recollections Jolly and Bright I bought last year after Xmas sale.  Note: Santa is in a car and not a sleigh...well I had thought about that too but thought what the heck it looks pretty cool....well, my 5 year old nephew noticed it RIGHT AWAY!!!  Yikes!  I told my sister to tell him that's how he delivers presents to kids who don't have chimneys LOL  Guess it worked. :-)

 

 

 

Sorry these pics are a little blurry.  The letters were all cut from the Cricut Craft Room. I welded them together to make it easier to display.  I cut a white shadow layer and red textured letters. Then I used a white jelly pen and stitched all around the letters.

 

The numbers were each cut individually for the BIG COUNTDOWN.  I didn't have a lot of time, so I ended up cutting out little items from the same paper pad to add to each letter.  When you make the countdown, be sure to make two number 1's and two number 2's so you can have 11 and 22 as days. :-)



Here are more numbers.   I put magnets on the 12x 12 and magnets on all the numbers.  This countdown now proudly resides on my sisters fridge and the kids change the numbers each morning!

Hope you were inspired.  Have a great day.  Chao! --C

Holiday Party Hostess Gift

I'll be heading out to Holiday Parties this week and I can't wait to attend. I definitely don't want to go to a Holiday Party without a Hostess gift. I usually give the norm, a bottle of wine stuffed into a wine bag with some tissue paper. But this year, I put a twist on an idea I got from one of the design team members over at Emma's My Creative Time and their 12 Days of Christmas which gave me so much inspiration this Holiday Season. Emma made one w/ mittens and a face to cover microwave popcorn. It was Oh So Cute!!!

The items you'll need are a bottle of wine, printed paper 12x7 7/8 inches, depending on the height of your bottle. Character cut to 6 inches high and a pair of socks or mittens. I found these socks at Wally World (Walmart) for $3.00 I also cut a scrap piece of white paper to look like snow and added some glitter and snow stamps. A bell and two small safety pins (match your bell and safety pin colors to match)

Once you have your character cut out and glued together, you're going to glue him to your main printed sheet, with his head at the top of your page, and let dry really good. Then you'll take your page and form it to the bottle so you can see where it needs to bend. Take the page and roll it between your two hands (like you have a ball and your rolling it up and down your hands, alternating left up and right down) You want the bend to be round, not bent with a crease.

Secure the bell on the toe of one of the socks using the safety pin. Then I used double sided tape to adhere the paper onto the bottle and then rolled the bottle so the paper is tight, and straight, around the bottle, then I zipped another two sided tape to adhere the other end.

Take the sock without the bell attached, and wrap it around the neck of the bottle and secure it with a safety pin, don't use tape or adhesive you might ruin the sock! Then slip the belled sock over the neck (now covered with the other sock), slip over to the heal so that it hangs over, and the sock is over the top portion of the paper to make the sock look like your characters Santa hat.

         Tah Dah!   I think he turned out pretty darn cute. And I hope the hostess of the party tomorrow night enjoys her little 'friend'.

Gift Tags

I made these oh so cute (if I don't mind saying) gift tags.  They turned out really good for my first try. Although  I have to say I had LOTS of inspiration from over at  Emma's My Creative Time 12 Days of Christmas.  And it's only DAY 5 and I can't even begin to tell you how great ALL the projects have been...and there's still SEVEN MORE DAYS!!!!     As for these gift tags, I used regular white stock paper for the base, red textured paper and I used stickles around the edge on the white area and on Rudolphs nose.  They're 4 inches long, so it gives plenty of room to write in the name of the reciepient and yours.

Receipe as follows:

Elegant Edges Snowflake key #27 @ 4" @ Oblong & Shifted

Then again for the second layer but @ 3 3/4" @ Oblong & Shifted

Create A Critter Reindeer very last key @ 2 1/2" for each layer

Stickles for the edges and the nose

Ribbon

TO & FROM stamp (I used silver ink)

Thanks for looking - Chao for now --C