Wreck it Ralph Party Favors

Hey everyone! I haven't shared any projects lately that haven't included some kind of challenge or blog hop. Today I wanted to share with you some last minute party favors I put together for my sister who lives in NC. She is having a Wreck it Ralph themed birthday party for my nephew this weekend. She also has her own home business baking cakes, cupcakes, and cake pops. So she has been so busy preparing all the details for the party that she hasn't had a chance to even think about making party favors. Unfortunately, all the party supply stores in her area discontinued any Wreck it Ralph party supplies, so I thought it might be fun to help her out a little and get some party favors shipped to her ASAP.

I started making all these last night. In total spent around 8 hours putting everything together. I really wanted to get these shipped out today so they would arrive in time for Saturday. Super excited that I was able to finish and have them shipped out about an hour ago! Also super excited on how all this stuff turned out, I love it all! I purchased digital files of the Wreck it Ralph images from these Etsy shops: The Print Shoppe and Betty Newcomb.



Using Stampin Up's Candy Wrapper Die, I made 20 of these little favor boxes and then stamped them with the image from My Favorite Things Lollipop Additions Birthday Stamp set. I used Stampin Up ink colors in Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, and Real Red. Then I simply attached my images and filled with small pieces of candy.





I used the 1x8" Clear candy bags that I usually purchase here for my Skittles Candy Sticks. I added my Wreck it Ralph Images backed onto Kraft Cardstock and then used Papertrey Ink's Banner die to add the little tags that says "Celebrate".







Last I made these awesome Lollipop holders, again using My Favorite Things Lollipop Additions Birthday set along with the matching dies. Again I stamped on each one and added the images onto the front.







I cannot wait for my sister to get these in the mail, I sure loved making them! I hope she loves using them for my nephew! One of my nieces has a birthday party coming up in July. The theme is Disney Princess and I can't wait to do some favors for her! Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #115

Good evening fellow crafters! Hope you all are having a wonderful evening! Today is my mom's birthday, we just got back from having dinner at her house. The girls got to go swimming with their cousins for a few hours, and are now getting ready for bed. They were of course upset that we had to leave early because it is a school night, but they are exhausted and so I now have a few minutes to share what I made earlier today for this week's Make it Monday challenge for Papertrey Ink.

The challenge this month is to create a project by using Embossing or Impression Plates on something other than paper. My original idea was to use foil, but I was not happy with the result at all. The foil kept tearing and I couldn't find any patterned paper that looked good together with the foil. So after going through all my supplies and stashes, I found my collection of paint chip samples, and I thought that would be perfect. I picked out 6 different samples that each had different shades of the same color. I wanted to create another card set, this time with an ombre effect. I used Stampin' Up's Mini Curly Label punch to get 4 different punches of 5 shades of color from each paint sample. I then adhered these to a White cardstock mat and ran them through my Big Shot with the Medium Polka Dots embossing folder from the Paper Studio.





I adhered all the pieces onto a Kraft Cardstock base. I used Stampin' Up ink pads in Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Orchid Opulence, Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, and Daffodil Delight. Using Papertrey Ink's Wonderful Words Hello Stamp set and die, I created the "hello" for the front of each card in a matching color. I did the same for the butterfly using the Papertrey Ink Pretty Peonies Stamp Set and butterfly die. I added a rhinestone to each butterfly and popped it up on the card with dimensionals.


















After I was finished, for some reason the cards reminded me of some Legos! I do like the way the set came out though, I love how easy it is to create an Ombre effect with paint chip samples! My favorite card out of the set is definitely the blue one, I love how bright and vibrant the blue hues are with the Kraft cardstock!

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful night!

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #114

Good afternoon fellow crafters! I do not go in to work today until later, so I have been spending the morning doing a little cleaning and crafting. I wanted to try out the technique that Dawn McVey is showing this week for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Tutorial. This week the tutorial is on Ink blowing with your reinkers.

There are a ton of birthdays for my family in April and May. My mom, my older sister, and my youngest sister all have birthdays in May in addition to Mother's Day! So the end of April/Early May is usually a busy crafting time for me! I really need to start on all my Mother's Day cards, but decided to get the birthday cards out of the way first.

So for this challenge, I have made a birthday card out of a Kraft Cardstock base.





As I have never tried this ink blowing technique before, I did practice several times on other pieces of white cardstock with lots of different reinkers. I just didn't like the way all the colors were mixing into each other when I tried to blow them off the card. I decided to just go with just one reinker, in a Sunny Yellow color. I may have put drops that were too big onto the cardstock, because I got big, fat ink-blown yellow all over the place. I wanted to draw the attention away from all the yellow, so I used Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterflies stamp set along with some Stampin' Up Regals ink pads to stamp some butterflies onto the cardstock. I also used some Crumb Cake ink to stamp the smaller butterflies. I also used Papertrey Ink's Happy Harlequin Stamp set (for the stamped dots) and the Framed Out #6 Stamp set (for the tiny flower). The sentiment is from Stylish Sentiments: Birthdays, which I stamped onto a 2½" circle die cut and adhered onto the front of the card.


I love the way the card came out, just have to decide now who to give it to! Hope you all have a fantastic last day of April, thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink April 2013 Blog Hop

Good morning fellow crafters! I hope you all are having a fabulous week so far! I have tons of errands to run this morning before I head off to work in the afternoon, so I wanted to share with you real quick my project for this month's blog hop for Papertrey Ink over at Nichole's blog!

The challenge is to create a tilted project, so I sharing my super simple, colorful Thank you tag set using the Papertrey Ink Fillable Frames dies and the Framed Out #1 stamp set. The ink colors I used are from Stampin' Up: Gable Green, Pixie Pink, Orchid Opulence, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, and Taken with Teal. I created 12 tags, one of each die, and 2 of each color. The polka dots are stamped from My Favorite Things Lollipop Treats stamp set.







That's all for today, I am going to check out all the other amazing projects being submitted and then head out to start my errands. Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #111

Good afternoon fellow crafters! I hope you all are having a fantastic day considering it is almost Friday! I have to be at work in less than 2 hours, so I need to make this a very quick post. Just wanted to share with you my card for this weeks Make it Monday challenge over at Nichole Heady's blog. This week the tutorial is from Heather and the challenge is to use water-coloring on embossed images.

This challenge was a little bit frustrating for me because the color of my flower just wasn't turning out the way I wanted it to, but I stuck with it and finished my card anyways. I cased Heather's card but I love the white embossing she did on the Kraft cardstock, and I just had to give it a try.







I added some water to Stampin' Up's Garden Green and Not Quite Navy inks to color in my flower and leaf. The stamped flowers and leaf are from Hero Arts Sew Me Flower Jewel stamp set. I used Papertrey Ink's Boutique Borders: Birthday Stamp Set and matching die for the Birthday saying. I used Inkadinkados Linen White embossing powder along with a Craft Smart White pigment ink pad.

I like the card, but I am thinking of playing around with more colors on Kraft cardstock to see if I can get the color to "pop" a little bit more. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #110

Good evening fellow crafters! I hope everyone had a great Easter Weekend. It felt very weird celebrating Easter in March! Can you believe it is already April? All this time flying by is making me nervous, pretty soon the kids will be out for summer vacation, and then before we know it, another year will be gone. It is insane. I sure hope everyone has had a great start to their week so far! It has been a while since I last posted any projects, so today I wanted to share something I made for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge.

This week the video tutorial is from Dawn McVey, and the challenge is to make a project using Collage Elements. I love this idea, such a great way to create a card without having to use too many embellishments. I made a Birthday Card Set.











I started off by using Stampin' Up's In-Colors for 2011-2013. I used all 5 colors of cardstock for my card bases: Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder, and Pool Party. I layered all of my collage elements onto a piece of Kraft cardstock. I used Hero Arts Solid Dots Pattern cling stamp for my background and stamped that in Crumb Cake ink. I then used a script cling stamp from Recollections and stamped that in Chocolate chip ink. I used Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterflies Stamp set to stamp all the butterflies using the 5 ink colors to match the cardstock. I used the PTI Wonderful Words birthday stamp set and die to create the "birthday" for the front of the card, which I also stamped with the in-color inks. The "Happy" on the front of the card is from the PTI Stylish Sentiments: Birthday Stamp set and is stamped in Chocolate Chip ink. The inside of each card includes a sentiment from the same birthday stamp set and is stamped in a matching ink color.

I love creating Card sets, I think this one came out very nice, I love the butterflies. Hopefully I get to participate again this week if I am able to find more time! Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

Just Catching Up

Good evening fellow crafters, I hope you all have had a fantastic weekend and are now getting used to the time change! The spring time change always takes some time for me to get used to, especially right now since its 7:00pm here and it is still light outside! Anywho, its been nearly one month since I lasted posted, and I just wanted to share with you a few projects I've finished up this past month.

First up, some Easter projects. I made these Easter M&M candy sticks using Digital images from Pink Cat Studio. I used the 1x8" Clear bags and fit 25 plain chocolate M&M's inside each bag. These are super easy and super fast to put together.









I also made this Easter card set, using Kraft cardstock and some pastel cardstock paper from Recollections. The stamp set is from Inky Antics.













Next, I made a Thank You tag set using Stampin Up's A Fitting Occasion stamp set as well as their 2011-2013 In-color collection ink pads and cardstock. I paired them up with some simple Kraft cardstock.







Last, I made this butterfly "Just for You" mini card set using Kraft cardstock and Stampin' Ups Bright Colors inkpads. The butterfly is from Papertrey Ink's Pretty Peonies stamp set, and the script background stamp is from Recollections cling stamps.









That's all for now, hopefully I can post again soon, thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy your week!

Valentine's Bracelets and Treat Cards

Good afternoon everyone! Hope you are all having a fabulous Valentines Day! I had originally posted this as a challenge entry for Papertrey Ink, but took my entry out because someone noted that I didn't use a Papertrey Ink product, which I guess I wasn't even thinking about at the time :/ Owell, I will still share my projects with you anyways!









I made these using 4mm Swarovski Crystal beads in Light Rose and Crystal, along with a sterling silver "I Love You" charm. I used Crystazzi Pearls in matching colors on both bracelets. I love how these came out, perfect little bracelets for charming little girls! I had originally made these cute little bracelets to add to my Etsy shop, but made extra just for my daughters for Valentines Day.

I also wanted to share with you the Valentines Day cards we made this year. I also sold a TON of these on my Etsy shop. It took a while to assemble these because there are so many parts to them, but once I got the flow of things, I created assembly lines to put them together quickly. Stampin Up had their Heart Treat Cups on clearance last month at $0.59 for a box of 12 heart cups. I ordered 600 treat cups, since they are not making them anymore :( They still have the round treat cups, but I think the heart ones are just a lot cuter! The images are from the Sweetheart Stamp set also from Stampin Up.











I used the Movers and Shapers die set and Stamp set from Papertrey Ink to create the tab, as well as the Tremendous Treats Valentine Set for the "be my Valentine". Each cup holds 12 chocolate M&M's.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!