I made these for my daughters class for her birthday treat. I wrapped Reese's PB Cups with pattern paper and crimped the ends. I wrapped a thin strip of solid cardstock around the middle and topped it with a scalloped circle. The cupcake stamp is one from Michael's dollar spot colored with pencils.

Mini pinatas that I made for her Build A Bear party using the new SU Build A Bear stamps.


Cupcake toppers also made for the Build A Bear Party using the SU Build A Bear stamps. I cut them out and glued them to a toothpick.

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This is the last week for summer camp for my daughter. I made the ever popular scalloped sandwiches for all of the staff. I am not exactly sure how many workers there are but I made 80 of them which I am sure was plenty. Very cheap thank you gift. I bought 2 bags of chocolate mints at the dollar store along with the basket. I weaved some ribbon that I had through it to cover up leaves that were painted on it. And of course I had the paper, stamps, inks and markers. I printed a thank you note off the computer, cut it with deco scissors and tied it to the basket with ribbon. We took them in this morning and they were a big hit.

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I made this for a friend's birthday (I am sure she has gotten it by now so it should be safe to post this). This is kind of an out of the box for me. I don't tend to use these colors very often because I never feel like what I do with them works well. If that makes any sense.

I used some Not Quite Navy(SU) and Bravo Burgundy(SU) with some light cream color cardstock. I sponged around the cream with Close To Cocoa (SU) along with stamping the sentiment. I used burgundy ribbon and round button as well as a green heart button. I can not remember who the papers are by, but I had bought them long ago at Hobby Lobby. I used a black marker to make dots around the circles.

Sorry for the pic quality.

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I actually took a couple hours in my craft room today and made these 2 cards that I have been wanting to make for a long time now. These cards were based on designs I saw from Dawn G (sorry I can not remember the last name).

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These are the gifts given out to my daughters softball team tonight. Sorry for the bad color on the pictures. I forgot to put the flash on.

2x2 cards using the team colors of Navy and Pink. The girls play with yellow softballs (not white like I played with back in the day). The CCC stands for Capstone Construction Company which is the Coach's company and our team sponsor. These were for the girls and on the inside it says, "I had a ball playing with you!" and my daughter signed them.


These are bag tags for the girls to put on their equipment bags (if they want). I stamped and colored the bunny and sponged the sky and grass. I added all the girls names on them and included a small black zip tie for them to attach it with.

Very simple treat. I sandwiched the top of the pixie stix between two black scallop punches and added the punched circles which I added the 'stitches' to with a red marker. These were also for the girls.

The items above and 2 pieces of bubble gum were packaged in clear envelopes for each girl.

Cards for the coaches and assistant coaches/helpers similar to the mini ones I made for the girls. After taking the picture I added CCC to the top right corner of the pink cardstock. I wish I had used a bigger 'thank you' stamp. Cameron wrote a personal thank you note in each one. I made 5 in all.

This was the gift for the coach and assistant coaches/helpers. I probably should have taken a picture before wrapping them. It's a large plastic popcorn bucket with yellow crinkled paper filler in the bottom, 2 boxes of movie candy, 1 bag of micro popcorn, 2 suckers, 1 bottle Diet Coke, 1 bottle Sprite, a gift card for Blockbuster and the card above.

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link | posted by Melissia at 9:32 PM
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I haven't been doing much scrapping and stamping, but I did pull my sewing machine out a couple weeks ago and tried my hand at a few things. I don't get a lunch at work, but I have an hour between work and picking up my daughter from school so I eat lunch between the 2 places. I had been looking for a cute lunch bag. The only ones I liked were all more than I wanted to pay for a little lunch bag. So I made this round drawstring bag. The four outside fabrics came from Wal Mart. The inside is lined with a waterproof material called PUL. I probably have about $3.00 of materials in it. It did take a while to make, but after making one, I am sure I could do another in a couple of hours.

I have a water bottle carrier that I made for my daughter and some reusable snack bags that I will snap some pictures of pretty soon.

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link | posted by Melissia at 7:24 PM
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I had intended to make many more cards this past Easter, but I waited until the last minute and was only able to make a few. All of the stamped images used on the following cards were $1 stamps from Michaels. Also used were Prima and Bazzill flowers, pattern paper from DCWV, SU cardstock and a little bit of white stickles.

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link | posted by Melissia at 7:16 PM
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These are what I made for my daughters class. They are in clear envelopes and hold 2 chocolate hearts.

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link | posted by Melissia at 4:57 PM
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This was a project I did for a Christmas gift for my Grandmother. I printed B&W photos of all her great grandchildren and Mod Podge them onto wooden blocks my hubby cut for me. I had painted the blocks black first and then sanded the edges. I made stencils for the Angel letters with my cricut machine and sponge painted them onto the blocks. The wording on the bottom flat piece of wood are rub on letters. I hot glued it all together along with adding some Prima flowers to the front.

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link | posted by Melissia at 4:20 PM
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A friend asked if I would make some Valentines Day cards for her. This is what I came up with.

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link | posted by Melissia at 5:49 PM
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I made snowman soup packets for my daughters 1st grade class. I printed the poem on light blue cardstock. I cut the snowman using my cricut. The packets contain instant hot chocolate, 2 Hershey kisses, candy cane and mini marshmallows. It is all sealed up in a clear envelope (like the ones Stampin Up sells).

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link | posted by Melissia at 3:06 PM
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These are glass round ornaments with coordinating Chirstmas paper rolled up and dropped inside where it unrolls a bit. I used some cheap brand of rub ons on the outside that were a pain in the butt to work with. I just added a hook and tied a bow. These were made for the ladies I work with.



I put them in plastic bags used for like chocolate candy suckers you make. Tied some ribbon and added this stamped tag. I bought the stamp on clearance last year at Hobby Lobby. It has 3 stamps in it and I think I paid .60 for it. I cut it out and matted it on a round piece of green cardstock and added a jump ring to attach it to the ribbon.


I bought a kit (also on clearance, only I bought it 2 years ago) to make several different felt ornaments. I got 2 of them made this year. Maybe I will start in January to get the rest of them done for next Christmas.

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This birthday card is much cuter in person. My flash really washed out the color on it.

Cardstock - SU Lovely Lilac, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White
Stamped Images - Candle is $1 stamp from Michael's, the cake is from the $1 clear packs.
Punches- SU scallop and 1 1/4 circle
Other- White Gel Pen, Cuttlebug with dotty (not sure of the actual name) embossing folder, Prisma colored pencils.


The card looks big, but it is only 3 1/4 X 5 1/4. The duck and scallop are on pop dots.

Cardstock - SU Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Whisper White.
Pattern Paper - DCWV
Image - Suzy Zoo
Other - SU scallop punch, 1 1/4 circle, Prisma colored pencils, pop dots.

I have only used this stamp twice now, and both times I have done it in blues and greens. I don't know why those are the colors that come to me with this image.

Cardstock - SU Ballet Blue, Green Galore, Whisper White
Pattern Paper - I think it's from a DCWV stack
Other- 3D balloon from the Sandylion Essentials Birthday Gift pack, green ribbon is self adhesive and from Darcie, Prisma colored pencils.

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link | posted by Melissia at 2:44 PM
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I made these spiders for my daughters class. They are made with the SU scallop circle punch and SU photo corner punch (Thanks again Dawn!). The white of the eyes I cut with my cricut, the black pupil and red nose were done with a hole punch. A chocolate candy disk is sandwiched in the middle of the body.


I put them in small clear envelopes and added a bag topper that I stamped.

These "Frankies" are wrapped around a full size Hershey bar. I made these wrappers last year for the small candy bars for my daughters class. These I made for the ladies at work. I used my cricut to cut the eye pieces and nose. The hair was cut with decorative scissors.

I made 2x2 cards to go with the candy bars. I have 2x2 clear envelopes that they fit in.


A card I made for my parents.

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I made this card for my friend Michelle.

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Hi! I'm Melissia. I am a wife of 9 years, a mother of 6.5 years and a program assistant for almost 2 years. I enjoy paper crafting and doing various other crafts. I also enjoy reading, blurfing, brain games and spending time with my daughter.

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