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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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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After finishing the goodie bags on day 4 of the 5 day challenge, I have not been back in my craft room until today. So I am going to cheat and post this as my day 5 challenge. It just took more than 5 days to complete the challenge.

These are the thank you cards we are mailing to the birthday guests from my daughters party last weekend. I cut a black 4.5" circle with my Cricut machine in the blackout feature. I also cut a regular 4.5" circle in white and computer printed text on them:

Dear_______,
Thank you for the
_____________
and for coming to my party.
I hope you had fun!

I had my daughter write in the name and gift and sign her name on the bottom. Then I glued them to the black circles. I glued 1" silhouette circles in gray on the front for the bowling ball holes. I am mailing them in a CD envelopes (shown above, ready to mail) with the ball showing through the front window and I addressed the envelope on the back.

Labels: Challenge, Projects

link | posted by Melissia at 4:41 PM
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Here is what I have been working on this evening. These will be the treat bags my daughter will give to her birthday guests at her bowling party this weekend. You see it is a bowling ball, right?

I used small black paper bags that I cut down a little bit. Using my cricut I cut 5 inch circles out of black cardstock and cut them off at the bottom so the bag sat flat. The 'holes' are 1 inch circles that were also cut with the cricut with the silhouette feature. The handle is a 1" x 11" strip of black cardstock.

The bags will hold Hello Kitty treats and candy for the girls and Spider-Man treats and candy for the boys.

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link | posted by Melissia at 9:40 PM
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It's late in the evening, but I finished my project for day 1 of the 5 day challenge. I made some treat boxes for my daughter to take to school on Tuesday for her birthday. This is the first time I have done this little triangle box. Because I had to do so many and they are for 1st graders I figured I would keep them very simple. They are filled with Hershey Kisses.

I used white cardstock and some colored cardstock from the bold brights SU family along with matching SU ink. The cupcake image is from the Michaels clear $1 stamp sets. I have tons of these and this is the first time I have used one. The scallop circle is an SU punch and the star background stamp I used I think is now a retired SU set.

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 11:55 PM
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In an attempt to get myself back into some paper crafting, I grabbed some scrap paper and tried my hand at these 2 projects.

This little candy purse is real quick and easy to do. You fill it with small candies (this one has Skittles). The ribbon on this looks blue on my screen, but it is certainly celery green from SU.



Paper: Old Olive CS, Summer Picnic DSP, Real Red & Whisper White CS
Stamps: Tart & Tangy
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive
SU Products: Scallop Punch, Circle Punch, White Gel Pen, Clear Envelope, Certainly Celery Ribbon
Other: Small hole punch from ribbon, Skittles candy


This next little bit of a project it a paper strawberry box. I followed a template to cut the strawberry and the leaf. You could fit one or two Hershey kisses in this one. If I were going to make them to give to someone I would make the template a little bigger and fill them with more candies. The box is closed using the ribbon and then threaded through the leaf and tied off.
I used paper and ribbon from a stash of scraps I had.

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link | posted by Melissia at 5:15 PM
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I made these for my daughters T-Ball coach.

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Water Bottle Topper
Stamp: Tart and Tangy
Cardstock: Gable Green, Yo-Yo Yellow, Whisper White
Ink: Gable Green
Other: Scallop Punch, 1 1/4 Circle Punch, Silver Eyelets


Bookmark Holder Card
Stamps: Tart and Tangy, Sincere Salutations
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red
Paper: Summer Picnic
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive
Other: Scallop Punch, 1 1/4 Circle Punch, Pencil Eraser for making dots, Crystal Effects, Stampin Dimensionals, jumbo paperclip



York Mint Bunny
Stamps: Pick A Petal
Ink: Lavender Lace
Cardstock: Whisper White, Lavender Lace
Other: Scallop punch, flower punch, 1 1/4 circle punch, black pen

Labels: Card, Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 2:54 PM
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This is a mini clear paint can I found at AC Moore. It was part of my nieces birthday gift. I am not real happy with how I decorated, but still think it is cute. It is a scrap piece of colored striped paper that is on the inside of the can. I used letter stickers for the name put on the outside. The flags at the top are a border sticker, also on the outside. And I wrapped the red ribbon around the outside and fixed it with double sided tape. I added 2 small flower charms to the handle. A bazzill white flower is attached to the lid with a self sticking red button in the center.

Oh and I filled it with bubble gum balls.

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 10:15 AM
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Thursday was the last day of school for my little kindergartner. I can not believe in a few short months she will be in first grade. Where has the time gone?? Anyhow, I have been busy since last weekend making up a treat bag for the kindy graduates.

These are 2x2 cards that are sealed in little clear envelopes that I posted about a while back. The stamp is a dollar stamp from Michael's. I used colored pens to outline the flower and trace the sentiment. The flash kind of drowns out the colors.

I saw these last year on a message board and had saved a pic of them to my computer. I had a different idea in mind, but was unable to find little blue grad cap stickers so I needed to come up with something else. These actually look so much cuter in person.

It is a Hershey chocolate nugget with a 1x3" blue strip of card stock wrapped around it. The squares were cut with my paper cutter because I didn't have the right size square punch. I can't recall off hand the size I cut them. I cut 2 and glued them together to make it a little more sturdier.

The tassels were the time consuming part as I made each one using embroidery floss. I tied it around a mini brad and attached it to the square. I then hot glued the square to the top of the nugget just to make sure it stuck good.

I put them in little zip lock type bags that you can get from Wal-Mart cheap and added a bag topper. I printed the text on my computer and then stamped and colored the little cap at the top.

Next are some friendship seeds. This is a template that folds up like a flower seed packet. I can not remember where the template came from, but I have several that say different things (pumpkin seeds, snowman seeds etc.). I had downloaded them from somewhere a while back.

The elephant is a stamped image from a SU valentine set (the name escapes me right now). There was some text on the template at the bottom where the elephants feet are so I had to do some altering of the seed packet image so that the stamped image would fit. I colored it with chalks.

I put a handful of orange tic tacs in a little zip baggie and put inside the envelope. I think these came out super cute!

This purple container is a kids plastic snack cup with lid that I bought 6 for $1 at the dollar store. I filled them with Whooper candies. I used my cricut (George and basic shapes cart) to cut a blue circle for the top of the lid and used a fine black pen to add a little border. The sun was cut with the cricut also (doodlecharms cart I think) and I outlined it. I printed the words on clear mini labels from my computer.

All of these were packed up in a clear cello bag and tied with some blue curly ribbon.

This was a little gift for the teacher. The class took up a collection for one gift, but I wanted to make a little something. This is another idea found on a message board. I stamped images from a retired SU set with white craft ink onto black cardstock. I stamped the letters of her name with some foam alpha stamps and my SU inks and matted them with matching SU cardstock. I found the red picture frame at the dollar store.

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link | posted by Melissia at 9:54 AM
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This is a very cheap, quick and easy project. Make 3 copies on regular copy paper of a 5x6 photo. Cut each photo into 1.25" strips so that you end up with 4 stips per photo and 3 exact copies of each strip. Using a glue stick, glue the first 3 copied strips (they will all be the same part of the photo) onto the first 3 pencils. Glue the next three copies to the next 3 pencils and so on. Then put the pencils together and roll them until the picture lines up. I didn't do it to mine, but I would coat them with mod podge.

I did do a little boo boo on mine. I wrapped one of the pencils in the opposite direction that I had been rolling them and it makes it look like part of the photo is missing on the 7th pencil. Oops. I might go back and fix it, but for now I just wanted to try it out and see if it was as easy as it looked, and it is.

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link | posted by Melissia at 6:32 PM
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I made these little baskets for the ladies at work and my daughters teacher. The baskets are made from 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 cardstock. The handle is 1/4 x 7. I used SU Yo Yo Yellow, Only Orange, Pixie Pink, Lovely Lilac. I added the white dots with a gel pen. The scallop punch is from SU and the circle that I stamped is a 1 1/4" circle I cut with my cricut. The bunny stamp is from inky antics and the little duck is a dollar stamp from Michaels. I added some green grass and filled them with chocolate eggs.



I made these for my daughters kindy class. Very simply done. The bunny is a cricut cut, the happy Easter is a dollar stamp from ACM.

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:29 PM
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This was posted on a yahoo group I am on. I decided to give it a try tonight. It is made from 1 sheet of 12x12 paper, 11 inches of ribbon and 12 brads. Here is the blog with directions that was posted on the group - Basket Tutorial

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link | posted by Melissia at 8:55 PM
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These are little plastic organizer boxes I got for .99 at Hobby Lobby. I used my cricut and the paper dolls cartridge to make the pirate, skull, ship, princess, castle and dragon. I cut my niece and nephews name with the Making the grade cartridge. I covered the tops in mod podge and filled the inside with candy for Valentines day.

Labels: Cricut, Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:30 PM
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I bought some mail boxes from the dollar spot right after Christmas. I made this one for my daughters teacher for Valentines Day. I filled it with various candies.

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link | posted by Melissia at 9:27 PM
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For the ladies at work and Cameron's teacher I put mint chocolate bells inside of a wire whisk and wrapped it in a cello bag. The tag says "We Whisk You A Merry Christmas". I guess there is a little SU on this. I stamped the bird from It's Snow Time on the tag.


For the kids in Cam's class I made Rudolph's red-nose repair kits. The poem says
Rudolph guides ol' Santa's sleigh,
His nose glows red to guide the way.
But if it flickers on Christmas night,
Just use one of these replacement lights.

Rudolph was made with the Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge. The 'noses' inside are sour cherry balls.

Labels: Christmas, Non SU, Projects

link | posted by Melissia at 11:22 AM
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I have a stash of Crystal Light containers in my "to be altered some day" closet. I pulled them out Saturday to make these for my niece and nephew. I filled them with candy and pens/pencils.

Labels: Christmas, Non SU, Projects

link | posted by Melissia at 8:04 PM
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I made these for the ladies at work. I filled them with different flavors of Hershey Kisses.

Stampin Up products used:
Paper: Bayou Blue, Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, Only Orange, Apricot Appeal
Ink: Basic Black, Apricot Appeal
Stamp Sets: Pick A Petal, Simply Said (flower print on the bags stamped in Apricot Appeal - hard to see in pic)
Other: 1 1/4 circle punch, 1 1/2 circle punch, large oval punch, word window punch for feet

Non SU products: Yellow cardstock, googly eyes, bag tempplate found online

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link | posted by Melissia at 3:45 PM
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Another project made at the demo meeting Friday night. These Organizers are so neat and easy to make and can be used for so many different events and occasions. This one is a Christmas organizer.
This is the organizer front, all folded up and ties with ribbon. The stamps used to decorate the pieces are from the Holiday Tag Team set and the Type alphabet set. The DSP is Dots and Dashes. Also used on the project were brads, ribbon, designer label punch, oval punch, and white gel pen.
The inside. There are 4 pockets, plus an extra pocket on the first panel made with cardstock. The second panel holds 3 graduated size cards that pull out of the pocket. The 3rd panel pocket holds 2 pieces of cardstock to list food and gifts on. The last pocket has an envelope in the pocket for receipts or whatever you want it to hold.
The back is just decorated with DSP.

**If you are in the Montgomery area and would be interested in a class on how to make this project, drop me an email or leave a comment and I will get in touch with you.

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link | posted by Melissia at 12:50 PM
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We made these at a demo meeting Friday night. This was made with SU Creepy Crawly DSP, but wouldn't they make cute Christmas ornaments using some of the holiday DSP?? You can fancy them up with beads on the ribbon, or add a tassel to the bottom.

While making this project I used the crop a dile for the first time to punch the holes for the ribbon. Oh. My. Goodness. I punched a small hole in all 11 pieces of paper at one time and it was like a hot knife through butter. I totally understand the appeal of this big clunky tool and it is on my wish list now.

Labels: Projects, Tools

link | posted by Melissia at 12:29 PM
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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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