I decided I wanted to do something different for the class treat this year. I really wasn't up for paper crafting, so I pulled out the plastic canvas and shipped up these kissing reindeer. They are super easy to make, but a bit time consuming. I should have known better and not waited until just a few days before I needed them to get started on them. I was up late into the night, but I got them done and to my surprise they kids loved them. They had so much fun playing with them, clipping them on their hair and clothes, making them talk. It was great!


You squeeze their cheeks and they give you a kiss.


I had picked these cute stacking jelly candy sticks and added a little stamped tag to them.


I decided not to make Christmas cards this year and felt guilty for not getting use out of any Christmas stamps, so I stamped the tags.

Labels: Christmas, Plastic Canvas, Sewing, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:41 PM
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I am just thrilled with the way this years Valentine treats turned out for my daughter’s class. I can not take credit for design however. Let me tell you the whole story about these treats.

It started in January of 2009 when I picked up the froggy cello bags from the dollar spot at Target. I had nothing special planned for them, just put some candies in them and add a little V-day bag topper and send them to school for V-day treats. Well for some reason I decided not to use them (or perhaps by the time I got around to doing the treats I had forgotten about the bags I had bought a month earlier). Whatever the case, they were still in my cabinet a year later and I had not given them a second thought. That is until I was scanning my blog line feeds one day and came across a project that not only used the very same frog baggies, but had made a matching bag topper that was so irresistibly cute that I had to lift the idea.

There was just one small tiny problem. I didn’t know what size punches she used to make the frog and I don’t have punches in various sizes, so I had a hard time gauging the size of Mr. Frog. Thankfully, there were only 3 different shapes used to make the frog (circle, oval, flower), all of which my Cricut can cut. The problem is that my Cricut only cuts the 3 basic shapes from 1 to 5.5 inches. After cutting a circle for his pupil at 1” it was obvious that it was going to be too big. So I had to be a little more creative. I had the right punch to make the ovals which were for his mouth and legs so really it was just the 4 different size circles that were going to give me trouble since I only had a circle punch that would be the right size for the one on his belly.

To make the other 3 circle sizes I used the In My Garden cartridge. If you have that one you will see that the flowers on the top row of the key pad have various size circles for the inside of the flowers. Since the actual flower would cut at 1”, the inside will cut smaller of course. So I played around with the different circles and different sizes and was able to come up with the right size for the remaining 3 circles. Brilliant I must say!! (and also a little bit of a pain in the arse as well.)

The toes for the frog were also cut from one of the flowers on the same cartridge. This wasn’t too difficult to figure out because I had seem people use flower punches to make toes several times before. It was just a matter of looking at the different flowers on the cart. to see which petals made the best toes. I was able to cut both sets of toes from 1 flower.

So, I got the shapes figured out and the frog put together to closely match the example I had. I used some pop dots for the body/mouth for a little dimension. I cut a the hart with my Cricut as well and stamped some little swirley things on the cardstock with a retired SU background stamp. The “Hoppy Valentines Day” was printed on a clear label because I didn’t feel like fussing with trying to print it on the cardstock. All that was left was to fill the bags with some heart shaped candy. I went to Wal-Mart in search of some hearts and while looking in the V-day aisle I saw some cut pink animal marshmallows. I think they were cats, but that doesn’t really matter. Behind those were some blue ones that may or may not have been puppies. Again, doesn’t matter. What does matter is that behind those I found the green frogs!!! How perfect do these frog marshmallows match the whole packaging I just made for the treats?!?! I was amazed at my luck. So I snatched up several of the 3 pack marshmallow frogs and a bag of chocolate heart candy because I new there was going to have to be something else in the bag with the frogs, or the frogs would have be lost in the cello bags.

While assembling the treats I was a little disappointed to discover that a green frog printed on the cello bags was in just the right spot to cover up much of the little candy frog. I wanted the candy frogs to be clearly visible in the bags, so I did the best I could and placed a piece of white cardstock in the bag and used double sided tape to stick the heart to it and placed the frog along side the heart. This allowed for the frog to be moved over enough so that the frog on the bag was not “toad”ally (get it?) covering the candy frog.

I folded the bags up tight and small so that the frog wouldn’t have a lot of room to move during transport and used some green staples to attach the bag topper. On the back of the topper my daughter wrote each child’s name along with her own.

Labels: Treats, Valentines

link | posted by Melissia at 1:05 PM
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The witches shoe is another tutorial I found online with a pattern. Another project I expected to be a lot more difficult that it was. It is just cut 2 pieces, the inside liner and outside. The only difficult part of this project was getting the liner to match up right once you folded the shoe up. I think the liner pattern might have been a little off. I could never seem to cut it to fit just right. There would always be some black showing with the pieces came together. Not the end of the world, but a bit frustrating. I wish I could have thought of more creative ways to decorate the outside of the shoe, but anything I tried putting on it just looked wrong. I placed a bag of home made Halloween mix in each shoe and these were given to my co workers. The Happy Halloween and Witch Hat stamp on the baggie tag were from the Halloween set mentioned in my previous post.

Labels: Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:21 PM
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I had seen these on a craft blog with a little tutorial and thought they were so cute. I was worried they would be very time consuming and as usual, I waited until the near last minute to start working on them. The tutorial actually had you making them a bit bigger than what I did them. I only wanted to put a little bag of candy in them so I cut down on the height of the pumpkin. Surprisingly they did not take as long as I thought. I still ended up having to work on them well into the night to get them done, but it gave me something to do and reason to be crafty.

Labels: Halloween, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 8:48 PM
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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.

Labels: Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 2:24 PM
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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.

Labels: Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 8:57 PM
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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.

Labels: Card, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:32 PM
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These are what I made for my daughters class. They are in clear envelopes and hold 2 chocolate hearts.

Labels: Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 4:57 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).

Labels: Christmas, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 3:06 PM
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This is not scrap related, but it is something I made. I ordered a 24 piece cupcake cake from Wal-Mart. Using a chocolate candy mold I made the bowling pins and balls with white and milk chocolate (they are 2 separate pieces) and stuck them in the cupcakes. The red lines on the pin were made by adding red food coloring to some corn syrup and painting them on the pin. Then we sprinkled red decorating sugar over the corn syrup (thought up by my husband). The Happy Birthday are candles and we had a number 6 candle as well. I think they turned out great!

Labels: Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 4:54 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.

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 5:15 PM
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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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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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These are the Valentines Day cards I made for the kids in my daughters class. I made them like a book and stuck laffy taffy candy on the inside. I wrapped a red paper band around the card and attached a stamped paper to the band so the kids can slide it off to open the card. The image is from SU's Happy Heart Day set. I colored them with colored pencils and gamsol.

Labels: Card, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 9:35 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 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

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 3:45 PM
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Isn't this the cutest? I saw these floating around blog land and just had to make one. It is wrapped around a small Kit Kat bar.

The Stampin' Up! products I used are Wild Wasabi, Basic Black and Whisper White card stock. I inked around the nose with some Wild Wasabi ink to make it stand out a bit.

I used decorative edge scissors to cut the hair. The shapes were cut with the Cricut machine using George & Basic Shapes cartridge. The white ovals are 1". Black circles are 1" on the sign feature. The nose is 2.5" on the sign feature. I used SU Basic Black marker to make his mouth.


These are definitely going in the Halloween treat bags for Cameron's class.

Labels: Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 1:22 PM
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I've been playing with the little bug today - that would be my Cricut machine. This is the card I made in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The SU supplies used were pretty in pink card stock and a sentiment from garden whimsy. I brushed a thin coat of crystal effects over the ribbon and sprinkled it with some glitter.

The pattern paper is from DCWV Nana's Kids collection. The ribbon was made using the ampersand from the George & Basic Shapes cartridge with the extras cut off. Letter beads where strung on white wire and glued to the ribbon.

This next project is a little boxy type thing I made for some pumpkin marshmallows. I am not real happy with the final product so this may get revisited.

The SU products used were only orange, basic black and glorious green card stock. I stamped the outside of the card stock with a stamp from basic backgrounds using basic black ink. I scallop punched basic black and used the white gel pen to add dots.

The pumpkin was made with the doodlecharms cartridge.

On the inside I used a square punch for the window and placed the wrapped candy behind it.

This next project doesn't have any SU product on it, but it's too cute not to share. This is a 8x10 canvas that I painted black. Every part of the bug was made using the George & Basic Shapes cartridge as well as the word CRICUT. I pieced him together and glued him to the canvas. I will be hanging him in my scrap room for inspiration to use my Cricut more.

Labels: Card, Cricut, Projects, Treats

link | posted by Melissia at 4:28 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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