Ballet Stocking Gift Card Holder

Hi

My niece graduated from high school this year and as her school career comes to an end so too has her ballet dancing tuition so I thought it would be fitting as I want to give her a gift card for her Christmas gift, to create a card holder/tree ornament that would remind her of her ballet dancing (she has been attending ballet lessons since she was 3 and she is now 17).

I found a template on the Family Fun site- get it HERE (they have some other fun stocking variations too).

 

Close up of the ballet slipper.

Using the guidleines in the following challenges I turned the Ballet Stocking into a Winter Wonderland with a caroling theme:

SCS Ways to use it challenge: Let's go Carolling- Let It Snow

Pile it On: Tinsel Town - glitter

Cupcake Craft Challenges: Sing a Christmas Carol- Let it Snow

The Cuttlebug Spot: Gift packaging- Ballet Stocking

Crafty Card Makers: Alternative Christmas- Colors and Ballet Stocking

I used Cosmo Crickets new Christmas line Jolly by Golly and bazzill card. I embossed the white card with my Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and added glitter to the snowflakes and houses. I constructed the snowman by cutting out of the patterned patter and piecing him together.

I have other ballet related gifts I have made to share later today so be sure to check back.

Happy Crafting
Paola

Hello Kitty Gift Bag

Hi

I made a Hello Kitty handbag for a friends daughter and wanted to package the gift in a Hello Kitty Theme, but when I looked in the stores could not find any so I decided to make one myself and it is also for the challenge over at Project Tuesday (be sure to visit as they are releasing their new digi range).

Here is what I did.

1. I found a coloring in page of Hello Kitty's head (right click as save image as... if you want to use the image below for your own bags)

2. I cut it out of silver cardstock

3. I cut the "sides" of the bag, a piece of card stock 15" x 2/1/2". I scored the card along the long edge at 1/2" and 2", and made small cuts all the way along both edges so I could follow the curve of the Kitty's head.

I glued the band around the head, see pic below.

View from the side.

And the finished product.

 

Freebie: Right click on the image below and save image as.. to save the holly leaf outline, I used a 11/2" punch to punch out the circle in the center of the holly leaves.

What's inside?

A hello Kitty handbag made from felt!

 

The Hello Kitty felt handbag has a velcro closure and a chain handle. (My son is modeling the handbag above -LOL!)

The bow comes off as it is attached with velcro and I am also making a flower and holly leaf to alternate as needed.

And what's inside the felt handbag?

A felt purse

Open view of the purse, ribbon pulls the purse closed.

The duo

 and the trio.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting.

Paola

Santa Claus is coming to town? ! ?

Hi, hope you have all been having a fab weekend.

Edited to add: Please see post dated 26.10.2009 for a template for the reindeer.

I've been busy...... The theme over on the Winter Wonderland Blog is an open one this week and at Pals Paper Arts(PPA13) the challenge is anything but a card.

Every year for the past three years I have been assigned the task of decorating the tree at my youngest sons school for their annual Santa Claus visit. This year the task falls to me again. I always like to decorate the tree with some sort of treat holder which get handed out to each child on their departure (almost like a party favor). Needless to say I have to make about 80 of these so I get started early, especially as I am writing  my final exams at the moment all the way through to the end of November
: ( . The reindeer head  is folded over to make a holder for a candy cane(see below).

I then made shortbread cookies with my boys and the idea came to me to convert the reindeer into a cookie holder too....

Here's a back view so you can see how the cookie is attached. I put it into a cello bag, made two holes at the base of the reindeer head, tied ribbon through and tied the bag to the back of the head, I then glued the ribbon over the holes in the front.

 I made the reindeers all a little different.

While I was making the reindeer the creative juices started flowing and I also made these using my circle punch.

 And here's what they all look like together....

 TFL

Blessings

Paola

Pop up Gift card holder

Hi

This is a gift card holder I made for the Project Tuesday challenge. I love this new digi image from All That Scraps.  Head on over to the Project Tuesday site as they have a link to a tutorial for this card holder, so go check it out.

 

 You can't see to well from the pics but the wings and halo are all sparkly as well as sparkles on her sleeves and edge of her skirt. I also highlighted Believe by going over it with my Spica Glitter pen.

 

Materials Used:

Bazzill Basics Card Stock

Fiskars clear stamps- Believe

Momento inks

Angel Emma Digi from All That Scraps

Label 1 die from Spellbinders

Spica Glitter pen-Silver Twinkling stars

Stickles Diamond glitter

Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder

Flower and die cut snowflake- behind believe tag

TFL

Paola

Boo!

Hi

I love the Pile it on challenge as you get to try and incorporate as many challenges as possible into your project.

The following treat bag I made is 3D for the Pile it on challenge, the colors are from the color challenge on The Pink Elephant blog, the stitching is for the Crazy for Challenges blog and the Halloween theme is for the Fun with shapes and More challenge.

The template can be downloaded HERE. Just print it directly onto your card stock cut, score and assemble-easy peasy.

I actually printed the template onto plain printer paper then tore my papers and glued them to the back of the template before cutting and assembling, so as to get the torn layers. The stamp is from Making memories, I used the back of the stamp for the gray background and then stamped the feet over the gray background. I did some faux stitching along the torn edges, sort of Frankenstein style (LOL!).

Put in some treats and away you go.

TFL

Paola

Sweet Inspiration - Warning inspiration overload (AKA looooong post)

Hi

I am so glad my computer is back online.

While it was down I got to do some creating, especially for Lauren's My Timeless Templates challenge and the challenge over on the Winter Wonderland blog. I have a ton of pictures so I'm going to dive right in.

First up, I used the My stocking stuffer template a FREE download , I reduced the template to a quarter of the size and printed it out onto my card stock. I wanted it this small as I want to be able to hang them on a small centerpiece tree. I will then place a Lindt Truffle inside to give to each guest on their departure. I got my inspiration from these Lindt truffles:

Here's my mini stocking

I used a snowflake stamp to make the snowflake accent paper.

Next up I used the Pretty Petals Template and took my inspiration from the good old candy cane. I came up with this:

Pretty straight forward, kept it plain and simple, but feel it came out well.

Third and lastly I used the Milk made template in both the large and petite versions and was inspired by this lollipop

 First the larger version. I used Dustin Pike digi stamps and although you can't see from the pics I stamped a snowflake pattern on the blue card stock.

 

Secondly the petite version.This is also a digi stamp, I forget now who it is from. I used my scalloped scissors to cut the roof tiles and the snow is textured paint I painted on.

The two together to get a size comparisson.

And finally the whole lot together.

Thanks for looking
Paola