Stick Bag Treats

Phew! What a crazy week this has been! Between last minute errands, cleaning, and other craziness, I managed to make these last minute stick bag treats for my craft fair. I wanted to make some little goodies in case people had kids with them and wanted to buy them a little treat. I found some of these ideas on other blogs. The Santa was found on Dawn Olchefske's blog. I am so loving all this Christmas punch art! The reindeer was a modification from various blogs. Most of them used the owl SU punch, but since I didn't have that, I used a regular circle punch. For the antlers, I used a snowflake Sizzix die and a heart punch cut in half for the ears. The gingerbread man was an OLD Sizzix die... and the crowd favorite was the Angry bird! Yes, he was not Christmas related, but I had to give it a shot. Found the tutorial on Teri's blog (Thanks Teri!) I didn't have all of those punches either, so I had to improvise a bit to make it work. Here's how they came out... Decided to stuff them with gumballs this time since the colors are so playful. Plus another vendor was doing M&M's, so I didn't want to have the same stuff. I'll post what she came up with cause its so Kawaii! Oh- and saw this idea on Jackie Topa's blog... I thought it was such a cute idea, I improvised it a bit and came up with my own version. Can't forget about the other kids on our life right? My doggie is gonna be so happy with all the leftover treats! Sorry for the bad photos. I guess that's what I get for taking them at 5:00am the morning of my craft fair! Stop by soon for more craft fair projects.

Giddy Up!

I know all of you have been eyeing up these stocking turned horsey creations in blogland right? Well, I didn't have that Stampin Up sizzix die at the time I made this fella, so I used the largest stocking die from my Lifestyle crafts set and it worked out nicely. Added some yarn for his hair- just used very strong double stick tape to adhere it down and then slapped on the other half of the horse to keep it in place. The harness was done using ribbon and a mini brad. Eyes were just punched using 3/4" and 1/2" circle punches and the ears were made using my MS heart punch that I folded in half on the wide end and taped it together so that the pointy side was still a little open. He reminded me of those toy horse on a stick that kids play with, so I put him on a candy stick bag filled with pixie sticks. Let me tell ya, pixie sticks are way smaller than before! Look how short the stick is! If you are making this project, you might want to stick with regular m&m's instead since you can make it taller if needed. It's raining today in Hilo, which I would normally love on a Saturday (so I can stay home and craft) but I have class today, so not looking forward to getting wet! I know you are thinking... Hello, its Hilo! It always rains! ha ha ha.

Boo!

Hello Weekend!!! So glad today was a furlough Friday for me. Got TONS of stuff done and about to do more. Cleaned up our living room- and I mean CLEANED UP!!! Woo Hoo! Now I can see my computer desk. Then headed to IS to get the store ready for tomorrow's 8th Anniversary Sale. Stop by if you are in Hilo- you won't want to miss out on the fun. Here's the make 'n take I'll be doing tomorrow morning. Used Lawn Fawn's Halloween set along with some IS lasercuts in "Boo". Cut the flags using the pennant die by Spellbinders. It was rather plain looking until I added in the ribbons and button. Here's a close up of the ghosts... So stop in if you are in Hilo! See you tomorrow!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Did the Easter Bunny bring you yummy treats? I remember one Easter I must've been bad cause I didn't get anything from the Easter Bunny! Anyway, came up with this simple treat to give to Akemi's class and my classes this weekend. Debi got the bags for me when she went to Honolulu (Thanks Debi!). Thank goodness cause it sure made these projects easy! To make my life even easier, I just printed up some Easter clipart by Nancy Kubo and Mindy Terasawa and added a sentiment below. Then I punched them out and mounted them on scalloped circles and taped them to the top of the bag. Yay! Easy Peasy! Here's a closer look...