Christmas Treats

If you have followed my blog for the last year, you will know that at Christmas time one of the things that I do is make treat bags for everybody at church. This is our first year at a new church and I decided to continue the tradition...however, somehow time got away from me, and I had one day to make them. I decided to make a sugar cinnamon Chex mix type thing (it would be great if I knew the official name, but I don't). After I made my 6 batches, I tied ribbon around the bag and attached a tag. At first I was using a circle Nestabilitie and a stamp...but then I decided to do what any self-respecting Silhouette owner would do, and do a print and cut of some tags. So I found this cute one by Samantha Walker and after some technical difficulties (of course), it went a whole lot faster. 11 hours and I was done! I'm glad I started small this year and didn't set the bar too high for next year! :D

The Enjoy tag was made using a set from Stampin' Up! called Holiday Collection

And these are the Samantha Walker tags:

And here's about 100 treat bags (yum! guess who is eating the leftovers?)

And when I was done with this, I finished up my 20+ Christmas cards. It was a long (but productive!) Saturday.

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Pretzels, Pretzels, and Pretzels, OH MY!

Every year at Christmas, I make treat bags for everybody at our church. Last year I made Oreo balls, buckeyes, and cheesecake brownies. This year, I was on a tighter budget and the idea of being in the kitchen that long wasn't appealing to me. So, after a lot of debating about what I was going to do, I found these adorable Christmas shaped pretzels and decided to dip them in chocolate. Easy, right? Ha. Well, ok, yes they were easy. But time-consuming for sure. I also didn't realize dipping your own pretzels was all the rage this year, until I received gift after gift of dipped pretzel sticks. So look at me, I'm TRENDY! Haha. Well in case you are thinking of doing this, let me give you some advice:

~If your husband wants to help, let him. He will get in the way. But it's probably worth it in the end.
~There are a LOT more pretzels in those bulk containers then one first thinks.~White chocolate chips are a lot harder to use then chocolate. The white chocolate are prettier, but the chocolate hides more mistakes
~When your husband tells you that you need more chocolate and you assure him you have enough...you better have enough! I tried a 5 loaves/2 fish miracle...It didn't work. I heard about it.
~Expect that not everybody is going to appreciate your hard work. So eat a few pretzels yourself and enjoy it!

Not counting pretzels we ate or that broke, we made a total of 510! We made 85 gift bags (which included 4 chocolate pretzels, 2 white chocolate pretzels, 4 plain pretzels, and a handful of M&M's). And we also made 10 gift bags with just plain pretzels and M&M's in case any crazies that don't like pretzels in chocolate were in attendance on Sunday.

Thanks for listening to my rambling on about my project! It took me (with help from my husband!) about 6 hours to dip all the pretzels! Oh and be sure to use a fork!

The tags are from Cute and Curly (SU!) cut out with the coordinating punch and So Many Scallops (SU!) also punched with the coordinating punch.
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An Elegant Christmas

It's another Moxie Fab Holiday card challenge. This was for the challenge to make an elegant Christmas card. Check out the challenge here! Try not to drop your coffee or fall off your chair when I tell you this, but...there is NO stamping on this card. Shocking, I know :)

Supplies Used: SU! Very Vanilla CS, SU! Silver Cord, Fiskars border punch, Making Memory Silver eyelets, Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder, American Crafts Foil Paper, unknown snowflake pp

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Christmas Is A'Comin'!

I did my first Christmas card of the year today for the Moxie Fab challenge to create a Christmas card using stamps. Visit their blog for a whole bunch of holiday challenges! I like how my card turned out. I made a simple card, inked the edges, paper pierced a circle around my trees, added some ribbon and a sentiment, and wha-la! Merry Christmas! :)

Supplies Used: Unity Trinity Trio, Hero Arts Season's Greetings, American Crafts Ribbon, SU! DP and Kraft CS, unknown green cs, Kasiercraft Rhinestones (blue and light green), the Paper Studio Rhinestones (red), VersaMagic Hint of Pesto chalk ink, SU! Baroque Burgundy Classic Ink

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Welcome!!

Well, I've finally done it! I've leaped into the world of blogging my creations! I said I wasn't going to! I spend too much time on the computer as it is! But I'm weak...

Actually, the reason I have taken the leap is because I am *considering* submitting my work for a design team. And you need to have a blog in order to be on the design team I'm considering! Soooo....HERE I AM!!

So, here's a few samples of my work...NOT what I'm submitting to the design team... just some old projects I thought I'd share to start this out!!

This is one of my favorite cards that I've made! I used a sketch challenge from Splitcoast Stampers, but for the life of me, I can't find the one it was, but it was quite a long time ago! I used the stamp set from Stampin' Up, Alphabet Soup and the cardstock is Soft Sky. The patterned paper is from Target... I don't remember the brand...if anybody knows, let me know and I'll post it!


And here is another favorite of mine! It was a Christmas Card that I made. The stamp is from the Unity Stamp Company. This is from the November kit of the month. The cardstock and patterned paper are all from Stampin' Up. The buttons are from Walmart, and the ribbon is American Crafts. I used colored pencils to color the image, but decided it looked to "harsh." So I lightly erased it after I colored it and it softened the colors right up. PERFECT!


Okay, that's all the sharing for today. Thank so much for checking out my brand new blog! Pin It Now!