My Digital Studio Baby Shower Invite

I am hosting a Baby Shower with 2 other friends for a friend of ours who is pregnant.  naturally I called dibs for the invitations!  We are doing a mixture of digital and physical invitations, so My Digital Studio is perfect for the job!

I used the Digital version of Little Additions to create an adorable little nursery room. I also used a stamp for the Inviting set to give myself prewritten Who, What, Where spaces.  I created a different version with the correct info, but this one is great if you need to write them out!  I also added a line below for the registry information.  I'll be posting more favors and cute baby shower ideas in the next few weeks so stay tuned!

If you would like to try My Digital Studio for Free, shop online with me and add the free My Digital Studio Express trial (item 129600) for a 30 day trial!  It is an incredible program and I know you will love it!

Pocket Tissue Holder

I was trying to think of fun crafts to how my daughters on Valentine's Day that don't include candy and came up with this cute idea. Can't claim totally originality as I have seen them before on other site.

I took my candy cane Christmas fabric and cut out two rectangles. I turned right sides together and stitches the edges leaving an opening on the short side to turn the fabric inside out. Once it is flipped fold in the raw edges and run a stitch along each short end.

If you want to embellish the case do so now. I tore a skinny strip of the fabric and stitched down the center then pulled one thread to gather it into a ruffle. I pinned the ruffled on then sewed it near the bottom third. You could run a ribbon, button, or bow now if you would like. Another fun embellishment would be a piece of trim cut from the Tasteful Trim Big Shot XL die.

Next center the tissue packet and overlap the center seams ever so slightly. Pin the short ends. Run a seam across the ends and back stitch over the center overlap to anchor firmly. Flip inside out and insert your tissue packet.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am so happy to be back at crafting!! I've been dealing with health issues for the last few months.

As you all know Valentine's Day is in less than two weeks! If you are looking for a cute and simple card for your sweetheart, this card will be fun to make. I used the new P.S. I Love you and the Candy Heart stamp to create a heart treat cup card.

I love the treat cups we carry but don't often use them. This holiday is perfect for them! This card does not include a slider to access the candy, but it would be easy to add one in case you wanted to eat it easily!

Tips: tack the 3x3 and 2.75x2.75 squares together with dotto adhesive to mark the spot for the heart punch so both pieces will align properly but don't punch both layers at the same time, it hurts the punch!!

Enjoy and Happy crafting!

Advent Calendar

I made this one without using my fun little stamp set, and I'm still working on the other version, but I am so proud of this one. It is a gift for a good friend and while I wish it was done for the first, it's better than never at all!!

I used retired supplies from my stash, and it was nice to use existing supers. Along the way I picked up speed and I think the next one will go so much faster!!!

I painted the chipboard and sealed the painted frame. I used 2-3 coats of sealer. I also used a few coats of mod podge for my center piece of scrapbook paper. Then I wrapped every cube. Use plenty of glue stick and perfectly trimmed strips of paper to make this job fast and easy, if sticky!! It worked better than the sticky strip and I think it is more secure this way. I also trimmed each curved notch by hand but a 3/4" punch would work I think, I ordered one as I don't own it!! Gasp!!

The final step was adding glitter to my chipboard numbers, this was super messy. Tombow green glue worked really well for the chunky glass glitter and I liked my two way glue for the
Micro glitter. I love the extra bling the glitter gives! After the numbers dried I used Tombow again to get all the numbers in place. It ships off today. It was a labor of love but so worth it!!

Craft fair

Today I did a vendor fair at a community fundraiser. I had a great time and was glad to help support a really neat individual.

I made range of items including; reindeer food, bookmarks, notepad holders, post-it pads with pens, and several other items. It was fun making everything this past week, and now I have some great experience! I also was able to use many scraps from my stash of retired paper and embellishments. I'll have to go back and link to all the great websites I used for inspiration! Thank you to all you creative folks out there with wonderful ideas!!!

Fall themed workhop

I'm doing a workshop today with my friend Brenda, and she chose a fall theme for the Holidays with a scrapbook/home decor project.



I created this adorable page that can be used a framed art, or put in a scrapbook. I had so
Much fun with my Simply Score Tool! It makes creating these little flower embellishments so easy.


I am also showing how to make simple stocking stuffers with votive candles.


I also had to add a simple Birthday card using spice cake dsp. I adore this paper!!! I used out wonder hostess set for the birthday greeting.

Extra Hostess Dollars Now until December 15th

If your workshop sales total is	You earn hostess dollars		It's Good to Be the Hostess	Total Free Stampin' Up! Merchandise	Plus, hostesses earn full-priced items at 50% off
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