Happy Birthday, Joy!

Hi, everyone!  Hopefully, you've been able to follow Joy's Design Team lately since we've all been wishing her a Happy Birthday!  Her actual birthday is the 19th but we thought we'd extend the celebration for the entire week!!!

I thought I'd mix a couple of my hobbies for this post.  Here's what I created! 

I tell you, my mouth seems to water when I'm crocheting these cupcakes because they look soooo  yummy!!!

The stamp I used is from Joy's Yummy Puns set. Pick up your own set here.

Now for how I made this... I crocheted the cupcake in the round (Amigurumi) and filled the bottom of it with rice and the top with some fiberfill before stitching it shut.  Here's a link to a free pattern that you may want to try.

The "sprinkles" are metallic pins I picked up at my local hobby shop. A Sizzix die cut the tag that I embellished using some colorful ribbon and a super cute Doodlebug cupcake brad.

It may be arriving a little late in the mail for Joy's birthday but I hope she enjoys it when she gets it!  

Fun Popcorn Packaging

Hello, everyone!  Glad you could stop by today.

With the holiday season right around the corner, Joy's Design Team is focusing on gift packaging ideas this week. (To see the projects posted so far this week, click here.)

 This microwave popcorn packaging is quick and easy to make.  You could throw one of these together for a last minute gift for someone special!

To make this, all you do is cut paper to fit the popcorn pack.  Stamp the saying and mount it with foam tape. (I used Lady Bug ink from Memento.)   I added a little ribbon and Sizzix flowers cut with my Cuttlebug and was finished in no time!

This saying from Joy's Yummy Puns stamp set is so much fun and has lots of uses.  Grab your own set here if you don't have it already.

Let me know if you're going to try out this simple project.  Thanks for stopping by.  I do appreciate it! :)

Hero Arts/Sizzix Christmas Card

Hello, Everyone!
This is probably the earliest that I have ever made a Christmas card! In my previous post, I had mentioned that I picked up a couple of new stamp/die sets from Hero Arts. I couldn't resist playing with the reindeer set!

The card is made using Echo Park's new paper from their Holly Jolly Christmas collection. I used a couple of the dies to cut the Christmas trees and reindeer. What a cinch! The reindeer sits on a scallop and circle cut with my nestabilites. Glitter was added to the embossed snowflakes for some dazzle. The stamps are very fun to use so I look forward to making more projects with these sets!

For the fun of it, I'm going to enter this card in Christmas Cards All Year Round October challenge - Use a punch or die cut and Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge - Something Shiny.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hero Arts & Sizzix Pair Up

If you don't know already, I wanted to let you know that these really cool rubber stamp & die sets have just came out from Hero Arts! They paired up with Sizzix to make coordinating dies!

I just got word that my LSS got these in on Monday, ran out there today and grabbed the last reindeer set! I couldn't resist the snowman set, either! They are pretty popular and flying off the shelves!

I can't wait to play with these and I'm hoping this will kick start my Christmas card making! Maybe I'll have some cards that I can post pics of later!

Happy Crafting!