Wintery Muslin Treat Bag with Jenifer Cowles

Wintery Muslin Treat Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

Project Instructions:

1. Using the muslin bags in the shop spray with some silver color wash. 

2. Layer a doily, some wax paper garland, a fancy silver ribbon, a blue circle and top it all off with a snowflake rosette.  

3. Cut a v into a embossed coin envelope and attach that to the underside of the doily, making it look like a nice pretty ribbon.

4. To make the wax paper garland fold several layers of  wax paper about 2” wide and cut multiple cuts about ¼” apart and using a jumbo zot adhere it in a circle giving your snowflake medallion some dimension.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Polka Dot Embossed Coin Envelopes - Curtsey Boutique

Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique

Large Snowflake Rosettes - Curtsey Boutique

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Thanks for taking a peek today!  To see more of Jenifer's work, please visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

Brown Paper Packages Tied up with String with Lisa Spiegel

Brown Paper Packages Tied up with String
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Lisa Spiegel

Did you catch the Sound of Music remake with Carrie Underwood? I love this musical and and what could be a better tribute than Lisa's tutorial sharing how to make a brown paper package tied up with string using just a few of her favorite things from the shop?

1) Using Dauber Paint, stamp bag with dots 

2) Staple various ribbon lengths together and then to doily 

3) Stamp desired message and add to snowflake rosette using a pop dot.

4) Using double sided tape, add snowflake rosette to doily and ribbon 

5) Fold top of bag and tie shut with twine.

6) Using double sided tape, add doily to package. 

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Kraft Merchandise Bag - 5x7 - Curtsey Boutique	Large Snowflake Rosettes - Curtsey Boutique	Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique
Assorted Dyed Doilies - Curtsey Boutique	Valentine's Assortment Seambinding	Torn Fabric Ribbon - polka dot, damask, geometric

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To see more of Lisa's amazing work, visit her blog by clicking on her photo.

Gold Spray Painted Christmas Gift Boxes

Curtsey Boutique Designer

Kim Stewart

Kim used our 2x2x2, 4x4x4 krafts boxes and kraft tape to decorate these pretty gifts.

She spray painted the boxes a beautiful shade of gold and loved how they came out. Kim used the star burst labels as masks on the boxes. She adhered them and than spray painted over them. The kraft boxes have a bit of a finish to them so removing the labels was mess free. Once the stickers were removed they left the star burst shape in the kraft color, contrasting nicely with the gold spray paint.

The bow was made using our kraft tape. Kim folded sections of tape into loops and than layered each loop one on top of another until she liked the way it looked.  The bow was also spray painted.

The final touch on the smaller box was one of our snowflake rosettes that was also hit with a bit of gold spray paint.

Large Snowflake Rosettes - Curtsey Boutique	4x4x4 Kraft Pinstripe Boxes - Curtsey Boutique	2x2x2 pinstripe kraft boxes - Curtsey Boutique
Kraft Masking Tape - Curtsey Boutique	Starburst Grid Labels - Curtsey Boutique

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To see more of Kim's lovely work, visit her blog by clicking on her photo. 

Snowflake Card with Rebekah Faeries

Today we have a frosty card from Rebekah to share with you.  Perfect for the holiday season, this card is simply elegant.

Products Used:Christmas Glitter Snowflakes
Large Doilies

Thanks for taking a peek!  To see more of Rebekah's work, visit her blog by clicking on her photo below.

Peppermint Christmas Decor with Alyssa McGrew

Today, Alyssa is sharing an adorable paper decoration that can be easily adapted for almost any holiday.

Alyssa says: My family and I made a recent move overseas, in which we did not have room to pack any Christmas decorations.  So this year, we are making our own, mostly from paper.  These hanging peppermints hang from a garland that runs between our living and dining rooms, and it adds a festive touch to an otherwise plain, cheap garland.  My peppermints are held together in the center with paperclips, so something was needed to cover the clip.  The glitter snowflakes from the shop were the perfect solution. Peppermint Instructions can be found HERE.

Glitter Snowflakes can be found in the shop HERE.  Happy crafting!

To see more of Alyssa's work, visit her blog by clicking on her photo.

Shabby Chic Snowflake Ornament Tutorial with Andrea Amu

I love to mix in little bits and pieces of Shabby Chic décor amongst my favorite pieces of vintage and primitive fixins as I decorate.  The fresh white and glitter aspects that are common with each make it a very good style combination to pair up!  Ornaments are especially fun to decorate with this time of the year plus they make the perfect little gift too.  So, I started this project off by purchasing an unfinished wood snowflake ornament at a craft store. 

Here are the steps:

1.  First I coated the wood snowflake with several  generous layers of spray color mist.  I used a combination of Hot Chocolate Chalkboard Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels and Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold mist by Ranger.  Allow this all to completely dry.  Now spray the ornament with a heavy coat of Spray adhesive.  I used "General Purpose 45" by 3M.  You will want to cover the entire surface of the wood ornament with glitter of your choice.  I used one of my favorites, Fairy Dust glitter in Pralines & Cream by Donna Salazar Designs (Clearsnap).  Make sure to fix all the glitter to the ornament by spraying the surface with a clear coat fixative spray. 

2.  The rest of this project involves lots of embellishing... with lots of gorgeous Curtsey Boutique goodies!  First up, I layered on a pink heart paper doily from the shop.  Apply it to the top of the snowflake ornament using some strong adhesive glue-dots. 

 

3.  Next I selected some white glittered mini snowflakes to add in.  I layered each of them to the ornament having them peek beneath the pink heart doily and attaching them to the ornament with smaller glue-dots. 

 

4.  To finish this ornament and to really give it a boost of shabby chic-ness, add a fabulous Curtsey Boutique glass pearl and fabric tulle flower embellishment to the very top.  Adhere with a dab of hot glue.  Last, tie off a piece of jute twine through the hole at the top to use as the hanger. 

 

The result is a perfectly Shabby Chic Winter snowflake ornament to adorn your favorite holiday display!

 

Curtsey Boutique supplies:

 

Tulle Flowers

Christmas Glitter Snowflakes

Heart Shaped Doilies

 

Other supplies:

 

Unfinished Wood Snowflake Ornament

Color Mist Spray
Glitter
Clear Coat Fixative Spray

Jute Twine

Glue-Dots

Hot Glue

To see more amazing projects from Andrea, visit her blog by clicking on her photo below.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Hanukkah Treat Jar with Lisa Spiegel

Hanukkah Treat Jar
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Lisa Spiegel

The first night of Hanukkah was on Wednesday November 27th this year, which is the earliest it has ever or will ever be in my lifetime.  We are celebrating both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah on the same night. I thought it would be fun to come up with a Hanukkah in a Jar kit for the kids. 

 Inside the mason jar (perfect for kids because it's plastic!) is a set of Hanukkah candles tied in twine, a nice new dreidel, yummy chocolate coins (or gelt), the instructions for the dreidel game printed on photo paper and the words to the prayers for the candles as well as a traditional Hanukkah song. 

I stamped a Happy Hanukkah tag, tied it to the lid with seam binding ribbon and added the beautiful felt snowflake to the top of the jar (I love how the middle of the snowflake is the shape of the Star of David!). Each child will have a different top to their jar (as the felt set comes with several different snowflakes) so they can distinguish their jars and can keep all their gelt winnings to themselves!  This was very easy to put together for the kids, and I know they are just going to love having their own Hanukkah Jar!  If anyone would like to make their own Hanukkah jars I would be happy to email them the files for the Dreidel Game and the prayers.  Just leave a comment with your email and I'll get it right out to you.  Happy Thanksgivikuh!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Mason Jars - Pint - Plastic - 16 ounces	Curtsey Boutique White Shipping Tags	Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique
Winter Wonderland Mini Kit	Valentine's Assortment Seambinding

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To see more of Lisa's lovely work be sure to visit her blog, Just a Slice Please, by clicking on her picture.

Christmas Tags with Connie Mercer

Christmas Tags
by Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Connie shares a pair of lovely tags that are full of new release products including our lamp post glitter die cuts and our red ticking jumbo tags.  The ticking tags showcase a classic red striped pattern fabric on one side and sturdy easy to embellish white cardstock  backing on the reverse. Our baker's twine in red and white or black and white makes tying these tags to any parcel sweet and easy.

Other supplies:

Lawn Fawn paper

Lawn fawn Flair

holly leaves

Basic Grey word stickers

Tim Holtz ink for shading

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Jumbo Fabric Ticking Tag	Glitter Christmas Lamppost	Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique
Medium Glitter Snowflakes	Burlap Stars - Curtsey Boutique

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You can see more of Connie's work by clicking on her photo.