I covered some large size candy bars for the boys with some MME patterned paper, stamped an AE stamp and cut it out, then created rolled roses from some scrap paper.
For goodie bags for the guys, I filled some plain paper lunch sacks, stamped doilies with an AE stamp, added some glitter heart stickers I had picked up at Michaels last year for .49, then folded over the bag and stapled the doily over it. I did something similar for Terri's kids, but forgot to take a pic.
My other project was a garland. I had found this canvas mini album at Michaels for $3 (minus a coupon, of course) and knew I wanted to turn it into a garland. I searched for some flowers that wouldn't overwhelm it, and settled on these felt roses from Hobby Lobby ($1.47 for the package). To help the letters stand out, I misted some doilies then searched through my chipboard letters. I didn't have the letters I wanted in either gold or silver glitter, and wasn't really in the mood to paint and stickle anything, so I searched my metal/plastic letters and was thrilled to get to use some more of my MM mailbox letters. (Oddly, when I bought them 7-8 years ago, I paid $6.99 for the set. When Michaels brought them back 2 years ago, when they were well out of "fashion", they were priced at $9.99 for the set and nobody bought them. Michaels is usually hopelessly out of touch with what's current in scrapbooking, with small flashes of awesome ness, i.e. the recent deal with American Crafts and Heidi Swapp). Some close-ups:
And finally, the boys have been asking for a cookie cake, so this is what I came up with. Not the prettiest, but it was pretty tasty.
Just realized I didn't post this when I posted pics of the holiday decorations. I made these treat bags for my and Terri's kids for Halloween. The idea is something I saw on pinterest, and then I came up with a topper idea. "boo" is from the Mini-Monsters cartridge. I originally intended to use my grass edge scissors but couldn't locate them, so it finally dawned on me to use the MS fringe scissors, instead. Stamp is from an Oriental Trading Company set.
I love the MME Mischievous line that came out this year, in fact, I'd say it's probably been my all time favorite Halloween line. However, I certainly don't need more Halloween paper and such so I limited myself to just the 6x6 pad, which ended up being perfect to cover the chipboard letters of the banner I've been moving around. A few close-ups:
All the accents are from older MM lines. Inked around the edges with TH Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
And these guys...thin wooden shapes that I covered with paper. The purple is the backside of a paper from a Halloween pad (Recollections) and the spider paper is from a pack from the Target $ spot last year.
I had already picked out these papers and stickers for these pics when I bought the EP Splash paper pack, so I had to work to convince myself to use what I had already picked out. I like how it turned out, though.
Mr. Creative himself helped me pick out the paper scraps and place them, so this was a collaborative effort. :)
Banner pieces cut from a piece of Teresa Collins paper (nice and easy!)
The left hand side is a Becky Higgins sketch one of her first books.
Meh. It looked better in my head.
I obviously haven't tried chalking in awhile. My first attempt looked like Mr. Fox had set his makeup gun to "hooker". Oops.
Quick covered composition book with Chatterbox paper, MM trim and glitter flowers. Don't know what I'll do with it.
The idea was simple: wrap a packet of popcorn and a Blockbuster gift card with school theme paper and slap a thank you on there. If you notice, I had a helper (his name may or may not have been Brandon), who managed to slap several of the thank you's on upside down. Definite breakdown on the assembly line. I've done this before at Valentine's Day with Ghiradelli chocolate bars and Starbucks gift cards. Both have been big hits. These were for Jacob's teachers and two aides, and his two bus drivers and their two aides. I always give Christmas and end of year gifts to the bus drivers, because they are always forgotten, and they deal with a lot, like my Jacob trying to drive their bus.
