Pink Pirouette Birthday Pouch

Happy Aloha Friday! Today's post will be short 'cause I have an appointment to be at soon. The project of the day is my tweaked version of the pouch we made at regional. It's my Husband's Aunty's birthday and my son was looking through my stash for a card to give her. {isn't he a sweetheart!} I decided to step it up a bit and create a SWEET gift by adding some Hershey's kisses.







I used Textured Pink Pirouette CS for the pouch, Very Vanilla for the faux ribbon, a piece of dark pink scrap for the flower which I ran through my Big Shot using the Sizzlits Flower Blossom die and popped it onto the ribbon with an antique brad. The Upsy Daisy is stamped in Pink Pirouette and the Birthday Celebrations is a combo of Pink Passion and Close to Cocoa. Here's a side view shot...

And the back view...

I punched the same dark pink scrap and the closure of the pouch with the Eyelet Boarder Punch and staggered the two. So that's all I have time for today. Make sure you put your hand in the candy jar and try out for the Candy that's Up for Grabs in my sidebar. Till my next post...Toodles!

Birthday Cuppie!!

It's Aloha Friday...No work till Monday...Do-Do-Do-Do {LOL!} Today's card I made for my Cousin-IL's baby's, 1st Birthday party which is tomorrow. {Happy Birthday Shaila!} I have been wanting to do a cupcake card for some time now and this was a perfect opportunity.




The brown CS used for the bottom of the cuppie was some left over that I purchased from Island Paperie. All the dark pink CS and DP I used is from Papertrey Ink. A gift I got from a SWEET Friend! {Thanks Jan-Jan!} The other CS is Pink Pirouette and Lovely Lavender. These papers all matched so perfectly with this adorable DP. It has cute little elephants, bunnies and duckies printed on it. Perfect for any little one. I ran the Pink Pirouette CS through my Big Shot with a Flowered Texturz Plate I purchased from Ben Franklin . I used the SU Big Bold Cupcakes Sizzlits Die. The die comes in a 4-pack and is so easy to use. Then I sponged the edges of the cupcake top and the flower textured CS with Pink Pirouette ink. I covered the dot sprinkles and the birthday candle flame with Stickles to add some Bling. No little girl should go without BLING! I sponged the edges of the flower with classic Summer Sun. I ran the bottom of the cuppie through my Crimper and finished by adhering everything together. It actually came out better than what I expected. Here's a close up of the Cupcake and flower.

I'm going to finish by decorating the inside. I just had to wait for little Miss Makena to take her over-due nap. If you have time would love to hear your comments on this card. Well, I told myself I would spend 1 hour a day maximum on the computer so that I have more time to craft and do other things around here. So I'm signing off until tomorrow. Till then have a good one and keep stampin'!

Birthday Giftbox

Happy Hump Day! I just love saying that phrase! =0) {Hee-hee!} Tonight's post is of the birthday gift my son gave his cousin for his 14th birthday. Jason's birthday was yesterday and I needed to make a quick gift box to hold a package of Yu-gi-oh card sleeves and some $.

I used the Ho Ho Holidays template from SU's pattern library. This was a very simple design and really it took me about ten minutes total to complete. The holder itself is in Taken with Teal and I added a band and a mat in Basic Black. I stamped his name on Whisper White using Taken with Teal in the Whimsical Alphabet Lower set and cut it out before adhering it to the Basic Black square on the front. The tag is the Happy Birthday stamp from the Tags and More set. Here's a picture of what the gift box looked like empty.

And this is a close up of the gift tag.

Quick, simple and easy! Well, that's all for today. I'm off to help my son brush the tangles out of our fuzzy little Lhasa Apso {named D-zo} who's grooming appointment is long over due!

Yippee!! Another Post

Happy Superbowl Sunday!! Okay, I have to be honest. I'm not a football fan at all, but every year I attend a superbowl party at MIL. What for you might ask? Silly, for THE FOOD of course! ~giggle~ Okay since it's late and the hubby is already in bed with the baby I'll keep it short and get to my post. I wanted to share with you a stationary set that I made for my wonderful friend Jody for her birthday. Jackie at Addicted to Stamping has a wonderderful tutorial that you just have to check out. So here's my take on this sweet set. Let me know if you likee!



This is the outside of the stationary set...


And lookie what's inside...



It's box contained (4) 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 cards, (4) 3x3 cards, (4) gift tags, an adress book and envies. The little pocket to the right is perfect for a book of stamps. If it wasn't so late I'd give you the recipe for this project. Maybe if I have time tomorrow and the baby takes her afternoon nap I'll work on it. I can tell you though, that I had so much fun making it! So get your creative juices flowing and make one of your own. I'd love to see what you all come up with! Nite-nite!