One day I was shopping at Home Goods, searching through all of their wonderful Christmas goodies and I came across these little tins of hot chocolate. It was one of those light bulbs going on inside of my head moments, for sure. I decided to get a bunch of em for the girls at work. I brought em home and wrapped them with some cute patterned paper, Close To My Heart, of course. I even hopped onto Photoshop to create a quick label for the top — I suppose the receiver of the goodie would want to know exactly what it is! I had a bit of fun with that and loved how it all turned out in the end.

Perfectly fun and easy little gift… everyone loved them! These cuties even qualify for a few challenges this week: Practical Scrappers – Anything Christmas; LaLaLands Crafts – Anything But A Card; Crafty Creations – A Crafty Creation of Any Kind; Crafty Ann’s – Anything but Red and Green; All Sorts – Anything But A Card; Bee-Crafty – Circles!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Just wanted to stop in and share my latest creation with you all! Christmas is all around, so I decided to create something outside of the season :) I absolutely love this paper and the colors! This card was created using the Card Patterns sketch from last Saturday; I know Im a bit behind on posting! I loved the challenging sketch and how the card turned out! Hope you enjoy; and if you like this one… you may want to check out my last post using these papers/colors called, My New Fave!

Originally, I had planned on applying for the Card Patterns Design Team… but things have been so busy around here with Christmas and all, that I just didnt have the time (deadline was today…). So I look forward to applying next time! I will be back to post some more Christmas goodies and recipes :) Have a wonderful day!

Why are gift cards so exciting to receive as a gift from someone?

I remember that as I grew older, all I ever wanted was gift cards, anything to be able to pick out my own gift! Now that I am older and buying gifts for my family and friends, I find that I miss giving an actual gift. I suppose there is a mixture of feelings toward wanting to pick out that fun and perfect gift for someone you love and also knowing what a blessing a gift card can be to someone. Even Garrett and I look forward to the gift cards we traditionally receive for Christmas now — they usually are for the movies, Starbucks and some nice restaurants — these really help us to take more time out of our lives to get out and spend time alone and together :)

Therefore, I have finally made a decision on this week’s DARE! I dare you (and myself) to make a special gift card holder! Feel free to make it in any way, with any template or guide, as long as it is created for the purpose of holding a gift card. For today’s Gift Card holder, I used the new template that Papertrey Ink has released called the Cash or Charge Collection by Lauren Meader. It includes three different templates to create some super special gift card holders; right in time for the holidays! I am SO excited to get started on these special little guys that will help me present my gifts in an extra thoughtful way! Check it out!

Supplies Used:

Colors: Just Us Girls color challenge: Red, Light Blue and Vintage Cream
Papers: PTI In Bloom and PTI Bitty Dot Basics
Stamps: PTI Fancy Flourishes and PTI Everyday Button Bits (sentiment)
Accessories: Large Red Button and Hemp
Tools: Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/4″ Circle Punch and Hole Punch

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Hi everyone,

Today I have a quickie post for ya! I really wanted to play with my new My Cute Stamps that I just purchased last week. So I broke out the Sweet Chocolate set and just couldnt resist the cute little coffee mug! I made this small set of cards in a jiffy and really love how it all turned out. This card uses the Crafty Creations challenge to use the color blue and I am also going to be using this as my Cute and Simple card entry for the My Time To Craft DT call, so wish me luck!!

Supplies Used:

Colors: CTMH Denim Blue, Juniper, White Daisy and PTI Kraft
Stamps: My Cute Stamps “Sweet Chocolate” and PTI “Polka Dot Basics”
Accessories: Denim Blue Button and Hemp

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Here is a quickie post for the end of the weekend! I love Dawn McVey’s beautiful color challenges, just couldnt pass it up! We were to use Red, Light Blue, Chocolate and Kraft. I Just LOVE butterflies so I knew I wanted to use my Martha punch :) By the way, dont you just love the Kraft cardstock that has just become so popular! It is one of my new loves and this just so happened to be the challenge for All Sorts this week (to use Kraft paper)… Hope you like it!!