Hershey Kiss Tent

I have seen Hershey Kiss favors by Brenda Quintana over the past few years, thinking they were cute.  But I never made one until the other day when I watched her video that showed how to make a
little tent for a single Kiss.  I thought they were adorable, so decided to create a few.  Since I have plenty of Halloween favors (I have been working on a variety of them for the past few days!), I made the one Witch Hat favor and then used the Simon Says Stitched Pumpkins and Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves for the other two, thinking Fall/Thanksgiving.  Brenda had a really cute snowman favor, but I do not have that stamp set and/or dies.  I especially like the leaf tent that I adhered to layered Labels & Tags die cuts.  Great little gifts for co-workers or place setting cards for any occasion, depending on the die cut you use to embellish the tent.  Have a great day!

Watercolor Love

In the last couple of weeks I needed two "love" cards, one for an anniversary and one for an engagement.  I looked at my shelves of stamps and decided that Watercolor Words would work just fine.   The card on the left was created using Coastal Cabana and Strawberry Slush.  I embossed the top and bottom of the white cardstock using a retired embossing folder and added a score line to each using our score tool.  For the congratulations card, I used Coastal Cabana and black.  I can see these cards being perfect for Valentine's Day--maybe in red and black or pink and black?  Have a great day!

Meet Dexter

After my last post about Toby, we had hoped for the best but things did not end well.  The poor little guy was very sick.  We were all very saddened by the situation, especially Sydney.  So Jen and Sydney took a road trip to meet little Dexter.  He is 16 weeks old and a handsome bird.  They decided to bring Dexter to his forever home.  He is still young enough to bond with Sydney and as you can see from the pictures, he is already doing so.  We were able to meet him and he is a beautiful Eclectus.  We are thrilled that Jen, Syd and Mark finally have a little bird in the huge cage that has been in their family room for months.  Congrats to Jen, Syd & Mark.  Have a great day everyone!

October My Paper Pumpkin

Earlier in the week  I received the October My Paper Pumpkin.  The kit consists of everything needed to create 12 cards, four of each style shown here.  I do like the fact that the cards are various sizes and colors that I have not used together very often.  Most of all, I like the stamp set that is included.  It has flowers, leaves and sentiments in a font that is different from the usual sentiment stamps we have.  The other thing this kit includes is the thicker Very Vanilla Baker's Twine.  I have not purchased any of the thicker twine and after using the twine in this kit, I will be purchasing the thick twine which is available in a variety of colors in the Annual Catalog.  Have a great day and a great weekend, too!