I'm Here! So Sorry to be Gone so Long!

Hey ladies!

I can't believe it's been 3 weeks since I last posted! I'm so sorry!
Lots and lots of things have gotten in the way of blog"y"land...
We're selling our house! The closing is next month. The first people that looked at it, made an offer!!!! WOW! It's been a whirlwind to say the least, because now.......WE GOTTA FIND SOMEWHERE TO LIVE HELLO!!!!!! Oh my goodness I do not know how people that flip houses and live there then sell and buy another house to flip and live there then sell do it! This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Stressful!!!

Anyway, I've got all my craft stuff stored away and I'm feeling sad about that. SUO Challenge blog this week is to make a Thanksgiving table setting or something to go on your table for Thanksgiving. Pretty cool challenge huh?! So, for this challenge I dug out some Fall stamps, ink and card stock. Here's what I did...


I love candles and I love making wraps for them!
I hope you like them...

Thanks for visiting me today!

Until next time...
Blessings...

Melina

Craft Show Projects Part 1

Hello ladies!

For the next few days I want to share with you some things I'm making for a craft show on the 11th. Yep, I'm waiting until the last minute as usual. I'm such a procrastinator!


I love candles and love finding new ways to decorate the pretty little things that hold them!



These are super easy. Just cut a strip of dsp in a 1 inch strip. Use sticky strip to adhere it in the back. I punched some butterflies out of coordinating card stock and ran them through my big shot with my dots embossing folder. Then tied a bow with some hemp twine. :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Until next time...
Blessings...

Handmade is the best way~~well cheapest anyway! hee!

Helllloooooo....everyone!
Hope you had a productive week and now will have a relaxing weekend. Lord knows I won't! ha! I've got way too much to do and too little time to do it.
Last night we had our Sunday School Christmas party. We played Dirty Santa. The gifts had to be $10 or less. Okay, I admit I forgot until the last minute so I made something! It is the best way...I don't care what my non-crafty sister says! *sticking tounge out* neener neener!!!!
This is what I came up with...


I stamped a candle and made 3 thank you cards with envelopes.


Here's a close up of the candle. I used SU! stamp set Best Blossoms (retired). I stamped the leaf stamp on tissue paper in old olive ink. Cut it out and use wax paper and my heating tool and ta da! I wrapped some sheer choc. ribbon around it.

The card is white cardstock with the same leaf stamp in old olive ink then the sentiment from the same set in choc. chip ink. I used the SU! marker for the dots. I also scored the card on the top and bottom.
So, I wrapped the cards, envelopes and candle up in tissue paper and cellophane with a ribbon.
I'm posting this right before I leave for the party and scheduling it to post Saturday so I don't know if my gift got 'taken' a lot. I'll update you on my next post. hee! hee! :)

Until next time...
Blessings...

Way too Easy Christmas Projects

Happy Monday!
This evening I've been working on some card sets. I'm making them for a Ladies Luncheon we're having Saturday. The ladies from my church will get together at the local Holiday Inn and have lunch and doorprizes and devotion and chit chat and...you get the picture.
My Pastor's wife ask me if I would make some card sets for doorprizes and of course I was very excited to say yes!
I'm going to make 3 sets of 5. The first set will be 5 assorted Thank You cards. That was the easy set to put together. I used cards I had already made. Easy, Easy. The next set is 5 Christmas Cards.
Here's what they look like:


These are very simple. But, I thought a very sweet layout. This is a 4.25"x5.5" card. The patterned paper is cut at 3.5"x3.75" and 3.25"x3.5". I stamped Merry Christmas on the card base. The snowflake is stamped on white c/s and a brad in the middle. I used dimentionals to adhere it to the card. The ribbon is tucked behind the snowflake using glue dots. I made 6 of these cards (1 for myself of course!) in about 20 minutes! Too Easy! I'll have the last set done tomorrow night and try to have them uploaded by the weekend.
Supplies:
Cardstocks ~ White
Patterned Paper ~ Merry Moments (SU!)
Stamp Sets ~ Christmas Greetings (SU!) and Snow Swirled (SU!)
Ink ~ Real Red (SU!)
Brad is from the Vintage set from SU!
Ribbon is from Wal-Mart, Sheer Red

This next project I made at my Demo meeting last week. After making this, there's no doubt I will be buying some candles and making some great Christmas gifts. This is Super Easy to do:


This is a Dollar store candle. You stamp on tissue paper. Cut around the image. Lay the image on the candle where you want it. Wrap wax paper around the candle and hold in place. Use your heating tool (the one you rarely use to emboss with, you remember it? hee!) and hold it about 2" from your candle. When you see the tissue paper edges start to disappear (moving heating tool around) it's done. Remove wax paper and you have a Super Easy project to give as a gift or keep to decorate your home! I'm going to try this with non-Christmas stamp sets and different size candles and maybe make "sets" of candles to give as gifts for the Holidays. I'll be sure and post them.
Supplies:
Dollar store candle
White Tissue paper
Wax paper
Heating tool
Scissors
Stamp set ~ Dasher (SU!)
Ink ~ Chocolate Chip
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Okay, long post is over! Have a great week everyone and thank you soooo much for stopping by! :)

Until next time...
Blessings...