Hi Everyone. I made a lot of Father's Day favors last week and I posted them on my Facebook page and then forgot to add them here to my blog! That's the kind of things that happen when the kids are home for the summer! :)
I wanted to show the Father's Day favors to you, even late, because the stamp set is just so great and you can use it for many birhday's, retirements and scrapbook pages. The images are perfect for coloring techniques and that is what drew me to them right away. I love to watercolor, and I knew that this set would be perfect for that!
I stared out by stamping 50 images with my Stamparatus! That really helped me make short work of this big task.
I then colored my images with an aqua painter and ink.
Since I needed to make 50 and I don't charge for them, I used some retired designer series paper and gift bags.
I hope you'll check out this stamp set. I will make some more cards and projects with it in the near future and show some tips for using your Aqua Painters with it.
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Hi Everyone! If you have been a blog follower for awhile you know that I make a lot of party favor type projects. Today I am sharing a cute little life preserver treat holder with Lifesaver candies inside.
These use the Tiny Treat Boxes and they are just such a cute size, 2 x2x2 inch boxes. And not too big that it costs a fortune to fill them up. I was able to get 10 wrapped lifesavers in each one.
I used the 'Happy' and 'Father's Day' stamps from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set. This is a great stamp set to have on hand as it has so many little words to mix and match for many occasions.
The 'You're a Lifesaver' comes from the March Paper Pumpkin kit. I want to do a little ad for the paper Pumpkins right now! They are so great because each month you get some pre-designed cards or treat holders or some combination of the two, and all the supplies needed to make them, but then once all that is done, you still have the stamp set and ink spot to use again and again. Your stamp collection will thank you. I am always going to my Paper Pumpkin stamps for just the right sentiment. And ink spots are great for inking up word stamps and not getting them all inky from the big pads, or for inking up a stamp on your Stamparatus! You should definitely look into signing up for Paper Pumpkin. Click the link to the right or contact me for more information.
I made a quick video for how to make the cute life preserver.
The Tiny Treat Boxes are great, consider keeping some around! Here is a past favor I made with them, filled with citrus truffles from Lindt.
Hi everyone! Today I wanted to share a fun favor that I made up for Father's Day, which I know is tomorrow and so you wont be able to make one of these in time, but at least its an early idea for next year :)
I make the favors for various events at church and I am asked to make 60 so I need to make things a bit simple and inexpensive. This project was great because I was able to use up quite a bit of retired Designer Series Paper.
This is the only version that used a current paper, Floral Boutique! As I was making it I thought it would have been great as a baseball jersey so maybe I will give that a go soon.
The Tux has a fun bow tie made from the Bow Builder Punch!
These boxes are so easy to change for any season or occasion. Make them Santa Suits or an elf for Christmas, decorate with fall colors and stamps for Thanksgiving. You can fill with just about anything so really the ideas are endless.
I filmed my first video tutorial at the urging of my sons. I mentioned the idea to them a few weeks ago and they have been asking every day of summer vacation when we are going to make a video for YouTube so here it is! It wasn't too bad! I hope that you will give it a watch. I give a step by step and measurements, hopefully in a clear way that is easy to do. Let me know what you think!
See if you can remember some of these older papers!
I bought the popcorn at my local Mariano's grocery store who made up special jumbo packs for me with just 24 hours notice, and at a great price. When I went back to pick up the bags the next day I could not believe how large the bags were! I had enough for my 60 favors and my family will be eating the left overs for several days I am sure.
Jillian was very happy to help with this project!
