Birthday Clown

Remember my fun little owls from a post a few days back?  My clown owl was needed for a birthday card!  Here is a link back to the owl punch post. I made the balloons with the word window punch, the small oval punch, and the feet from the owl.  The owls clown shoes are a small heart cut in half. 

I hope you like my owl birthday card!  Have a great weekend!!

October MDS Blog Hop!!

 

Welcome to the "NEW" MDS Blog Hop!!  Hi all!  I have been asked to join the MDS Blog Hop!  Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio.  I love this hop, I always checked it out! Now, I am part of the team!  There are always lots of fun ideas for My Digital Studio on this blog hop!  What's a Blog hop?  It is where a group of bloggers link their blogs together to showcase a certain topic or idea.  For us, its our love of My Digital Studio!  There are 10 digital designers on the team in all.  We will be hopping on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.  We will have a "theme" on the first week of a hop and then a "what we are doing in MDS" on the second week of the hop.  This month we are highlighting the upcoming holidays. I have Thanksgiving, perfect for me as I just love all the fall colors and crunchy leaves and fun fall food!  Check out my Thanksgiving project, then just click on the NEXT button and it will take you to the next person on the hop, keep hopping until you get back to where you started!  I hope that you find some fun ideas for your upcoming Holiday festivities and get inspired to make some of your own!  Please let us know what you think in the comments, we would love to hear from you!

For my Thanksgiving themed project I have made place cards.  It is so easy to make place cards with MDS.  You can create a few varieties or just one, then simply copy and paste more onto your page.  Then just add a text box with your guests names and print them out.  I choose to use leaves from the French Foliage Download.  
Here are my place cards....

I also whipped up a few food signs for the desert table...

 

To make the place cards I printed them out on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of card stock.  I then mounted them onto a folded piece of Early Espresso.  I also added a Naturals Designer Button.  The font I used here is called "simply*glamorous".  I really like it, but it is very loopy.  I add an extra blank line of text before adding my real text, if I don't it seems some of the tops of my letters get cut off.  I love this font for titles, monograms, and note cards.  Here is a link: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=simply*glamorous

I hope you like my project!  For a closer look at the "how to" head on over to my "Beth's Digital Cuts", a blog I created for my digital customers to help them learn more about using My Digital Studio.   But first, click on the NEXT button to check out what the other Hop Members have come up with!  

 

Harvest Treats

I made these fun "Harvest Treats" to use as party favors at Thanksgiving.  What do you think?  I was trying to call them "Indian Corn" but they are not quite the right shape for corn, so I'm going with "Harvest Treats" :) 










Edited in 2016 to add more current Stampin' Up! product and a video

I started out by filling pastry bags with candy corn and harvest colored M&M's.  I bought the pastry bags at www.clearbags.com 100 for $10.
The bags are pretty large, so I only filled them about half way or I would have needed a ton of candy.  

I tied the top and cut off the excess.

I used corn husks from the grocery store to wrap them.  I had to really look for them, they are used to wrap tamales and they didn't have them at the grocery store I regularly go to.  I tried a specialty market near by and they had them, as well as the largest produce section I have ever seen.  I guess I learned it is sometimes a good idea to venture out and go to new places.  They had cactus, 8 different kids of bananas and fruits I've never heard of! 




I tied the candy bags up with strips of the corn husks.

I made the tags with the fun Tags 4 You stamp set!  It  has a matching punch and when you get the stamp set and the punch together, you get 15% off! 










Fun?  Not quite "corn" but still a cute addition to my Thanksgiving table. 

The item number for the bundle is 133294 $26.95 clear mount, 133293 $30.95 wood mount.  page 37 of the holiday catalog.
Thanks for stopping by!!

Pop & Place Holiday Tags and Stamps kit

Stampin' Up! released a fun new kit today!

 

 

This fun new kit has more than 70 tags in different designs to get you ready for Holiday gift giving.  And check out the fun new stamp set to go with it...

 

 

 

There are a few options available, get just the tags, just the stamps, bundle them both, what ever you need.  

Feel free to contact me with any questions!

One Day only Washi tape sale

I just wanted to let you know about a One Day Only Washi Tape Sale today!  Stampin' UP! is celebrating a milestone of hits to their blog, and EVERY THURSDAY in October, you will be a new item on sale for the day.  This is the first offering.  I love Washi tape, if you haven't tried it yet, now is a great time.  But act quick, its today only and the day is half over :) 
Contact me with any questions! And don't forget to use the new Hostess Code to get your frequent buyer rewards.

WHOOOO will owl be next?

I love the owl punch.  You may have guessed that based on my blog headers.  Yesterday I showed you an owl I made into a Witch.  Fun right?  Well, when I make owls, I like to make a bunch of owl parts.  I feel if I am getting out all the papers strips, I may as well make more than just one set of those tiny eyes.  I keep eyes and things in an empty button container.  Making the witch was so much fun I decided to make a few other "costumes" for my little owl.  Here are a few...

 

The Ghost was fun, I used vellum to make him look see through.

I rounded the top of a rectangle with the large oval punch. I pushed the vellum through the back of the punch, leaving half out of the punch.  Next I used the Scallop oval punch to make the wavy bottom of the Ghost costume, also going through the back and leaving the rounded top out of the punch. 

 

I laid the costume over the owl to mark where to punch out the eyes.

 

The cape on Super Owl was made the same way, only with the top of the scallop oval punch. .

 

This little devil was probably the easiest.  Simple punch out a red owl.  Cut off the feet  Cut off the ears and then flip them and glue them back on as horns.  To make the tail, put your red paper back into the punch, move it over the punched out body, then bump it slightly over...

Add the heart to the tip of the tail and your done. 

 

What will you do with your punches?

 

You can never have too many punches!!

 

 

Witches Broom

 

I made a bunch of these fun and easy Halloween treats this week.  I always have these little cello bags on hand, frankly I always have all the fun  SU cello bags on hand.  It's so easy to put together fun treats or party favors or little thank you's.  (there are some gusseted bags on the clearance rack right now by the way, a nice 5 x 3 x 11 1/2, great for Christmas cookies! 25 bags for $1.59)   These little skinny bags are fun with licorice, M&M's, pencils, or other skinny things.  I am not a fan of licorice, but I found Chocolate Twizzler's at Target the other day and knew I just had to make some witches brooms.   I made some a few years back and they were a big hit.  This year I added some new tags.  I saw an owl turned witch on SplitcoastStampers.com the other day, fun.  And we have a few fun Halloween themed stamps that worked great for the brooms as well. 

 

First I started with a piece of 5 1/2 by 2 1/4 cardstock in Crumb Cake, score at 1/2 inch.

I sponged the cardstock a bit, then cut fringes into the bottom, up to the score line. 

 I used glue dots to attach the paper to the cello bag.  Start off with one, then wrap a few times, add another glue dot, wrap some more, add a glue dot, wrap, add a glue dot at the end.

I used some retired black thread to tie around the broom. Bakers twine or linen thread would work great too. 

This witch is from the Halloween Hello stamp set. Here I embossed the witch on a Summer Starfruit, to look like she is flying in front of the moon.

On this one I used a mask to add a sponged moon behind the witch.

This bat was made with the butterfly punch and the scallop circle punch.

This hat is from the Best of Halloween stamp set.

Candy Corn and Pencils work great too!

Thanks for stopping by!