Candy Bouquets

Candy bouquets are always a cute gift and there easy to make and easy to personalize.

You can usually find the buckets in the dollar bins at Target and Michaels. I pick up different color buckets all year long because they are always changing and I can never find the bucket I want when I need it. If you don't want to use a bucket you can make your base out of candy. Tape the walls of the candy together and cut out the bottom from cardboard. Tape the bottom to the walls. Cut a piece of scrapbooking paper to cover the cardboard on 

the bottom.

Get a small square of Styrofoam and hot glue it to the bottom of the bucket or the cardboard. You may need to break up some peices of styrofoam to fill in the missing spots.

Use heavy packing tape and tape the back of the candy to kabob sticks. I tried using hot glue once but it melts the candy.

If you are making personilzed labels, place your label over the original candy wrapper and 
the stick.

Add a few little decorations and your done.

 

Marker Organizer

I have this friend that is so much fun to hang out with. but every time we are together we have a tendency to over shop. Most of the purchases we make seem to involve large quantities of the same products…… 40 packages of velvet stickers, 35 different stamp pads, 250 different plastic shapes to make scrapbooking faster. We never seem to be happy unless we have purchased the products entire line!

 

Well, on our most recent trip together we took a class on blending markers. Between the class instructor and my dear friend, it didn’t take long before I purchased what I thought at the time was the entire set of 150 different markers.  The markers were expensive and in order to make them last they have to be stored on their side. The markers also needed to be stored in a location that was easy to get to; otherwise I will never use them. I looked around online and in some of the craft stores but couldn't find anything that met both my criteria, so I ended up making my own marker holder.

 

1. Wash and peel the labels off of 12 soup cans
2. spray them with black spray paint
3. Use a round cutter and make circles to cover the bottom and the inside of the cans.
4. Use the paper trimmer to cut the paper for the outside of the can. One 12x12 paper covers three cans.
5. Spray the cans with Mod Podge
6. Hot glue the cans together- you could really make any shape you want.

 

 

 

 

Monster High Party Bags

Monster High Party Gift Bags

My 6 year old daughter wanted a Monster High Party so my husband took her to Wal-Mart to buy her party supplies. They came home with tiny little plastic bags, I-Carly candy, Sponge Bob stickers, and to top it off, a Hello Kitty cake. Needless to say, I returned everything and took the planning into my own hands. My very sweet daughter told me, "Mom it is a good thing that daddy tried to buy the party stuff because if he didn't he wouldn't know he wasn't any good at it."



I purchased the bags at Party City and added my daughter's favorite character. I backed the picture with black cardstock and used the 3D glue dots to give it a little dimension.  It still seemed like it was missing something so I added the ribbon to the front and back handles and made a little tag to hang off the back.

I relabeled some water bottles to match the party bags.

I wasn't able to find mixed bags of Monster High candy so I made my own. I bought large bags of Hershey's Nuggets and some suckers and relabeled them with Monster High pictures.

Party City sells a mixed bag of Monster High trinkets that I also added to complete the bags.

Card Making

Here is a great gift  idea for the card makers out there.

 

 

 

 

 

I took a granola bar box and decorated both the inside and out with scrapbooking paper. I used a divider to trace the tabs on the scrapbooking paper and cut them to size to make my own dividers. I decorated each of the tabs and used a label maker to print the section names and of course I filled it with a set of homemade cards.

Ladybug Baby Shower

 

Here are some of the ladybug decorations I made for my sister's baby shower. I was able to purchase ladybug plates and balloons from Amazon that really tied the whole party together.

 


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The cake we attempted. I didn't really like it so I ended up buying cupcakes and having them make the frosting look like grass and then I placed little ladybug candies on top. I wish I had a picture because it was pretty cute.

Ladybug Snacks- Crackers with cream cheese and chives, cut grape tomatoes, and an olive for the head. I found the recipe on Google.

Ladybug gift bags- I filled them with mostly scratchers tickets and $5.00 Starbucks gift cards.

 

Front of the invite

 

 

Inside of the invite

 

Back of the card

Hello Kitty Gift Bags

I made the gift bags for my daughter's birthday party. I purchased some inexpensive chapstick, pulled off the labels and relabeled it to match the bags.

 

 

Tinker Bell Decorations

Here are some Tinker Bell decorations I made for my nieces birthday party.

 

 

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I purchased the party favors from Wal-Mart for cheap and redecorated them to match the theme.

It is hard to tell in this picture but the water bottles have Tinker Bell flying around on the labels.

The silverware labels match the water bottles.

 

 

Woman Cave - My Scrapbooking Retreat

Well, I finally did it. I now have my very own woman cave. It took me an entire weekend to transform the room but it is now my favorite room in the house. I still need a few fun scrapbooking quotes for the walls. If you know any I would love to hear them.