Favors and 1st Blog Candy

Here's the favor I made for my mom's retirement. I already made 40 sour cream containers (like this!) but Thursday before the party, they all came apart! I guess I didn't use the right Sticky Strip. Luckily, I found this cute favor boxes at a dollar store (1 package contains 12 boxes). What a deal... right?!?

Mom's favorite color is yellow and she loves frogs but I was having issues with yellows and greens and I have less than 24 hours to make these, so I just grabbed this hippo from Pun Fun set from Stampin' Up, water-colored the hippo with Going Gray classic ink, ribbon and balloon were colored with So Saffron. I then layered it with So Saffron card stock and raised it with stampin' dimensional. The favor boxes were stamped randomly with Background Basics using So Saffron classic ink. Easy Peasy!

As mentioned on yesterday's post, here's my very first Blog candy. I just passed the 12 thousandth hits!!! Thank you for coming to visit me. Here's what you'll get from me... a bride's bucket with tons of gorgeous, shimmery, embossed paper flowers, 4 clear stamps and a 3-yard stitched ribbon.

To win, just leave a comment on this post telling me how you celebrate birthdays with your child.
Random.Toni (<-- my daughter) will pick the winner on her birthday this Thursday, March 20th and I will post the winner on Friday, March 21st. Good Luck!

Chocolate Bunnies

Don't you just love chocolate bunnies? This is not your typical Easter Chocolate Bunnies but just a plain old Hershey Nugget wearing his Easter Bunny costume... or should I say Easter's Best! I found these cute little bunnies at Splitcoast Stampers (SCS) sometime last week (sorry, I can't find the link) and wanted to try it. I'm so glad that I finally received my new Anna Wight stamp set Spring Has Sprung from Whipper Snapper. This is the first thing I created from her new set.

The bunny head was stamped on a Whisper White card stock with Jet Black Staz-on ink, water-colored using Pretty in Pink classic ink and popped up with dimensional on chocolate Hershey Nugget. I used Limitless Labels from Paper Trey Ink for the body by stamping it on 1 x 2 5/8 white labels with Pretty in Pink. For his tail, I used the clouds on Boatloads of Fun from Stampin' Up. They are so adorable that you don't want to eat them at all <--- well maybe not! Happy Monday!

Family Frame

I've been wanting to try to alter some picture frames. So, when I saw this frame from Cambria Turnbow at Stamp a Little Love Baby, I just have to try it.

I started by covering the whole frame (from Michael's for $1.00) with a patterned paper and coating it with Mod Podge. I then paint the edges in Blue with an Acrylic Craft Paint. Then added a Flower by Maya Road Sheer Collection from Papertrey Ink (also painted it with an Acrylic Craft Paint) and Chocolate Chip Ribbon from Stampin' Up. The word Family is from Michael's also for .50 cents, which is already painted, I just distressed it by smearing chocolate chip ink on the edges, added a ribbon and punch flowers using the same patterned paper.

Voila! A family frame for less than $2.00

Paper: Designer Paper by Fresh Print

Ink: Chocolate Chip from Stampin' Up

Accessories: Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Acrylic Paint, Transparency Film, Flower by Maya Road and Spring Flower Bouquet Punch from Stampin' Up