Sweet 16 Party Favors

My girlfriend asked me if I would help her make these party favors for her friend's daughter's sweet 16 birthday party. I made these for Valentine's day and she loved them and wanted to make something similar for this party. These contain one each of the Nestle Treasures candy instead of the Hershey Nuggets because the wrapper on them was purple and she wanted to use these colors. We cut the lavender lace and gable green cardstock to 1 1/2" x 4 1/2 " and scored them at 1 3/4" and 2 3/4". The corners were punched with the ticket corner punch. The main image was stamped in both green galore and lavender lace, as was the word "Sweet" using PTI's Sweet Love set. The number "16" was hand-written using the coordinating SU marker. The 1" punch was used to punch it out and it was mounted on the yellow Marvy circle scallop punch. So far, this project was easy. Then came punching the hole, putting the eyelet in, and tying the ribbon. Well, as you can see by the two on the left, the eyelet fell by the wayside, and the bow turned into a knot! You see, we made 75 of these and we just started cutting some corners for ease sake! They looked just as pretty! The Treasure candy was slightly smaller than the Nugget, so we had to put a glue dot on the bottom of the candy to make it stay in the wrapper. When we had them all done and in the box, they looked so cute! I hope everyone likes them and appreciates the time we put into them! Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe
Stamps: PTI Sweet Love
Paper: Gable green, lavender lace, whisper white
Ink: Green Galore, lavender lace
Accessories: Punches: 1", yellow scallop Mary punch, ticket corner; ribbon, eyelets, cropadile, glue dots, markers

Happy Valentine's Day

You're probably wondering what the heck these things are! Well, these are what I gave my students for Valentine's Day today. The picture is not very good, and I do have a story behind them. I was planning on making chocolate suckers with the heart molds I knew I had (in my mind!). I kept putting off making them, and of course yesterday developed a bad headache (or possibly a migrane). I took a nap and was feeling better by 7:30 p.m., so I was going to make the suckers. Guess what? I didn't have the molds for Valentine's Day! I have every other holiday but that one! Now what do I do? I decided that all they were going to get were "credits". This is a system we use on our team. Each student is given a "credit card", which is simply an idex card, that they have to carry with them to all classes (they are 5th graders). They can earn credits for various things, such as having their agenda signed, giving an awesome answer to a question, doing a good deed, etc. They can, however, have credits taken away for the obvious reasons, and may use them to purchase school supplies that the teachers keep on hand. Once a week, they can shop in our credit store. I buy a variety of things from the dollar stores, sales bins, etc. This system hopefully teaches them responsibility.
Anyway, I decided to give them 25 credits. So, I punched red hearts out and wrote "25 credits" on it. I was feeling guilty, because I always have a gift for them. I then remembered this new mini muffin pan from Wilton that I purchased and never used. I broke out my free box of brownie mix I got at the grocery store with a coupon and voila! Mini brownies! I put them in the little bags I was going to use for the suckers. They fit perfectly! I then stapled the hearts to the bag. I know I could have done a much better job, but I was in a pinch and this worked out well. I think the kids were more excited about the 25 credits than the mini brownie!
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you all have a very Happy Valentine's Day!

Shower Favors

My nephew is getting married in June. I can't believe he is a grown man. I remember him when he was just a baby...so cute with blonde hair and blue eyes! He was (and still is) such a sweet boy!

Well, anyway, his fiance's shower is in May, and I came across this idea from Judy Morrow's blog. These were from Michael's and were on sale for $16.99 for a package of 20. They can be found in the wedding aisle. It's hard to see in the picture, but I punched a real red scallop circle using the yellow Marvy scallop punch. Then I used the 1 1/4" SU punch and shimmery white paper. The stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Sweet Love set. I adhered the circles to the tin lid using a large glue dot. Sheer red ribbon went around the lid. The thank you tag was made using the word window punch. The sentiment stamp is from SU's All Holidays and the heart is also from Sweet Love. I tied it on with a piece of white thread. I may get jump rings used in jewelry making to attach the tag. I filled the jar with M & M's before decorating. Her girls are wearing red for the wedding, so I thought these would be nice. I was thinking of adding some rub-ons to a few and put only one on each table. Whoever had that jar would be able to take the centerpiece home. I was also thinking of adding white M & M's to the jar. What do you think? Leave me a comment!

I was hoping to do the TLC155 challenge today called Ink, Spray, and Smash, but it doesn't look like that will happen. I still have papers to correct and it's already almost 9:00 p.m.! It'll have to wait til tomorrow! TFL!

"Till the next time that we say goodbye, I'll be thinking of you."

Recipe
Stamps: PTI Sweet Love
Paper: real red, shimmery white
Ink: real red, black
Accessories: jars from Michael's, sheer ribbon, glue dots, M & M's, punches: word window, yellow scallop, 1 1/4" circle

Valentine's Day Gift

Aren't these the cutest things? I saw this on Nancy Riley's blog iStamp and thought they would be a cute gift for my girlfriends. We are going out with our husbands tonight for dinner at a cool Italian restaurant called Mangia. I'm going to give these to them.

They were very easy to do. I changed my dimensions a little from Nancy's. I cut the Regal Rose paper to 1 1/2" x 5 1/2" and scored it at 2 1/4" and 3 1/4". Stamped the image from Happy Heart Day on Whisper White and punched it with the smaller tag punch. I colored the hearts red and glittered them up. I then punched the larger tag from Real Red paper. Next, I layered them and put them on the regal rose (near the top). I punched a hole with the crop-a-dile, put the two nuggets inside, put the eyelet in, and set the red eyelet. I then snipped the edges to follow the lines of the tag and ran some red sheer ribbon through it. The nuggets stay in nice and tight. Pretty easy and cool little favor! Happy Valentine's Day!

Scroll down to see the other post for today! TFL!

Recipe

Stamps: Happy Heart Day

Paper: Regal Rose, Real Red, Whisper White

Ink: Black, red marker

Accessories: ribbon, eyelets, crop-a-dile, Hershey's Nuggets