Cool Dude

Two Cool Dudes is one of my favorite SU holiday stamp sets. Over the weekend, I found this placecard Quickutz die at the Cooke Street FH. These dies are 50% off this month. Here's what I ended up making with this die. I turned this placecard cut into a little gift enclosure. The SU 1 3/4" circle punch fit perfect in the center of the placecard and the layering with the 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches. Also used the SU modern label punch and the sentiment Merry Christmas. Finished off the label with two silver brads on each end. Very simple to make! Here's the open up view...

And here's what the die looks like. It was very inexpensive (to me). So...if you are on the hunt for this die now, it's one of the dies hanging and all the way on the bottom near all of the wedding dies...

Just had to share...Happy Aloha Monday to you all! Boy, three days just zipped by! My weekends are always so busy filled with house chores and if I have time, squeezing in a project or two...being at work is like taking a break from it all! Thanks for stopping by today!

Santa Tags

The idea for these cute Santa tags was shared by a fellow demonstrator...I have no idea who the creator of this creation was, so if anyone knows, please send me an email so I can give proper credit. Thank you! This tag was quite easy to make. It was cut using an exclusive SU Shelli Sizzix die called Two Tags (#115954). All products used to make Santa are by SU. Here's how I packaged up these Santa cuties. I love these rectangle tins with window. Simple finishing, Pomegranate satin ribbon.

Thank you to those who bought me out on these tags too...hope you are all enjoying them. Thank you for looking in today! I can't believe the weekend is just about over! Come back tomorrow to see my OCS card from Shirley. It's a beauty!

Reindeer Gift Tags

Well, here are my reindeer tags. I made 100 of them with the help of my Dad. He glued on all of the eyes and noses for me while I went to work. Thanks Dad! All DP are by SU. I just love their selection of designer papers, don't you? I used my marvy punches for the circles. I like the size and punches are fast! Here are the tags... I had many ideas floating around in my head on how to package them...yes, I am one of those perfectionists that has to be satisfied with the packaging...so one day at lunch, Glenn drove Joy and I to Heiko and we hunted for the right packaging. I finally decided on these clear chinese take out boxes. The boxes contained 10 of these reindeer tags and I tied a pretty bow with some 1 1/4" red striped grosgrain ribbon and I just realized that it's not in the current catty! (gasp!) and the finishing touch was a cute tag that says 10 Holiday Gift Tags on it. You likey? I made 10 of these and they sold out!

I will be posting another gift tag and tin tomorrow. This wonderful idea was a borrowed idea...thanks for dropping in today!

The Large Gift Tags

I wanted to use up my "scrap" pieces of cardstock that I had left over from cutting my tag kit. I had tons of these sahara sand cardstock strips left an then it hit me. I could fold them in half and make a large gift tag out of them! I really liked the size. You could use it as a card too. I just didn't have any envelopes in my stash to sell it as a card.
Here are the five different designs that I made. Remember my favorite guy in the red suit? A cute snowman ... coloring this image was a little challenging because I had cut the DP and mounted it on before I colored the image. I had to go with something soft for this snowman. I really liked the colors that I ended up with.

A playful pup...

A silly penguin...

A cute monkey...

Another snowman image. Aren't they so cute? Did you know that I love snowmen stuff?

I made a total of 30 cards, wrapped them in cello bags and closed them with a punched out image in a circle. I sold them for only $1.00 each! What??? Are you nuts? Yes, I am! Hey, I figured that this is the season of giving and I hope that all of you that bought these large tags from me know how much time and effort it took me to create them just for you! I think it's the coloring that is therapeutic for me. I'm thinking of making more and maybe I'll be giving them away.

Thanks for dropping by today! It's Aloha Furlough Friday for me...going out to lunch with some GF's. Tomorrow, I'll be posting my reindeer tags and how I wrapped them. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

A Successful Craft Fair

Well, the craft fair is over and I've been a busy bee rushing to finish product to sell for the fair. I made 30 of these large gift tags which you could also use as cards. Thanks to the gal who took a pic of me, joy, kyoko and linda...it was really sunny and HOT and we had no shade! I guess a tent would've been good. As you can tell, I was dressed inapproprietly as it was cold when I left home early...Joy said next year and I said she would have to twist my arm to get me to do this again...haha! I had so much fun with you gals yesterday!

Thank you to all who stopped by, shopped and told me you read my blog (blush...) Happy Thursday! I'll post more photos of what I made tomorrow!

A different version

This is a different version of the Berry Christmas card I made for the silent auction. I added color to the design...old olive for the wreath, always artichoke for the holly, real red for the bird and berries and soft suede for the ribbon and sentiment. This color combo went well with the DSP, again from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper pack. For this version, I also used the ticket punch on each corner and added a tiny rhinestone to each corner. A closer look at the colors...

I'm not sure if I'll be making alot of these cards for the craft fair as I'm on a roll making the tags.

Thanks for dropping in today!

Birthday Wishes

This past weekend, Cute Stuff was having it's 12th birthday celebration and I had to go down to check it out. Here's the birthday card I made to give for the occasion. Lucky thing I had this image already colored cut and ready to go. Made the card making process a little easier! This card uses the same layout like the snowman card I made the other week using white on white. Adding color gives it a different look don'tcha think? Supplies: So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise cardstock. Can't remember what the DP was from (sorry!).

Here's what the inside looked like.

Can't believe how fast the weekend just zips by! It's Monday already, but a short week for me - we have a furlough Friday this week. Wishing you a wonderful start of the week. You made my day by visiting me! Thank you!