Kiddie Gift Bags Tiddly Style

For those of you who have perused my blog through the previous years, you have seen this project before in some form or another. It's so easy to do and great for the kiddies at Christmas time. As well, if I recall properly last year I took a break from Snowman Soup and made Reindeer Food ;D

This is the Christmas treat bags for both my First Grader's and my Kindergartener's classmates. I coloured up the snowman from Tiddly Inks - Inky Critters in PhotoShop and added the Snowman Soup poem before saving as a jpeg, which I turned into multiple gift tags for the treat bags. Easy Peasy - lemon squeezy.


My Snowman Soup had to be food allergy friendly, since there is a Glutton and a Nut Allergy in my DD's class. The mini marshmallows and Allen's candy canes were both allergy free, but I had a heck of a time finding wheat free hot cocoa. I finally found an organic brand that would fit the bill, but of course it was twice the price ;D Oh well!


Here is the snowman soup poem. I have been using this same one for a few years, like I said earlier, the kiddies love it.

Was told you've been real good this year
Always glad to hear it
With freezing weather drawing near
You'll need to warm the spirit
So here's a little Snowman Soup
Complete with stirring stick
Just add hot water, sip it slow
It's sure to do the trick

Submitted for the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Week #3 SCCC3

Craft Us Crazy - Christmas 2 week Challenge

Tiddly Inks Treat Bag - #73 Anything Goes!

Hey friends! Welcome to another Tiddly Inks Tuesday - Challenge #73. Today's challenge is another Anything Goes to help all of us get caught up before the Christmas craziness sets in.
I found this adorable and incredibly easy Treat Bag Cover on Splitcoaststampers. I made the width slightly bigger then the instructions to fit my plastic treat baggie.

I incorporated Tiddly Inks - Inky Critters snowman with Echo Park - Season's Greetings DP . The snowflakes were cut on cereal box and cream cardstock using a Cuddlebug snowflake die. The inside flake was popped up on a similar snowflake sticker from the coordinating paper set as was the Naughty Nice sticker.

As an after thought it occurred to me that it would be cute to place a gift card on the inside striped panel. So when you unfold the treat bag, you have chocolates and a Spa card. I plan on making another one, this time adapting my gift card idea for my kids teachers. Chocolates and Spa time, great combination.

There are much more inspiring creations over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog, don't forget to head on over there to check them out.

Little Miss Muffet - Simplicity

Today's Little Miss Muffet Challenge is - #22 Simplicity.

I decided to make a Holiday Recipe card in Photoshop. Pretty simple since Shabby Princess already made the recipe card template for me. All I had to do was drop in my .png image of Coriander as Goldilocks onto the premade recipe card, type in my recipe and re-arrange it around Corianders body. Once it was printed onto Xpress It paper and left to dry over night, I coloured Coriander in with my Copic markers. Simple huh!

I ran my marker in overlapping streaks on the skirt area to mimic the plaid in the digital recipe card border. Didn't turn out too bad - I thought :D

When you order a digital stamp from Little Miss Muffet Stamps, you get two file formats; a .png and a jpeg. For those of you who aren't familiar with the differences between file formats:

A .jpeg has as white frame box around the image.

A .png however, is cropped completely around the image shape leaving no frame box or white spaces around the outside of that image. Making it perfect to place ontop of backgrounds.

For more great Simplicity ideas, head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog.

I am submitting this recipe card in for the following challenges:
One Stitch At A Time - #87 Use a Digi
Creative Craft Challenges - Minimalistic
Totally Stampalicisous - Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday Challenge - #136 Anything Goes
Raise the Bar - # 82 No Embellishment

Tiddly ABC's

Good Morning Tiddly friends. Don't forget to check out the Tiddly Ink's DT's today. I've said it before, these ladies are awesome.

Get ready for today's Tiddly Tuesday Challenge - Reading Fun! Create a reading inspired craft! To me, this meant create a craft that helps inspire someone to read.

I've made a lot of crafts for my DD lately - today was time for my DS to get some mommy crafting attention, plus Crazy 4 Crafts is having a Male inspired challenge C4C102 too. Buddy is starting Junior Kindergarten next week. This year they will work on learning the alphabet, phonics and early beginner reading. Since my little guy is a BIG eater, I thought these alphabet pretzels would be a fun way to SNACK and LEARN.

I cropped Tiddly Inks - Carpenter Joe into a circle frame so that he would fit better on this SU Top Note die packaging. Since he is a carpenter, why not BUILD some WORDS with our alphabet pretzels.

There are also new images available today at the Tiddly Inks store. Two new fabulous Minnie's and she is the cutest! I chose Minnie's Gift - my DD had a birthday party to attend so this Minnie was just right.

And thanks to Card Patterns for inspiring the layout with their Sketch Challenge #130.

Thanks for stopping by, have a Tiddly-tastic day!

Grandma's 90th Birthday Bash

This is a trial run for the "chocolate covered cookies" I am making for my Step-Grandmother's Ninetieth birthday party bash on Labour Day weekend. Yes that's correct, 90.

As you can see, I haven't done the chocolate dipping part yet. I will be making 50 of them this coming weekend - ooey gooey fun!

My darling 6 year old daughter chose the image. She just couldn't wait to get her crayons onto Annie's Hat, which is now marked down at the Tiddly Inks Basement.

Here is Boo's lovely card. I printed Annie's Hat twice so that Boo could join in the fun. Isn't she crafty ;D just like mama.


Thanks for stopping by and please leave Boo some love. I will be reading all the comments out loud to her.

Summer Treats

My DD and I quickly whipped up these "Treats" to give out to her classmates tomorrow on her last day of Kindergarten. We used my handy dandy Cricut for the the little sunshine die cuts which my daughter created the faces herself with marker. I typed up "Enjoy Summer! From DD" printed on Avery return address labels and we quickly pieced them together. It was very fun to do along side of my DD opposed to mom doing them all herself. (I used PS to remove DD's name on the label for this post)

Our school board does not allow any home made bake goods to be sent to the school because of food allergies and any pre-packaged products have to clearly identify that they are peanut free. So licorice it is.

While I truly appreciate that food allergies should not be taken lightly, it's just a bit of a downer sometimes. I love to bake and it would be nice to send cupcakes just once. Oh well.

Valentine Mock Up

My husband surprised me for Christmas with the Sweet Centers stamp set and 1 pkg of sweet treat cups from Stampin Up.

This is the mock up for my daughters valentine's day card for her junior kindergarten classmates. I will pick up a couple of packages of the pink and red Valentine themed Smarties (similar to M&M's) to colour coordinate, I just didn't have any on hand today.

At my daughters school board, like most school boards in Ontario Canada, only NUT FREE products made in nut free facilities can be sent to school. Smarties are one of the acceptable brands.

I used Flowerbug's Inkspot's idea of a tag slide inside the card to remove treats without destroying the card.

Gone INKognito has a layout using the tab slide in the front of the card mounted under what would be my dark pink mat, making the inside of the card look cleaner. I may play with this layout too to see what I like best.


Details:
Stamps: SU - Sweet Centers, Studio G Clear Stamps - 100% Sweet
Ink: Dollar Store - Pink pigment
Paper: SU - retired DP, white, pink
Accessories: Sweet Treat Cups, colluzle, round tab punch template

Perfect Treats for Little Pilots

My daughters year end dance recital is coming up. Their dance routine is called The Pilots and they dance to a number that goes "... we're flying in an airplane looking out the window watching the clouds go by..."

I wanted to make a sweet inexpensive treat for all the girls in class for their last lesson next week. I had seen Sweet-tart rolls at the dollar store and thought I could wrap them in cloud themed DP - like their costumes.


I did a search on Splitcoaststampers for candy wrappers and found a cute example using life saver candy rolls and streamer out the top found here. Then I remembered that my friend Kerry J @ Cards by Kerry had done some sort of candy wrapper for her son's classmates for Valentine's, but couldn't quite remember what it was.

Kerry had made these adorable little airplanes using sticks of gum (like Juicy Fruit), life savers and rolled candies (like Rockets or US Smarties) held together with small rubber bands (Kerry's sample). I found the instructions for these treats here.

I don't advocate gum for kids my daughters age, but these darn treats were too cute to pass up.

You don't have to re-wrap these babies like I did either because all gum packages like this come with white paper all ready for your favorite stamp. Not a lot of work needed at all.