Bugaboo digital stamp: Oldie but Goodie

Good Morning Crafty Friends,

You can see why this oldie is a goodie for me!

Today I used:

Snowman Cocoa Set

and the sentiment is from another set:

gingerbread wishes set.

 Coloring with my Stampin'Blends 

and the image is cut out by hand. Fun design paper in the background

and the snowy grount istorn paper and a little blue ink.

Well, it is getting colder here and i am in for some

hot chocolate with a little wipped cream on top. YUM!

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Coffee Treat

It is Anything but a Card on Monday at 

the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

and that is ok with me. I have a cute

treat bag for you.

These are cute little treats for when you have a special

occasion or for meetings with costumors. Inside the

treat bag there is a piece of chocolate.

The images are by Bugaboo digital stamps.

The great thing about digital stamps is that you can make them

as large or as small as you want to use them.

Here I printed the images in a small size.

Here the template of the treat bag. You need a strip of

paper: 2 x 7 inch. I used some double sided paper.

You see where to score. If you do not have a punch

like I have (by SU!), you can leave it straight or

use a corner rounder and punch a hole for the ribbon.

For this treat bag I  used  Coffee Words Cup.

I colored the cup with distress ink,then cut it out

and glued the cup to white paper and cut it out again.

And for the other treat bag, I used 

Coffee Time - Espresso Yourself.

The image is colored with Stampin'blends 

and the flowers are punched out and hold 

together with a brad.

Here the inside of the treat bags.

On one side I taped the chocolate with

double sided tape, otherwise the chocolate

will fall outof the bag. On the other side

I added a sentiment. You can also leave it blank

and write your own message.

Here you see the little treat from the side.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Miniature/ Tiny things

With Easter around the corner, I had an idea to make a little

treatbox for my collegues and this was perfect for the challenge on

the Monday blog of Simon Says Stamp.

where the challenge is: Minuature/ Tiny Things.

For the mini-treatbox I used a die by

Elizabeth Craft Design.

It is called a gable box and you find a video tutorial

on the site HERE.

After cutting the box, I stamped the grass with mowed

lawn distress oxide ink. The stamp is from my stash.

Next i stamped and colored the chickens. They are from last

years Sellabration bt Stampin'Up!. This set is called Hey, Chick!

The images are colored with stampin'blends and I used a punch 

for some extra eggs.

After folding and gluing the bo, the images are added

with foam tape to make them stand out a little.

Her 2 sides of the box and

here the other side. The tag is stamped with a sentiment 

from another set by Stampin´Up! called Easter Lamb.

The tag is fastned  with a piece of organza ribbon.

Inside the box there is some chocolate.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Coffee Lovers Winter Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome to another day of coffee goodies on the

 Coffee Lovers Winter Blog Hop.

You find all the details on how to add your card/project

HERE and read about all the wonderful Sponsors

that donate prizes during the hop.

Today I have a little gift idea for you.

It is not my own, I found it on pinterest HERE.

For the project I used:

* Stampin'Up! Coffee Caffee dies and papers

    *  Michael Strong's mini cloisonné heart stamp.

The cup and sleeves are cut out with the Coffee Caffee 

thinlits and adding a bit of brown in all around.

The leaves are cut out of the matching design paper

that go with this Stampin'Up! set.

The heart is by Michael Strong,

because I love coffee so much!

Inside the Box I added some chocolate coffee beans.

I made a tiny cellophane bag out of a bigger one.

The little tag on the bag is cut with the tiny die that

comes with the set and have a handwritten wish on it.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog

and hope to see you again tomorrow.

Have a latte creative day!

Happy Mother's Day

Here is another chocolate box.

This one is for my own Mom.

The picture you see here is the first day she

became a mom. Yes, I am her firstborn.

I am fantasizing, that maybe I am born with a cup

of coffee near me! Hi hi :-)

Well, it is a great day for choclates, coffee

and a starbucks gift card!

Here is the cutting template for the boc.

It is a piece of cardstock of 4,5 x 11,5 inch

and on top it hides a gift card.

You can safe the template to your computer and print it

for all the score lines. Let me know if something is

not clear. The striped parts of the template need to be cut away.

The little 1,5 x 1,5 inch square is glued to the sides 

of the box and closes it off, so you need to enter

the chocolate before you glue them on.

I made this opening by using a thinlit,

but you can use any shape, or leave it closed.

On top of the box I used a little left over piece

from yesterday with Michael Strong's Lily stamp,

Here you see the box before I added

the picture frame. The top is folded towards the

front and glued with tape, then you can add

the gift card inside.

You can also decorete the front directly on th

cardstock, but because the frame is a little bigger,

I added it later on.

The coffee cup and the frame stamp

are stamps by Michael Strong.

The semtiment , banner and banner thinlit are

all by Stampin'Up!.

Have a wonderful Mother's Day

to all Mom's.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

More chocolates for Mother's Day

Here you see our gift for my Mother-in-law: a plant

a box of chocolate (oh and she gets a bottle too).

I want to share with you how I made the chocolate box.

I found a nice video on youtube here.

The chocolate box is made out of two parts.

The inside with the chocolates and the cover.

For the box you need a piece of cardstock

measuring 9 x 6,5 inch and the cover meausres

6 5/8 x 4 1/16 inch.

Scoring for the box: @ 1inch and @2 inch on all sides

(for cutting see the video).

Scoring for cover: 1/5 - 2 - 2 9/16 - 5 1/19

and this is how I decorated the cover:

Using the honeycomb stencil again and 3 colors of ink.

Leave a part of the top center empty (better for glueing

the paper on top).

I used these left over parts of stamping for decoration.

It is the Lily stamp by Michael Strong stamped and 

embossed with white embossing powder. Then it was 

colored and the embossed parts serve as a resist.

Out of the dark red piece I cut a 3 7/8 x 1 2/8 inch

and out of the dark brown a 4 x 1 3/8 inch piece.

These are taped down on the center of the box.

I used the little lilly stamp from Hannah's Busy Bee

stampset on top of the honeycomb stencil.

Out of the lighter red piece I cut a lilly and with a 

Stampin'Up! sentiment and a dragonfly pinched

out the cover of the box is finished.

It looks way more complicated than it is. 

A tip for a quick box is to use decorated paper around the box.

And of course you need a little card

for the plant. I used the same technique

as for the cover of the box with

a honeycomb stencil and there was another flower

on the paper left that I could cut out.

The butterfly is a thinlit from Stampin'Up!

Hope all you  creative moms will be spoilt!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

ATC's and chocolates for Mom

I am over at the Art Neko Blog

with these ATC's, but I want to share them on my own blog too.

These 3 little cards belong together, because together they make

the word MOM.

I created a serie of atc’s for Mother’s Day with some of the images from the Chikanobu Collage Sheet 3. I cut them to the size of 2 x 3 inch so i could use them on the atc’s in combination with some other images. After mounting the iimages to the background (black paper) and an atc card (green, blue and yellow 3,5 x 2,5 inch), I started stamping the teacups, the dragonfly medallion and the Oda Nobunaga Family Crest. All the stamping is embossed with black or gold embossing powder.

The letters that make MOM are die cuts from a Tim Holtz die and glued to the cards after I added a little ink all around each letter. Below you can see them more close up. especially if you click on the picture.

Now what is a card without a little gift on Mother's Day?!

So I added a little decorated chocolate box.

The sentiment is from Stampin'Up!

and the teapot and cups from Art Neko

as well as the ribbon. 

The template for the box is NOT my own

and I wanted to share the link to where I found it,

Unfortunately I cannot find the website anymore.

After cutting the template and adding double sided tape

I added the cocolate before closing the box.

I should have stamped the sentiment before closing the box,

but now I stamped it on paper. The word MOM is done by hand.

The ribbon is folded around the box and taped with red - strong - tape.

The teapot is embossed with blue embossing powder.

An easy project is you need a quick (late) idea.

Tomorrow I have another chocolate box!

Thanks for looking and 

have a creative day!