A Few Treats

I've been working on a few treats that I'd like to share with you. First up are little chocolate mummies. My uber talented friend Barb, created some fabulous samples for The Angel Company which are showcased on the website. One of your samples gave me the idea to wrap crepe paper around small Hershey bars and glue small eyes on them. I made quite a few and will be giving them away at the Diva Crop here in Topeka on Saturday, October 24th. I'll have a booth there selling goodies, doing a FREE make n take and tons of samples and inspiration. If you are in town stop by - I'd love to see you and one of these mummies would love to go home with you!

TAC has the PERFECT stamp set to go with these cuties but I haven't made my sign up yet. You can see the set though, Bone Appetit on my online store here! The mummies are easy to make and easy on the pocket book as well. I used one & half rolls of crepe paper which I picked up at the dollar store. The eyes are a bulk package from JoAnn's for $2.99. I bought one large bag and one small bag of Hershey bars. I used most of those but some got grabbed by the 'ol hubby and daughter - they LOVE sweets so I have to hide stuff. Well I didn't get them hidden quick enough!! I have eyes left though so I could easily do some more. This is a quick project that you could do while watching all those tv shows too.

Next up are Ghirardelli chocolate holders. I saw the idea on a blog a long time ago and "filed" the idea away for later. It seems that I'm always wanting to give a little something something to people and I don't have anything on hand. I made these for that purpose - birthdays, thank you's, thinking of you's, etc. I even made a few Christmas ones - I know a lot of people that do secret santa's and this is a perfect gift for that! I used scrap paper for all of them so the main cost was the large bag of Ghirardelli's. I also found anything square - Reese's peanut butter cups and York peppermint patties work as well.

Mine are 3 1/2 by 6" and scored at 2 3/4" and 3". I used my Scor-Pal for this so it went super fast. There's a little overhang when you fold on the score lines, which I trimmed with my trimmer. Of course, you could leave it and it would like fine - I'm just a little OCD about those things, lol! I put a strip of double sided tape on the chocolate and adhered it to the inside. The holders stay closed with Velcro. I cut a circle Velcro in half so I could get two holders per dot. To decorate the front I used my Just-Rite stamp sets which I colored in with my Copics. I punched out circles and rectangles using my scrap cardstock. These took more time - and I'm not even done with all of them. I'm making quite a few though for me to have on hand and to sell at craft shows. Who wouldn't like receiving one of these - I mean a handmade item and chocolate?!?! AWE---SOME!!

So what do you think? I hope I've inspired you to create something - thanks so much for stopping by!!

Trick or Treat

Why yes it's Monday but I don't have a Christmas card for you! The challenge this week is to create a scene and for the life of me I just couldn't get anything to work that I was pleased with...so please forgive me. Go see all the wonderful creations on the Christmas Blog. For me though I have a Halloween card to share that I made last week for my Yahoo group. The sketch is from PageMaps.

I used some scrap paper (KI Memories) and my Justrite stamps for the sentiment. This weekend I organized all my Justrite stamps and realized I have quite a few. My good friend Danni, gave me the idea to have a stamp book with all my stamps. For some reason though I had never added my Justrite ones. So I did that and added a few new TAC stamps that I got a week or so ago. I have to tell you that making the stamp book in the beginning was a LONG BORING process but it is so worth it (if you have a ton of stamps like me!). I'm in the process of making a book of all my dies - I have so many Sizzix, Quickutz, Spellbinders and Cuttlebug that I forget what I have. Most of the time I just don' t use them because of it. By having the book on my desk, I would refer to it often.

Nothing really exciting happening this weekend. My evenings are pretty open (as of right now) but I do have a lot of creating and planning for upcoming FUNShops and crops. Hopefully my mojo will be in full swing and I can get a lot accomplished. Wish me luck!!

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