Give A Dog a Bone...

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!

Yes, somehow I am still up.  Have been in my jammies pretty much since I got home from work but still have not made it to bed.  

My friend Sharon's doggie Finnegan recently had a Birthday and then a couple of days after his birthday he got bit at Doggie Day Care and had to have three staples put in.  : (

So, I made him some doggie biscuits to hopefully make him feel better.

Since of course this is me a plain old bag would not do for a birthday present, so I made:

It looks great I think!  Now of course this is a retired Stampin' Up stamp, but of course I have kept it because who doesn't need a dog stamp with paws???

Here is the first batch of biscuits out of the oven:

These are biscuits that my ancestors would be proud of me for.  The biscuits I originally planned on making had corn meal in the recipe and somehow I have no cornmeal in my house.  So I chose another recipe and made do with what I had in the house.  These dog biscuits contain:

1 big scoop of peanut butter

1 egg

2 bananas

1 (sort of ) tablespoon of honey

1 scoop of wheat germ 

1 handful of flax seed

Whole wheat flour mixed in and the biscuits kneaded with whole wheat flour until the dough stuck together to be shaped.

Bake at 350 degrees F for about 25 minutes!

All dogs seem to give them 2 paws up so far!!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Sunday Funday...

Good Late Evening Internet Friends.

Today my son and I are referring to as Sunday Funday.  We accomplished almost nothing except for some laundry being washed.

I did a bit of knitting, still not anything that I can really showcase.  

After lunch we headed out with the dog for a walk to my friend Sharon's just to see how my quilt is coming along.  I will say it looks AMAZING!!!  Probably the nicest quilted quilt that I have ☺

Since it was Sharon's birthday recently I finished up the last pair of my fingerless mittens from Yarn Crush and along with blog friend Jane's idea of putting the cheapy dollar store gloves under these I gifted these to Sharon for her birthday because they are pretty and RED.

Of course I made a gift box:

Used one sheet of my brand new It's My Party Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up and I even made the box using my Gift Box Punch Board!  OMG.  Only the ribbon is contraband ☺

Inside the box went these beauties:

I have been loving these monthly yarn and pattern and small gifty packages from Yarn Crush but unfortunately although they are a Canadian company the kits are priced in US dollars meaning that the next time I go to pre-purchase my subscription the cost will be significantly more and not sure that it is worth it (sad face).

The walk was great although cold it was - 26 degress Celsius (-15 Fahrenheit).  We all including puppy walked quickly:

Arriving home we made hot chocolate and then watched some tele under quilts ☺

Back to work tomorrow, so off to bed I go.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Gift Packaging

Good Late Evening Internet Friends.

Today was my son's teachers last day of classes before the Christmas break.  I still have not actually finished her Christmas present, so I stopped at Rocky Mountain Soap Factory and picked up a Vanilla Candy Cane Cake Box.

It looked sort of plain and I did not have any gift bags at home, so I used my Envelope Punch Board to make a gift box:

TAH DAH!

I used the Under the Tree Designer Series Paper and Ribbon that I had picked up somewhere a while ago.  Used my Merry Everything stamp set and punch for the label and a little bakers twine and I think the packaging looks pretty FANTASTIC!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Quick Treat Boxes

Today we hosted my son's 9th Birthday Party.

It's not his actually birthday, quite yet, but we had the party today.

After searching party and toy stores all over Edmonton and Central Alberta, I came up empty handed for items for the loot bags to the party.

So, late last night I got out my Tag a Bag Gift Boxes from Stampin Up, some Designer Series Paper (cut the banners with my Cricut using my Artiste Collection Cartridge.

The stamp set is called Label Love and is also from Stampin Up along with matching paper punch.

The inside of these boxes is filled with candy!  My son and I had so much fun getting and filling these boxes with candy:

I am so going to make these better for the next time, but this was a quick easy solution!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Valentine's Package

On the weekend my son and I were home alone and had two extra days of fun as it was also Teacher's Convention, so we had what we like to call BIG FUN!

One of the things we did was make cookies (recipe will follow likely tomorrow).

Then we realized that these cookies were just too tasty, and fun to keep to ourselves, so we made treat boxes and gave them away.

The plastic boxes are from Creative Packaging here in Edmonton.

The ribbon is from my stash (craft - not cookie), and the red glitter paper I picked up at a scrapbooking store at some time.

I lined the boxes with parchment paper to keep the cookie from sitting on plastic.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Countdown to Christmas

Did you realize that today means that there is only 11 more months until Christmas???  I LOVE Christmas, and this year, I do plan to be more organized for it than I was this past year.

It is going to start with finishing all the projects I did not this year, like for example, this cookie box.  

I started with a basic box that I got at the dollar store for a dollar.  I used Designer Series paper on the top and sides, and used my ink pad to sponge the edges of the box and paper.

The decoration on top is yet another of the Christmas ornaments made with the awesome Framelits and coordinating stamps from the Stampin Up winter catalogue. Big fun as my son would say.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

 

Kathy

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!

I made these little treat packs for my sons class.  The number I needed to make kept going up and so by the time I was done two of his closest friends had to get their loot in plastic Halloween bags (sad face).

To make these I used orange 12 x 12 card stock, the stamped images from the Workshops On The Go Spellbound Cricut Kit, and the dimensions and ideas from this kit along with the Cricut Artiste Collection Cartridge to make the boxes and faces.  The paper is all from my stash; paper not cookie.  

Inside we filled food safe plastic bags with candy from you guessed it:  Bulk Barn!

Now off to trick or treat across the city in the snow and see friends.

Now, don't worry it's not that awful outside it's only -7 degrees Celsius and with the windchill -13 (which correlates to about 19 degrees Fahrenheit and with windchill about 9 degrees), and my dear friend made us hot chocolate before we headed out to the next stop.

 Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cupcake Take Home Boxes

I decided that everyone at the Cupcake Party needed to take home cupcakes (otherwise I would eat them).  So I made these boxes for everyone to take home their cupcakes in.

I was going to use my Cricut to make the boxes, however, was running short on time, so went to Creative Packaging here in Edmonton, and picked up the gable boxes, and cupcake inserts.  While there I found the green and fuchsia raffia and loved it.  I thought the green was close to Gumball Green one of Stampin' Up's new colors, but none of their other colors matched the fuchsia, however I will call it a Guest Color was perfect (shhhh - it's Ranger's summer series distress ink called Picked Raspberry).

I used my Create a Cupcake stamp set for the banner, and backed it with Gumball Green card stock of which I used the scallop trim border to make it pretty.

Lots of raffia on top makes everything look pretty!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

 

Kathy

Card/Gift Boxes

I simply LOVE my Simply Scored Tool.

All over the craft world I see people making boxes, and I wonder how do they do that???  Most offer patterns for these boxes for a fee and since I am cheap or as a colleague used to say "tight with your pennies, not your affection", I refuse to pay for something that I can make.

Well, thanks to the Simply Scored Tool, I am now able to make these box items.

The intent of this box was to hold 6 cards along with envelopes.

The base of this box is 7 7/8 x 6 1/2".

Score at the 1" mark on all four sides.

Note that I have cut the seam allowance differently for the bottom and top of the box to decrease corner bulk (just like in quilting). 

The top of this box is cut at 8 x 6 5/8" and scored at the 1" mark on all four sides.  

I used double sided tape to secure the corners.  

I used the new heart framelets in the center of the top of the box to cut out the heart shape prior to cutting anything.  I learned from someone along time ago when using the Spellbinders dies that sticky notes work to hold these dies in place and they do!!!

Six cards along with envelopes fit easily inside.  Probably chocolate too!!

TAH DAH.  Two little boxes filled with cards, perfect gift for your friends that appreciate this kind of thing!

If you have a Simply Scored Tool, I really do encourage you to use it!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy