Cookie Treats by Karen Motz

I have a quick little treat to share with you today and it was inspired by the fantastic new Bakery Business set.

I baked some cookies yesterday and was thinking of my Bakery Business set as I was mixing the batter. Then once the cookies were baked and cool I thought it would be fun to package up a few to give to my friends. I used the diaper fold pouch tutorial on Splitcoast for the cookie holder.

The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Snow White and cut out with circle Nestabilities. I coloured it with copics and added fun details like a glossy cherry on the cupcake and pink Tiny Twinkles for the earrings and necklace.

The patterned papers I chose for the pouches are all from the My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow collection. To fit my cookies I started with a 7 inch square of patterned paper. The "Diet starts tomorrow..." sentiment cracks me up and it seemed like the perfect sentiment for a little cookie treat!

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Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

2-4-6-8 Gift bag

Hi everyone, it's Laura, and I wanted to share with you a little gift idea I came up with for some of my friends and coworkers. It's quick and easy (my signature style LOL!), and really fun!

I love the idea of giving gourmet gifts to friends, but the problem is I don't do gourmet. Honestly, I can barely cook and baking...well let's not go there. So here's my solution for a fabulous "gourmet" gift. I purchased a large can of Tim Horton's French Vanilla Cappuccino, and I divided it into 6 Spa Bottles from Taylored Expressions. I added my own little touches for packaging it all up nice and pretty, and now I can give a little gourmet gift to each of them!

The bottle and bag were very simple. I used the stamp set Sweet Indulgence on both; the little coffee cup was just so perfect for this! For the bottle, I stamped the little coffee cup inside the round sentiment, and punched it out with the 1 3/4" circle punch. I coloured it with Copic markers and adhered it to the bottle. I added some ribbon around the neck and that's all.

The gift bag was super easy too! I modelled it after the wine bottle gift bags...because, don't the Spa Bottles remind you of little wine bottles? It's really a 2-4-6-8 box that is quite long! I measured a square that was 8 1/2" square, and scored a 2", 4", 6" & 8". The you turn it once and score at 2". Cut out the little 2"x 1/2" piece in the corner, then cut along the scoring lines up 2" to meet the horizontal score. I used red line tape to adhere it, and decorated it with snow flakes from Wings of Joy, and a strip of designer paper from the Christmas Key Ingredients kit. I added a little tag with the instructions to the little bag, so my recipent can start enjoying their little gift right away!

Of course I had to make a Christmas card to go with the set. I had started with the intention of working with Taylor's Sketch Challenge #92, but ended up centering "Joy" because I couldn't make it work since the image was quite large. The stamp set is Wings of Joy again, and it's stamped on Choice Buttercream and coloured with Copic markers. All the paper is from the Christmas Key Ingredients along with the satin ribbon. The image was cut to an oval with the large oval Nestability, and popped up on dimensionals. Quick and easy!

How fun is that? I love the little gift bag, it's so perfect for the potion bottle, and just makes it totally fun to give.

Popping in with a Yummy Treat! - by Karen Motz

When I thought about what to do for my project today I knew I wanted to do something with a Christmas theme. I thought back to my childhood and remembered sitting in the family room stringing popcorn with my brothers while my dad set up the tree. Half the popcorn ended up in our tummies instead of on the tree, but we sure had a great time!

So I decided to do a popcorn themed project. It started out in my mind as a "Tree Trimming Kit" (just add needle and thread) but it evolved more as a wonderful hostess gift. You could easily personalize this by replacing the 'JOY' with a specific person's name. Wouldn't it be fun to start a family tradition by giving each child their own bag of popcorn to string?!?

I started with a plain Kraft Bakery Bag as my base. I wanted it to be bright and cheery so I pulled out my Christmas Key Ingredients. I cut the pink cardstock to the size of the bag but I didn't want to fiddle with cutting out the window exactly as it is on the bag so I used my Labels 3 Nestabilities to create the opening in the pink cardstock.

The images are from Wings of Joy...I just love this set! I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Buttercream and coloured them with copics.

The chipboard snowflakes were fun to alter. First I coloured the red one with a red copic then I covered it with Rockstar Red Sparkly Fluff (from the Christmas Key Ingredients). For the blue one, I coloured it with a blue copic then covered it with Waterfall Stickles. I layered them together and added a pink button from my Rhonna Christmas pack.

Of course you could use these bags for cookies, chocolates, even a small gift! How would you embellish a Kraft Bakery Bag? I'm sure we can brainstorm plenty of fabulous ideas. :)

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Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Christmas Gift Tags

I have a quick little project to share with you, using both Wings of Joy and Holiday Wonder and the Cosmo Cricket "Jolly by Golly" papers, which are available as part of the Christmas Key Ingredients kit and the Very Merry Christmas Bundle.

Now if you know me, you know I prefer quick projects. It can take me hours just to decide what I'm going to do, so once the decision has been made, I avoid adding even more hours in production. So these little gift tags are perfect and you can "code" them by image or colour to the gift recipient.

Christmas gift tags are one of my favorite projects, and I even love to do with my kids, because they are small and don't require a lot of design work, and my kids love to colour! They like to make their own tags that will go on the gifts to them...it makes keeping track much easiere LOL! Gift tags are also a fabulous way to use up those scraps, because let's face it, you are just not going to want to use this year's designer paper next year. And while I do love to design and embellish, I try to hold back with gift tags, because they are just going to get ripped off and tossed without a second look.

For this group I used an old punch by Emaginations, that I'm pretty sure is no longer available. However, there's good news! Taylored Expressions has gift tags available, only 10 for $1.00. That's a pretty easy add on when you pick up one of these fabulous stamp sets.

All of the tags use the "Jolly by Golly" designer paper, and all images were coloured with the Copic Marker Christmas Kit To embellish I simply added some detailing with Sakura Glaze and metallic gel pens. The images were cut out and popped up with pop dots. The "to - from" stamp I borrowed from a retired SU set.

The string is embroidery floss from my stash and that's all there is to them!

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Thanks for letting me share these little tags! The images from Holiday Wonder and Wings of Joy work perfectly on these small tags as well as on a card or scrapbook page. They are a quick fun project and a great way to get in some quality Mom and me time!