Precious Cookie Favor Bags?!

Remember last month how I so desperately wanted to make precious cookie favor bags as 3-day reminders for my office but changed my mind last minute due to green concerns? (Memory refresher here) Well this coming Thursday my department is having a rummage and bake type sale with proceeds going to United Way. I volunteered to make cookies for the sale and was thinking (with growing excitement) that they would probably want these cookies individually wrapped somehow. So, I went to check with the woman in charge: "If you could wrap them in sets of two or three somehow that would be really great." Great? You mean AWESOME! My dream is coming true!

Except I'm kind of a downer on the results. I don't know if my craft wave is finally over, but the ideas just aren't flowing as well as they were last week. My visions of grandeur included 4 images and two other "main" colors (green and something else) and just more stuff. Maybe some patterned paper? They were going to be simple so it wouldn't be a pain to make 12 or however many. But below is what I have, and I think they're too simple, plain even. Plus I'm beyond mad that I don't have better nesting circles. I still have a little time, so I suppose I could go back to the craft stores and check for some better paper options. I could do squares instead of circles. I was originally contemplating borrowing the masked animals for this project, and I am now re-contemplating the idea. I won't make the cookies till later this week so the "cookies" in these pictures are spools of American Crafts ribbon. I'll post updates with the finished project.

Pumpkin & Kitty

Trick or Treat!

Time for another TECC entry! No cupcakes this time, I happened to make the three little figures as I was playing around with an idea for cookie bag tags (more on that next time!) and decided to go for another Halloween card. I must say that I borrowed the super cute mask idea from 1scrappycat on the Hero Arts Flickr group. I wish beyond all wishes that I could take credit for the idea - I LOVE the owl! But alas! She won second place in the paper challenge! As you can see from her winning card, I kept the owl pretty much the same but played around a little with the bear.

Taylor's sketch:
















For my take, I flipped the sketch. This was a last minute decision because I wanted the trick or treat stamp to go this way.

Trick or Treat!
Supplies:
DCWV and Provo Craft papers
K & Co. Rhinestones
Magenta Stickles (on kitty's hat)
HA Playful Animals
Stampendous Witch Kitty
Doodlebug Halloween
Offray ribbon

October Fun in September

This post is the culmination of two weekends worth of crafting for the heck of it. Though with so many holidays coming up next month I decided to take a crack at crafting for them! By "so many" I really just mean two, Dad's Birthday and Halloween.

I'll start with Dad's Birthday since it occurs in the first half of the month. This is my preliminary Dad Birthday 08 card. I'd like to play with a few more birthday cards for fun. I like how this one is customized. If you can't tell with the shoddy photography the 14 in the date circle is stamped in red, as you may deduce that is Dad's birthday. From here I see two things happening: 1. I make a few more birthday cards and pick the best out of those, 2. I get lazy again and procrastinate on the crafting and then have to use this one because it's the only one I have.

Dad's Birthday 08
Supplies
Hero Arts Clear Design Month October
Hero Arts Clear Design Birthday Messages
Light and Dark Blue Colored Staples









Now moving along to Halloween I'm really pleased with what I have so far. One standard card and two shorties! I still have a bunch of ideas for more cards too! I figure if I go crazy and make a bunch more I can give them to my 3-Day team along with my family. So even though it pains me to post these and ruin the surprise for who I may send them to, here they are:

Happy Halloween!
Supplies
Doodlebug Halloween
Hero Arts Clear Design Happy Halloween











Trick or Treat Shorty
Supplies
Doodlebug Halloween












Boo! Shorty
Supplies
Doodlebug Halloween