Tamarra's Stamping Spot

Santa Clause Bag swap

Hello all! I know, I know, where in the world have I been. Since the hospital stay I have been sick a few times and in between that life just seems to have happened. And since I was 2 months behind on most things from being sick I am still playing catch up on some of it. I know I should have tried harder to stop by and say "HI" but I had to let something slide a bit and my BLOG was the chosen one, so to speak. So I will try to do better and post more often but if I come up missing here and there at least you know why.

I have told you that one of the clubs I do, does a bag swap ones a quarter. This quarter we had to spell SANTA CLAUSE with our projects. So here is the one I made, I even made a Christmas poem to go with it. 

Lets get on to the samples. As usual all the stamp supplies are from Stampin' Up! unless other wise noted.

T'was the morning before card swap, when all through my mind not a project was stirring not of any kind.

 

A Stocking was filled and ready to go,  

 

 

 

 

Cute Socks huh, and they were perfect since the swap was SANTA CLAUS. They were filled with a random selection of embellishments that I had purchased. You can kind of tell because the toes are way out of proportion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A box with a tag  

 

This picture was taken before I finished the tag. The box was filled with a ton of different sizes and shapes of tags.  As you can see the little bags they are in are coming out the top.

 

or an old Nut can, would they know?  

 

The can is an empty Girl Scout Nut can. You can see the lid on the bottom. I did decorate the lid too so that if the receiver wanted to use it again they could. Inside the can is a cinnamon apple pie candle. The black sting you see is because I had already attached the letter for the swap before I remembered to talk a picture of it.

 

 

I hoped an idea would soon come along or this was going to take way to long!

 

The kids were still nestled all snug in their beds, while I'm sure visions of  Treat box-es danced in their heads.

 

Box opened: 

 

It was filled with hershey kisses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bath I could use to clear my thoughts,  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tubes of homemade bath salts were inside the mug. I ran out of time to stamp a box for them to go in. ~again life happens!~ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or hey why not some Chocolates that everyone wants.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The box was filled with miniature chocolate candy bars. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then all of a sudden "I GOT IT" I said, a box you can Look through 

 

 

 

The ornament was the same that I posted a tutorial to a few post back. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or an Album instead?

 

 

 

The cube is a Photo cube album that you put pictures on before you mail or give it away. I put this ornament on the inside. Usually the ribbon wouldn't be around it like that but I wanted to make sure the ornament didn't fall out.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm usually so good and have no trouble at all, but tonight I'm at a loss and just stuck on stall!

 

Unusual box-es are usually my forte',

 

 

 

 

The stocking is filled with chocolates and a Gift Card to Target.

 

 

 

-I will am typing out a tutorial for the stocking that will be up hopefully this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But now I only have a Santa box to give away.  

 

As you can see it was filled with more embellishments.

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed the projects with some delight, now just to say "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

 

 

Well that's it. That was my bag this time. Hope you enjoyed it.

 

Thanks for stopping by! ~Tamarra

 

 

 

Update: I have had a few of you ask how it reads with out all the extra garble-e-goo in between. So here it is.

T'was the morning before card swap, when all through my mind not a project was stirring not of any kind.

 

A Stocking was filled and ready to go, A box with a tag or an old Nut can, would they know?

 

I hoped an idea would soon come along or this was going to take way to long!

 

The kids were still nestled all snug in their beds, while I'm sure visions of  Treat box-es danced in their heads.

 

A bath I could use to clear my thoughts, or hey why not some Chocolates that everyone wants.

 

Then all of a sudden "I GOT IT" I said, a box you can Look through or an Album instead?

 

I'm usually so good and have no trouble at all, but tonight I'm at a loss and just stuck on stall!

 

Unusual box-es are usually my forte', But now I only have a Santa box to give away. 

 

I hope you enjoyed the projects with some delight, now just to say "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

 

Tutorial Tuesday and a Mojo monday too....

Ok so I tried to get this done yesterday but as you can see it took until today. Everything was stamped on Monday but just didn't get it finished until tonight. I also stamped a couple of cards over the weekend that I still need to post too so be sure to stop by tomorrow also. I made these for a few of my friends who helped out my Husband a lot last week while I was in the hospital. Now they are tiny in compare to the great help they all were I still thought I needed to give them something to show how much I appreciated their help. ~THANK YOU SO MUCH LADIES!!!~

Now on to the tutorial..... We are making a Ghirardelli Chocolate box. As usual everything is from Stampin' Up! unless other wise noted.

Supplies needed: A piece of 4 1/4 x 8 piece of card stock, some scraps to decorate the box, sticky strip, paper snips, a personal cutter with a score blade, and SNAIL.

 

 

To start you will need to put your paper in personal cutter with the 4 1/4" running across the bottom and score on the 1" mark and at the 3 1/4" mark.

 

 

Now turn it 90 degrees and score it at the 2", 3" 5" and 6" marks.

 

 

Next you will need trim up to the 3" mark on one side and then repeat so it looks like the picture on the right.

Then trim on the other 2 score lines you have left so you have this image. These are going to be the inside flaps of our box.

 

Now we are going to put some Sticky Strip on the inside edge of the box like shown.

 

Now flip your box over and put some sticky strip on the small inside flaps.

Remove the red adhesive cover on the small inside flaps and fold them up to make the front of our box.

Repeat with the large flaps and adherer it to the front that we just made so you have this.

 

Your cover flap is going to be really long so you can trim off the edge some if you wish. I cut off 1" to make the flap fit the way I wanted, but it really is up to you how much you trim off.

 

now you can fill it with your Ghirardelli Chocolates. 3 fit nicely but you can squeeze in 4.

 

   

 Now you can decorate the outside of your box how ever you want. I put a belly band around mine so it could easily be slid off for the candy.

I also used Mojo Monday sketch challenge to make a matching card. So now on to the card.....

Stamps: Inspired by Nature and Flight of the Butterfly

Inks: Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White Craft 

Card Stock: Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White

Accessories: Sage Shadow Eyelets (retired), Crop-a-dile, eyelet border punch, paper snips and SNAIL

 

 

Here they are together....

Let me know what you think. And if you decide to make the Ghirardelli box be sure to come back and leave a link so we all can see.

Thanks for stopping by! ~Tamarra

Christia's Birthday

A little over a week ago Christia turned 6. And if you follow my Blog you know the theme was "CUPCAKES". So the invite seen here was done with Crazy with Cupcakes and done in pinks and browns. Thus began the whole party theme. All the kids decorated their party favor bags with the Cupcakes wheel, crayons and stickers. Then they each decorated 2 cupcakes: 1 to take home and the other to eat as "birthday cake". I had 2 tables set up with tons of cupcakes, 3 flavors of icing and TONS of candies, decorativesugars and sprinkles for them to use. 54 cupcakes later they were done and happy! It was the cutest thing watching them all decorate their cupcakes. All the pictures have other kids in them and I don't want to plaster my daughters Kindergarten class on the web, sorry, so you will just have to imagine...... The main reason she wanted a cupcake party is because she wanted a Jumbo Cupcake as her cake.  

I love this cake pan the cakes always turn out so cute. Even if Mom doesn't have time to pull out the tips to make it super cute. But that didn't matter, you would have thought it was the best cake ever. Even the boys told me it was "COOL".

 

I decorated the cake to look like the cupcakes on the banner, which my daughter LOVED and now has hanging in her room. Or at least the CHRISTIA part. The Happy Birthday is from Cuttle Bug. The rest is Stampin' Up! exclusive dies for the Big Shot. You can see a close up of the cupcake here .

I also decorated the ceilings with pinks and white to match the pretty in pink and Rose Red I used. My oldest daughter who doesn't like pink came out after I finished and said and I quote "Oh my Gosh it looks like Cupid threw up in here". She was right too, way to much pink for me. To which her sister had to come out and see and said "It"S ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS MOM!! I LOVE IT!!!! I guess her opinion was the only one that really counted since it was her party. The picture doesn't show how pink it really made my house look, but it does give you an idea. The pig hearts floating are 26 inches wide for an idea of the size.

Now for the real stampin' part...... the thank you's. Christia wanted me to use the Simple Birthday Thanks. So I did.... LOL Here it is closed

and opened...

Stamp Set: Simple Birthday Thanks

Card Stock: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red and Berry Bliss DSP (retired)

Inks: Chocolate Chip IP and SWM

Accessories: Taffeta Ribbon (not SU!) and paper snips-- lots and lots of cutting to make 26 of these.

And just a fun shot of the Birthday Girl herself...... 

Love ya Baby Doll!!! Happy Birthday!

Thanks for stopping by! ~Tamarra