Hand Stitched Heart

It's snowing here! It may not seem exciting to some of you, but I despise seeing grass in my yard during the winter time. If it's going to be chilly, it might as well be covered with pretty snow! :)

Today's card was a bit more involved than most of the cards I have made in the past. You will see in the picture below that it is a completely hand stitched pink heart on shimmery red paper. I popped it up off the white card to give it some dimension.

On the inside of the card I first stamped a red heart followed by a black "Love" sentiment. I "LOVE" how it turned out!

 

This card took quite a bit longer to make than my other projects and cards, so the price is $7 each.  I've got several more cards to share this week...And so far I'm loving them all! Must be that love is in the air!

Lip Balm Valentine's Favors - Last Day!

Today is the last day of Valentine's favor projects. But never fear, I'll be back next week with more Valentine's projects and cards!

Today's project would be great for any girl or woman in your life. It is a heartshaped lip balm card! The circular eos lip balms fit perfectly in the center of these hearts for a fun and creative gift! I would have loved this back when I was a tween or teen!

This little Valentine card favor is just $1, you provide the lip balm. A variety of styles and colors are available for these cards, and eos comes in a wide range of colors and flavors, so we can be creative!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and I'll be back next week with more Valentine's projects to set your heart a flutter.

Valentine's Mason Jar

I LOVE mason jar projects. I think they can be a great little gift or fun décor item. While working on this cute little Valentine's mason jar, I go SO many ideas for fun and unique ways to use them in at many different events. I was excitedly texting my mom and cousin about all the ideas that came pouring out of me...I just couldn't keep them to myself! Keep watching the blog for more fun ideas with mason jars!

Here is a picture of it filled with sweetheart candies. What a great little teacher's gift for Valentine's! There are so many little things you could throw in there to fit the person you are giving it to. I love the diversity of it!

And here is a picture of I with a tealight candle. LOVE this look. And this is where the ideas started flowing for weddings and gatherings!

This project was made using a simple Kerr mason jar. I tore a page from an old book and mod podged it onto the jar. I added some pink glitter while the mod podge was wet to give it a slight sparkle and tied the bow around the neck. Love it! These jars are running at $5 each, you provide the fillers. They can be customized for an additional charge.

I hope you all have an amazing Thursday!

Valentine's Pillow Box Favor

Sometimes when you're creating, you get lucky and have all these ideas pouring out of you. Or maybe it's unlucky....because you want to work on them all, but can only do one at a time! This week I have been working on some Valentine's projects, and as I was making favors I was bombarded with ideas on how to change them up and use them in a million different ways! Hopefully I bottled some of that inspiration up for those weeks when it feels like nothing is working like you want it to!

 

Like I mentioned, I have been working on Valentine's projects this week, specifically favors or small gifts you can give at a get together or to a friend of teacher. A lot of these ideas will translate to other themes.

 

Today I am featuring a Valentine's Pillow Box. I buy these clear pillow boxes at a local paper supply store. I stamped a flourish directly onto the plastic using Staz On ink, there are flourishes on both sides of the box. On this box I used twine, but I have used ribbon and paper in the past to get the look I wanted. The heart is silver heat embossed and hand cut.

These pillow boxes are offered for $3 each without the candy or $3.50 each with the candy already in them.

I'll be back on Wednesday with a fun way to give lip balm!

Back at my Desk!

After a LOOOONNNGGG hiatus from my desk and all things paper crafts, I am back. I even took a break from all crafts...not from buying things, but from creating them! Lately I've been feeling the itch again and got my crafty mojo back through creating a variety of needlework projects: cross stitch, embroidery and wool applique.

I just love how this Halloween pillow turned out! Such a fun design...and I only fought with my sewing machine a little bit to get that rickrack on the pillow correctly!

I am hoping to blog several times a week and share my progress on the various things I am working on. JUST in case you want to see things in person, I will be selling at a craft show on November 22nd at the Inver Grove Heights Veteran Memorial Community Center. You can find all the fabulous information here: IGH Moms Holiday Boutique.

I hope to see you there!

Birthday Gift Card Box

Tuesday is my "guaranteed" work day.  That means when the hubby gets home from work I head upstairs to my scrap area and make new projects, take and edit pictures, load items to my store and generally work on things for my budding little business.  Over the last couple of days I've been having a blast making templates for new products and turning those templates into fun new things.  There is a bit of trial and error, but overall it is a ton of fun for me.

This is one of my favorite new things that I made over the last couple of days.  This is a gift card box that I made in the style of a matchbox.  I decorated the top of the box with a feminine birthday in mind.  I love how it turned out!

In this image you can see how the inside of the box pulls out like a matchbox.  The boxes measure 3 inches wide, 5 inches long and half an inch deep.  Perfect to slip a little note into or just put a gift card to their favorite store.

A close up of the cover design.  I have no idea where I got those flowers....I've had them for that long, but I thought the coloring was perfect for the paper and everything just seemed to fit together.

After I'm done doing some more gift card holders for birthdays, I'm going to move on to Christmas.  Now those are going to be F-U-N!  I have so many ideas for fun shapes and styles that I can't wait to design and create.

Like I said, I've been working on a ton of stuff, so I'll hopefully get to show you all the fun things I'm working on in the coming weeks.

Also, I've decided to post things for sale on Shophandmade.com.  The link to my store is:  http://www.shophandmade.com/Store/Melissakaye80.  I will be posting things on my blog that will not be for sale in that store because of licensing requirements, so be sure to check back here for those things!

If you aren't a follower yet, I'd love it if you did that!

Cabin Fever

Today was a busy Saturday for us.  I had training at my new job in a group home, went out and bought a bunch of supplies to make cards and gift card holders, and went and got a haircut.  I've also been working away on new things to put in my store.  I haven't made an official decision as to where I'm going to sell....Etsy or ShopHandmade, but as soon as things are loaded and ready for purchase, I will let you know and link to the store.  I'm very excited about what I've been working on and can't wait to make more things in the coming weeks.

I'm also looking into doing a show in November, but I need to see if I can get the day off from my job....I'll let you know about that too.

I'm exhausted, but wanted to share a layout with you before I curled up with my latest Netflix DVD.  This layout has 6 pictures in it, which is great for the size of the page.  I may have used a sketch site for this one, but I have no idea which one, so if this looks like your sketch, let me know.  I want to give credit where credit is due!

These are all pictures from the dock at my parents' cabin.  The kids love to walk down there and look to see what they can see in the lake.  They're also getting old enough now that they can fish off the dock, or practice their casting.

Supplies:  All items are Crate paper, except for buttons, which are from my mixed up button drawer.  :)