Bootastic Treat Bag (Flat Bag to Gusset Bag)

Check it out! This started as a flat treat bag and with a few simple steps, became a gusseted treat bag. It opens up a whole new world of treat bags with our line of flat bags. :) I saw the tutorial on Melissa Roell's blog (she's amazing!) and knew that I had to try it. I added a sugar panel with the sentiment stamped in grape and the ghosts in onyx from the Happy Haunting stamp set. A little grape ghost, some silver edged organdy ribbon and black baker's twine finished off the look! Use the large hole on the crop-a-dile for your holes. :) I hope you give Melissa's tutorial a try. So easy and so fun! 

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Thanks for popping by and have a wonderfully creative day!!

Christmas in July Blog Hop!!

I'm so excited to see all the wonderful Christmas projects and cards created in this Christmas in July Blog Hop. This hop was put together by the fabulously talented Stacy Rogers! If you haven't ever visited her blog, you're missing out on some wonderful color combinations and beautiful CAS designs. She has inspired me with her stamped backgrounds and I'm honored to be in her hop!

So, without further ado, here are my Christmas projects...

 Here are all the projects together. I focused on cherry, sugar, vanilla, silver and kraft - kind of a vintage-y feel. :)

Any Sound of Music fans out there? Here's my brown paper package tied up with string. :) Well, technically it's tied up with the yummy silky crush ribbon but there is a little cherry/white baker's twine on top. :)

 Love the candy box die! Here are several different versions. You've got a  Twas the Night Before Christmas box, a Candy Cane Stripe box and a Cherry box with the small mitten die cut out of it and a candy cane strip insert inside. The snowman cut-out is on top of the mitten and the Christmas tree cut out is on the brown paper package in the previous photo. The candy boxes with the clear openings have a big of crystal clear cardstock taped inside the box.

Check out the snowman and the silver tree on the cherry chevron rosette. A few sky twinkle stickers finish off the look. I love bling. Wouldn't this be great on a gift bag or on a big package? Or, punch some holes, add some ribbon and make it into an ornament. :)

And, here's a different rosette. This one is made out of cherry petite polka dot and has a silver vintage die cut with some poinsettia die cuts on top alternated in cherry and cherry chevron. Some twinkle stickers and pearl stickers finish off the look.

Ah, Santa's Flight - I've had my eye on this stamp for a while and I finally got it! Here's my first card with it. Santa and his reindeer are stamped on the Twas the Night Before Christmas cardstock and check out the fun way to dress up the twill ribbon. Stamp directly on it to make a customized ribbon border. I love how it looks with the sentiment, don't you? A little cherry ink around the edge of the text cardstock layer and a glue dot with a button on top. A little cherry/white baker's twine finishes off the look. :)

Here's the inside. Simple and fun!

Rita is next up on the blog hop. Have fun and just in case you lose your place on the hop, here's the full list:

Kat http://kateblue.blogspot.com/
Melisa http://melisawaldorf.blogspot.com/
Seleise http://www.amethystcat.blogspot.com/

Rita www.ritaholmes.blogspot.com
Christy http://tencraftyfingers.com/
Stacy http://www.stacy.typepad.com

All supplies used are A Muse Studio and are available in my webstore: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!
 

Camp Wanna Stamp

I can't believe it's been a week since I posted and yet I totally believe it's been a week since I posted as last week was crazy busy!! Mostly fun with friends and family with a little work thrown in too.

I held my first ever Stamp Camp on Saturday and it was a blast!!!  We stamped and laughed and snacked. Good times. :)

Here are the treats that I made for each camper:

The water bottles have a petite polka dot band, lemonade packet, either a mermaid or sky straw and a squeeze the day embellishment using buttercup and onyx ink and the squeeze the day stamp set and matching die set. The badge holders are made with the small fishtail pennant from that die set and are cut from a variety of a muse studio felt colors. The camper treats are made with a nutter butter cookie, a mini vanilla wafer and fruit roll-ups (well, technically mine are made with fruit by the foot because I picked up the wrong box so had to use three strips instead of one - still super fun though) and an edible food pen to make the face. Thanks, Nancy, for sharing this link for this idea:
http://www.partypinching.com/tutorials/nutter-butter-campers/
The "campers" fit perfectly in the small cello a muse studio treat bags and the topper is made with grapefruit chevron and "hello from camp" sentiment. Easy peasy and fun!

There were five tables with three cards each so each camper made 15 cards (technically one was a treat bag so 14 cards and 1 project!). As they finished each of the three cards, they earned a badge to put on their badge holder. It was great fun to see the cards through-out the day to see the variations. :) I'll be sharing the cards over the next few days (maybe weeks) but for now, here are a few photos from the day. I had a blast and my campers said they did too so yea!!!

Pre-campers. Three cards on each table with all of the supplies. I put the sample cards in clear envelopes and card sleeves to make them easier to find on the table.

The display table. :)

The food - camp-style food. Have you made the meatballs with grape jelly and chili sauce? If not, you must! YUM! Fill a large crockpot with frozen original meatballs and added 1 32 oz jar of grape jelly and two 12 oz jars of chili sauce (Heinz or Best Choice). Stir occasionally. Heat until warmed through (3-4 hours) - they get better as the day goes along.

The snacks (rice krispie treats and Golden Graham s'mores treats - run, don't walk, to the store to get the supplies to make these - YUM! http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/golden-grahams-smores/5a2f5df0-3c93-4bed-9fbe-20c1ebafc8b3. And, I got these cute little stands on Pick Your Plum - fun bargains there!

Bird Identification Badge

Water Sports Badge

Fire Skills Badge

Plant Identification Badge

Water Sports Badge

Fire Skills Badge

And, my mom came!! She's the one in pink in the lower right corner of the photo. Loved having her there!!

So, that's the day, in a nutshell. Thanks for all who came! I loved spending the day with you!! And, if you couldn't make it, wish you could have been there too to laugh and create with us!

Have a wonderfully creative day!!
www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Father's Day Gift Card Treat Bag

Here's a quick and simple gift bag using the Father's Day stamp set. You stamp the image in onyx and then use the quickie glue pen to add glitter to the hat. If your man can't handle glitter, you can leave that blank. :)
The diagonal stripe treat bags come in a variety of colors and they're perfect for gift cards! Slide a giftcard inside and a Ghiradelli chocolate and you're set. Father's Day is all wrapped up! It's perfect for a birthday too!

All supplies are available in my web store: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Mitten Pocket with 1X8 Treat Bag

Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful day today! I'm looking forward to the Thanksgiving break and kicking into hyperspeed gear for my last craft fair of the season as well as the Christmas gift making season!

Here's a fun and easy project to make for coworker gifts or stocking stuffers or secret santa gifts or to hang on the Christmas tree. It's a mitten pocket!

This one is made with navy petite polka dot cardstock and the large mitten die. You put two sheets of polka dot cardstock together (polka dots facing each other) and run it through your Grand Caliber (or other die cutting machine). This gives you both sides of the pocket. Glue the outside edges together and let dry. Then, tie french roast bakers twine around the wrist. A little Merry Christmas (Santa Clause is Coming to Town stamp set) stamped in navy ink on wasabi with a little winter sky pearl finishes off the look.  Die cut the large snowflake from the snowflake die trio and add another larger winter sky pearl in the center and attach to the pocket.

The final step is to fill a 1X8 treat bag with plain m&ms. If you use a single snack bag to fill the treat bag, you have room to push the m&ms so they're more at an angle and that helps them fit in the small pocket better. Here's a top side view.

So, there you have it. A super fun and easy mitten pocket that will be sure to delight the recipient.

All products are A Muse Studio. www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!!

Thanksgiving Treat! - Cone Treat Bag

Here is a super simple treat bag that would be great to put at everyone's place at Thanksgiving! Truly a 10 minute project!

First you take an a muse studio cone treat bag and fill about 2 inches with sunflower seed meats and top it with the Goldfish colors crackers. Tie it with french roast baker's twine.

Look at how perfect those colors are for fall!!! I just love it! And, it's a treat that isn't loaded with sugar. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE sugar but I love salt too and this satisfies that need. :) And, you can have this treat AND have a piece of pecan pie or pumpkin pie so you get both salty and sweet treats. But, I digress... lol! :)

Back to the treat bag - using the leaf die cut trio, cut one leaf from sage green petite polka dot cardstock. Then, stamp a pumpkin from the Too Cute to Spook stamp set (great way to extend the halloween stamp set to other holidays) on orange cardstock and cut out. Finally stamp Happy Thanksgiving from the Essential sentiments stamp set on on orange vintage cardstock.

Quick, simple and yummy! Have fun making these!!  I think I'll make a few for the next craft fair!

All supplies are a muse studio: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Seleise

Batty Halloween Treat Box

I had a fun week-end at a family wedding and now need to dive into craft fair items! So much to do this week but am looking forward to the Beloit Holiday Fair this Saturday (October 27th!) in Beloit, Kansas!! Hope you stop in and check out our craft fair booth! 

Here's a fun popcorn box filled with treats (some of these may make an appearance in the booth)!! The a muse studio popcorn box is so easy to use with the Grand Caliber. I cut this one out of watermelon cardstock and stamped the screenprint background in pebble ink all over it before assembling it. I used the rosette die to make the polka dot rosette and added it to the box and finished it off with a large onyx felt bat from the bat trio die set. Here it is from another angle.

I can't wait to make some of these up decorated for Christmas. :) It would be great for a little nail polish/ make-up gift holder too. Hmm - wonder what else would fit in this box... :)

All products are a muse studio: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

And, have you ordered your FREE Stamp Out Breast Cancer stamp set yet? It's a GREAT set! You can order it here and will only be charged the $3 shipping fee: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!!

Super Easy & Quick Project: Lifesaver treat

Want an unbelievably easy and quick treat project? Here you go!

Cut a 3-1/2" X 1-1/4" piece of cardstock (I used a│s gingham - isn't it cute cardstock?!). Score at 1-1/2" and 3". Fold. Tape or glue the lifesaver in above the flap and seal with washi tape. Stamp "you're the best" from the School Days stamp set on a 1" circle and glue on the front. That's all there is!

Here is a side view. Isn't that easy? These would be great for students or teachers or co-workers or as a RAK for a store clerk who made your shopping experience pleasant.

All supplies are A Muse Studio (except the lifesaver, of course - lol!). www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Peeps, Glassine Bags and Washi Tape

What happens when you combine peeps, washi tape and glassine bags? CUTENESS!!! Yep. You heard it here! CUTENESS!!! This is a super simple, not kidding around, easy project that will make the recipient smile from ear to ear.

How do you do it? Easy. Take the spring washi tape pack and place three strips across the medium glassine bag. Die cut the middle sized bunny (a.k.a. peep!) from the bunny die set and pop it up over the washi tape. I used the Bermuda petite polka dot cardstock for my "peep". That's it. Bag done. And, a candy peep fits inside perfectly. Here's the side view.

This bag could be made so different ways for all the different holidays. I can't wait to play with it some more! All supplies are from A Muse Studio and can be purchased online anytime at www.amusestudio.com/seleise

And, check it out!!! Big fun coming in March!!! If you're interested in a booking a home party or doing a book party or placing an order, let me know!

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Valentine's Day Treat Bag

Here's a quick and easy Valentine's Day treat bag that we made in my class on Monday. I entered this in CAS150 Windows and CAS 152 Die Cuts on SplitCoast Stampers. It's my first time to enter one of the SCS Challenges. :)

I cut the hearts out of one side of the bag (3 X 1 3/4 X 5 3/4 brown paper bag) using the Heart Trio Die set. I should have taken a picture (and I might add one later)(*NOTE - I'm adding them here now) of how I did it because it's super easy and makes it so much easier to cut a bunch of bags in the same way. I taped the back of the dies to the bottom of a strip of of 8.5" X 3 1/8" cardstock. I arranged them so that they'd create the look I wanted when I cut the hearts out.

 I could then slide the cardstock inside the front side of the bag, leaving it flat and then run the bag through the Cuttlebug.

 This is with it pushed all the way in - see a little strip to easily pull it back out of the bag.

 Here's a side view so you can see that the cardstock is just in the front part of the bag to only cut that part.

Pull out the strip, insert it into the next bag and do it again. Easy Peasy! I didn't have to worry about the dies sliding because they were taped to my sheet and this way each bag would look exactly the same. I will do this again with other dies and nesties. Lots of gift bags can be made this way in a very short amount of time. :)

The topper is a Labels 8 die and the bubblegum felt hearts were also cut out of the heart trio dies. I used the quickie glue pen to stick the hearts to the onyx and white baker's twine. Isn't that fun?! I think it adds a super fun touch to the twine!

Now we come to the polka dots - the lovely bubblegum polka dot cardstock. The A Muse Studio polka dot paper is retiring (boo hoo!!!!). I am addicted to polka dots so this is going to take some getting used to but I'm sure new and fabulous things are coming in the new catalog so I will adjust. However, if you want any polka dot paper, order it now because when it's gone, it's GONE! I put a 4 1/2" X 3 1/8" strip inside the bag and trimmed the bag about a quarter of an inch above the cardstock. The bags are kind of thin so this made it a little more sturdy.

Finally, the sentiment is in bubblegum ink and is from Essential Sentiments. Great stamp set with all those phrases you use the most.

All products and supplies are A Muse Studio: www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

Mitten "Sleigh" Candy Treat Box

I hope you've enjoyed the last three posts as we walked through the projects from my December class. It's time for the final project and it's a fun one for holiday treats - a mitten "sleigh" candy box. You will see these on my craft fair table next year. :)

I was so excited when this came together because it's just super fun! Cut four mittens - two from each side of the onyx polka dot cardstock. Glue together. (you can skip this step if you use double-sided cardstock - fyi - the a muse studio cardstock is double-sided but the inside is vanilla so you can write on it if making a card). Use the small snowflake die and cut two vanilla snowflakes. *I'd wait until you assembled the mittten and then add the snowflakes so they don't get "beat up" during assembly. I used one glue dot in the center.

Cut a 3 X 3.25 in piece of cardstock and score 1" from the edge on each side. Cut the cardstock as indicated in the graphic. Fold and glue the "flaps" to make a box.

Attach the 1" side of the box to each mitten but not all the way to the bottom of the mitten. Tie on some baker's twine and add some Andes Peppermint Crunch - or your favorite small snack or note or maybe even quarters and you're done.

What do you think? I just got the large mitten die from a muse so I can't wait to make a larger version of this same project. Good times ahead!

All products used are a muse studio and can be purchased anytime at www.amusestudio.com/seleise

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Halloween M&M Treats - 1X8 bags

Here's a fun way to give Halloween treats! The 1" X 8" bags carried by A*Muse Studio are super for little treats! This one is filled with m&ms and has a simple spellbinder circle in Sugar and scalloped circle topper in Onyx with Too Cute to Spook images stamped on top in Blackberry and Slate inks. Love the inks! The sentiment is also on the Onyx paper with the Slate ink.

My niece and nephew wanted to make m&m treats too. They love making projects!! They picked out their die shape - they each picked a different shape from the Classic Tag Dies. They also picked out their images and helped stamp and cut. They did great, didn't they?!

Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

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