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Candy Wrapper Wedding Favors

August 15, 2011 By Connie | 4 Comments

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We had our downline meeting yesterday…our Convention Round Up…always fun to see stamping friends and do great M&T projects.

So…we are on Part 5 of my wedding projects. This was the most time-consuming of all of them. We did over 240 of these favor boxes…somehow we lost count and actually did about 30 more than we needed! But…at the time, we didn't have an exact number of how many were coming. Allie and her mom were a big help with these. Allie and I sat and cut and embossed them all, then a couple of Allie's cousins helped to put them together. I went back and tied on the tag with ribbon. We filled them with the miniature Smooth and Creamy pastel candies…YUMMY!

I used the Candy Wrapper L Bigz Die in the Big Shot with Melon Mambo cardstock. I then put it back thru the Big Shot with the Elegant Lines Impressions Folder to emboss. TIP: Before putting in to emboss, I creased all the main score lines to make sure that the embossing folder didn't obliterate the score lines. This made it easier to put them together.

I wrapped the Navy Polka Dot Ribbon around and tied on a Decorative Label Punch with their monogram. We had a second tag underneath that said "Thank you for sharing in our special day" that you can't see in this picture.

Here is what 220 of them look like in a plastic tub ready to go to the reception!

Love this picture…Ross's first look at Allie in her BEAUTIFUL dress coming down the aisle! She is gorgeous! The Best Man standing next to Ross is Adam, our oldest son who got married last year. The other groomsman smiling is Brad, Allie's twin sister's husband.

Then Ross and Allie at the altar. These photos were taken by a friend at the wedding.

Allie and my other daughter-in-law, Beth. Isn't her dress GORGEOUS!!! I have two beautiful daughter-in-laws now!

More photos tomorrow…are you sick of wedding stuff yet? lol!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2011 By Connie | Leave a Comment

I love Valentine's Day! What's not to love?…candy and flowers are the feature of the day! Even when my kids were little, I used to make up favors to go with their little Valentine cards. Remember decorating the shoeboxes? Do they still do that in school? I know I loved it when I was in school!

Here is my last Valentine share for the season. I made up a few special Valentine's for some special people! Really quick and easy…wrap a belly band around a Russell Stover Chocolate Heart Truffle…yummy!

The packaging was already red, so I cut a 1 1/4 x 8" strip of Love Impressions Designer Paper and wrapped it around, secured with Sticky Strip. I used the Scallop Heart of Hearts die in Pink Pirouette cardstock and then added the Red Glimmer Paper Full Heart punch on top. Sweet Valentine, from Stampin' Up!'s Something to Celebrate Hostess Level 2 stamp set, was stamped with Real Red and punched with the Modern Label Punch. I added a Pink Pirouette small heart from the Heart to Heart Punch and a ribbon tail of Pretty in Pink 1/8 Taffeta Ribbon! Oh…there is a Rhinestone jewel in the little pink heart! SO sparkly and pretty in person!

Fun, fun, FUN! I hope they liked them!

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Dove Candy Bar Holder

January 12, 2011 By Connie | 1 Comment

It's time again for my Thirfty 3D Wednesday over on Stamping 411! I did a tutorial for a Dove Candy Bar Holder that I made for the Candy Wrapper Swap at Leadership this week. I hope everyone in the swap is already on their way and won't see this! But, I did use different Designer Paper and stamps, so even if they did see it, they would still be surprised!

I used Stampin' Up!'s Level 1 Hostess In Color Patterns Pack in Concord Crush for my candy wrapper. Then trimmed off a piece of another pattern to use as the trim along the edge. I added a Scallop Border of Whisper White. Holding it closed is the Concord Crush Ribbon and I tied on a tag punched with the Decorative Label Punch from Blushing Bride cardstock. The cupcake is punched from more of the Designer Papers and layered on a Whisper White Wide Oval punch. I added a rhinestone jewel to the top of the cupcake for some added sparkle.

Finally I added Spoil Yourself Today greeting from Bring on the Cake Stamp Set in the Occasions Mini, stamped in Concord Crush on Whisper White and punched with the Word Window punch.

Here is what it looks like with the Dove Candy Bar peeking out. I put a couple Stampin' Dimensionals on the back of the candy bar to hold it inside the wrapper.

I hope you like it! Go check the tutorial and dimensions over on Stamping 411 today! I'd love to see if you make one, so let me know!

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