Small paper bag

Hi everybody! I have a very quick and easy project for you today. Did you know Shawn sells Gummiapan goodies in his store? They have many great dies and stamps. 

For my today's project I used Gummiapan bag die. 

I cut the base for the bag from wa white cardstock and glued a piece of patterned paper over it. The sentiment is a Gummiapan stamp. I stamped it on white cardstock and cut it out. I raised it on foampads for some dimension. 

I used some pearls and homemade foamiran flower to decorate the bag. I made the flower with Magnolia stethoscope die and to make it I used mint and yellow foamiran. In case you are wondering how to make this flower I have tutorial for it here.

That's it from me today. Have a beautiful day! xx

Christmas treat bag

Hey hey! How are you doing? Fall is in full swing here - foggy mornings, cloudy weather and colorful leaves on trees. I think I should start getting those warmer clothes closer to the front of the wardrobe and "hide" those shorts and summer dresses in the back for next year. When fall comes, I know winter is not far away either and in winter comes my favourite holiday - Christmas. :) This year I'm being a bit more organized; I've already started thinking about Christmas gifts. And I am planning on working more on my Christmas cards too. Are you thinking about Christmas yet? 

I like wrapping my Christmas gifts in pretty paper, but some items are really small, and it's hard to wrap them up, so I came up with a "solution" - a pretty handmade Christmas bag. I've made a couple of those in Halloween theme, but I thought I should make one for Christmas as well. I also made a video tutorial for it, in case you are wondering how to make it. Just scroll down and check it out if you want.

I decorated this bag with some lovely DCWV papers. For the shaker I used different sequins from my stash. Bow is made with ribbon from Crafty ribbons store and the adorable reindeer is a stamp from Dashing set from The greeting farm. I love the fact that these stamps come with matching dies, they are such a time saver! 

I coloured the image with Promarkers and pencils and I used some liquid applique on the hat. I also used 2 die cut stars and 2 crystals to decorate the bag.

And here's the video tutorial for making this (treat) bag. 

So much from me today. Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my bag to the following challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper: Use patterned paper
ABC challenges: O is for open
Creative moments: Anything goes
Craft your passion: Anything goes
Scrapbook stamp society: Anyhing goes
The corrosive: Anything goes
Christmas cards all year 'round: Shabby chic or monochromatic (I chose monochromatic)

The Greeting Farm Halloween release

Hello there! In the last couple of days we were doing previews of the new TGF Halloween stamps and today these stamps are available in the store. Awesome, right? This still gives you more than enough time to work on your Halloween projects. I made another small treat bag and again I used one of the cute images from the Scaredy cats stamp set. 

I used some solid colour cardstock and a piece of design Image was coloured with Promarkers and pencils and then I used Scaredy cats dies to cut it out. I used the same dies for the bats. 

Stars are stickers from my stash and ribbon is from Crafty ribbons.

So much from me for now. See you soon! :)

I'd like to enter my bag to the following challenges:
Little miss Muffet: Anything goes
One crazy stamper: Fall/Halloween
Cute card Thursday: Words/numbers
The sketchy challenges: Anything goes

Peek a boo

Hello everybody! Today is the second day of previews at The Greeting Farm blog. Westerday we were showcasing a Scaredy cats stamp set and today we are showing you the second Halloween set that is being released. This one is called Peek a boo and it brings you some more Halloween cuties. :)

I decided to make a small shaker treat bag. 

I didn't use any design paper, just some cardstock in different colours. The bat paper you see on my bad is just a piece of white cardstock on which I stamped this cute bat that comes with the set.

I coloured the images with Promarkers and pencils and then I used the Peek a boo dies to cut them out. For the shaker I used some sequins that I had in my stash for a while. Ribbon is from Crafty ribbons.

Well, this is it for today. See you again tomorrow. :) xx

I'd like to enter my treat bag to the following challenges:
One crazy stamper: Fall/Halloween
Art by MiRan: Anything goes
Scrapbook stam society: Anything goes
Fab'n'funky: Anything goes
The sketchy challenges: Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes
World wide open DT challenge blog: Anything goes

Have a fairy good day

Good morning my crafty friends. I hope you've been enjoying your week so far and that it's not too hot where you are. We went to my parents' for lunch on Saturday and on Sunday we were having a quiet and lazy day at home. It's pretty hot outside during the day, so we stayed in and played with the little one and I even managed to do some crafting. :)

Over the last couple of days I moved my craft place - again. I'm back to my original place. A couple of weeks ago I moved all my crafty stuff to Amadeja's room. I thought I would set my craft area here and that my hubby  could go to my "old" craft place, but it didn't work out. So I'm back at my old place. It took me a while to get everything back here, but now I have things more organized and I put all the sharp and small objects on the top shelves and/or in the closet/drawer to keep them away from my baby girl. She's in the phase where she grabs everything she can get her hands of and puts those things in the mouth, so we nee to be careful.

Anyways, back to crafting ... I decorated another brown lunch bag and made a gift bag out of it.

I used this gorgeous purple paper that I had in my stash forever. The orange paper are actually recycled envelopes. I din't want to over-embellish my bag, so I only used a piece of pearl string and 2 flowers to decorate it. In the center of the purple flower I put the adorable little fairy from The greeting farm. She's from the recently released Little fairies stamp set and so is the sentiment. These stamps come with matching dies and I used that to cut the image out of the paper. Colouring was done with Promarkers and pencils.

For the handles I used a gorgeous orange twill tape ribbon from Crafty ribbons.

So much from me today. Have a great day!

Hugs! xx

I would like to enter my bag to the following challenges:
Penny Black and More: Anything goes with a stamp
Word art Wednesday: Anything goes
Craft heaven: Anything goes
Stamping sensations: Anything goes with stamp and ribbon

Anya shops

Hello everybody! I'm back again. :) I don't know about you, but when I am giving away gifts I like to wrap them nicely and also put them in a pretty gift bag. Sometimes I will go and buy a gift bag in the store, but usually I like to make my own, so I can personalize it and make it match the gift that's inside. This time I want to share with you one of such gift bag.

Again I played with a stamp from The Greeting Farm and this time I chose "Anya shops". It's such a cute image and perfect for decorating a gift bag with. :)

This started as a plain brown lunch bag and then I just used some papers and embellishments from my stash to decorate it.

I cut the image out with my scissors and then used some foam pads in the back for some extra dimension.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and pencils.

I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Hugs! xx

I would like to enter my bag to the following challenges:

Deep ocean: Metal or wood (I used metal - eyelets)

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge: Use patterned paper

Penny Black and more: Flowers

Live and love crafts: Sketch

Craftin desert divas: Red, white, blue