Altered peat pot candy gifts

I was so sad when I received a phone call from Ashley's school that she got injured during her lunch break. I drove her school right away to pick her up and she was so sad and was all shaken up. Once we got home, I waited til she was calm and felt ready to tell me what had happened. Turns out, it was an accident and two of her friends that she plays with everyday were so kind and guided her to the closest yard duty for help. Ashley explained to me how helpful her friends were and that they were both very comforting. As a mom, it makes me feel to good to hear that. I wanted to make her friends a little "thank you" gift for being so helpful to Ashley. I altered these peat pots from my local 99 cent store and painted it with Vintage White acrylic paint and spray some Lindy Stamp Gang Cosmopolitan Pink. For the bottom base I used the Spellbinders Tear Drop Circles die and new Heidi Grace Daydream collection. On the front of the peat pot I added a Spellbinders Lacey die cut and adhered a Greeting Farm Odette and Summer image on top. I had asked Ashley to pick to Greeting Farms stamps that looked like her two friends. I colored them both with my Copics markers and paper pieced them with the HG Daydream design papers. The back of the pots I added I Am Roses flowers and leaves. For the inside, I created a little bag of treats and placed a shabby chic digi ticket from Bety which she signed to each of them. I loved how they both turned out and can't thank the girls enough for being there for Ashley.

Listed here are the products I incorporated on both pots.



Small Crochet Flowers with Pearl: Currently Unavailable
Brown Daisy: Currently Unavailable
R40 - 70
ZQ L0 - 721
ZQL 0- 3
R40-21

Victorian and Baby Armoire

Hi Everyone!

These past few days I've been creating armoire's using the Locker Album die I designed for AccuCut Craft. I'm so excited how it turned out and look forward to creating more. For the Victorian armoire, I used the gorgeous Victorian Parlour collection and created a dress form mini album using my AccuCut dress form Custom die. I love adding home decor on top of my armoire's, cabinets, shelves and thought it would be adorable to add some embellishments on top of these armoire's. I thought a bird's nest with mini eggs, a bird and mini spools would be fun. I then added a lot of I Am Roses around the nest along with a larger wooden spool. The top is removable for me to have access to the album. I also decorated the armoire with a leaf trim a few coordinating Victorian Parlour die cuts and a beautiful shabby button for the handle. I didn't want there to be an opening, so I place a clear sheet from AccuCut Craft. I love it because it reminds me of those department store window displays you would see at the mall.






Of course creating one wasn't enough for me. heehee I then thought it would be cute to create a Baby armoire with a Dress Mini album inside and faux drawers on the bottom. For the next armoire, I'm going to create one with actual drawers and place a blanket inside or just have it dangling on the side of the drawer. I used my favorite K & Company Cut & Paste Collection. For the door, I cut the locker die cut in half and placed clear shabby buttons as my handles. This armoire is designed for the doors to stay open. On the top I added some gorgeous I Am Roses pink/yellow spray, a white R40 flower with my mom's beige crochet flower, green two-toned leaves and white S10 flowers. I also added KARLAS001 adorable white bird and pink/white leaf spray and love it. Inside the armoire, I created a Dress mini album using my Sizzix dress die and bind it with one inch rings. I added some cream lace trim and pink pearl trim from Hobby Lobby to give it a shabby chic look. For the faux drawers I used light weight chipboard with the design paper and added a buckle with pink pearls as the handles. On the left side of the door, I added a pink baby bracelet that I made and hung it on a 7 gypsies hook. I'm so thrilled how they both turned out and enjoyed every minute creating them.

A basket filled with chocolate dipped strawberries

I purchased MFTStamps Berry Box die and thought it would be fun to fill a basket filled with chocolate dipped strawberries as a Valentine gift for my daughter's teachers. Although it already came with the strawberry leaf, I Am Roses new White Flowers were perfect stained with Lindy Stamp Gang's Starburst Ponderosa Pine Olive and layered with a White Mini Rose. For the front of basket I added a gorgeous red rose and two white cherry blossoms on the side and sprayed them with Lindy's Glitz Spritz in Scintillating Silver. On the handle of the basket, I layered KARLAS001 flower trim then added a mini pink crochet flower, ribbon buckle and SaCrafters 10mm flat back pearl. I will fill all the strawberries with Valentine Hershey kisses in red and pink. You can also create white chocolate dipped strawberries and dark chocolate dipped strawberries. These are so fun to create throughout the year for any occasion.