Warmest Holiday Wishes....{MCT Inspire Me Wednesday}

Good Morning and welcome to another

Inspire Me Wednesday with My Creative Time!

My inspiration today came from  Pinterest and the fact that Christmas (I know, I'm talking about it already and its only the beginning of November) is right around the corner.

I love giving little gifts to my boy's teachers for the holidays and even though it may be a small gift of some chocolate or a gift card for a cup of coffee, I love making the packaging just as special as the gift itself.

There are ton's of ideas on using Muslin Bags ~mine are from State line Bag Company and how you can decorate them with some simple stamping.

Take a look at my project....

To make my project, I took a Muslin Bag, stamped it using Stazon Jet Black ink with the sentiment from the newly releases set~ You Deserve a Break.

Yes I would and could have been happy leaving it just like that but I wanted to add a little more embellishing to my bag. I die cut some of the holly leave using wool felt and then hot glued them to my muslin bag. Guaranteed to stay on so the recipient can easily regift this bag if they wanted :)

Finally I added a gift tag to the bag using the Holiday Tags stamp/die set. I did add some more holly leaves so that the whole project matched.

Filled this cutie bag with some crinkle paper and a gift card and my gift is ready to give.

Recipe:

My Creative Time~

Holiday Tags

Boughs of Holly

You Deserve a Break

Extra's~

State Line Bag Company

Felt

So what do you think????? 

Want to see more projects?

Make sure you head on over to My Creative Time to see what the rest of the DT made!

I know the inspiration is AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT hump day!!!

Let's Celebrate.....{3GJ}

Morning and Happy Friday everyone!!!
I have a fun and easy Celebration project to share for
3 Girl JAM 

that also fits our current challenge going on all month long!
So as a reminder the challenge is
Celebrations

because we are celebrating 3GJ's 2nd Birthday!

So we want to see any project you make that celebrates something!!!

And here is what I made...

I LOVE stamping on the Muslin Bags you can pick up in the 3GJ store. They make great gifts for packaging all those fun treats and are so super easy to embellish with some of your favorite stamps and of course ribbon :)

So using one of my favorite new stamps from My Creative Time~Build a Chevy Background I stamped first the thicker chevron using Stazon Black ink and then the smaller dotted chevron using Fired Brick Distress ink.  Then using the Let's Celebrate stamp set for the sentiment, I again stamped using the Stazon Ink. 

When I make these, I always pull out the rope ties that come with the bag so I can add my 3GJ ribbon instead. Using a combo of Holly Berry Crinkle Ribbon and Sunflower Crinkle Ribbon I threaded the ribbon through to tie in a bow on the side.

Then using the party die from My Creative Time along with the new color of Trendy Twine~ Cherry Lemonade, I added them to my ribbon bow and tied them all together.

I sure hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with us over at the 

3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog!

Remember you have all month to share those

Celebration 

 projects 

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday!! 

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Entering this into the following challenges:

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes
Paper Issues~ Put Some Twine on It

3 Girl Jam Challenge #11~ 3D Valentine's w/Ribbon

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is a happy day over here....

I am hosting the new challenge over at the

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog

and

this week's challenge is~ 

3D Valentine's w/Ribbon

we want to see all those projects that are Valentine's Day related w/ribbon of course~~

This week's challenge will be open for 2 weeks, Feb 1~14 so plenty of time to create and share!!

Excited about this also....our challenge is being sponsored by

State Line Bag Co!!

So the winner will receive :

~25 Canvas Bags from State Line Bag Co

~1 bundle 3GJ ribbon

and a 

~Guest designer spot

Awesome prizes for sure!!!

So onto my project....
I LOVE my canvas bags.....
They make adorable packaging for your gifts 
and seeing that they are our awesome sponsor and 3GJ is now selling them in the shop (did you see that.....they are now for sale over at 3GJ HERE!!!)
I have probably my favorite canvas bag project ever to share....

I started with a plain 4x6 Cotton drawstring bag and pulled the drawstring out.
I knew that I was going to use 3 Girl Jam Crinkle ribbon in Holly Berry  and Tuxedo
as my bag closure

For my main image I wanted to try something different so I used some 

PrintOnIt.com T~Shirt Transfer Paper and the Valentine Vinyl/subway Text Art file from the Silhouette Store.

I ended up filling in the image with different designer papers from my stash and then printing the whole image out on the transfer paper.

Next comes the fun part....I ironed the image onto the canvas bag and tada....

I was really happy with the way it turned out but thought it could use something else so I un~stitched the whole bag and added my own stitching around the vinyl art. I also added a dimensional heart.. cut with My Creative Time's stitched heart die on some wool felt.

Then re~stitched the entire bag back together.

So there it is....

What do you think???

I sure hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with us over at the 

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog!

Remember this challenge will run for 2 weeks so lots of time to get those Valentine Day projects in!!

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday and awesome weekend!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant~ Hearts
Paper Issues~ Fawning over You
More Than Favors~Valentine's Day
Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Anything Goes
Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Friday's
Simply Create Too~Valentine's Day
Go Fish Challenge Blog~ #34 I LOVE You

CI Paint Inspired By: Christmas Gifts

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: Christmas Gifts

we want to see all fun gift giving idea

Here is what I made....  
I love using these State Line Canvas bags
and painting on them with my Creative Inspirations Paint is the BEST
So I made some reindeer food for my nephew who is 2 and is so enjoying the holiday season this year!

Using these adorable

  The Alley Way Stamps

  

I stamped the reindeer image using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then painted

it in with Creative Inspirations Paint in

Chocolate, Evergreen, Rustic Red and Antique Gold

Didn't it turn out adorable???

Here is what the back looks like....

So cute and something he can save and use every year to store his reindeer food in :)

Supplies Used:

Ink~ Memento Tuxedo Black
Stamps~ The Alley Way Stamps~
Fa-la-la, Jolly Holiday
Other~ Creative Inspirations Paint~
Evergreen, Chocolate, Rustic Red, Antique Gold
Jingle Bells
StateLine Bags Co~
Canvas 3x5 bag

I hope you like my project and will play along with us over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!

Remember you do not need CI Paints on your project but if you have them we would

LOVE to see how you use them!!!

Don't forget Creative Inspirations Paint is having a sale

This is a GREAT time to stock up!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!!
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Entering this into the following challenge:
Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Holiday Spirit
My Clever Creations~ Linky Party
DL Art~ Thankful Thursday
Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky party
Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Friday