Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas....{Trendy Twine DT}

Good Morning Everyone!

It is my DT day over on the Trendy Twine Blog!

A new month of spotlighted products from Trendy Twine has the DT showcasing the gorgeous Christmas Twine Colors.

Today I am sharing a Christmas treat inspired project using my featured twine color of the month~

Candy Cane Trendy Twine and a Candy Tin

These make the best quick and easy gifts..fill with some goodies and embellish and they are ready to give :) For my project I used some Hershey Chocolate Nuggets and wrapped them using the holiday paper from Recollections. I was able to get 10 pieces inside the tin nicely and they are all cushioned in some paper shredding.

For my outside embellishing, I use the matching paper from Recollections to make a belly band. This not only holds the tin in place but allows a place for my sentiment. I wrapped some Candy Cane Trendy Twine around the belly band 2 times and tied it off to the side with a bow. For some extra holiday cheer, I did add some fun silver jingle bells.

My sentiment and die cuts come from My Creative Time~ Belly Band Sentiment Set and Stitched Belly Band Dies

Here is what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Candy Cane Trendy Twine

Candy Tin

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Thanks for stopping in today! For additional projects I made using these tins you can check them out HERE & HERE

I hope you all have a GREAT Thursday!

Believe in Your Dreams....MCT Dec Stamp/Die of the Month

Good Morning everyone and welcome to another

"My FAVORITE stamp/die of the Month" with My Creative Time! 

This month we are featuring the stamp set

 "Believe in Your Dreams"

If this set has been on your wish list, you can pick this set up here at a discount price HERE! 

This set will be on sale for the entire month of December 

and the sale will end on December 31st, 2015 @ 12:00am PST!  

Here is the card I made using this beautiful set! 
To make my card I started with a kraft cardstock base, added a layer of white cardstock and then die cut the mat using the largest of the Stitched Rectangular Frame Die. For the designer paper I used a new paper pad I picked up from My Minds Eye~Fancy That. I grabbed the new Stitched Postage Frame Dies to add another layer to my card base as well as to add my sentiment and die cut feathers from the Believe in your Dreams set. Some gold thread bunched behind the feathers and some random gold enamel dots finish off my card!

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 day!!

MCT 5 Days of Christmas~~Day 4

We are SUPER EXCITED to bring back another 5 days of Christmas! 
We will have daily AWESOME prizes so you might want to tune in each day so you won't miss a thing! All you have to do is leave your comments on each stop for an opportunity to WIN!
For all the details make sure you check out the post over at My Creative Time!

Welcome to Day 4!!

For my project today I found a super cute 3D  Christmas tree in the Silhouette Store that holds some holiday treats! I cut the pieces out and put the box together using brown cardstock for the base and designer paper from Doodlebug Designs for the green tree.
To embellish my tree I grabbed a few older MCT stamps and dies! The sentiment is from the set "From Our Family to Yours" and fit perfectly on the base of the tree. 
To make my ornaments, I used the small circle die from the "Loyal Friends" set and then to die hanger from the "Warm Holiday Fun" set (not revised set). I popped my ornaments up onto the tree and stung them all together using some Totally White Trendy Twine.
Finally my tree wasn't complete without a big bright star! I used one of the "Bunch of Stitched Stars" die and gave it some extra sparkle using my Wink of Stella pen.

I hope you like my project for Day 4!
 *tip* for the day...

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to head on over to the My Creative Time blog HERE to see more holiday gift ideas and projects!!!!

MCT 5 Days of Christmas~~Day 2

We are SUPER EXCITED to bring back another 5 days of Christmas! 
We will have daily AWESOME prizes so you might want to tune in each day so you won't miss a thing! All you have to do is leave your comments on each stop for an opportunity to WIN!
For all the details make sure you check out the post over at My Creative Time!
Welcome to Day 2!!
Today's projects are some fun stocking stuffers using the adorable mini hand sanitizers from Bath & Body Works. They changed the shape of these from the last time I purchased them so I did a little altering on my holder to fit the new shape.
Project #1 is the holder I made using some simple shapes in the Silhouette studio. I cut all the layers using black cardstock and designer paper from Recollections and attached all the pieces. Placing my hand sanitizer inside the holder and tying it closed with some Totally Red Trendy Twine. For my tag I used the newer released Holiday Tags set. How adorable is that santa die cut??? I just LOVE it!
Project #2 is also one of the new hand sanitizers but this one just has a cute tag. Again I used the Holiday Tags for the candy cane die cut and the circle tag as well as using a slightly larger circle from the Bunch of Fun Circle Die set. My tag was then tied onto the hand sanitizer using some Totally Black Trendy Twine.

I hope you like my project for Day 2!
 *tip* for the day...little gifts like these hand sanitizers make awesome stocking stuffers and teacher gifts. Just grab a tag die and a sentiment or image and you can mass produce several tags just to have on hand for those last minute gifts!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to head on over to the My Creative Time blog HERE to see more holiday gift ideas and projects!!!!
I will be back tomorrow with Day 3!

MCT 5 Days of Christmas~~Day 1

We are SUPER EXCITED to bring back another 5 days of Christmas! 

We will have daily AWESOME prizes so you might want to tune in each day so you won't miss a thing! All you have to do is leave your comments on each stop for an opportunity to WIN!

For all the details make sure you check out the post over at My Creative Time!

My project for today is a simple card to make using gorgeous designer paper and some older stamps and dies.

To make my card I used some new paper I just picked up from MME called Cozy Christmas and die cut the paper mat using the largest of the Stitched Rectangular Frame Die. 

Next I grabbed the set Oh Deer and die cut the deer using some plain kraft cardstock. I didnt want my reindeer to be completely plain so I did add a red sparkle gem to his nose!!

Finally for the sentiment, I grabbed another older stamp/die set~ Chocolate Greetings

and used both the sentiment from that set as well as the banner die from that set.

I hope you like my project for Day 1!
 *tip* for the day...go through your designer paper. I know everyone has gorgeous papers that they forget about that is perfect for using for cards like this. Grab a die and a sentiment and you can mass produce cards in no time!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to head on over to the My Creative Time blog HERE to see more holiday gift ideas and projects!!!!
I will be back tomorrow with Day 2!

Happy Thanksgiving w/Trendy Twine

Good Morning Everyone! 

It is my DT day over on the Trendy Twine Blog and I am excited to be able to share another project with you all using my featured twine color of the month~

Totally Chocolate along with the adorable 2x2 Kraft Boxes

Can you believe that it is almost Thanksgiving?? I thought I would make a project that can work for the dinner table. These 2X2 Kraft Boxes can be filled with candy and be a fun treat for your guests to take home with them.

To make my project, I started with a 2X2 Kraft Box and covered it with some beautiful designer paper from Recollections~Harvest Collections paper pack. Next using one of the panels (before it was attached to the box) I die cut a leaf using My Creative Time's A Thankful Heart set. I filled the leaf with the Totally Chocolate Trendy Twine then attached it to the box front.

I wanted to add a simple tag as well to by box, so I grabbed a Fun Stitched Tag Die , stamped my sentiment from the Fall Friends set and attached it all to the top of my box with more Totally Chocolate Trendy Twine.

Here is what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Totally Chocolate Trendy Twine

2x2 Kraft Boxes

New to Trendy Twine??? Check out the other places where we share our projects .....

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Thanks for stopping in today! I hope you all have a GREAT Tuesday!

Thankful for 3GJ Fans Blog Hop

If you are looking for the 49th New Release Blog Hop for 

My Creative Time please click HERE.

Welcome to my stop on the 
"Thankful for 3 Girl JAM Fans Blog Hop!" 
 The 3 Girl JAM design team has joined up with a few of our friends and fans to put together an awesome hop full of inspiration and fun!
You should be coming from 
Susan's  Blog.
If you are just popping in and would love to hop with us...please head on back to the start of the hop~ over at 
Julie K's Blog

If you are a follower of my blog, then you know I LOVE to make treats! 
Since we are showing Thankful projects, I thought I would make some treats that can be given out this coming Thanksgiving to my dinner party guests. I do host Thanksgiving every year and thought that these would look adorable on everyone's place setting.

The more I look at these the more they remind me of a pumpkin....LOL! 
Anyways I filled up some Medium Candy Bags with chocolate nuggets wrapped in designer paper. 6 fit in these bags perfectly.

Then for the tags I used My Creative Time's Holiday Tag Dies with the sentiment and leaf from A Thankful Heart. To attach my tags to the candy, I used the beautiful Harvest Orange Crinkle Ribbon from 3 Girl Jam in the Harvest Bundle.

These yummy treats are all ready for the Thanksgiving table!!

3 Girl JAM has put together an awesome prize package of crafty goodness!  
To win it, all you have to do is leave a comment on each stop of the hop.  You can check out all the details on the 3 Girl JAM blog!
Easy peezy!

Here is the full hop order in case you get lost along the way:

Julie K

Rhonda

Dawn

Kim

Chriss

Marji

Veronica

Karen

Susan

Jessica~ ME~

Connie

Donna K

Angela

Daphne

Julie O

So, your next stop is at Connie's blog. 
Thanks so much for hopping with us today
and enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!