Gift Bag for a Party Girl

My dear friend lost her mind.  She decided to throw a birthday sleep over for her ten year old daughter.  She agreed to have 9 other 10year old's sleep over… in addition to her 3 year old, 7 year old and a friend of the 7 year old.  She is NUTS!  She called me in near tears and said “Katie, I need you, please say you will come help.”  You can’t tell crazy no… so I hopped on a train on a working Saturday… to ‘help’. 

I was in charge of the craft project and will show that in a later post.  But here I have the gift bag I made for the birthday girl.  Just a simple pink bag I dressed up a bit.

I started by cutting a piece of black card stock to the width of the bag and used a pretty ek success edger for a lacey effect.  Next I layered on a fun pink zebra sheet of Recollections patterned paper topped off with a great piece of rose ribbon trim that was a gift from a crafty friend.

I have such a crush on pendants right now and couldn’t resist adding one for her on this bag.  I used a Stampin Up punch and embossed her name in silver.  I just love that effect.  The silver embossing powder comes out almost like a silver leaf effect.  Because I like her so much I took the time to add little eyelets so the black twine wouldn’t wear the holes thin.

Once the banner was on I started on a little treat.  I have some bottle caps with a pin back and thought if I made a cute one she could put it on a back pack or something.  I had a pink zebra push pin (don’t act surprised… I have more animal print than is legal in some states).  I chopped the back off of that and used it as the bottom layer in the cap.  Next I added a star shaped button and quite a few little clear and silver beads that don’t show up too well in the photo.  Once I had everything I wanted in the bottle cap I filled it up with glossy accents.  When it dried I took one large ribbon flower (same great friend) and pinned the cap on so she could remove it later.

I really wanted the bag to look finished and planned so I added a layer of black tulle in with the pink tissue.  I think the bottle cap was more of a hit than the actual gift!

Thinking Spring on a Monday night

Tonight I finished up some projects and added to the box for OWH.  First is another train banner - this one for an etsy sale.  I just love the rush I get from someone I don't know asking to buy my goodies.
Then I finished an image swap where we just stamp our favorite images and then we switch them up.  I have found it to be the biggest mojo starter.
After those were ready to go, I knew I had to add to my OWH box.  Four cards in total and both on the spring side.  I am working really hard to make my cards more lush with more detail and not so 'card party kit' as when we needed hundreds and hundreds.  There is still a need, but less.  These images were both found at the dollar bin at JoAnn's.  I embossed the bird's nest, added gel pen to the eggs and it looks really polished to me.  It is lined in white with a stampin up flower image.
The last two are on a paper with glossy accents to the petals, inked edges to let it feel more worn, and stickles to the flowers.  This is also lined and stamped.
Thanks for stopping by - hope you had a great Monday, too.

Journaling spot swap

These were made for a journaling swap on minialbumsscraps.ning.com.  Paper by recollections, faux stictched and pierced around the edge, ek success punch, stampin up pennant, half back pearls and some buttons to give a soft but finished look to the pocket.  On the journaling tag I used a Kanban stamp from the mocha boudoir collection that is my new favorite.  I added a pull tag by threading a ribbon through a circle punch.  And a journalling spot stamped on the back.  Check out the video for more details.  You Tube Video Here