Another sold out new product......

Maymaymadeit on YouTube and other crafters were showing the new We R Makers (used to be known as We R Memory Keepers) new treat holder set "We R Makers Carton Stamp Board". Being a new product to the market it was sold out and on back order on most online stores... I was able to buy one off the American Crafts website in stock and it arrived today:

Took it all out of the box:

This new board comes with a full sheet of stamps to decorate the box and it also has holiday icon stamps included. This milk carton board makes three sizes of a milk carton treat holders:

Photo above shows the board right out of the box and it has a stylus on the right side that slides into the board for easy storage. All score lines and markings are easy to read for whichever size milk carton treat holder you would like to make. Love the one page directions with how-to photos on both front and back:

Love that I can use an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of card stock for this treat holder depending on the height of the box I make. Using scrap white card stock I stopped crafting my current project so I could try out this new tool to the craft room to see if it is as easy to use as was shown on YouTube and yes it is!

Cut my card stock for the smaller box - did all the scoring:

Folded on the scored lines, clipped the bottom flaps and ready to form my milk carton treat holder. To hold my sample closed I am using a mini binder clip from the stash but I could also close it with a bulldog clip, paper clip, or mini clothespin:

I plan to add printed card stocks to my box - it is folded every 2 inches so I could use a 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" square piece of card stock and put them on all four sides of the box. Also could measure and put prints on the front and back top flaps. This milk carton box went together quickly and I am happy I was able to find it available for sale! Another great product from We R Makers!!

Laminated Seed Packet Treat Holders

Using a seed packet die set from the stash I made four fall themed seed packet treat holders to use for a Fall treat or for a Thanksgiving treat. I used more of the napkins I recently laminated for these. Here are the laminated napkins before I die cut them out:

With the thickness of the napkin and the laminating sheet I was not sure how these would be to die cut out a shape but the die worked the first pass through the die cutting machine. To try this out I used another laminated napkin - Pink Flamingo - and I die cut a sample:

I  know with vellum liquid glue will show through the vellum so I was not sure how the one layer laminating sheet over a printed napkin would take the liquid glue. But since these laminating napkins have a rice paper texture I thought the liquid glue would work:

With the first sample made and the glue looked fine and held up better than tear and tape on this slicker surface, I die cut out the pumpkin seed packets I wanted to make. The pumpkin napkin has an over all pattern with lots of pumpkins on it but it is directional so I made sure I had the pumpkins going in the right direction for cutting out my seed pockets. These photos show the die cut packets with a liner piece I added to them:

I wanted to add a liner piece as I am using this seed packet backwards for the fronts of my treat holders. To make the liner pieces I laid the seed packet die over my plaid card stock and trimmed away my side panels and then die cut the center piece out. I was trying to use scrap pieces of printed card stocks so I did not have full sheets - otherwise I could have die cut out another seed packet in the print and just cut off the side and bottom flaps using the trimmer. Using liquid glue on the back of the printed liner I put this in the seed packet and then I added glue to the back flaps of the seed packet and then the bottom flap to form the seed packet. Here is a photo showing the front and back of the seed packet after I added the liquid glue and you can not see the glue through the laminated napkin:

Not sure how I will decorate the seed packet treat holders but I used a scallop punch and punched out scallop circles using the printed card stocks and used a piece of cream card stock and punched out circles that I will put in the center of the scallop circles. I can stamp on those or maybe put a Fall icon embellishment or something for decoration when I use these. For the plaid and striped liner printed card stock I die cut the liners straight on the patterned paper and then die cut them diagonally as well:

These treat holders will hold fun size candy bars and it can also hold a gift card if I wanted to use it for Christmas or a birthday treat. Love the laminating napkins as there is a lot to make with them and happy to get them out of their bin and used in this craft room!

Where there is a will....

Where there is a will there is a way..... only arch shaped products in the stash are for hot foiling and I had see the new "Happy Birthday Kit" Spellbinders just released. Cost of the kit was $129.99 so too high for this craft room but off to buy two die sets that crafters were showing from using this kit. One is the Essential Arches die set and the second die set is their Color Block Accent Arches die set:

Was not able to locate the two die sets from the same shops..... Ended up getting the Essential Arches die set from Doodlebugs store in Sequim, Washington. (doodlebugswa.com) Then off to find the Color Block Arch die set..... not so easy - sold out everywhere.... Ended up on Ebay and bought the last set from a seller and happy that arrived yesterday with the regular arches die set.... Cut them out to show what they look like put together:

White arch base and then the black blocked arch layered together:

Already have a few cards/projects in mind using the arch die sets and very happy I was able to locate the die sets since when I was looking to buy them they were sold out and on back order.....

Happy to add the Essential Arch die set to my Spellbinders Essential Rectangles die set - all their Essential sets have so many pieces in each set for many different projects..... 

Laminated Napkin Card

Stash or Cash??? Trying to use more of the stash products so for this card all that was used was already in the craft stash -- I have various printed napkins in the stash so I thought I would laminate them for use for card fronts. Here is the card I made:

I did not want the front of the napkin to be all shiny so I used the laminate pouches in the matte finish. To do this first I picked out napkins from the stash and I separated the ply from the backs of them and then I used a mini iron to press out the wrinkles:

Once the napkins were all ironed I trimmed two different napkins to fit in the pouch. Put one napkin inside the pouch facing the back of the pouch and the second printed napkin I put on top of that and closed the pouch so you can see the right side of the napkin on the front of the pouch. Looking at both the front and back of this pouch you are looking at the front of the two napkins. I laminated this and once cooled I used the trimmer to cut the pouch apart leaving me two different napkins that are laminated on the front of the napkins only. Once they are cut apart the laminated pouches give the napkins a feeling of rice paper and you do not have to worry they will tear or something. Here is a photo of laminated napkins when they were finished:

For the card I made I pulled out an extra card base from the stash in white to put the napkin on. Used a rectangle frame die from the stash and cut out a pink polka dot card stock frame. Laid that over the napkin where I wanted the design to show and using a pencil I traced around the frame shape. Used the trimmer to cut that out on the pencil lines. Used liquid glue to put the frame die cut piece on the napkin. Then used tear and tape to put the framed napkin onto the card base. Set this aside to dry.

For the greeting "hello friend" I hot foiled the plate from the Spellbinders Summertime Sentiments which is a plate from the stash and it is their Glimmer of the Month hot plate from June 2024. I used silver foil by Spellbinders for that and then die cut it out using the matching die in the set:

Used liquid glue to put the sentiment strips on the card front. Added small pink crystal gems from the stash to the front of the card using liquid glue. The laminated napkins are easy to work with and the matte finish on the laminating pouches give the front of the napkins a 'flat' finish unlike the regular laminating pouches that are shiny and would be glary on the front of the card. Here is a close up photo of the hot foiled sentiment to show the shine from the silver foil:

Happy to get use out of the stash napkins and another project for my laminating machine. Have other projects in mind for the additional napkins I laminated so hoping to get to those soon. 

If first you don't succeed . . . try try again . . . and again . . .

Bought the PixiDustDesigns Excellent Box die set for Easter a couple of years back... watched the video on YouTube for it before I bought it so I knew how to assemble it.... or so I thought.... Here is a photo of the die set and the packaging showing what it is suppose to look like assembled:

and packaging photo:

The die set makes an oval box and you can make it into a Unicorn, Bunny, or Chick.... Cute idea and so I used scrap card stocks for my first try and glad I did because my box did not look oval..... there are no score lines to shape your box piece into a true oval so it was a wonky mess... so I put the die set away with my other PixiDustDesigns die sets and every once in awhile I would think about how to improve this die set because IF it was as simple as it looks it really is a cute box.... 

Used solid card stock and this time I cut out an oval from the die set. I used scissors and I trimmed around the oval (there is a stitching line on that so I had something to follow) and I figured I would be able to shape the box piece around this oval to make a true oval shape. Here is photo of a box I made not trying to shape the oval box but just using it as the die cuts it and you can see in the photo the box does look wonky ---

Here is what the box looks like as it is meant to be assembled:

I cut it out of hot pink card stock and used the oval die piece I trimmed around to shape my box with:

Altho shaping the lid to the box and the bottom of the box helped a little for the oval shape I was not happy with the out come of this box and I give up..... I even ran the long box strips over a bone folder so the card stock could easily be shaped into the oval. So I will keep the die set and use the bunny face and make a bunny for other treat holders as she has a cute face and eyes and a bow but no more bunny boxes for me with this die set. Very frustrating when you try and try to use a die set as shown and your results are not good..... but happy only one other die set I have ever bought did not work out either so two die set disappointments over a period of 18 years of card making is not too bad.... haha.... Here are two bunny boxes I did use as treat holders:

 

Easter Treat Holders

Here are photos of the treat bags I made this year for Easter using a Large Die of the Month from Spellbinders:

Photo of some of the treat holders I made:

First - red holders with the bunnies on them - that is a pattern from StampingwithAmore on Youtube and it holds a chocolate bunny. In her video she used a smaller Ghirardelli bunny but my bunnies are Kit Kats and they are taller than her bunny so I adjusted the pattern for the height. The bunnies on those holders were made using a LadyBug punch. The second from the left tag holder that has the three Hershey nuggets in it is a tag die set and add on's from My Favorite Things from years ago that I had in the stash. Made a sour cream container using pink 6x6 card stock and I added a carrot bow that is made from the Carrot Bow die set I bought a couple of years ago from KS Crafts. The green and blue things below the sour cream container are mini Post It Note holders that have a velcro dot to close them. I bought a pack of the mini Post It Notes from Ollie's and the brand is from Staples:

I paid $1.99 for the pack and the label says this pack sells for $6.43 "their price".   Also used 6x6 card stocks for those. More treat holders:

Pizza box on the left is a die from Elizabeth Crafts and it cuts the pizza box out in one piece:

Die cutting it in one piece not only makes it more sturdy but very easy to assemble. Middle box in the pink holds a Reese's peanut butter cup and that is a die from Taylored Expressions. The small box on the far right is an older unknown die n the stash and that also cuts it out with one piece. Bunny on the front of the pizza box is this die set:

Fun treat holders to put together and used all items and card stocks and pom poms from the stash so that is good. All Easter treat bags have been delivered.... just hoping the chocolate make it until Sunday and not all eaten before!! :0)

Thank You Card

My PIC (stamping Partner in Crime) gifted me lots of crafty items for my birthday.... Hot foil from Altenew and their glittered card stock, bundt carrot cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes (DELISH), gift card from Hobby Lobby, diamond painting she made and framed for Spring, etc... So I made her a thank you card using the new My Creative Time Criss Cross Card die set I just bought:

Here is the card I made:

To begin with this makes a smaller card than your standard A2 card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2). After I made the card I laid it on top of an A2 card base to show the size this die set makes:

For the thank you greeting for the inside I used an old wooden stamp from the stash that I had bought years ago used:

The stamp is from 1993 and I stamped it in matching ink to the checked card stock I used. I wanted the  eyelet trim on the top of the criss cross flaps to be white so I cut that out of white card stock and then used a floral print on one pocket and the checked card stock on the other flap for the layering pieces. Added a flower from the stash and two leaves left over from the die set I used for the bunny on the front of the Easter bags I made:

With the criss cross die set you can either attach your two front flaps to the inside of the card pockets or attach them to the solid base/back of the card. I wanted the flaps to be concealed so I attached them to the inside of the pocket/base front - but I had to trim a bit off the tab for the pocket as you would be able to see it above the white eyelet piece of the flaps. Here is a photo to show how this showed and a photo to show the trimmed pieces:

You can see the excess on the tab above the third eyelet from the right. Here is the trimmed photo:

Fun card to put together - wish it was a true A2 size but still fun to put together and use different card stocks from the stash. Made a napkin covered envelope for this card:

added lace to back flap:

and with the card: