Treat bags for Cinco de Mayo Party

Dave and I had a Cinco de Mayo party on Saturday May 5th (of course).  The morning started out a bit cold and cloudy, but by the time the party started it was all good! We had a really fun group of people and lots of good food.  We did a taco bar, tamales, chips and salsa, guacamole, salad, watermelon, pineapple and strawberries.  Dave made margarita cupcakes for dessert that were really good. See pic below.

I try to make a little gift for our guests to take home with them and this time I made a little treat bag with pistachios and some chocolate.  I used a retired set (Everything Eleanor) for the background image and the sentiment is from the Just add text set which will be retiring the end of the month.
I slipped in some new items from the up coming catalog 2018-19; pearlized doilies and share what you love artisan pearls.  Both paper colors that I used are retiring (sweet sugarplum and peekaboo peach).  I also used the small gusted cellophane bags for the treats.  I think they turned out cute!

Treat bags for Fitness Group

I have been working out with a fitness group for the past 8 weeks and Monday was the last day that we would all be together.  I decided to make a treat for everyone.
It was a bag of snack mix with a chocolate.

More Halloween Ideas

Heat Embossing with the Ghoulish Grunge spider web can make really cool background paper.

This has to be my favorite Halloween Set from the Holiday Catalog

Ghoulish Grunge Stamp Set.

Can't you see the drips in blood red? LOVE IT!!

   Halloween Treat Stamp  142249 $11.00 wood block single stamp below

To Order Click HERE

Halloween Fun

I love Halloween and I love the new Halloween Night Specialty DSP

 Halloween Night Specialty DSP 142022 $13.00

 

Halloween Night Bakers Twine 25 yards ea 142027 $6.00

To Order Click HERE

Sapphire Stampers Club Mar. 22 Hostess Judy H.

Tues was club night for the Sapphire Stampers.
We did some brayer techniques and made a card using the brayer to make the background.

Easter was the theme this night.

This card used the Work of Art set with Pear Pizazz, So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Wisteria Wonder.  I did "CASE" this card from someone's blog page, can't remember who's.  I liked it so much that the only thing I changed was the Wisteria Wonder paper for the card itself and I think I switched up the punched flowers.   

Inside of the card the sentiment below was stamped from the Suite Sayings set

 

Below is the card that we used the Brayer to make the background.

I took the brayer and wrapped several rubber bands of various sizes and used Mossy Meadow ink to create the grass effect.

 I added some Wink of Stella to give it a little shine.  Love that Wink of Stella!

 

And finally we made some cute Easter baskets using the Fry Box die.

So quick and easy to make! 

 The blushing bride Glimmer paper for the Butterfly gives a little bling to the project.

I had to make a few Easter treats for everyone.

I used the Polka dot triangle bags from the Occasions catalog to make the carrots.

I made a bow with the Cucumber Crush Lace Trim Ribbon to resemble the carrot tops.

I also used the sketched dots gift bags to make another treat.

Apparently Polka dots where my theme this month!

Ghirardelli had some cute little Easter treats that fit perfectly inside.

These gift bags are really easy to decorate and can be used for many occasions.  

Item number 138316 $4.00 you get 10 bags!

I used the bow paperclips from the occasions catalog to hold it all together. 

So quick and easy!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine Goodies

I made a few Valentine Goodies that I gave to the Sapphire Stampers at the Jan Club.
I wish Stampin Up still had the Circle Treat Cups.  I finally get around to using some and now I wish I could get more.