My Daughter Alexis' 16th Birthday Card

My daughter Alexis is turning 16 tomorrow. I wanted to design a card that was SO her. Purple is her color. For my older daughter it is pink but this one loves purple.

The base of this card is concord crush cardstock (I just love that color). Then I took a piece of perfect plum & ran it through the Big Shot machine with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder. Then I took concord crush 1/2" stitched ribbon & made the back & forth design by sticking it to a piece of sticky strip. Then I stamped the cupcake image & the words "Got Birthday" both from the "Got Treats" stamp sets in concord crush ink on whisper white cardstock. The words I punched out with the word window punch. Then glued them to a punch of concord crush using the modern label punch. Then the image I also stamped with concord crush ink on whisper white cardstock. I punched the image out with the 1 1/4" circle punch. I layered it on a 1 3/8" circle punch of perfect plum & a 1 3/4" circle punch of concord crush. Both the image & the words are attached to the card with dimenionals to give a bit of a pop.
Happy Birthday (tomorrow) to my beautiful daughter Alexis!

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Bat & Candy Everywhere

At my house we are getting ready for Halloween with a Bang! My youngest Robert had his week to take treats to preschool this week. I planned that on purpose because I wanted to use the fantastic candy wrapper die in the Holiday mini to make his treats for today to share during their Halloween party. But my youngest daughter Alexis is turning 16 next Wednesday & we are having her sweet 16 party this Sunday on Halloween. So I had to make candy wrappers for the party too. (I am also working on favor bags & decorating the napkins but that will be in a post this weekend). So here are how Robert's candy wrappers went together.

First I started by punching out two bats. One out of basic black cardstock & one out of basic black waffle paper. My advice is to punch these to papers at the same time. Otherwise the punch has a habit of getting caught up in the waffle paper.

Then I cut all of the candy wrappers out of whisper white paper. I did this with the candy wrapper die (out of the Holiday Mini) run through the Big Shot machine. After I glued it together using TomBow glue (this is the fastest drying glue Stampin' Up sells) I wrapped the middle with a strip of Nite Owl Designer Paper.

Then I punched a 1 3/8" circle out of daffodil delight cardstock, glued the 2 bats together & glued them onto the circle. Then the "moon" is put on the strip of designer paper with a dimensional.

Then I closed up one side of the candy wrapper with Raven 1/2" lace trim (out of the Holiday Mini) & basic black taffeta ribbon.











Once all of the candy wrappers were assembled & had 1 end tied. I filled them with M&Ms.

Once I filled them then I closed the other end up the same way.

Here they are all filled, stacked & ready to fly to Robert's preschool. Here are the ones that I made for my Daughter Alexis' party.

They are made only with Nite Owl Designer Series paper, no cardstock. They were closed up with the same ribbon. The trick to the fold on these candy wrappers is to make sure that you work every single fold line with your bone folder. This will make assembly MUCH easier.
On a personal note, Tonight we are off to New Lenox, Illinois for Dunlap to take on Lincoln-Way West for the 1st round of high school football playoffs. Let's Go Eagles! We finished the regular season 7 - 2 so I believe we have a good shot at tonight's game. We are up against a much bigger school but I am sure our boys will hand tough. We finished another year of Marching Band last Saturday. I am super proud of how hard the kids worked this year. Here is a picture of my oldest 3 kids at the competition 2 weeks ago at the University of Illinois. This is a very rare picture when you get all 3 of them together without some sort of bribery.

Jeffrey (my oldest by 10 minutes) is on the left, with Alexis in the middle & Jeff's twin, Kayla on the right. Hopefully next week I will post a picture of my youngest in is costume for Halloween.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

The Final Christmas Card Design!

Here it is...the final Christmas Card Design for my Christmas Card Event. Don't forget that registration ends this Sunday (October 24th) for this great Event. If you haven't yet signed up & still want to make sure you let me know ASAP.

This card is made with the stamp set Bells & Boughs. Which is currently part of Stampin' Up's Holiday Bundle Promotion with the designer series paper, Deck the Halls, that is used on this card. Then the whisper white card stock is embossed with plenty a petals embossing folder. The ribbon is always artichoke seam binding. The bells are stamped in Always Artichoke ink & punched out with 1 3/8" circle punch. Then glued to a 1 3/4" cherry cobbler circle punch.
We also will be making a cute gift bag as part of my Holiday Gift Event with this set & Designer Paper. Be on the lookout next week for a picture of it.
I hope you all have a great weekend. I will see some of you tomorrow at my Owl Punch Event. For tonight we are off to our last regular season football game. But we already know that our son's team will be in the playoffs. We are just waiting till tomorrow night when we find out who we play & where.