Hugs and Kisses Cookie Boxes

A set of cookie boxes with a simple hugs and kisses design. I hope you like them!
Click on the images for the full sized versions. 100 dpi on cardstock.

 

 

 

Book Review- Button and Stitch

Button and Stitch: Supercute Ways to Use Your Button Stash by Kristen Rask is a collection of button themed projects.
It's really a wonderful collection, the projects are all pretty easy, but require different skill sets. There are 24 projects total covering a wide range of techniques.
The basic materials explains what you'll need for most of the projects, and buttons by type describes types of vintage buttons but having a great vintage button supply isn't necessary for the projects in the book.
The first project is an easy pearly button frame that uses a strong glue and buttons on a purchased blank frame.
The final project in the book is a lovely soldered ring that would be a great use of buttons from your grandmother's stash or very special buttons.
The projects in between are sewn, felted and wired. My favorites are the recycled sweater handwarmers which use a used sweater to create pretty fitted mitts with cute button accents and are very adaptable. I'm hitting the thrift store today for sweaters to use for this project. The pincushion-topped button jar is so cute I can't resist it, and the kanzashi-style hair clip.
Lovely book. The projects are varied enough that I found a few things I loved in it, and so did my 14 yo daughter.
You can order it from My Craftivity or from Amazon.The Amazon link is an affiliate link and helps pay some of the costs of maintaining this site.

Candy Box- pink and brown

Since Valentine's Day is coming, it's time to put up some some heart stuff right? This is a template I made last night. It's fussy to cut and fold so scoring and pre-folding is really necessary. I used double sided tape to assemble it, and a craft knife for the inner cuts. After you tape the tabs for the middle and the ends, if you pre-folded it, you can press down lightly on the end and it kind of collapses in the right shape to tie the ribbons, twine or yarn to close it up.

I posted the blank template in my Etsy shop. Later I'll put together another collection of templates.

I hope you enjoy this project! Click on the image for the full sized printable.

 

ETA: The link for my Etsy shop was messed up, I should have double checked when it didn't autosave correctly. It's fixed now!

Forget Me Not Set- printable boxes and recipe cards

I used to do a lot of sets, not so much anymore and I'm afraid I lost a lot of the old ones in a computer crash about 8 years ago. This is a mini set. 2 box types and a recipe card set with a simulated offset silkscreen forget-me-not. Click on the images for the full sized versions. Print at 100 dpi on card stock.
Forget-me-nots sum up the feeling of For Old Long Since (Auld Lang Syne) for me.
I hope 2010 brings everything you wish.

 

 

 

Last night was my eldest child's b-day. Since our car is still being repaired we had to postpone a lot of what we had planned. We ordered Chinese in and the kids got to use their new Chop Sabers. E and I plan to make him my mom's favorite apple cake this weekend. It's a German apple cake recipe that I modified a bit for my mom's 39th birthday that became her favorite pretty quickly.
I still need to write up the nano pouch I made for E this weekend for her new nano.