Nuts About You!!!

Well, here I sit in Charleston, SC, where it is supposed to be nice and sunny and it is a dreary, 34 degree kind of day with icy rain falling.  Can't complain though when the boss man calls and tells you to stay home off the dangerous icy roads!  "Craft room here I come!" I exclaimed early this morning.

So, I snooped around the internet and found the weekly challenge going on over at The Cat's Pajamas here and knew I wanted to play along.  This week's challenge was using the theme of "Love".  It did NOT have to be a Valentine's card, but something showing "love" and I knew the exact stamp I wanted to use.  So, I whipped this little baby up:

Do you not just LOVE that little squirrel and his collection of nuts?!  Hard to tell from the photo but I used dimensionals to "pop" the squirrel off the little log and then also "popped" a few nuts up on the nut pile for a little 3-D effect.


I hope everyone else is staying warm today!


Card Ingredients:

Paper:  Stampin' Up! Close to Cocoa and Chocolate Chip, We R Memory Keepers Cotton Candy DT paper
Stamp:  The Cat's Pajamas Happy Camper
Miscellaneous: Stampin' Up! Dimensionals, Circle and Scalloped Circle Punches


Happy Crafting!


Tina

Mini Cupcake Treat Holder for TCP Tuesday

Hello everyone! I been MIA the last few days here at the blog, because I dived into digital scrapbooking over the weekend and have finally pulled myself away to catch some air!! I have been fighting the temptation to try it for years thinking scrapbooking should be done by hand. But, there are just so many hours in the day and after realizing I have not scrapped ONE page since my grandson was born - - - 7 MONTHS AGO - - I figured I best get busy attempting it or he would be graduating college before I even got his first birthday pics in the scrapbook!  Anyhoo - back to today's topic......


I was over on the The Cat's Pajamas website being nosey and came across a few things. First thing was a "Tasty Treat Cupcake Holder".  Anyone that knows me at all, knows my favorite food group is cupcakes, so of course I had to open up that link and take a peek to see what it was and how to make it.  Then, I saw that this week's challenge on their blog here, was to create a project that included a cake, candle,  or present image on it. So......of course, I had to make this cute little cupcake holder!

If you look on their website, I pretty much made mine look exactly like their example!  I did not have any of the tools they said to use however, so I had to get creative with what tools I did have, but it worked for me.  And the image is also the same, but it just happened to be perfect for this project and is one of my all time favorites so it just worked out to be a copy, for the most part.  (At least I am admitting it!!)


I think these would be very cute for any type of small treat really, not just mini cupcakes! I am planning on making up a few these for some gifts over the next few weeks for sure!


Ingredients:

Paper: CTMH Sweet Leaf, SU! Pretty in Pink
Images: TCP Smells Like Cake
Color:  SU! Markers - Daffodil Delight, Green Galore, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue and Real Red; ZIG Candy Pink, CTMH Black stamp pad
Other: SU! Scallop Border Punch, SU! Oval Punch; Corner Rounder, CTMH Blush Polka Dot Pink Ribbon, Misc buttons


Happy Crafting!

Tina