Naturally Me Creations

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Crafty Recycling - Turning Packaging into Christmas Decorations

Just before I threw this packaging box into the box for recycling, I thought of an idea!

Why not use it to make little Christmas decorations? :D The cardboard is firm, so it would make sturdy little decorations.
So I used my flower stamp and stamped as many flowers as I could from the box:

I spray painted them silver:

Then drew on some glue with my nifty little glue pen, and added glitter:

Cute little glitter stars to use for whatever you wish! :D Decorating a wrapped gift, adding to a card, using them as little dangly ornaments for a mini Christmas tree, stick them on a candle....so many things! :)

To see how I used these little snowflakes, click HERE!

LINKY PARTIES linked to:

The Trendy Treehouse
A Little Lovely Blog
Wildflowers & Whimsy

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Cake in a Jar Gift

My gran invited us over for dinner tomorrow night, so instead of buying the usual flowers or chocolates, I made this cute little cake in a jar gift:

It's a jar that we had left over from our wedding favours (I still have a few of these left). I have this 5 minute chocolate cake recipe that I love, so that's what's inside the bottle - I layered the dry ingredients, and she'll just have to add the wet ingredients.
I decorated the bottle with a rose and some leaves (also what I've kept from the wrapping of a wedding gift we received):

I printed the recipe instructions on plain paper, cut it out, coloured the edges with an ink pad, and stuck it onto patterned card stock, which I cut out with fancy scissors:

And tied it to the jar with a ribbon from my scrap ribbon stash:

Cute, huh?! :D

And for those who want this quick and easy single serving microwave chocolate cake recipe, here it is:
4 tbs cake flour
4 tbs sugar
2 tbs cocoa powder
1 egg
3tbs milk
3tbs oil
Mix well and microwave for 3 minutes on high.

YUM!! :)

LINKY PARTIES linked to:

Making The World Cuter
Sumo's Sweet Stuff
Truly Lovely
Mom's Crazy Cooking
A Vision To Remember
I'm Topsy Turvy .

Wedding Card

I'm going to a friend's wedding later this month, and this is the card I've made for her:

I was looking for some wedding words to stick on the card, but couldn't find any matching my colour scheme, and the only one I found was this pink one - so hopefully it doesn't look too out of place on the card!
I used white card stock for the card, then layered it with metallic champagne colour card and a darker patterned card stock.
I added the ribbon by "winding" it around the card and sticking it with double sided tape and a glue dot on the front of the card like this:

I cut out little squares from the champagne coloured card using the cute little Fiskars Express Shape Cutter goodie and a Fiskars stencil. Then I got some heart charms from my beading stuff, tied a little white ribbon through each of them (this ribbon I got from cutting off the ribbons you find on the inside of your clothes - see my Tip #1), and glued them to the little squares. The squares I mounted onto the card with 3D foam squares:

At each corner of the darker card stock, I glued on some half-pearls:

And on the inside of the card I stamped a pretty little design with gold ink:

And that's the card! I didn't have en envelope to put it in, so I made a quicky envelope - it's just ordinary printer paper that I folded around the card - the sides are open so the card just slides in. At the back, to tie the envelope together, I used a heart brad:

And on the front of the envelope on one side, I glued on little hearts that I cut out using my Fiskars tool again, from the scraps left over from the champagne and patterned card stock:

And finished it all off with the same ribbon I used on the card:

I put some clear nail polish onto the ribbon ends so that they won't fray.

I hope she likes it. :D I think it came out pretty good considering it's my first real professional-looking card, hehe. :)