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Packaging your Valentines with GiftGloss

12 · Jan 24, 2012 · 7 Comments

Can you feel it in the air? It's getting close… "What" you ask?  Valentine's Day!!  I know that there are haters out there, I choose to not be one of them.  I love, LOVE!  It doesn't need to be romantic love {although that's my favorite} the love between family and friends is just as amazing. What makes Valentines day for me, is coming up with a fun little goodie to share with ALL the loved ones in my life.  This year I've discovered the love of homemade donuts and I am packaging them with GiftGloss from the FoofQueens.

Because quite honestly, it's not just what you give… IT'S HOW YOU GIVE IT!! You guys know that I am ALL about the packaging.  I have been as long as I can remember.  I'm so glad that I found GiftGloss it has so many applications.  If you haven't heard of GiftGloss it's a dandy little system where you can create your own custom wrapped gifts. It's a sleeve of a unique material developed by the FoofQueens that is so fun to create with.  I used the small six inch sleeve to create the perfect wrapping for my heart shaped donuts.

 

Using the handy GiftGloss Dispenser to unroll the appropriate amount of GiftGloss and then neatly cut the sleeve without having to run and search for scissors. I carefully placed my donuts into the sleeve and then found some fun materials to tie off the ends.

 

I used some Divine Twine, ric-rac and some fun pom pom yarn to tie off the ends. Then I created a fun, simple tag from some basic tags, washi tape, my alphabet rolling stamp & some fabric…

Super Simple and then added it to the end of the package…

There is no way that I would've been able to make a package that cute to show off these FUN donuts!! It's just soooo easy!  Here is another idea that I had for a fun way to give a simple Valentine gift…

 

Take a simple recycled bottle and put some fun candy inside. I found these fun heart shaped Honey Lover candies that are just too cute and make for the perfect Valentine. I placed the bottle in the six inch sleeve and then tied off the top with a thin strip of fabric along with a key tag from the office supply store.  Simple and yet so fun when packaged the right way! You need to head over to the FoofQueens Facebook page to see all kinds of fun and inexpensive Valentine ideas that I'm sure will tickle your fancy.

The FoofQueens would like to give each and everyone one of you a special Valentine gift as well. For the rest of January all of the products at the Gift Gloss store are 40% off they would like to give all of you guys an additional 10% off your total purchase. All you have to do is enter A SWEET DEAL at check out to receive the additional 10% off. Act quickly this special deal is good thru next Tuesday the 31st.

Thanks FoofQueens for the fun early Valentine's Day gift!!

* Don't forget to enter this weeks DownEast Basics giveaway and don't you worry… I'll post the recipe for the heart shaped donuts next week!!

Valentine Snow Globe | Anthro Inspired

214 · Jan 11, 2012 · 59 Comments

I have to admit… I have fallen for the Anthropologie snow globes from this last holiday season! While I was putting all of my holiday decorations away I just couldn't part with my snow globes. I decided that I would make  a Valentine's Day version.  Here you have it… my Valentine Snow Globe.

I took my Anthro inspired snow globe and removed the trees and safely stored it for next year.  Then I used my Epic tool and my new Sweetheart Nesting Scallop Heart die  from Lifestyle Crafts to make the pink heart. I made two and then placed them back to back with two, two inch pieces of a paper drinking straw in the middle to secure to the bottom of the lid with some large 3D glue dots. For the tutorial on how to do that click here.

Then I used a fun felt Christmas tree ornament for the large heart.  You could of course, make another paper heart for the large one.  I just happened to have the perfect felt heart already on hand. I did the same with the two felt hearts.  I placed them back to back and placed two, three inch paper straws in between to help secure the heart to the lid.  They were a little wonky so I used a small section of the paper straw and some glue dots in between the hearts to secure them a little better…

Don't worry, people won't notice the straws at all. It will just look like you have beautiful hearts floating in your snow globe! What else do you think we can do with the ever popular snow globe?

Crayon Heart Valentines | Lifestyle Crafts

84 · Jan 10, 2012 · 132 Comments

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and today I thought I would share my "you color my WORLD" Crayon Heart Valentines, made with the new Sweetheart die collection from Lifestyle Crafts and heart shaped crayons made with melted Crayola crayons.

Isn't that fun?  I am always a fan of homemade Valentines for the kiddos classes every year.  It's also a bit of a challenge to make valentines that are fun, colorful and easy on their sugar intake for the day. 

I know this isn't a new idea by far… My neighbor made these heart shaped crayons several years ago after finding this fun idea in Family Fun magazine, but I thought it would be a perfect fit for the new Sweetheart Nesting Hearts from Lifestyle Crafts.  Cutting the hearts was super simple using my Epic three in one tool from Lifestyle Crafts.  The Epic tool cuts, embosses and can create beautiful letterpress projects as well.

But I am getting ahead of myself!  Before we can make the cards we need to make the heart shaped crayons…

You will need to gather all the old crayons in the house… if your house is anything like mine, that won't be a problem.  You can also purchase new crayons as well.  I will have to admit, the new crayons were easier to remove the labels from. I used an X-ACTO knife to make a slit down the length of the crayon to easily remove the labels.  The older crayons took a little more coaxing.

Once you've removed all of the labels, break the crayons into small pieces.  The smaller the better…

I also found that separating them into color families made for the best looking crayons, but that is completely up to you! 

You will need to use a heart shaped silicon baking mold to melt your crayons in.  I found mine at Michaels in the baking section and it worked like a dream.  The girls and I decided that we wanted our crayons to be a little glittery so we added about 1/2 a teaspoon of silver glitter to the bottom of the baking mold. Then we filled the baking mold with the crayons about 1/3 full. The mold I used was pretty deep so depending on what you use you will have to play around with this.

Place in your oven that has been pre-heated to 300 degrees and baked for 15 minutes.  The crayons will become completely liquefied so be careful when you pull them out of the oven.  Carefully place them on the counter to cool.  You want to make sure that you don't move them around too much and mix the colors more than you want.  Wait for about 20 minutes or until the crayon is solid again and then gently remove it from the mold and let cool completely.

I made 57 hearts with the Wilton Mini Heart Mold using approximately 200 crayons.

Now it's time to pull out your Epic Tool to make the heart shaped cards for you to place your new crayons on.  I used two different dies from the new Sweetheart line for this project.  The Nesting Heart and the Nesting Scallop Hearts work beautiful for this card.

I decided that since I wanted the focus to be on the crayons I used a basic white watercolor paper for the base of the card. 

Once I cut out the heart shapes, I used my rolling alphabet stamp to create the fun saying on the card. "Valentine… you color my WORLD"  I just LOVE that look!!

Of course I had to dress up the heart crayons with some Divine Twine from Whisker Graphics. I just wrapped the hearts randomly and tied with a bow or made little twine bundles for the decoration…

This is such a fun project to do with the kiddos.  My girls and I had  ball gabbing while we were prepping the crayons. After that it was a perfect opportunity to have a color class while we created our crayon concoctions.  From start to finish this is an easy and elegant Valentine treat that your little ones {or big ones} will love to share with their friends this Valentine's Day!!

Come back tomorrow I have another fun Anthro inspired Valentine project made with my Sweetheart dies from Lifestyle Crafts!

Here are some more WhipperBerry Lifestyle Craft projects…

   

Party favors, bakery boxes & bubble party favors  

 

Pazookie | Recipe

11 · Dec 28, 2011 · 26 Comments

A few weeks ago I participated in the holiday cookie exchange at LoveFeast Table and thought I would share my Pazookie with you guys today.  No, no… it's not misspelled, it's a Pizookie in a jar, so I called it a PAZOOKIE. I came up with it for a fun, out of the box cookie exchange idea, but I think it would also be great for a cozy New Years celebration… So, here you have it, the Pazookie!


You may have heard of a Pizookie… a chocolate chip cookie baked in a pan and is kind of like a gooey, chocolate pizza.  Well, a Pazookie is a similar treat, however it is baked in a jar.  I am a big fan of creating fun treats in jars.  They are portioned perfectly and provide a fabulous blank canvas in order embellish your fun treat.  Here are some of the other treats in a jar from WhipperBerry…

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Hello... my name is Heather and I'm the creator of WhipperBerry a creative lifestyle blog packed full of great recipes and creative ideas for your home and family. I find I am happiest when I'm living a creative life and I love to share what I've been up to along the way... Come explore, my hope is that you'll leave inspired!

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