Can you believe that the holidays are amost here? I love absolutely everything about this time of year!! I'm starting my Christmas crafting and projects early this year, and I wanted to share this cute little DIY winter village house that I made. This is one of those projects that looks like it would be really complicated and time-consuming to make, but was actually quite easy! Tim Holtz has a new Village Dwelling Sizzix Bigz die that makes is fun and simple to make cute little winter ... [ Read More ]
Halloween Headstone Treat Boxes
I'm thrilled to be posting my very first Halloween craft of the season! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and I love getting crafty and creating spooky decorations and treats. These Halloween headstone treat boxes that I'm sharing with you today take less than 15 minutes to make, and are the perfect holder for scary sweets for friends or to serve at a Halloween party. So fun!! Halloween Headstone Treat Boxes: Sizzix Big Shot Machine Headstone Movers and Shapers Die ... [ Read More ]
DIY Popsicle Garland
Summer is one of my favorite seasons (of course I say that about every season when it's that season, haha), and today I'm sharing a sweet and colorful popsicle garland that I made. This DIY popsicle garland is great for decorating for a party, a treat table, or hanging up in the house to decorate for summer. It was very simple to put together using my Sizzix Big Shot and the new Ice Pops die. To make the paper popsicles I stacked a cutting pad, the Ice Pops die face up, some colored ... [ Read More ]
Ocean Box Party Favor with Sizzix
Today I'm sharing a quick and easy ocean box I made with some of my new nautical Sizzix dies. The box die is so sweet and would be perfect for a nautical or under the sea birthday party! For this ocean box, I used Sharyn Sowell's new Sizzix Box w/Wave Border Bigz XL Die and Seaweed, Coral & Wave Thinlits Die Set. First I made a Sizzix sandwich by stacking an Extended Cutting Pad, the Box w/Wave Border die face up, my pattern paper face down, and the other extended cutting pad on ... [ Read More ]
Pretty Cookie Pocket DIY
Happy Monday! I've been really busy these past couple weeks getting projects ready for a new Sizzix Party Ideas book that is coming out soon. I've got a handful of fun party project ideas that are going to be published in the book, so I've been up to my eyeballs in planning and creating for this amazing opportunity. Today I'm sharing one of the party favor ideas that I'm sharing in the upcoming book- a pretty cookie pocket diy! These adorable cookie pockets would be just perfect to pretty ... [ Read More ]
Film Strip Decorations for a Movie Party
Today I've got a really quick way to embellish glass apothecary jars to make film strip decorations for a Hollywood/movie party. You might remember my daughter's movie birthday party that I shared with you a few weeks ago? I had lots of apothecary jars filled with yummy treats, and wanted to make them look more fun and to go with the theme. I used my Sizzix Big Shot and the Filmstrip Frames die to die cut some film strips out of black card stock. To do this I made a Sizzix sandwich with ... [ Read More ]