Tea Bag Holder

The great thing about this new Tea Set from There She Goes is that Tea for Two comes with a big stamp that you can cut out and use to make tea bag holders. No measuring necessary!


I stamped some Hawaii Papaya designer paper from SU! with the holder image. The image is pretty big so I used a plate from my Cuttlebug in place of an acrylic block. Worked like a charm! I stamped it on the reverse side so that when it's folded up you can't see the lines. Once it was cut out, I stuck it together with some two way glue.

The teapot was also stamped in the same designer paper and paper pieced to a Whisper White rectangle. I added a small pearl from Hero Arts for the top of the lid and some steam stamped on vellum (Thanks to Beth for the idea to use vellum for the steam!) The sentiment stamped in Close to Cocoa finishes it off.

I went to get a tea bag to put in it and then got the idea (thinking about it now it's probably not a new idea, but I was pretty proud of myself to think of it!) to remove the tag that is already on the bag and make a new one out of coordinating designer paper. I took the old one off and then cut a piece of DP the same size (3/4" x 2 1/4") and folded it in half. To get the notched corners, I used my SU ticket punch but did not push the paper all the way in to the corner. I eyeballed it to get it even. Then, I stuck the sides together with the tea bag string sandwiched between.

How cute would these be to give as a little gift! Perfectly co-ordinated :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

A Day Late

Hello my stamping friends!

I must first and foremost apologize for my lack of posting (and stamping!) this week. The week of Halloween can be very looooong when you spend your days with 3, 4 and 5 year olds!! And the fact that Halloween was a Friday this year made it all the longer! Life seemed to get in the way this week and I didn't get much accomplished. But I suppose that's what makes life interesting!

Anyways, I do have a few Halloween things to show you. A day late! There's always next year, right? ;)


The first is a quick tag I made to go along with a thank you gift of wine, chocolate and a Halloween decoration. It's the tree from Spooktacular Silhouettes stamped in Old Olive ink on Kiwi Kiss paper, the sentiment stamped in Onyx Black Versafine and small rhinestines added with Tombo Multi. It was punched out using the pink Marvy circle punch and layered onto a black scallop circle punched from the purple Marvy punch. Sorry, I can never keep the size names straighton those punches-I remember by colours! It's tied together through a SU! jumbo eyelet using some Martha Stewart ribbon purched last year for next to nothing when they have the last of the last Halloween stuff for 90% off.

This next picture is of some treats I made for my work friends on Thursday night to procrastinate doing what I needed do for work! Don't worry, I did finish my work assignment but I tend to create as a distraction. A bad habit, I know. So, these were made by using the Sizzix die cut pillow box with a bunch of different papers from the SU! Ghostly Greeting papers. I used my Cuttlebug to run it through. No problem. Inside, three Hershey's nuggets fit perfectly. The nuggets are wrapped using a strip of DP (the reverse of the outside) to coordinate. I wrapped the boxes with more of the Martha ribbon mentioned above to keep it closed. The pumpkin image was stamped on Whisper White using Pumpkin Pie ink. It is a stamp from Batty for You. I stamped a second one and punched out just the pumpkin, added a dimensional and layered it on the first. The big circle is 1 3/8" and the pumpkin alone is punched using a 1" punch. I then layered that on a black piece punched by the SU! scallop circle punch. and it's adhered using pop up glue dots. Easy peasy for sure. I think I'll make more of these for Christmas.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

I'll be back in a bit with a card for a sketch challenge :)

Happy 40th

Hi all!

It's a rainy day here today. A perfect day for making party favours though! My good friend is turning 4o this month and his wife is throwing him a big party to celebrate. I offered to make the party favours and here is what I came up with. Inside I will be putting some chocolate treats.


So, this friend wanted to earn his black belt in karate before he turned 40. He put his mind to it, worked hard and this past summer earned it. Quite an accomplishment! In celebration of that, I thought I would make the favour with an Asian theme. These actually are quite simple.

I was originally planning to make the takeout boxes myself but then came across these ones for sale when looking for a pattern online. And the warehouse is close enough to me to pick up to save on shipping! Even though I now have more boxes left over than I know what to do with, they were much cheaper than buying at Michael's so I was happy. Plus the time saved? SOLD! I'm sure you'll see more projects made with the leftover ones in the near future.

I found black twill ribbon on sale this week at Michael's and tied that around the box to represent the black belt. I printed the number 40 out on cheap Walmart cardstock using the Pepita MT font in Microsoft Word, punched it out with a 1 1/4" punch and layered it onto a black 1 1/2" punched circle. I finished it off by threading a silver cord (mine was stuff I purchased from Michael's last year when they were clearing out the Christmas stuff super cheap) through a puched hole in the tag and tying it to the take out box handle.

Super simple but pretty cute, I think! I would have liked to do some stamping on the tag and maybe something a little more elaborate, but the reality is that I don't really have the time. Plus, they will eventually end up in the garbage! So I'm good with what I've come up with.

I'd love to hear what you think!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)