TUTORIAL: Paper Rosette Gift Name Tags

I was asked by Joann's to be a part of their Papercrafted Christmas campaign that they are co-hosting with Die Cuts With a View (DCWV).  Me and 11 other bloggers are sharing some fun ideas on how to craft with DCWV scrapbook paper and embellishments this month. How fun!

With Christmas literally weeks away, and the fact that I have gift wrapping on the brain, I thought I would use DCWV's scrapbook paper to make some vintage-inspired Paper Rosette Gift Name Tags. I am always in search of fun ways to label gifts and these make my heart sing, so pretty and so easy to make...perfect for the holidays and more!

Here's what you'll need to make your own:

Paper Rosette Gift Name Tags

DCWV Christmas & Winter Paper Stack

Scissors

DCWV Christmas & Winter Embellishments (optional)

3.5 inch paper doilies

Hot glue

For these rosettes I used the DCWV Christmas & Winter Paper Stack. I found this paper was the perfect weight to make a small sized rosette. You can find this paper stack and a whole lot more from DCWV at Joann's here.

To make the rosettes...
1. Cut a 12 x 12 inch piece of scrapbook paper down to 3 x 12 inches. Starting on the short end, fold the paper back and forth in 1/4 inch increments.
2. Continue to fold the paper like an accordion until the end of the paper.
3. Press the accordion of paper in half and hot glue the ends that meet together.
4. Fan out the rosette and hot glue the other two ends together as well.
Hot glue the rosette onto a paper doily.

The Christmas & Winter Paper Stack also comes with a few pages that include small colored flags and other fun paper tags. I cut the flags out and wrote names onto them.

I also used a scallop paper punch to embellish the name tags a bit more.

You could even embellish the name tags with the coordinating DCWV Christmas & Winter adhesive embellishments, the pack comes with a big variety of pretty choices!

When your Paper Rosette Gift Name Tags are done they should look like this...so cute, right!

Such a perfect addition to your holiday gift wrapping this season!

And here's a coupon from Joann's so you can save when you buy your supplies to make these or an other fabulous project you might have in mind for the holidays: Click Here for Coupon!

 XOXO,

*This post is brought to you by Joann's but all opinions and ideas are 100% my very own :-)

TUTORIAL: Toilet Paper Tube Advent Calendar

This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and Cottonelle, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #CottonelleHoliday  http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO.

Can you believe it is December already? That means only 4 weeks until Christmas!!! Well, 23 days to be exact, whoa momma!

With holiday parties and cookie exchanges coming up on the calendar, the last thing I want is to be stuck in my bathrooms always having to change the dang toilet paper! Hello, I have more important things to do like bake up some yummy goodies, set a festive table, and actually enjoy my holiday parties this year. Thank goodness for the Cottonelle Triple Roll pack I found at Target, triple the toilet paper on one roll means less trips to restock the bathroom for me!

And when you do finally get an empty roll, how about a fun holiday idea to make having to change that roll a little bit easier?

I saved our leftover toilet paper tubes and created a super fun Advent Calendar for my littles! It was so easy to do and the best part is that you already have the toilet paper rolls so that project material is free! This time of year you can even get scrapbook paper at most craft stores for 6 sheets for a dollar so this is one inexpensive project AND a whole month of fun for the kiddos!

Toilet Paper Tube Advent Calendar

25 toilet paper tubes

a variety of scrapbook paper

glue stick

scissors

twine

number stamps and ink or number stickers (1-25)

glue dots

white foam board

old picture frame

The first thing you need to do is cut your scrapbook paper to size, I cut mine 4.25 x 6.75 inches which gives you a bit of overlap for the edges when you wrap.

Then just glue the paper around each tube.

Once it is dry, mine seriously took like 30 seconds to dry, you just push the ends in slightly to form a pillow box...easy peasy!

But don't forget, before you close up you newly made pillow box you will want to add your advent calendar gift! This can be anything small like a toy, a piece of candy or gum, or even a piece of paper with an experience for the day like these here. For this advent calendar I decided to put little figurines inside that, in the end, would create a wintery Christmas scene.

This is what the finished product of this Advent calendar will look like!

Each day there will be a little something to set up...a sled, a wrapped package, maybe even a few letters :-)

A deer, or two, or three...or a snowman.

Even a teddy bear!

Once the tubes were filled and closed, I wrapped each in some twine and hung a little number stamped circular tag to each for each day in December leading up to Christmas.

I had an old frame I found this summer at a garage sale for $1 that fit a piece of white foam board perfectly and I just used glue dots to place the tubes onto the board.  They are pretty lightweight so it only took two glue dots per filled toilet paper tube to hang.

And there you have it! An easy, inexpensive, and really pretty Advent Calendar using toilet paper tubes!!! 

If you want to make this fun project or maybe you just need to stock up on some toilet paper for all your holiday parties, CLICK HERE for a "Buy Cottonelle Triple Roll 12 pack or larger and get a FREE box of Kleenex" coupon while supplies last and head over to Target to redeem this great deal! 

XOXO, 

TUTORIAL: Turkey Table Favors

Need a super cute idea to give to your guests as a "Thanks for Coming" favor this Thanksgiving? These adorable and easy to make Turkey Table Favors will be the hit of your dinner table this year!

I love this idea as you can use these favor bags to place a few mints, a piece or two of good chocolate, or even a little piece of paper for your guests to write down what they are thankful for this year. And these also work out smashingly for gifting a small pack of crayons and stickers for the little ones coming to dinner. It's always nice to have coloring pages or a Kraft paper-covered kids table so the kids can draw and create while the final touches are being made to your turkey dinner.

You will love how easy these are to make too...even the kids could do it! 

Here's what you'll need...

Turkey Table Favors

Scrapbook paper in various colors

Muslin or burlap and twine (to make your own favor bags) or you can buy pre-made ones!

Googly eyes in various sizes

Hot glue and gun or glue stick

Scissors

I picked out a bunch of scrapbook papers and ended up going with these five...I thought they seemed nice and Thanksgiving-y :-)

If you choose to make your favor bags you can cut a piece of 10 x 3 inch muslin and fold it in half so that it measures 5 x 3 inches. Then sew up the sides and fold the top edge over 1/2 inch to make a casing for the twine, you want to make sure you leave a small opening to pull the twine through. Once you are done flip your favor bag right-side out, pull your twine through, and you are ready to decorate!

To make your turkey you will need a pair of scissors, a pen of some sort, googly eyes, and a hot glue gun or glue stick.

Make a feather template by hand and trace around it on you scrapbook paper. I made my feathers rather plump and only needed 5 per turkey but you can make however many you like.

Glue your feathers together at the base, like so...

Then glue on your turkey face...two eyes and a small triangular beak.

I filled my bags before gluing them to the feathers but that was just my preference :-) Nothing says Thanks for Coming than a piece of Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt Caramel, right? And each favor bag also contains a manilla tag for each guest to write what they are thankful for....but really the sky is the limit on what you can put inside!

Thank you so much to JoAnn Fabrics for letting me be a part of such a fun campaign, as always I had a blast creating these Turkey Table Favors and I hope you do too! 

Use the hashtag #turkeytablescapes on Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and Twitter if you want to see more fun Thanksgiving ideas from other creative bloggers!

You can also find more fun ideas on how to make your holidays handmade in the JoAnn Craft Catalog!

And don't forget to print off your 50% off coupon to help you get your Thanksgiving craft-on!

 XOXO,

Halloween Treats and Party Favors

Anyone else feeling the time crunch of Halloween...one week to go!!!! I just finished two of the kids' costumes last night and I'm hoping to get the last two done in the next couple of days. We need them for a few parties this weekend, gah!!! Nothing like a little last minute stress, hahahaha, no. 

A local mommy group I'm in is throwing a big Halloween bash for all the littles in the group this year and they asked me if I wanted to help with the decorations and general party-ness. I have been creating goodie bags, table decor, treats, and favors over the past month and loving every minute of it, I love this kinda stuff!

I thought I'd show you what I've been creating over the last few weeks! 

I picked up these spooky little chocolate eyeballs and originally intended them to be in a vase or as some type of table decoration until I was browsing through designs in the Silhouette online store one night and I found this rad skull and cross bones design. I created a cute little party favor with it using their nifty print and cut feature!

I love catchy, some would say nerdy, word phrases (see past Valentine's here and here)

so I thought it would be fun to hot glue two eyeballs where the eyes would go and say, "Eye hope you have a Happy Halloween" *Snort!* Get it!

I die. :-)

I also found these fun "night creatures" at the dollar store and my mind went straight to that super cute Valentine I pinned about a year ago from Dandee (seen here). I thought I'd throw a Halloween spin on it and came up with this...

How freakin' cute, huh? Little specimen jars with creepy crawlies in them :-) Just like all the mason jars we use in the summer collecting bugs! Again, I found the cute little design in the Silhouette store and used the print and cut feature to create them.

I'll try to post some of the other things I created for this party if I can get the rest of my littles' costumes done...can you guess what they are going to be? They all go together again if you can believe that! Our theme this year is...SCARY!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

XOXO,