12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop - Day 9

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived from Theresa's blog.  You can start the hop from the beginning at Lisa's blog.

 It's day 9 of 12 days of fabulous Holiday projects!


Today's project was a true labor of love.  I've been saving pickle jars for well over a year with the intention of making them into a craft project.  What I didn't really count on was having to get the pickle smell out of a pickle jar before using them.  It was quite the adventure with a lot of trial, error and a curse word or two thrown in just because I could, but finally they were pickle smell free!  I repurposed my pickle jars into homemade dog treat jars!!  At the time I took these pictures, I hadn't made my dog treats yet.  I filled one of the jars with store bought treats and left the rest of the jars empty.  I ended up with 14 of these!  Good thing I know a lot of dog owners.

I used Create A Critter 2 to create my holiday dog.  He's cut at 3.5 inches, I hid the face cuts and used PK dog faces stamp.

I used paw print ribbon to wrap around the lid...mostly to hide the expiration date of the pickles. LOL

Overall I used three different PK doggie face stamps.  I used a white gel pen on the eyes and a red gel pen on the tongue.  

Personally, I like this doggie face stamp the best!  

 A paw print border punch was used on the red cardstock.

I heat embossed the lid with a stamp I got in the $1 bin at Michaels.  The dog bone is also from Create A Critter 2.


Up next is Jillian!  

See you tomorrow with another new Holiday 2012 project!  Have an awesome day.
Sheila

12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived from Theresa's blog.  You can start the hop from the beginning at Lisa's blog.

It's day 2 of 12 days of fabulous Holiday projects!  Today I made these cute Skittle Treat Toppers.

The treat bags are 1x8 inches, filled with skittles (or M&M's work very well...only M&M's don't last long enough to craft with when my husband is around).  My toppers are from the Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge.  The monkey and the tree are cut at 2.53 inches.  I added some doodles to the monkey with a white gel pen.

I felt like they were a bit plain, so I wrapped twine around.

Up next is Jillian!  

See you tomorrow with another new Holiday 2012 project!  Have an awesome day.
Sheila

Happy Halloween

I have a few more Halloween themed crafts to share.

Here's a wreath I made for my front door.  I used Create A Critter 2 for the spider and the beware sign.  I attached the spider with twine.

Here's a card I sent to say Happy Halloween and Thank you all in one!  Image is by Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps. 

Hope your buckets overfill with candy!  Have an awesome day.

Happy "Owl-a-Ween" Blog Hop

Welcome to the:   Happy "Owl-A-Ween" Blog Hop!

We have some of the very best crafters showcasing their projects using an owl with a Halloween theme! You will see cards, layouts, and altered art projects!  We hope that our projects will inspire you to get crafty!

A grand prize will be sponsored by:  Zannie Berry  http://www.zannieberry.blogspot.com

The grand prize winner will be announced on November 1.  Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some crafters will also be giving away blog candy at their blog hop stops!

To be eligible to win the grand prize, you must visit all of the stops in the blog hop, become a follower of each blog hop (if you are not already), and leave a happy comment on each site! (Some crafters may have their own criteria for the blog candy they are giving away at their blog hop stop.)

Good luck!  Happy scrapping!  Have fun!  Happy Halloween!

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I decorated some XL candy bars to give as gifts for a few special people on Halloween.

I wrapped the candy bar with a a strip of black cardstock that is 18 x 2.5 inches.  The green strip is 6.5 x 2 inches, I used a border punch to make the wholes.  The purple strip is 6.5 x 1.75 inches.  The white strip is 6.5 x 1 inch and stamped with a Stamps of Life stamp in orange ink.  The Owl is from the Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge and is cut at 3 inches.  I doodled around the hat in white and black gen ink pen.  I popped up the white tummy and the orange hat strip with foam tape.  I then attached the owl to the  caredstock with more foam tape, giving it even more dimension.  

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you have an awesome day.


If you get lost along the way, here's the entire blog hop list.


Blog Hop Line Up:

1  Suzanne http://www.zannieberry.blogspot.com/

2 Cathie http://cathiescafe-scraphappy.blogspot.com/

3 Sheila http://2pawprints.blogspot.com  (That's ME!!)

4  Charity http://www.thebookinroom.blogspot.com/   (Up next!)

5 Christine http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/

6 Jenn http://scraphappensembellishit.blogspot.com/  

7 LLuvia  http://sweetbirdmemories.blogspot.com

8 Elecia http://creationsby-kahaulani.blogspot.com/

9 Nancy http://alwaysastorycreationsbynancy.blogspot.com/

10 Vanessa http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/

11 Tara http://www.craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/

12. Shawnee http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com

13. Robin C - http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com

14 Beth ~ http://motherandaughterdesigns.blogspot.com

15 Diana ~ http://daisylovecreations.blogspot.com

16 ClaireR http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com/

17  Anita http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.com

 18 Sarah http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/

19. Melissa http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com/

23. Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com