I got a few more gift packages to give to neighbors or party hostesses done this afternoon so I thought I'd share.
This one holds some gourmet hot chocolate along with some peppermint stick stirrers dipped in chocolate. Yum!
Close up of the tag,
I made the patterned paper for these by using the Warm Winter Wishes tag from PTI's 2008 Holiday Tag Collection set. I created a mask so that I could just stamp the steaming mug and then stamped around them with circles from the Borders & Corners set.
Credits
Stamps: PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection, PTI Borders & Corner - Circle
Paper: PTI Spring Rain, PTI Berry Sorbet, PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI Vintage Cream
Ink: PTI Berry Sorbet, PTI Dark Chocolate, PTI Vintage Cream Other: Fiskars Border Punch, EK Success whale of a punch (circle), Nestabilities, PTI Berry Sorbet Satin Ribbon
And this one just holds lots of yummy candy
Credits
Stamps: PTI Snowfall, PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection
Paper: White, PTI Spring Moss, PTI Berry Sorbet
Ink: PTI Spring Moss, PTI Aqua Mist, PTI Berry Sorbet
Other: PTI Berry Sorbet Satin Ribbon, Acetate, Nestabilities, Cellophane Bag
So the other day I went and took a bunch of pictures of my studio to show you everything I'd done lately but before I got a chance to post them, I went and changed a bunch of stuff... (I got this awesome new piece for the top of my desk too - can't wait to share!!!)
Anyway, here are a few pictures I took the other day so I'll share them but it's different now so I'll have to update in a few days.
So here was the view when you walked in
Some of you may have seen this before but I don't think I ever showed it completely together. The two pieces on the back wall are the 4x4 Ikea Expedit's.
The island is made from the Crop-In-Style cubes, I made my own top by cutting a piece of wood to size, painting it white, and ordering a custom self-healing mat for the top.
Here is the wall that the door is on. The shelving unit on the left is the Making Memories Embellishment Center, the one on the right is actually an over the toilet thing from Target. The embellishment center stores glitter in the top row, small colored embellishments (brads, photo turns, pins, etc.) in the second row, buttons in the 3rd. The 4th is empty, haven't figured out what goes there yet. And then of course the bottom two are holding PTI ribbon. The green canvas is an art project that may one day get done for my living room.
Here's a view of the top of one of the expedits. The ink holder is just one of those wooden napa valley cassette holders (you can only find them on ebay these days). The bottom middle two baskets hold loose ribbon on foam core. In the upper right corner is this guy:
It was such a brilliant idea I thought... I took one of these Ikea boxes and punched a bunch of holes in it. Except, I couldn't punch them because the material was some insane astronaut technology stuff, so I had to drill them... which resulted in shredded box everywhere.... Then I had to go buy the grommets and the guy at the hardware store had no idea what a grommet was... or he did, but he didn't think I did so he kept trying to show me something else. I finally wound up with these but they only had them in brass so I had to spray paint them silver. A day later, I finally had the front of the box assembled then I had to figure out how to attach the dowels to the inside of the box. After trying lots of ideas, I finally decided to make some supports out of polymer clay and super glue them to the inside.
I do not recommend trying one of these yourself :)
This is the die-cut station, it's sitting on another Ikea Expedit, this is the 2x4 one. I still have the old original sizzix machine but it works with all of the nestabilities and cuttlebug embossing folders so I see no reason to upgrade. On the far right is my wishblade. The basket in the middle stores all of my nestabilities and cuttle bug folders and stuff.
Speaking of nestabilities, this is how I store mine:
These are CD holders meant to hold 3 cds. Find them here (did not order mine here, cannot vouch, I happened to have these since college). I took all of the extra pieces out of the case, added some magnetic strips and I was good to go. For the inside piece I glued down a piece of chipboard to give me a flat surface to put the magnetic tape on.
Ok that's it for now, I'll have to do a more detailed post at a later time but let me know if you have any questions!