Cocoa Gift

Give the gift of Cocoa in a creative way. This Snowman is created by using three tin from stampenduos- Thie mini pail, short pail , little pail. the bottom pail is covered in bazzil white paper-the button are pop-dots coated in black flock. the snow flakes on the side are gloss accent coated with mint green glitter(Stampendous) the branches are die cut from my silhouette, but Quickutz has a branch die or two. The snow on the Branches is liquid appliqued. the label on the tin says One scoop of love (the cocoa)

the next tin is also covers with white Bazzil. The mouth is made f mini pop dot covered in black flock. The nose is cut out of orange and puffed up with liquid appliqued and color with orange copic marker. the eye is a pop dot with 1/2 in. circle of white paper colored blue iris and black pupil and a half of 1/2 in circle for eyelid. then the Scarf is made of red and silver shimmer ribbon

The labels on tin says a couple of hugs(marshmallow).

The next tin is the hat. Covered with black bazzil and liquid applique for the snow. the bird is from Making Memories Christmas line. Gems for the holly. The label says And one Kiss.(kisses).

The whole snowman then is misted in Tatter Angels Marshmallow Mist.

Enjoy !!!!!!

Christmas Bells

this card was created using Hero Arts cling stamp. Deja Views Christmas Wishes paper. Colored the bells in with gold and silver smooches and popped up the bells. Used Basic grey pearls for the bell ringers ,the holly's and ribbon are colored in with Copic markers and highlighted with unball white pen. The berries are Mark Richard's rhinestones and the glitter ball are from Mark Richard's also. Finished off with shimmered ribbon.

Carmel Apple

This past weekend my children wanted to make Carmel apples .OK sound like fun. So we made the Caramel from scratch , which was pretty easy. But i should of read the directions at the bottom of the recipe how to prepare the apples if they were store bought. Store bought apple have a very thick coat of wax on them. So the Carmel did stick to well to the apples but it was fun. after making the apples we took all the left over Carmel ,candies,nuts and toffee and mixed it all together and made a very large candy bar.

start of a new 12 days.

Here is some pictures of the new 12 days of Christmas the top is done. working on the inside, hope to be done by the end of the weekend . I used a lot of the same thing as my other 12 day gift box. Making Memories paper, the holly leaves I cut with y silhouette. then cut the print leaves in half and adhere to the green leaves. There is four colors of green leave Ivy, Parakeet, leapfrog, and Fern. the berries are made of pop dots with Red flock and crystal stickles. the bows is 2" wide of Red Kisses paper from Bazzill. with stickles (Crystal ) Then is is misted with marshmallow glimmer mist by Tatter Angels.

Great weekend

took my children to the Scarecrow Fest in St. Charles IL it was a lot of fun a bit cold but they did seem to mind. The was and area to build your own scarecrow, they enjoyed that the most. There where over 100 different scarecrows. The gentleman that twisted balloons. did some really need creations.

win some candy

Paper crafting in Cocoa was a great candy giveaway . includes Belle n Whistles new fall stamps

http://cocoacards.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-candy-time.html

Apple Fest

It was rain on an off on Sat.but day after getting off work my children still wanted to go to Long Grove Apple Fest. I was surprised they wanted to spend the day in the rain. By the time we left the rain stop. On the way we ran into some trouble, first the
the camera battery was dead and the spare was at home,so we went to Walmart for the pocket camera hope the picture come out. then we missed a turn didn't realize 53 has so many turns. Then we get there, which we have never gone to this fest before and there was a five dollar parking fee. NO CASH ON HAND, good thing one of the lots was a bank and the gentleman let my pay for the spot after i got in. Then not knowing the area very well my GAS LIGHT go ON......but after all that the kids had a great time. we waited an hour to buy our brown bag pie it was well worth it. Now i have to wait five days for my picture and hope they come out, spoiled with the digital camera. next weekend to St. Charles for the scarecrow fest. I will be prepared- battery charged........