Wildflower Seed Paper Mini Event + Giveaways

Welcome to the Wildflower Seed Paper Mini Event!  This post is sponsored by:

Botanical Paperworks

Paper Sweeties

Nicecrane Designs

The Cutting Cafe

I get to offer you a giveaway from each one and I have a giveaway, too!

 I love the seed paper - how cool that you can give paper to a friend that can be planted and will actually grow flowers and herbs!  First up is a different take on the seed paper project I posted earlier.  This Wildflower Thank You also features one of the seed packet cut files from The Cutting Cafe and stamps from Paper Sweeties.

The wildflower seed paper is cut into butterfly shapes.

How about planting hopes and dreams and watching them grow?

This packet, that features an image from Incredible Little Girls from  Nicecrane Designs (colored with Copics) and stamps from Paper Sweeties,  provides strips of wildflower seed paper.  

The idea is for the recipient to write hopes and dreams on the strips, plant them, and watch them grow!  I think this would be a wonderful idea as a party favor or a "just because" to someone special.

Along that same idea is the next project about growing your fortune!

This cute take out box is a new cut file from The Cutting Cafe.  It will hold two fortune cookies.  I stamped a sentiment from Paper Sweeties on the strip.  Isn't this a great idea for a party favor?  The last project is designed around a vintage image that I found on Etsy.  

The glassine bag is stapled at the bottom, so it doesn't fall out.  Paper Sweeties stamps decorate the bag.

The wildflower paper is cut into flower shapes.  

Now, for the giveaways!!

Botanical Paperworks sent me five sample packs to giveaway!

Paper Sweeties is offering; you a $20 gift certificate!

The Cutting Cafe is giving away any two sets of your choice!

Nicecrane Designs is giving away any two sets of your choice!

Thank you so much to all of these for their generosity!!

My giveaway is a packet of wildflower seed paper and two butterflies!

Just leave me a comment that you would like to win (you can say any one of these or all) and I'll put your name in the random drawings.  Winners will be announced Thursday evening.


I've also set up the vintage garden girl as a free pdf for you to download.

If you would like to download her, click here:  garden girl invite 

So glad you came by and have a wonderful week!

Paper Sweeties June Release

Paper Sweeties June Release Sneak Peaks continue!  We've got a wedding theme for June, but as you may have seen yesterday with my Color Your Own Paper Dolls notecards , they can be very versatile.

I printed this cone onto textured cardstock and then scalloped the top.  Added a silver banner (the With Love sentiment is from the new Best Wishes set) to the side and a tag (using the small frame and postmark cancellation images from the new Love set) to the top.  This could certainly be a wedding favor, but it could also hold a little birthday or gift for a friend. Or your mom or sister...

This reminds me of the tiny schueltutes I used to make for every first day of school for my students. I would talk about (and show pictures) of the German custom.

Parents fill a huge schueltute and leave it in the cloak closet for their child on the first day of school.  I made little ones - usually started with a party hat and added tissue to the top.  I filled it with pencils, erasers, little trinkets and treats.  It would be on their desk when they arrived at school.  They were a big hit!

Visit the Paper Sweeties blog for other June Release Sneak Peeks.

Supplies

gift cone pattern    |   butterfly punch

silver ink    |    crepe paper sheet

A Year in Review: My Time Made Easy

As I said yesterday:  Love.  This.  (Bloomin' Wonderful) Template.  And this little party favor or party cracker is one of the reasons why!

This is two Bloomin' Wonderful templates from the My Time Made Easy May release - one slipped inside the other.  Again, this is at 60 percent the template's normal size.  I simply rolled one a tiny bit tighter than the other so it would easily slip inside.  That makes the little cracker perfect:  just slide out one end.  No destroying the pretty creation to get at what's inside...  Here is a shot showing one side part way out:

And all the way:

I thought you might want to see an end shot:

Here you can see the black paper I printed on the other side of the pink.  These are both from the Serenity Pretty Impressions paper.  How about one more project using the same papers and that darling butterfly?

The butterfly is from the Bloom Builders Cut File.  The heart was cut using the Flag Em' Cut File.    This party favor clip is also a magnet.  I put a little magnet on the back of the clothespin. 

Easy and cute!  I put my daughter's name on it.  We'll be seeing her soon and I just imagine I'll have a little something to slip inside the glassine bag!

There is a lot of inspiration to enjoy today:

Lauren Meader
Tangii Crane

Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Pattie Goldman

Lisa Kind

Farida Rone
Linda Hammerton

Lori Kalus
Mara Campbell

Kimberly Morrow

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Valentines and Animals at Craft Us Crazy!

Hi, there!  It's the grand re-opening of Craft Us Crazy!  The theme is Valentines/Love and/or Animals.  Okay, that makes it pretty easy to link up your creation.   Our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy.com. 

The prize is a $10 gift certificate for items of the winner's choice!

I just love old stuff and I adore rocking horses!  We keep a rocking horse in our library that Lauren's grandpa made for her when she was little.  This rocking horse is based on a 1940s nutcup party favor. 

Above is the back side.  You can see I slipped in a bag of M&Ms instead of nuts.  Just used plastic wrap tied with ribbon.   I love the smell of M&Ms when I open the bag...is that a childhood thing?  

I'm sharing the template below that I (with my husband's help) put together to create the rocking horse.  You can click and save the image below.  I'm not sure (maybe someone can tell me) if the scan is the right size.  My horse is sized at about 5" long at the rockers.  Of course, it could be made bigger - any smaller and it might be tough to get goodies inside!

Okay, don't laugh!  It's a litte rough, but it will do the job!  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to go by Craft Us Crazy to see the other DT inspiration!

Box Time at The Cutting Cafe

Regina has asked us to use one of her boxes this week for the inspiration at The Cutting Cafe blog.  Trust me, she has a lot to choose from!  I've had my mom and dad's 50th Anniversary party on my mind and when I saw the Tic Tac box, I thought it would make a perfect party favor. 

The tic tac box comes in two forms - one a type of wrap around and one a box with a lid.  I want to keep this fairly simple, since quite a few will need to be made. 

 Be sure to check out the box selection at The Cutting Cafe and the inspiration at The Cutting Cafe blog.  Regina will have pics up Wednesday evening. 

Pixie Dust Tea Party Favor

Hi, everybody!  I have another project to reveal for the October kit by Pixie Dust Paperie.  I love tea!  Most days, I have it in the morning and in the afternoon, too!  I come home, start up the tea kettle, and cozy up in the library with a great book.  And even though my daughter is in her own house in another state, I know she's doing the same thing at about the same time. As she's gotten older, she's gone more for the green tea type, while I've stuck with the strong Irish black tea.  A tea party is on my agenda...not exactly sure when, but soon.  I thought the Maya Road kraft journal cards would make a perfect mini book as a favor for the tea party.  They needed to be easy to create, but also cute.  I had a few stickers and scraps left from the pretty papers, so I used those as accents for some of my favorite sayings about tea.  The first one by Eleanor Roosevelt is my all-time favorite.  (And I think it's so true!) 

And here's a bonus idea for the journal cards (especially the ones with the pretty thick black frames):  Halloween treat tags!  Just stamp and add ribbon. 

 Pretty easy, but frightfully cute!