More Chocolate and Marshmallows

Hi friends! It's my day to share a little inspiration over on the Jaded Blossom blog and I've got a fun little gift giving project. I recently watched a live on YouTube making these altered coffee sleeve treat pouches. I remembered making these back in the day, so decided it was time to make some more.

My first stop was Starbucks, because any excuse to go get coffee, right? I kept my coffee sleeve and gathered a few more from my family, then spent an evening watching football tracing the coffee sleeves onto scraps of patterned paper from Christmas past and cutting them out. I added a little lace to the bottom with some clear tacky glue, and since the glue seeped through the lace a bit, I was able to press in some champagne glass glitter for a touch of gold.

I then pulled out the Poinsettia two step stamping set and picked out some reds and greens to stamp them out. I layered four of the leaves  behind the large poinsettia on pop dots, then accented with some yellow stickles.  The sentiment is from the Hot Cocoa & Marshmallows set and stamped onto a label from the  Label Shape Dies 1 set. I glued this to the top of my coffee sleeve, then got to work filling my cellophane bag.

I stuffed this one with a couple packets of Ghirardelli hot cocoa, a large peppermint chocolate marshmallow, a couple chocolate spoons, and my favorite little white chocolate peppermint Lindor truffles. I tied it up with a bit of ribbon, and then tucked it into the coffee sleeve. Super easy and the perfect little gift for a friend or neighbor

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic day

- Julee

Jaded Blossom Black Friday Release Day 2

Hey Everyone! It's time for the Black Friday Sale & Release over at Jaded Blossom!

Jaded Blossom is releasing a few new items!

Click HERE to check out the new items.

I made two projects with the new items to share today.

First up, since I shared a boy gnome yesterday, I decided to share a girl gnome today. I dressed her up in elf finery from the previously released Gnome Dies: Christmas Add Ons 2, then added some of the hair tendrils from the new Gnome Dies: Hair Add Ons. There's actually a piece to go behind her head for the full head of hair, but since the elf costume ends up being thinner than the base girl gnome, I thought it worked a little better to just layer the tendrils. Otherwise it was big 80's hair for her.  LOL

She's holding a light from the Christmas Add Ons 3 set, and I chose some Christmas light patterned paper, using the Stylized Rectangles for the shape. The sentiment is from Candy Cane Lane and I used the North Pole Sign and accented it with a couple of pieces from the nutcracker costume in Gnome Dies: Christmas Add Ons 3. My Copic color palette was:

Greens: YG05, YG61. YG63, YG67

Reds: R27, $37, R59

Skin: E01, E51, E000

Beard: W1, W3, W5

Boots: E31, E33, E35

Hair: yellow cardstock with Y00, Y21, and Y23

For my second project, I decided to use the new Build a Booth: Gingerbread House Add On to decorate the previously released Gable Box. I've been wanting the Gable Box forever, and couldn't wait to use it. The box is pretty straight forward, I used red, green, white, and kraft cardstock to cut my pieces. I added a layer to the front that was embossed with a wood grain and inked with kraft ink, then accented with the wreath die from the Gnome Dies: Christmas Add Ons 3 set.  One of the rectangles in the Card Mat Dies is the perfect size to cover the sides of the box, so I chose a scalloped patterned paper for the sides of the house, then accented with a window. I finished off with a gold bow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful holiday. Don't forget we also have our Black Friday sale going on!

Your purchase earns you tickets! 

 Also the return of the Golden Ticket

Our design team has made some wonderful projects using the new items! Make sure to check them all out. Links below..  

Jamie

Rosemary

Cynthia

Cindy

Julee

Nicole

Lee-Ann