Papertrey Ink Make it Monday #267 Assembly Line Card Making

This week's technique for the Make it Monday challenge involves assembly line card making.  Laurie has a wonderful video demonstrating how to make duplicate cards easily.  Check it out here. I needed to make several items for our upcoming church craft and bake sale.  So I decided to use Laurie's tips to make some Elf treats using PTI's Dress up Dolls: Elves.

I got the bags from the Dollar Tree.  I filled them with 12 kisses and added the topper printed out on my computer using Georgia Pacific cardstock.    I stapled the bags shut then used my ATG to attach the toppers to my bag.  I found it is easiest to attach the back first then fold the front over and attach last.

I got the cute little poem from My Creative Corner.    The poem reads:
With Little elf eyes watching you,
There's not a lot that Santa misses,
 So to help you be good today,
Here's a bunch of sweet Elf kisses.

 I embossed the bottom of the treat topper with little an X border to reinforce the kiss theme. 

My son turns 13 on Thursday and he is big into "potty humor" so I had to do a boy version for him.

I got the poem from Paper Crafts by Candace.  The poem reads:
I hear you've been naughty,
So listen, here's the scoop.
All you get for Christmas,
is this bag of Elf Poop!

I didn't think an X border was appropriate here so I just did diagonal slashes.

I got the color ideas from Kay Miller.   She made some adorable projects using these elves.  Check them out here.  I used Prismacolor pencils blended with Gamsol.  I am totally amazed at how easily the Gamsol blended away the pencil lines.  It made coloring very enjoyable!  The only thing I found difficult was doing the little stripes on the tights.  I have since bought a smaller blending stump so that should make blending easier for future projects.  I goofed when I was coloring so I have a few other versions to share.  Oh and I stamped the images on the little insert sheet that tells the color names of the cardstocks.  It's a little thinner than the Stamper's Select white I usually use but for this project I didn't want so many layers of thick cardstock so those inserts worked perfectly!

I added some white iridescent Stickles to the pom pom on the hat.

I borrowed a gold gel pen from my daughter to add some sparkle to the buckle, bottom of the girl's dress and buttons.   I apologize for the bad photos...I should have taken them in the daylight but I didn't finish them up until it got dark and would miss the deadline for the challenge if I waited.

I got these dress up dolls for my daughter to play with. She is loving coloring in the images but I have to say I am loving them too!   They have soo many cute outfits!  If these sell well I will do another version for the Spring craft show.  They have a cute little bunny outfit for the dolls to dress up in!   

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI Dress Up Dolls: Elves Stamp Set	Prismacolor Pencils	Inky Antics Gamsol Coloring Kit

Thanks for stopping by! Please come back again! I will be sharing a few more treats I made up for my craft show later this week.

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Christmas Candy Treats: Rudolph

As I type these words I'm sitting here totally amazed it is November!  Every year the days seem to fly by and Christmas comes way too fast!   Our church is having a craft and bake show on November 19th.  So I have been busy making items for this as I do every year.  This year though I thought I would share my creations on my blog.  I do hope I can inspire you to make some crafty goodies for Christmas this year.  But...shh...I am getting older and it seems sometimes I have a hard time remembering what I made in the past!  Thus if I put it on my blog I can refer to it next year to jog my memory....hopefully!

A friend of mine was explaining how she saw these candy bars wrapped to look like Rudolph on the internet but she couldn't remember where she saw them.  So I headed to Pinterest and found these adorable candy bar wrappers made by Ally Egas.  Click HERE for more info.  So went about duplicating here treats with supplies I had around the house.

These went together fairly quickly and were very inexpensive. Any snack sized candy bar would work.  I did find the Kit Kats are a bit wider then the Cookies and Cream so keep this in mind when cutting your paper.   I used brown wrapping paper to wrap around the candy bars.  I used a very old Sizzix leaf die for the antlers.  The eyes are common googly eyes.  The nose is a piece of red glittered paper punched with a Creative Memories circle punch adhered with foam tape for some dimension.  I stamped the bow from PTI's bells and boughs stamp set using Momento Cottage Ivy ink.  Then used a Copic marker to draw the line wrapping around the candy bar to form a collar so to speak.  A little bit of gold Stickles added to the center of the bow finishes this treat.  It would be perfect for stocking stuffers!

Oh and just a tip.  The hardest part of assembly are the antlers since my leaf had an itty bitty stem.  It is easier to apply a glue dot to the leaf stems and add them to the candy wrapper prior to applying to the candy bar.  I also added a piece of clear tape on the inside across both antlers (stems) to secure well.  I lined up the antlers by centering them with the bow I had stamped previously.

I hope this gets you in the gift making mood!  I have several more ideas so stay tuned for them! 

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