Container Madness!!

The Challenge that I gave to my team members last month was Craft Sale related.  I gave each one of them an empty container from the (off brand) Crystal Light drinks and told them to decorate it to market it at a craft sale.  They had to fill it and price it.
I showed them this one that I had made and Gracie gave one to her teacher on the first day of school

As my friend, Rachel, would say - this is a TRASH of TREASURE.  Do you throw away the empty containers or do you repurpose them??  Inside this one is a sleeve of 6 Lindor Truffles.  The leaves are from the BOTANICAL BUILDER FRAMELITS

Here is what the girls came up with and I love ALL of them!! I think they did a fabulous job!!

Carla decorated her container with a Baby theme using the COOKIE CUTTER CHRISTMAS BUNDLE.  Carla is going to be a grandma again so she filled this with candy treats for her daughter to pass out when she got visitors at the hospital!  Clever idea!!
Donne went the elegant route. Because it was a craft sale item I did not limit them to using only Stampin' Up! products, so Donne chose this elegant die and cut it from gold foil and backed it with black.  Donne filled her container with a sleeve of gold wrapped Hershey Nuggets.

Inez chose a fall theme for her container and used the VINTAGE LEAVES stamp set and Framelits. Her Designer Paper is from the REGALS PAPER STACK (she used Rich Razzleberry! a perfect color for the fall leaves.  Inez filled her container with a yummy homemade mix of candies and crackers.
Paula went with a snowman Theme for her container.  She used the SNOW PLACE stamp set and Framelits and filled it with a sleeve that held 3 K-Cups of hot chocolate.

Sue went with a beautiful Christmas theme for her container.  The band of Designer Paper is from WARMTH AND CHEER and backed with Real Red Card Stock.  She used the very cool pines from the PRETTY PINES THINLITS DIES using several different shades of our green card stock, and the cute bells from the CHRISTMAS MAGIC Stamp Set, stamped with Stazon Black Ink onto GOLD FOIL and hand cut out.

The Santa was a last minute idea on my part because I found him in my stash from last year and felt he needed a home. He is on a clear Crystal Light container and would be darling filled with the red and white peppermint puff candies. (I didn't have any in the house or I would have filled it)

These last two are ones I made, feeling guilty that I didn't make up a second idea.  Especially when I asked my team to make theirs.  My friend Donne had these cute little leaf treats at our dinner plates in September

and I thought they were so cute that I made some up for the craft sales.  The leaves I purchased were on a garland strand and they also had the large pinecone and pumpkin on that strand so I decided to not let them go to waste.  All I did was add a little bow using the LINEN THREAD and some EMERALD ENVY BAKERS TWINE  The leaves on the front are from watercolor paper that I colored in Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Pear Pizzazz and Watermelon Wonder.  A splash of Gold Wink Of Stella gives it a shimmery look.  Then I cut them out using the VINTAGE LEAVES FRAMELITS.  I punched out Soft Suede Acorns using the ACORN PUNCH, them with a retired embossing folder. and gave them a GOLD GLIMMER topper.  I cut the 5/8" BURLAP RIBBON in half for a narrower look and it also gives it a more rustic feel with the frayed edges.  I filled my containers with mini Tootsie Rolls and I am planning to pass them out to our neighbors at Halloween.

What will you do with your empty containers??

Thanks for stopping by!

Christi

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Envelope Punch Board

Do you ever find a roll of heavy duty kraft style paper in the center of your wrapping paper?  I'm not talking about the tube, but some of the paper I purchase at the local dollar store has this piece of rolled up heavy duty paper in the center.

I laid it out and ironed it flat

And guess what I made with it??

Envelopes!! yeah - heavy duty "Crumb Cake" colored envelopes!!

I even made some cute liners for them using the video tutorial!  SWEET!!  I guess my gal pal, Rachel, would call this "Trash or Treasure"

I just love my ENVELOPE PUNCH BOARD!! #133774 only $19.95

Check out the how-to video here. This video will even show you how you can make pretty liners for your envelopes!!

There is so much more to do with this amazing tool than make envelopes.  There's boxes and treat holders, bows just to name a few, but if all you did was buy it for making envelopes you would have spent your money well!!  Check out this link to youtube

Thanks for stopping by!
Christi







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Repurposed Packaging

This is another item that you will see at the March 8th Craft Sale at Hudsonville High School.  I hope to see you there.

I have made these before with a Christmas theme and they sold very well.  I had so many empty Red Line Sticky Strip packages left over (I rarely throw stuff out if I think I can repurpose it) and with graduation right around the corner with a craft sale coming up I thought it would be perfect.

On the back side I added a little envelope that I made using the PUNCH BOARD so that this could hold a gift card - the perfect gift for a graduate.

Sorry about the hazy photo the light was coming through the blinds

So once again here are the details for the Craft Sale:
WHERE: Hudsonville High School, 5037 32nd Ave, Hudsonville
WHEN: Saturday, March 8
TIME: 10am to 2pm
WHO: this craft sale benefits the Hudsonville High School Orchestra.  If we don't do well then we will no longer participate so it is up to you to come (at least) check us out

Let me know if you saw my blog post, Facebook post or Pinterest and I will have a small gift for you.

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Trash or Treasure

One item I rely on all the time is the Terrifically Tacky Tape

especially when putting together boxes and so forth.

I can't even count how many of these packages I have thrown out

without thinking, when one day I looked at it in a new light and

wondered what I could use it for.

TADA!! One of Melissa's favorite candies is the Reese's Peanut Butter

cups so I thought this would be another perfect little gift to treat

Melissa in her birthday celebration month.

The one on the right holds some YORK pieces along with 

a few white MandM's and they totally sold out at the craft sales!!

Thanks For Stopping By!

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Recycle / Reuse

Early last Spring I purchased these cool towers of bright colored tea lights

for the purpose of making these tea light “suckers” for a craft sale

I saw this cute idea on Dawn Griffiths blog – thanks Dawn! and she made them with a Christmasy theme, and with a different stamp, but I liked the variety of bright spring colors and thought how cute this would be for a bridal shower treat or for our ladies retreat. All we would need to do is add a Bible verse to the back. In fact, one lady bought several of these at the craft sale for that very reason. She was going to give them to her Bible study group at their last meeting.

Well, I had several left over tea lights so when Glenda demonstrated how we can use our Big Shot to cut out Aluminum Flashing, and she showed us this cute tea light flower made from the aluminum flashing and the Flower Folds Bigz Die

Glenda showed us how to "step it up" by embossing them using Stampin’ Ups! great embossing folders, put them together with my glue dots, added the colorful tea lights and WHEEEEE!! Another cool idea for the craft sales. Thanks Glenda for all your great ideas!! I’m a little preferential to the polka dot one. Which one do you like?

OK – there are a LOT of tea lights in these tubes and I still have some left over, BUT…I got to thinking what would I do with the empty tubes…can’t throw anything out – right!?

Recycle / Reuse

The more I looked at the tubes sitting there I thought how cute it would be if I filled them with candy like you see in the stores at Christmas time, but who wants to wait for Christmas to get candy? So I found some of my retired Halloween Designer Paper and wrapped the bottom to hide the label (that refused to cooperate) and some stickers leftover from a previous craft sale project

Recycle / Reuse,

and now I have a fun treat for my grandkids when they come trick or treating. I wonder if it will fit in their trick-or-treat bag? tehe

I used our new 2 3/8” Scallop Circle Punch and the 1 3/4” Circle Punch to back up my cute Halloween stickers, some Linen Thread and 5/8” Black grosgrain ribbon pulled it all together.

So For Now…

Happy Halloween!!'

Christi

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Trash or Treasure

These are the little containers that we receive our buttons and other great accessories in from Stampin’ Up! Look at all the fun new buttons that have come out recently with the new Catalog and Idea Book

So, what to do with the containers when they are empty? I just didn’t have the heart to throw them away. Click here to see see what my friend Rachel did with her empty containers.

Saw this idea on the Stampin’ Connection and thought it would be perfect for the craft sales with minimal cost.

Now just to figure out what to put in them. If you have any ideas please let me know.

I just love the new Two Step Owl Punch, don’t you? I'm sure you will be seeing a LOT of these cute owls in the future.

So For Now…

Happy Stamping!!

Christi

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Trash or Treasure

I’m working on more graduation cakes today so I will post those pictures later.  Today I thought I would share a Trash or Treasure posting.  During Spring break when I had the school age kids here we took these empty gravy jars and some retired rub ons and created these flower jars for the kids when they picked their beautiful flowers during the summer time. Added some pebbles I had on hand from the dollar store and ‘Voila – they have some cute flower jars.
   
During our walk this week the little girls were thrilled to find their favorite flowers – the dandelions still scattered here and there.

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Trash or Treasure

When I purchased this 12 pack of mini gel pens to use for the little post-it note holders, I immediately thought, “I can’t throw this away, I’m sure I can find some use for the empty box. Sure enough – I found this wonderful poem on Jackie Bolhuis’ blog. You can check out her sight here.

Happy Stamping - Christi

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Trash or Treasure

I had bought these pine cones several years ago for a fall display. When I first bought them they smelled of cinnamon and filled the house with wonderful fragrance. Why I hung on to them all these years I’ll never know, but now I am glad that I did because the girls had so much fun making these fun pinecone people. It is hard to see but we actually gold embossed the edges of the pinecones. And guess what? When I heated up the embossing powder, they smelled like – CINNAMON! This is my granddaughter Gracie on the right and one of my little day care girls.

Happy Stamping - Christi

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Trash or Treasure

My Husband, Dale, loves to drink the Starbucks Mocha Iced Coffee. I saw some ideas to recycle these on SCS but this one is my favorite. So I fill 2 bottles with a homemade hot chocolate mix, 1 bottle has mini marshmallows and the other has peppermint sticks. Decorate the jars and box, add a cute poem, and you have a great teacher gift.




Here are some individual ones, and you can see the poem as well.

RECIPE:

HOT CHOCOLATE MIX:
1 pound Nestle Quick

1 pound powdered sugar

8 1/2 Cups Dry Milk

1 1/2 Cup Coffee Mate Creamer

*do not use off brands of chocolate or creamer

Use 1/4C for each serving

Makes 68 servings (16 Cups)

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Trash or Treasure

Well, I would definitely say “Treasure” when the container is full but what about when it is empty? (No I did not eat ALL the chocolate covered raisins – I used them for the craft sales) One day recently I took my little day care girl to a play group and one of the games they had there was the one where you drop clothes pins in a jar. I remember playing this when I was a little girl, so I thought what a good way to reuse the empty jug. The labels were too hard to get off so we covered them up. I let her pick out the paper she wanted on it and then gave her some princess stickers we had on hand for craft time and she put them wherever she wanted. When she was done putting it together we had a fun game to play.

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