Here's a shout-out to my peeps on the East Coast who are experiencing a winter wonderland. Thought it would be a good time to share a scrapbook layout featuring snowflakes. Specifically, how to make your own snowflakes using other punches. I love using tools in unintended ways!
(I miss those chubby cheeks!)
Tutorials and detail pics can be found here at Fiskars.
There isn't much time to transition from one holiday to the next ... it's time for New Year's Eve! Here are some party ideas I came up with for Fiskars, also including individual confetti packets, napkins, and stemmed glass markers.
Best wishes for a wonderful 2011! =)
Update: my 2012 New Year's Eve party can be viewed here.
I couldn't come up with a Christmas photo I was happy with this year. Just seemed to be the same old photos I've done before. It was very frustrating.
Then one day Owen came downstairs dressed in Kaylen's Santa dress, a backwards vampire collar, latex gloves, a Santa hat, and his try at a paper mustache and beard taped to his face. His exact quote was .... do I look like Santa or what?!
So I cut out a more realistic mustache and beard for him that, you know, had a mustache that went *below* the nose. (I love this kid.) Which reminded me of the mustache sticks I made for his Mario party this summer.
A light bulb went off (or I guess it would be turned on?). I combined the two and came up with Santa mustache sticks. I love the personality props bring out =).
I doubt I'll be back before Christmas so ... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I've been wanting to try Bakerella's cake pops that I am seeing everywhere and thought adding some to teacher gifts would be a good excuse! I did them kind of "upside-down" as I envisioned adding little tags and plopping them down individually onto desks (like in the front office) to stand up on their own.
I used red M&M's for the noses and little pearl sprinkles with food marker for eyes. I have to admit these are kind of addictive to make ... and eat. What a fun way to eat a bite of cake without a mess.
I wrapped them in lollipop bags and cinched close with a brown chenille stem. I formed a kind of "heart" at each end and them flattened them and twisted to secure to form simple antlers. I twisted one onto each of the gift bags for the teachers using the antlers without realizing this would make the bag fall right over. So I just added another pop inside to balance it out. Twice as yummy I guess!
This is the last week of school for us before winter break, so I've now made my last school lunch of 2010. Had to go out in holiday style of course. I had grand plans of all kinds of creative things, but with the reality of time, I went super simple. And I'm always happiest when I do.
First up is a snowman themed lunch. I cut their sandwiches into sealed circles by accident. I couldn't find a circle cutter the right size so I grabbed a mug with a lip that curves out. So when I cut with it, it automatically sealed the two pieces of bread together. Happy accident. I gave him raisin features glued on with peanut butter, and of course a carrot nose. Another compartment is full of more "noses" on top of grapes, and the last is a marshmallow snowman on a bed of pistachios. The pistachios have no significance here, other than my kids really like them =). My kids are obsessed with making these snowmen, and I'm sure they are a classic but here's what we do ... spear three marshmallows with a pretzel stick, break another pretzel in half for the arms, and draw on features with food markers.
The gingerbread lunch is one the kids have been asking for for quite a while, ever since I bought the cutter. He is made from what I call the Lazy Mom Grilled Cheese. I toast two pieces of bread, put a slice of cheese in between and microwave for 10 seconds to melt. I used a gingerbread man cutter and added a few raisins. Then I have hollies and berries for the fruit and veggie. Grapes for the berries and sliced cucumbers cut around the edges with a small circle for points.
By the way, since I am always cutting things up for their lunches, I keep all of the "scraps" leftover and save them to add to their afternoon snack. Nothing goes to waste.
I hope to find time to post a little more holiday inspiration soon...
Every year I say I'm going to make gift tags, and then with the craziness of the holidays comes the shedding of the to-do list with things like this among the first casualties. So I've learned my lesson and come up with some *very* simple tags I love. Doing "simple" can be tricky. The key here is going fairly monochromatic to keep it simple chic instead of simple boring. Have the punched shape rest on or going off the edge of the tag to first of all keep it out of the way, and secondly to add style. Find out all of the details on these tags over at Fiskars.
When decorating for a season or holiday, I often forget about the table. So I came up with some ideas to add lots of warm texture for winter here at Fiskars.
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