It's Paper Pumpkin to my rescue once again this week at MPC1215 - Season of Giving!
I suddenly realized it'd be real nice to have a quick chocolate treat for our neighbor's grandson, who graciously agreed to help us out - he came over and let out all our dogs for a potty break and a snuggle so we could stay out late at a fun Christmas party!  That SO deserves a reward, and I of course happen to have an excess of Christmas kisses on hand just now, lol.  A quick pleated treat bag converted from our lovely Sketched Dots Treat Bag, and a cute tag to clip on from the awesome Mistletoe & Holly Paper Pumpkin, and we're all set!  Hugs and doggy kisses all 'round!
See you at the challenge!
Mistletoe & Holly Paper Pumpkin; plus, Sketched Dots Tag A Bag; Scallop Tag Topper & PL Corner Rounder Punches; Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon; Snowflake Elements; Tiny Clothespin; Hershey's Kisses!

So what do you think of this cute New Year's treat from last night's Flip Calendar Class?  I totally CASE'd it from Laura Zaraza's Laura Z Stamps and my most favorite thing is how it uses our new Scalloped Tag Punch!  Woo-hoo!  I made up my measurements to hold one Hershey Nugget, but you could make it longer and stack two or more on top of each other.
I cut a 2" x 4" strip from the Silver Foil sheets, and scored on the long edge at 1 1/2" and 2 1/2".  Then I punched both ends with the Scallop Tag Punch, and tied closed with Silver Ribbon!  Too easy!
Here are the Flip Calendar Instructions from class as well!

I know everyone has been seeing the adorable little coffee cups out on the blogs - I couldn't help but love them!  They seemed like the perfect accessory for our Food Gifts class treats last night, too - just stuffed with Lindt chocolates!  So fun!
Here are the Food Gift class instructions - two-pager this time, 7 projects and lots of helpful hints, lol!
Also, here's a recipe sheet for tonight's Christmas Toffee Biscuits, adapted from my awesome upline Julie U!  I had to make it my own, but I'll never forget the day I first had this toffee at her house - total bliss!
4 oz Hot Cups w/lids, Webstaurant.com; Season of Style DSP; 5/8" Early Espresso Satin Ribbon; Frosted Finishes embellishments; 1/8" Silver Ribbon.

Hope you'll come visit me - I'll be setting up a "Handmade by Heather" booth at Mountainview Presbyterian's 23rd Annual Holiday Gift & Mission Marketplace - can't wait to see you there!  Hope I'm right in front of the cinnamon rolls again, lol!
Come for the food, come for the fun, come for the fabulous shopping - they bring it all in one place, with style and love!
This year's Boutique is Friday, Nov 22, 9 am to 5 pm, and Saturday, Nov 23, 9 am to 3 pm.
Come get your cinnamon rolls for Thanksgiving! (Click on the picture for a printable flyer!)

November 20-December 2, 2013
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Well, I don't know about you guys, but we're growing MY church the old-fashioned way - having lots of babies!  We recently welcomed a new curate, and his wife is due early November - time for a party!  In true Episcopal fashion, we like to do it up "right," so I of COURSE volunteered to do favors again - yay!  Ever since Max & Ellie, I've had another baby shower favor idea burning a hole in my brain, and this was my chance!  How cute is it to turn one of our classic "nugget jar" favors into a baby bottle??  After a week or so of trying to make a punch art nipple (I really tried to not say "nipple" on my blog, I swear), I ended up doing the top by doctoring up a baby bottle clip art I found, and then sizing it to fit our jars.  For those wanting to try this themselves, here's a printable of those tops - 30 per sheet, ready to cut out!  It worked out to 143 baby bottles - it was like a baby ward around here!
Perfectly Preserved (retired) stamp set; Cannery Set framelits; Whisper White & Pretty in Pink (retired) CS; every scrap of retired DSP in any pink I have; Basic Black & Strawberry Slush inks; Oval, 7/8" Circle & 1 1/4" Scallop Circle punches; Pink Perle Cotton.

In keeping with all things "flippin'," I had one last feature of the thinlet card sets that I didn't get to squeeze into the class - so I squeezed it onto a SUPER simple treat (we always have a bite of chocolate, right??)  The Label Card thinlet set features two 3-D banner shapes, that come all scored and ready for adding just the right touch of extra dimension to your projects.  In this case, I did a simple DSP and ribbon wrap on a Ghirardelli Square, and then added a popped-up banner on top, with a "thx" from the Circle Card thinlet set.  I had to show it ALL for this class!  The curvy banner is totally cool, too - perfect for holiday cards!
Here are tonight's Flip Class Instructions as well!
Label Card & Circle Card thinlets; Modern Medley DSP; Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon; Very Vanilla & Cherry Cobbler CS.

OK, I'm not too proud to admit that this month's class treat was totally from a kit!  While at Convention 2013, I was SO lucky to receive one of the Simply Created Real Red Goodie Gear kits - it was just too tempting to not save it to share with you all at our card class!  The kit is amazing - 10 little treat bags, 10 little Crumb Cake tags (smaller than the Chalk Talk tag, fyi), 10 little Island Indigo Baker's Twine ties, beaucoup Real Red stripey tape, and 10 die cut little banners ready for stamping, along with the adorable Oh Goodie stamp set.  15 minutes and a bag of kisses later, we were all set!  These kits are a screaming sweet deal!
Here are tonight's Christmas in August class instructions as well!

Fellow parishioners already know - we have some pretty big news at St Barnabas this summer - our beloved Rev. Erika has two little ones on the way - EEEEE!  As soon as I heard about the plans for a baby(-ies!) shower, I jumped in and begged to do the party favors - I don't get to do enough of those now that we're out of elementary school and in grouchy middle-school, gr.
So today was R&D for that - what do you think?  I had thought I would just do a take on the cute Easter favors I did recently, but then I remembered some cute onesie cards I did a while ago for someone's thank you's.  I thought, can I miniaturize that?  Turns out I can!  Pretty sure I'll be doing the onesie one, half green and half purple, for variety.  Let cuteness abound!
Patterned Occasions stamp set; Apricot Appeal (retired), Certainly Celery (about to retire) and Almost Amethyst (retired) CS; Two Tags die; Word Window punch.