TCPTuesday {Signed, Sealed, and delivered}

Hello and welcome back to my blog.  I always love when you stop by. Today I have a handmade gifty, complete with pretty packaging for the December TCP Tuesday challenge. 
I was inspired by some felt ornaments I saw at Target last week. I almost picked one or two up and then I said....."hey, I can make that!". 
Don't be scared. I'm a simple girl and let's be honest.....IT'S CRUNCH TIME!!! I don't need to make anything that is going to take forever, I can keep it simple AND still make it CUTE. 

I created this beautiful felt Christmas Tree ornament all from an assortment of TCP Cut Ups! Let me show you.

1. Choose the dies, you want to use. I wanted to make a Christmas Tree, so I pulled out the TCP Pennant Cutups. The other dies I used are also from TCP-Icing, and Pinwheel (for the star). 

2. Using felt, go ahead and cut out all your pieces. I used two shades of green felt. Check out TCP Felt Selection HERE. I hand cut the tree trunk and then pulled out a few buttons and sequins for my embellies. 

3. I use fabric glue to attach my felt pieces to the felt triangle. 

4. Hand sew on your buttons, to be sure they are nice and secure. 

5. Turn your tree over and add LOTS Of double sided tape to cover the whole back. I used scor-tape. I also added a silver cord to the top, so I had something to hang my ornament on to the real tree with. 

6. Attach the straight edged pennant piece to the scalloped edged pennant piece. You can leave the ornament as is, or add a few other embelliments to the top like I did. I decided it needed some bling, so I added some sequins and a silver glitter star to the top. 

Here is a closer look at the finished product. 

I needed to figure out a way to give the gifty. I found some of these brown organza bags in my stash. I love that it's a bit see-through, but you still can't tell exactly what is inside. All it needed was a pretty coordinating tag to dress it up. 

To make my tag, I pulled out my newly purchased Topper Cutups. It is seriously awesome that you can make any sized tag with this set of dies. I cut a piece of Factory Green cs to 2.5 x 5 inches and used the cutups to create my decorative edges. 

 I dressed up my tag even more with a glittery silver Snowflake.

And the bottom with the Holiday Topper Cutups and a stamp from the newly released, Believe stamp set. 

SO there you have it. A fairly simple gifty you can make for any friend, co-worker or neighbor. Now to get busy....I've got 6 more of these to make, I decided. 

Here are the Deets. We Hope you'll play along. 

1. The First Tuesday of the Month I will post a challenge on this blog. That’s right! Here!
   The challenge will also be posted on our Splitcoaststampers forum and on our Facebook page
2. If you want to play along you just upload your design right here on this page using the InLinkz button. (The challenge button will be posted on the right hand column of this blog so you don’t have to search around)
   If you want to display your pretties on Splitcoaststampers using keyword TCPTUESDec13. But, only entries uploaded to the Inlinkz button will be considered for Swanky Stamper
3. The Challenge will be a month-long challenge and you can play as many times as you like during that month.
4. Cards and projects must have at least one Cat’s Pajamas Stamp or CutUps die in the project.
5. On the First Monday of the Month a winner will be chosen from the previous challenge and crowned Swanky Stamper.
6. The Swanky Stamper will not only be acknowledged as the Swankiest Stamper for that month, but will also receive some of the stamps from our next release and get to play along with us at our Pajamas Party and Blog Hop. AND… They’ll even get a special spot in the Gallery highlighting the project that won them the gig AND as snazzy badge to display on their blog.
7. The winner will be announced the First Monday of the month on Splitcoaststampers, Facebook page and this Blog

Have a great Tuesday!

Reverse Confetti December Blog Hop

**if you are looking for my Sweet Sunday Sketch Card, Please Scroll Down**

Eight is Great! That's our motto. Yep.....it's December 8th, so that means it's time for some blog hopppin' with Reverse Confetti.  Last month’s release was full of holiday magic as well as some gorgeous everyday sentiments. As we look forward to the holidays, it’s now time to start thinking of those small gifts, tags, treats, or just sweet notes of encouragement to spread the “Merry” to our friends, family and coworkers. 

The Confetti Crew and a few other pals have designed some great cards and projects to give you just the creative spark you’ll need to make some of your very own RC magic happen!

The hop started over on the Reverse Confetti blog, and you should have made it here from Laurie Willson’s blog. It would be worth your while to start at the beginning of the hop, so you don’t miss a thing. We have tons of inspiration for you to see using all of Reverse Confetti’s amazing stamp sets! 

As much as I wanted to make a holiday themed item, I also really wanted to play with the Be a Barista set. So I did. I created a gifty that I can give this holiday season, or later on during the winter months. I used the pretty wintery papers by October Afternoon, Bundled Up (my FAVORITE papers right now). I created a pretty tag to dress up some coffee and a pretty card to match. 

I have some of these frosted Tin Tie bags in my stash. I simply added some yummy coffee and folded it over. I created a pretty tag with the awesome Confetti Cuts Tag Me die.

 I couldn't decide which size to use, so I added both. I stamped some pretty pink stripes from So Stripey on the kraft tag. I then stamped the "coffee & friends" sentiment onto the double ended fishtail banner die, also included in the Tag Me set. ♥ that! I punched out a heart, ran it through my crimper and tucked that behind my sentiment. I tied this large tag on with some pink grosgrain ribbon. 

I cut the smaller tag from Pink Lemonade cs and stamped the two sizes of hearts and the word "coffee" from the I Like You stamp set. I have these yummy chocolate covered peppermint stir sticks I wanted to add to the gifty. This smaller tag was a perfect way to do this. I simply used some brown twine to tie them on. 

Next up, how about a closer look at my matching card. I LOVE how this came together, btw. The colors and THAT  Sweet Treat Tent die for a card panel.....SWOON!!!

 I just love tying on a bow around that oval opening. I ran the die through my Vagabond and then cut off the tabs by lining up the score marks on my paper trimmer. 

I was inspired by this past week's Mojo Monday sketch. My middle panel is just a wee bit bigger than the sketch. That's okay, though. 

Here's a close up of my pieced up mug. I stamped the mug twice, once on the cheveron print and again on the pink snow flake print. I then stamped my foam onto cream cs with Amuse Latte ink. I added some shading with my copics and then sponged on some Tea Dye ink around the edges of all the pieces to really make them POP! 

The sentiment, also from Be A Barista was stamped with Hot Fudge ink. Stitching and another Pink grosgrain bow finish the pretty look I was going for. 

 I hope you’ve enjoyed hopping with us today. Be sure and hop with us on the 8th of EVERY MONTH for more REVERSE CONFETTI inspiration! Now it’s time to hop on over to my crafty friend, Laurel’s blog. If you get lost along the way, you can find the hop order and list of all the participating designers over on the Reverse Confetti blog.

How would you like to win some Reverse Confetti goodies of your very own? Leave a comment on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to REVERSE CONFETTI. Comments are open until Tuesday, December 10th at 2pm CST, and the winner will be announced on the “Wednesday in the Works” post on the 11th over on the Reverse Confetti Blog!

A few things before you hop along though, just to keep you “in the know”…

• December’s SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY is open for you to play along. Click HERE for a chance to win. 
• AND, be on the lookout for our second COLOR challenge we will be introducing on December 16th and another way to win. 

Celebrate the creative side of you.