Carrie Stamps

Introducing Pixi Dust Designs

Have you heard of Pixi Dust Designs?  They are a new paper crafting company and I have fallen in love with so many of their dies!  So when Sandra asked me if I wanted to participate in their first hop I jumped at the chance. I chose the Kisses Box and Gift Card Holder die set to feature in my video. I used to make something similar years ago using a paper cutter and scorer. But with this new die set so much of the work is done for me and it has so many fun little details you can add on. That gave me more time to be creative. So I made a Double KISSES HOLDER!  

Check out the video and hop below. 

If you can not see the video up on your screen you can also catch it right HERE.

Be sure to click over to YOUTUBE if you want to comment on the video to enter into the GIVEAWAY. Which is a $20 gift card to the Pixi Dust Designs shop. 

Here are links to the other designers participating in this hop, be sure to comment on their videos as well because each channel is giving away a gift card to a commenter on their video!!! 

Pixi Dust Designs

Linh

Jen S

Sara Lihz

Carrie Rhoades --- THAT'S ME! 

I also thought you'd like to see close up pictures of my project. 

this is the front side, you can see how the bottom holder has kisses in it and the top holds a gift card. 

This is the back size of the holder, in this box I put a lip balm, Hershey's flavor!!! And in the gift card holder I added a piece of card stock so that a personalized note coulee be added. To dress up my box I used the Kisses Mini Stamp Set. You can find these cute stamps and the dies in the Pixi Dust Designs Shop.

I addes a strip of card stock between the holders as a strap to give it a bit of a purse feel. I think that little strip of card stock really makes the whole project come together. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! 

 

 

Cola Card and Lip Balm Holder

Not many people know this about me but I love all things vintage Coca-Cola!  I have a little collection of things, that began when I was in high school.  Once upon a time I had these things displayed in my kitchen.  The funny thing is I don't really drink soda at all. But I love the colors, the lettering, and advertising of vintage Coca-Cola.  It just makes me smile.  So, today's card was a joy to make for me. It incorporates so many of my favorite things. Coca-Cola, shaker card and my love of lip balm creations. 

I am in LOVE with the entire lip balm line of products from My Favorite Things!  This is my third creation since getting the Lip Balm Window and Frame Die-namics set set and Lip Balm Shaker Frames.  If you missed them be sure to check out my Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Fruit Loops cards. 

For my glass of soda I created a blended background with Tea Stain and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide inks. The glass, straw and label on the cup are all from the Coffee First die set by FSJ. It's a versatile die set that is not just for coffee creations. And the shaker elements inside my glass are the Clear Bubbles Sequins by Honey Bee Stamps.  It's so fun combining the products I have into one perfect creation. 

One of my favorite parts of this card is how amazing the background stamp suits the front of this card. I used the Graduated Dots background stamp by FSJ to add some interest to the font of the card and it is like this stamp was  made for Coca-Cola creations!

You can catch the making of this card on my latest YouTube video below. 

 

Thank you for taking time to stop and visit my blog. I hope you're leaving inspired to create. 

Below I have linked all the products used to make today's card. Affiliate links have been used at no cost to you, thank you for shopping using my links. 

Fruit Loops Lip Balm Card

Guess What!  It's time for another Lip Balm card!  How do you feel about Fruit Loops?  I love the bright colors and found some amazing products to pull this card all together! 

Who would think to bring cereal, tropical birds and lip balm together?  But look how fun it is and it works! 

When I came across the Lip Balm Pouches, Lip Balm Window and Frame Dienamics Set, Sending Smooches stamp set and the Sentiment Rip Strip Dienamics die set from My Favorite Things, I knew I had to have them to make some more of my flavored lip balm creations. Incase you missed them, here are some of my past lip balm creations; Let's Cinnamon Toast, Haunted House Boxes, Frosted Flakes Lip Balm Tag, Jolly Rancher Apple with Lip Balm Holder, Milk Carton for Cereal, and Bread Tag Die Chapstick Holder. 

I've been waiting to do this card for a long time! I've had the lip balm and stickers for months now. But it finally all came together when I was able to order all the MFT elements to put the lip balm on my card. I think this sweet card would really brighten anyones day.  A card with a little gifty in it!!! 

And with the help of the Sentiment Rip Strip Dienamics set, the recipient can easily remove the lip balm. GENIUS! 

Putting a lip balm on the front of the card does make it heavy, so I wanted to put a layer on the inside of the card too, giving a bit more weight. 

And here is where I used the sentiment from the MFT stamp set, Sending Smooches.  A perfect finishing touch for this card. 

If you'd like to see the making of this card I have attached the video for you below, but be sure to click over to my YouTube channel and subscribe if you have not already done so. I will be sharing new videos there every week. 

 

 

Now for a little BONUS share! Check out the cute little gift tag I made to go on a little to go cup of Fruit Loops, the perfect little treat to give with this card. 

I just tied some ribbon around the cup of Fruit Loops and added a fun and simple tag. The sentiment, Do more of what makes you happy, is from the Bowl Over stamp set, which is one of the Returning Favorites stamp sets at FSJ right now, and is on sale!  

I needed the spoon to be smaller so it would fit in next to the word YOU on my tag, so I cut it shorter and hand drew in a line with a black marker. 

The bird stickers, Toucan Friends,  are really fun and were the perfect fit for my projects. I liked that I could use them since I did not have a tropical bird stamp set. 

I love making lip balm projects and still have some other flavored lip balms on hand to bring you some other fun creations, so stay tuned!  Scroll to the bottom to find links to all the products I used. Thank you for sharing a part of your day with me. 

Affiliate links have been used at not cost to you, thank you for your support. 

     

 

Let's Cinnamon Toast

Since it is the last week of the month I thought I would make this last project with the Let's Toast stamp set a BIG one. 

Not only is this card a 5" x 7" card, but it is an interactive card, holds a lip balm and has a matching gift with coordinating gift tag.  It's almost too much fun for one blog post! 

If you have been following my blog or my Facebook page for a while then you already know my obsession with cereal flavored lip balm/chapstick.  There really is not explanation for it except that I just thought it was cute and fun. It's been a while since I have made a lip balm creation, but then everything just fell into place for this card.  A big part of that was the fact that the Lip Balm Pouches and Lip Balm Window dies became available from My Favorite Things. And when you have a Toaster stamp set and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Lip Balm, well, this is what happens.....

I LOVE how this card all came together. 

I took two colors from the lip balm to create my color palette; Turquoise and Red. I knew I wanted this card to use the Pull Tab add on die set from Lawn Fawn to make my Cinnamon Toast pop up out of the toaster. And I knew I wanted to have the Cinnamon Toast Crunch lip balm right on my card.  After a bit of design and redesign this is the finished card. 

Let me show you the inside of the card, so you can see how the recipient gets the lip balm out of the card. 

Such a cleaver die set by MFT!  You could use this for lots of fun things and I love to have a die that is a tool. With such a large card I did not want to leave the other inside panel plain, so I dressed it up. 

The scalloped rectangle is the center of the die cut frame from the card front, a fun die set from Lawn Fawn, called Outside In Stitched Scallop Rectangles. 

I love this card so much, I had way too much fun making it and I might have paraded it around my house for each family member to see. 

I could not let the fun end there. I needed to dress up my to go cup of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal to match. So I made a tag and used my Let's Toast stamps and dies to dress it up. 

Did you notice the little plug for the toaster??? I used a small piece of black twine for the cord and the pat of butter die for the plug. The prongs on the plug are hand drawn with a black gel pen. 

And, I have to tell you about the polka dot background on the tag. I die cut two Bread Tag dies, one from Cranberry Bliss card stock and one from Whip Cream Card stock. I then ran the Cranberry tag through my die cut machine using the Lots of Dots die set. This made fun holes into the red tag. I glued this tag to the white one for a fun polka dotted tag. 

And how about those spoons!!! In my other cereal/lip balm creation I have used plain disposable wooden eating spoons. Well, one of my friends, Cindi Kurtz, found these spoons, with the colored handles and sent them to me!  I LOVE them so much and have been waiting for the perfect project to use them with. I stamped the handles with images from the Let's Toast Stamp set and a sentiment from the Sending Smooches set. Look closely and you can see that I stamped a heart on the lips of the smiley face, it's suppose to be a kiss. Who knew cereal could be such a great gift?

If you like the Let's Toast stamp and die sets as much as I do you will also love my Let's Toast Tutorial. I have designed 4 WOW cards for this tutorial and show you how to recreate them with a PDF tutorial and exclusive video as well.  It is some of my best work with one of my favorite stamp sets. You can get this PDF and Video tutorial for just $5. Click the PayPal button below and I will email you the PDF and link to the video with in 24 hours. 

Get your Let's Toast Tutorial for just $5! 

 

And if you would like to watch the making of the Cinnamon Toast card you can catch last nights LIVE Facebook video below. 

 

Below you will find all the products I used to make the card and tag. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

All the products used are linked below. Affiliate Links have been used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support. 

 

 

 

Haunted House Boxes

The box I am about to share with is going to be one you make again and again! WHY??? Because it is EASY, takes little paper and it's versatile! Today's box is made to fit a clear gusseted bag with a flat bottom, found HERE.   Fill these bags with any treat or fun think you like, set them in this box and decorate the box as you like. 

For my boxes I went crazy with CEREAL and LIP BALM (again)!  

When I stumbled upon the Cereal flavored Lip Balms the pack I bought had Frankenberry!  Then I saw Frankenberry cereal when grocery shopping and that's when this idea was hatched. If you look closely at the box you will see a haunted house in the upper right corner. So that is what decorated the front of my box with and in the bag went Frankenberry Cereal.  The tag holds the lip balm. 

Here's how to make the box: 

Cut a piece of card stock to 4-1/2" x 4"

Score on all four sides at 1". Snip on the score line to make four tabs. 

Glue the box together, fill your Clear Bag with a goody and it fits right in. 

Then you can decorate the box to dress it up if you like. 

Like I did here, using the Spooksville Die set. 

And I couldn't stop there, because not only is there Frankenberry Cereal, there is Count Chocula and BooBerry Cereal. It just so happens that there is also all of these flavors in Lip Balm, thank you Amazon! 

The Lip Balm sleeve is a piece of Clear View Sheet. Here are the measurements: 

Lip Balm Sleeve: 2-1/2" x 2-3/4" 

On the 2-3/4" side score at 5/8", 1-1/4", 1-7/8", and 2-1/2"

Add a piece to the bottom so the lip balm does not fall out: 

5/8" x 1-7/8" score at 5/8" and 1-1/4"

Use White Liner Tape to adhere the sleeve together and glue dots to attach the bottom piece. 

These were just so much fun to make!  Stay tuned and I will show you what I made with the hershey kisses box in the picture above. 

Below you can watch the making of the Frankenberry Box. 

In this video you will notice me cutting small pieces to cover each window. Then a customer of mine, Becky Martin, suggested that I use one big piece to cover the windows. GENIUS! Here's how I did that on my other two houses. 

After die cutting the house, use the negative piece to trace on to the color of paper you want your windows to be, don't trace all the details, just a rough outline.  Cut this out, cutting on the inside of your pencil line and glue it to the back of the house. DONE, I love it, thank you Becky! 

Here are all the supplies I used: 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and letting me share all my fun with crazy cereal lip balm creations. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Frosted Flakes Lip Balm

Are you a cereal eater?  It really is the perfect food right, pour it a bowl, add milk, DONE!  It comes in a million different flavors. And you can make it into new things!  AND!  You can gift it!  With some coordinating Lip Balm!!!

For breakfast today we have Frosted Flakes. THEY'RE GRRREEAATT!  

Really, who would not LOVE this as a little gift to brighten a Monday??? Or any day of the week. And aren't you curious to know what Frosted Flakes Lip Balm smells like!  I still am, I did not want to break the seal on the chapstick tube, so I could gift it. Who do you think I should give this to, who would this make a good gift for? 

The Text Happy stamp set has a sentiment that says "You're Great", and that is the entire reason that I made this!  It's perfect for Frosted Flakes cereal, right!!! I am crazy I know. So, I set out to find Frosted Flakes lip balm so that I could make this with that stamp!  I found the lip balm on Kellogg's website, HERE. It comes in a pack with Fruit Loops, Apple Jacks and Pops lip balm, as well as one that looks like a little carton of milk. So many fun and cute projects just waiting to be made with this other lip balms!  So stay tuned! 

These Bread Tag Chapstick/Lip Balm Holders are super easy to make. The sleeve that holds the chapstick is made from Clearview Sheet/window sheet. 

Here are the measurements for the window sheet: 

2-1/2" x 2-3/4" 

Score the 2-3/4" side at: 5/8" 1-1/4", 1-7/8" and 2-1/2".  

Here is the video for the first Bread Tag Chapstick Holder that I made, to show you how easy they are to make.  And below I have listed all the supplies I used to make this project in one easy place for you, just click on a picture to shop for it. 

 

 

 

NOTE: All card stock and ink pads are 20% off in September, click HERE to check out the sale.

If you have any questions about the chapstick holders please do not hesitate to ask, I am here to help. 

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Jolly Rancher Apple with Lip Balm Holder

You guys, I am in love with making cute things with flavored lip balm! Up to this point I have only made projects using breakfast cereal flavored lip balm. 

Today I am playing with Jolly Rancher flavored lip balm! I have Cherry and Green Apple. 

A friend, Patty Absec, who is also on my team was telling me about something cute she wants to do with the mini Martinelli's apple juice containers. Because they are either glass or plastic shaped apples, it got me thinking!  

Now you can see my idea taking shape... 

Jolly Ranchers + Martinelli's Apple Juice containers + Bread Tag Die + Jolly Rancher Lip Balm!  

First up is the RED!  Even though the chapstick is Cherry, I thought a mix of red Jolly Ranchers in the apple jar made for a great gift with the Cherry Jolly Rancher lip balm. 

I think these would make great teacher gifts. We are just into the start of a new school year and I bet teachers are starting to feel the stress now and a nice reminder that they are appreciated is always a good thing. 

The stamp set I used to make these tags is called,  "Thanks Teacher", it is an ATS sized stamp set and only $8.95. I love that!

I made the same thing with the Green Apple Jolly Ranchers and lip balm. 

If you have not yet see my cereal/lip balm creations find them here: Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs. 

Don't worry I will be back with MORE lip balm creations for you, I have so many fun flavors left to play with! 

If you would like to watch the making of this project, I have posted the FB LIVE video below for you. 

  

Everyone is asking where I have found the flavored lip balms, here is a list of some places you can check in your area: Gordmans, Goodwill, Dollar Store/Tree, Target, The Children's Store, and Walmart. Be sure you are looking in the children's departments, where they sell purses, etc or cosmetics. On line check here: Amazon, Ebay, and Kellogg's.com. You can find Martinelli's apple juice in the apple shaped containers (glass or plastic) in most grocery stores as well as Jolly Ranchers. Each apple holds about 30 Jolly Rancher candies. 

For all the other things I used on this project I have linked them below for you. 

 

 

NOTE: All card stock and ink pads are currently 20% off right now at FSJ, great time to stock up, view the sale HERE. 

Thank you for taking time to stop by and let me share my love of flavored lip balm with you once again! Please let me know if you have any questions.