Welcome to the February InKing Royalty Blog Hop. We’re excited to share projects that share inspiration for Valentine’s Day and our love of Stampin’ Up! products. This hop is all about love.
You may have started the Blog Hop here or may have hopped over from Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings. After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next. If you get off track at any point during the blog hop, there’s a complete list of participants at the end of this post.
At each month’s Stamp Club meeting, I like to give the members a little something, just to show my love and appreciation. For the February meeting, which is today, I decorated water bottles and filled the January Paper Pumpkin bags with Valentine colored M&Ms. Aren’t they adorable?
Anyone who subscribes to Paper Pumpkin knows how amazing the kits are. Everything you need to create the project is included, except scissors and adhesive. Actually, sometimes they even include the adhesive! The projects are easy peasy, especially with included pictures and instructions. All the shapes are pre-cut. All I had to do was use the stamps and ink (included) to decorate some of the pieces and attach them to the clear bags (also included.) Such a cute way to give folks a sweet little treat!
The bottles are sooooo easy. Take the original belly band off the bottle and measure it. Cut a new belly band to fit and decorate as desired.
This particular bottle takes a 1-3/8″ wide band. I cut Basic Black background paper into 8-1/2″ x 1-3/8″ strips and adhered them with Fast Fuse. I used the Sweetheart Punch and the Modern Label Punch to cut Stacked With Love DSP. The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes is stamped in Memento black ink and cut with the Word Window punch. I used Stampin’ Dimensionals behind the Modern Label shape. Everything else was adhered with Fast Fuse or Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp. You certainly won’t want to miss any of these projects.
And as always, Sweet Stamping!
- September Gray at SeptemberGray.com
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings
- Candy Ford at StampCandy
- Pam Morris at Tap Tap Stamp
- Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
- Becky Volpp at Ink Blossom with Becky
- Angie Coleman at Coastal Stamping
- Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
- Katie Ferguson at Cottage Paper
SO CUTE! It’s easy to see why your club members enjoy stamping with you. 🙂 You’re fun and talented – AND chocolate and water. Duh!
Coming from Mr. Fun & Talented himself, I take this as a great compliment. The chocolate and water are just my way of trying to catch up with you! 😉
I LOVED this Paper Pumpkin kit. My sisters and I actually took it with us to Leadership to play with in the evenings! Sweet projects, Candy!!
That was a great idea! It’s a wonderful way to spend a little time together crafting.
Don’t you “love” the Filled with Love Paper Pumpkin kit?! So cute! The pictures don’t do the treat bags justice.
I agree! Not even the photos that come in the kit do them justice. They are really adorable.
Super cute Candy! I bet your club members loved them!
Thanks, Amy! Yes, they seemed pleased.
Candy, this is one of my favorite Paper Pumpkin sets. The water idea is fabulous! I just may have to copy you… woot woot!
Please do! I copied it from someone else, though I can’t for the life of me remember who it was.
I remembered! I went to a crop some months back that was organized by the Craft Academy of Atlanta and held at Cork & Canvas in Roswell, GA. They had bottled water with belly bands that said Creative Juice. They had printed theirs, then cut them out.
I make mine different each month, which is easy with all the terrific SU products to choose from.
I just started handing out these treat bags at work today. They brightened so many people’s day. One woman said “this is exactly what I need right now” when she saw the chocolates inside. I love your water bottles too.
That’s wonderful, Kelly! A small gesture of giving someone a handmade item let’s them know how much you care. I know I appreciate it when someone uses their time and energy to make something for me.
I plan to make more to hand out to friends and neighbors. I may hold on to some of the little bags to decorate differently for other occasions. This is definitely one of my favorite Paper Pumpkin kits so far. I can think of so many different ways to use them.