I'm seriously planning on including more of my passion for playing with paper and well this is the busiest season for doing just that.
This year I concentrated on making stocking stuffers to hide candy in since finances are tight. I can use paper I have on hand and get big bags of candy from either the dollar tree or wally mart... lol so guess what kiddies... cavity time this year... lol
Of all my projects this year I have to admit the following has to be my favorite. It combines a pretty box from this link, http://tinyurl.com/6jc262 and hershey kiss mice a good internet friend of mine, Elizabeth, came up with. I think the presentation is simply well, wow... I started out just making a few for family but when I showed them to my mom she was so impressed that she took one to a couple of meetings she had that week and a couple of the people ordered some. 25 at first, 20 for a guy and 5 for a lady. The guy loved the first 20 so much he decided to order 20 more. To say I'm a bit tired of making these adorable things is quite the understatement...lol
Let me know what you think...
Any and all comments are welcome...
2 comments:
Cute boxes. I would love to see the mice a little closer - do they have tails? How did you construct them?
Also - you posted a comment on my blog asking how I achieved the corduroy effect on my card. It is striped designer paper in two shades of the same color then sponged around the edges in the darkest shade of the color - in this case green.
judy,
i'm so sorry i didn't notice i actually had a comment. i'm not used to getting them so i don't usually check... and pop there you were.lol
for themice i used hershey hug kisses, the carmel ones because i liked the color... i just glued them together flat end to flat end. for the tail i just left the little hershey paper sticking out. i removed the one from the nose and glued a mini black pom pom. oh inbetween the kisses i stuck a punched heart (sorry don't know the size, i have so many) i'm sure if you have heart punches you can figure that out. i did the "ears" on plain grey cardstock. for the eyse well they speak for themselves. i bought a bag of small self sticky wiggle eyes... easy peasy.
for the "nesting" i just used shreaded newspaper because real mice tend to use torn newspaper for their real nests... i hope this helps... i am sorry it too years... if you read my blog you know why it's been difficult to even go into my craft room, let alone i have certain disibilities to deal with... as long as i don't lose the use of my hands and my mind stays creative i'm all set...
donna
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