Craft Show projects . . .

Happy Sunday Everyone!

What a beautiful Fall weekend we are having here in

N.E. Ohio.  I spent half the day yesterday in my crafting cave working

on projects for upcoming Fall craft shows and the other half  of

the day outside doing Fall clean-up and cut down.  You

know all those cone flowers, sedum, roses, etc. that require trimming

so they will be beautiful again next year.  

I'll be doing the same thing today but before I go I wanted to share

the 'projects' I'm working on.   I shared the pop up cards on my FB page yesterday

(here's a peek at a few of them)

and today I have Decorated Gift Bags with matching Tissue Box Covers to share.  I have made several of these Decorated Gift Bags for the show but then I realized if I used 2 sheets of 12x12 designer paper cut at 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 for the gift bag, that leaves me with just enough left over to create a matching tissue box cover.  How cool is that and I thought 'what a fabulous gift set' for the holidays (I hope so anyways!  LOL)

For the front (and back) decorations on these particular sets I've actually UPCYCLED Christmas cards that have come in the mail from companies that we make donations to.  Using the pretty image from the front of the card on the front of the bag and also die cut the inside sentiment, matted it and added it to the back of the gift bag.  Turned out really nice I think!

Adding a few die cuts, punched panels or 3d stickers embellishments,

I think these sets turned out pretty cute ... what are your thoughts?

Well I only have a couple more hours in here before I need to get back outside for another

beautiful Fall day to finish my cut down clean up projects.  Winter will be here before

we know it I'm afraid!  And from what I hear, it's going to be a BAD one!  Fingers

crossed they are wrong on that one but with the way the weather has been this

year ... who knows?  We just have to do the best we can to be ready for whatever happens.

Have a great day ... hope you have some sunshine in your life today!

Challenges to share in:
Winter Wonderland Challenge - Merry & Bright
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Box or Bag
Crimbo Crackers Challenge - ATG must be Christmas related
ABC Christmas Challenge - U is for Upcycle
Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge - Holiday
Inspire, Create Challenge - Die Cutting
Moo-Mania Challenge - Die Cuts and Punches

Thanks for stopping by and thanks too for your comments ........ always warms my heart to hear what you have to say!  

As always . . .