Clothespin Clips!

Thank you, April, for your kind comments!

OK, now I jump to a winter project! I plan on selling these at my upcoming craft fairs.
Clothespin crafts are all the rage now, so I jumped on the bandwagon. (Remember the goose craze of the 80's???) The project didn't seem complete until I added the punched tags!

I simply covered both sides of wooden clothespins with strips of paper. (I used white tacky craft glue.) Then I mixy matched some buttons, tied them with strings and adhered them with glue dots. I clipped the clothespins to a larger shipping tag and put them in a clear bag for protection.

Here is a close-up of the buttons and twine I used for the Fall set. I just love the mini leaf punch...

Next, I decorated the outside of the bag with punched images and a stamped tag. I also inked all the edges with brown. I actually ink all my edges with brown or black, 

I just like the antiqued look of it.

I even included a strip of self stick magnet, if you prefer these on the fridge. I think this makes the cutest little gifts! All packaged and ready to give!

Fall Tags

A local national craft store has their punches 50% off and I, let's just say, bought a few! I made these cute gift tags with the blue Marvy punch. I really love their punches...so easy to use!

For the little pumpkin, I went looking in my font file for some dingbats. (Dingbats are the cute little characters instead of letters...but they are still listed as fonts!) Using Microsoft Word, I made rows of the pumpkins across my cardstock paper. I also changed the font color to orange instead of black. I didn't really measure, I just eyeballed the spacing between...

I cut the cardstock into strips and then started punching out the tags. I used the crop-a-dile for the hole near the top and I inked the edges with brown ink! I didn't center the pumpkin image on the tag because I wanted to leave room for writing...Next, I used cotton string or brown and white bakers twine for the ties. So cute and easy!!

Fall is the perfect time to start the baking season. Wouldn't these look great tied to your homemade taffy apples, spiced muffins, pumpkin bread...Hey, now I'm hungry!

BAKERS TWINE!! from The Twinery

I can't remember being sooo excited about a new product BUT I am. Here are the cones filled with yards and yards of colorful twine. I may have to rethink my entire packaging because of this twine!?

 Is it the fresh & bold colors that are making me giddy?? I have a card idea in my mind and can't wait for JULY!! Check them out http://www.thetwineryblog.blogspot.com/.

Bakers twine!

I am soooo excited. I will be getting bakers twine in fantastic new colors. Forget the black and brown, how about lemony yellow, sherbert orange even aqua! I can not wait. Looks like twine will be on all my projects! Pictures to come later...