Frankie Treat Box

Today I'll be teaching you on how to make a Frankie Treat Box!


1. Cut your green sheet of cardstock to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2".

2. Insert scoring blade on paper cutter or use your Close To My Heart bone folder to score at 2", 4", 6" and 8" along the 8 1/2" length side of cardstock piece. You will have a 1/2" section left over.

3. Turn cardstock piece 90 degrees, and score entire length of cardstock at the 2" mark. (Your scoring blade will travel 8-1/2" down. The 5 1/2" side of cardstock piece will be against the bottom lip of your paper cutter).

4. Look at your scored cardstock piece. Take scissors and trim off the 2" x 1/2" section (not the 3 1/2" x 1/2" section). *Note: The 3 1/2" x 2" sections are the box top and the 2" x 2" sections are the box bottom.

5. Cut each 2" score mark along the 8 1/2" side. (You will be making three straight cuts, each along the 2" score marks). Do not cut beyond the long score mark running the length of the 8 1/2" side.

6. Fold along all score marks.

7. Cut out two 1” circles out of Close To My Heart White Daisy Cardstock, two ¾” circles out of Close To My Heart Black Cardstock, & one 1” circle (cut in half making 2) out of green cardstock (shown here) or Close To My Heart Clover Meadow Cardstock.

8. Put together the eyes by placing one ¾” black circle on top of the 1” white daisy circle & then put the ½ of circle of green on top of the white daisy & black circle making the eyelid. By making the hair cut a purple cardstock to 1” x 2” & then cut out little triangles. Decorate face as desire. Then past on the box as shown here. Place a section of sticky strip tape along the 3 1/2" x 1/2" flap on the decorated/stamped side. Seal the top part of the box closed.

9. Fold up the four 2" x 2" pieces; this is the bottom of your box. Use a sticky strip on the last 2" x 2" piece to seal the bottom of the box.

10. Your Frankie box is complete! This is GREAT for Halloween party favors, for your children’s friends or really anybody!


Items I used:

Close To My Heart Exclusive Inks White Daisy Marker Z2359
Close To My Heart Exclusive Inks Black Marker Z2305
Close To My Heart Bone Folder Z1204
Close To My Heart White Daisy Cardstock 1385
Close To My Heart Black Cardstock 1386
Green & Purple Cardstock that I had laying around but the 2 colors that would look GREAT together Close To My Heart Clover Meadow Cardstock 1229 & Close To My Heart Hydrangea Cardstock X5634
Sticky Tape


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Tip Of The Day

Today's tip is to make a 6 x 6 sample page, just like the one above, of the techniques that you leaner. This way you can just flip threw a 6 x 6 scrapbook and find the technique that you would like to use for making a card or adding to a scrapbook page.

By the way sorry that I missed yesterday, I was out of town.

The items that I made this sample page was

CTMH Let's Get Together Level 2 Paper Packet X7083B
CTMH Exclusive Inks Buttercup Stamp Pad Z2110
CTMH Exclusive Inks Crystal Blue Stamp Pad Z2117
CTMH Colonial White Cardstock 1388
(Not shown) CTMH 6 x 6 Scrapbook

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Tip Of The Day

To ink just a portion of a stamp, cover the area of the stamp you do not want to use with tape. Apply ink to the stamp, then carefully peel away the tape. Now only the section you want to use has ink on it!



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Spider Border

Today I'm going to teach you how to make a spider cobweb border. You begin by...

1. Cut your CTMH Autumn Terracotta cardstock paper to 4 x 12 & random stamp the CTMH Creepy Cobweb Stamp on the cardstock.

2. Punch out CTMH Black cardstock using a 1 ½” circle punch.

3. Buy using a Crop-A-Dial, put 2 eyelets on each circle for eyes. I used yellow eyelets but you can use whatever color eyelets you would like.

4. By using a decorative scissors (I don’t know what type I used but you can see it in the picture.) cut a strip of CTMH Black cardstock by making the decorative edge on both sides of the paper. Then cut the strip into small pieces. Use the smaller pieces for the spider’s legs. Glue legs on the circles.

5. This is the finish spider border.

6. Now add it on your scrapbook page.


Items that I used to make this page was

Item#s
1270 CTMH Autumn Terracotta Cardstock
1386 CTMH Black Cardstock
1388 CTMH Colonial White Cardstock
1291 CTMH Smokey Plum Cardstock
D1319 CTMH Creepy Cobwebs Acrylix Stamp
Z2105 CTMH Exclusive Inks Black Stamp Pad
9031 Reflections Scrapbook Program
Yellow eyelets that I got at a local craft store.

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Fun Food Faces

Today I'm want to share some FUN ways to spice up your plate by food art! My daughter I made these fun food faces one night & she LOVED them! There is A LOT of recipes out on the Internet for food art. You can do a key word search my typing in food art, edible art, bento boxes, creative sandwiches, food garnishing, ect... Here is the recipes for the faces.


Scarecrow Tostadas



Ingredients:
1 lb lean ground beef
1 16oz can Old El Paso vegetarian refried beans
2 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp garlic salt
6 Old El Paso tostada shells
6 ready-to-eat baby-cut carrots
12 cherry tomatoes
About 4 tsp sour cream
12 ripe olives slices
1 ½ cups finely shredded Mexican or taco-seasoned cheese blend
1 ½ cups chopped leaf lettuces
6 triangle-shaped tortilla chips (about 3 inches)
Red Bell Pepper

In 10-inch skillet, cook beef over medium-high heat 5 to 7 minutes, stirring frequently, until thoroughly cooked; drain. Add beans, cumin, & garlic salt. Reduce heat to low; cook 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until hot. Meanwhile, heat tostada shells according to package. To assemble tostadas, spread ½ cup beef mixture onto each tostada shell. Place carrots in center of each for nose, red bell pepper slice for mouth, & 2 cherry tomatoes for eyes. Spoon ¼ tsp sour cream on each tomato eye; top with olive slices. Sprinkle ¼ cup cheese & ¼ cup lettuce around top edge of each tostada. Place tortilla chip on top of each tostada for scarecrow hat. Serve immediately. Makes 6 servings


Clown Face Salad



Ingredients:
1 ½ cups torn lettuce
1 oz sliced cooked ham, cut into thin strips
1 hard-cooked egg, shell removed, halved lengthwise
2 slices rip olives
1 cherry tomato
1 strip red bell pepper
3 ready-to-eat baby-cut carrots, cut into strips
Favorite salad dressing

Place lettuce on serving plate. Arrange “face” on top of salad using ham strips for hair, egg halves & olive slices for eyes, tomato for nose, bell pepper strip for mouth & carrots for bow tie. Drizzle with dressing. Makes 1 serving


Frozen Berry Ice Cream



Ingredients:
8 oz frozen unsweetened strawberries, partially thawed
8 oz frozen unsweetened peaches, partially thawed
4 oz frozen unsweetened blueberries, partially thawed
6 packets sugar substitute
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups n-sugar-added light vanilla ice cream
16 blueberries
4 small strawberries, halved
8 peach slices

In food processor, combine frozen strawberries, peaches, blueberries, sugar substitute & vanilla. Process until coarsely chopped. Add ice cream; process until well blended. Serve immediately for semi-soft texture or freeze until needed and allow to stand 10 minutes to soften slightly before serving. Garnish each serving with 2 blueberries for “eyes”, 1 strawberry half for “nose” and 1 peach slice for “smile”. Makes 8 servings



I hope you enjoyed todays posting!


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Faux Silk

Today I will teach you how to make Faux Silk. It is a REALLY EASY technique! The people that I taught how, LOVES it because it is sooo simple & plus it is a FUN way to use up all that wrinkly tissue paper that you have laying around!


1. Cut out the tissue paper a little bit beyond the cardstock that you will be pasting it on.


2. Crinkle the paper.


3. Smooth out. You still want a little bit of a wrinkle to it, as seen her. Set aside. Apply adhesive of your choice over entire piece of cardstock. Spread tissue paper over adhesive. Trim tissue paper.

4.Finish your card.


Variations:
You can stamp images on tissue paper instead of using per designed tissue paper. You may color the images if necessary but a little hint: color carefully, the ink will bleed through the tissue paper. To make it bold- Use a bold stamp image stamp instead and stamp in colored ink. The ink will run a bit if you use glues stick or liquid glue. It just adds to your project.

Items that I used to make this card:
CTMH Spellbound Stamp C1374
CTMH Black Cardstock 1301
CTMH Autumn Terracotta Cardstock 1270
CTMH Exclusive Inks White Daisy Stamp Pad (Pigment-based) Z2163
CTMH Exclusive Inks Black Stamp Pad Z2105
CTMH Exclusive Inks Cranberry Stamp Pad Z2116
Halloween Tissue Paper that I got at Wal*Mart


I hope you enjoy this technique! If you would like to buy any of the Close To My Heart products that I used here, you may buy them at my CTMH store. Click HERE


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