Pilin' on the Animal Prints

The theme this fortnight at Pile It On is Animals &/or Pawprints/Animal patterns. We're sponsored by A Day for Daisies. I used the Tote Bag Digital Cutting File by Bird to cut the bag pieces on my Silhouette Cameo.

Inspiration/Challenges:

Allsorts: April fools/humorous (2nd entry)
Alphabet Challenge: C for Cats
Craft for the Craic: Anything But a Card
Crafty Ribbons #147: Tag It
Decorate to Celebrate: Anything 3D Goes
DoubleClick Skittles: Use A Pun or Something Funny
Silhouette Challenges #36: Anything with the Silhouette
QKR Stampede #185: Foolish Thoughts (Something Funny)

Thank you for visiting & inspiring my crafting! Hope you'll join us at Pile It On,

Smarties Pants for a Smarty-pants

I wanted to make a fun just-because gift for my husband, so I made this Pants-shaped box to hold some Smarties candies... he is my favorite smarty-pants!

I adapted the Santa Pants Bag from SVG Cuts' Happy Holiday Kit.

The box is made with a paper from Sweetwater's Family Ties collection. The belt & buckle are cut from a brown paper that is shiny on one side. The suspenders were cut from a scrap of Graphic 45 paper and attached with tiny button brads. I heat-embossed a wood pocket-watch in silver and added a sentiment in the Saddlebag font.

This box is 2.5 inches high, almost 4.5 with the suspenders. I decided to make a smaller one, about an inch smaller, and it's even more adorable.

Which size do you prefer? I can't decide which is better, and I definitely want to make more!

Inspiration/Challenges:
All Crafts Challenge Dec/Jan Challenge: Anything but a Card (2nd entry)
Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #92: Anything Goes

Update: This won Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #92!

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Bag + Tag challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies

This fortnight at Crafting with Dragonflies we're challenging you to make a bag with a matching gift tag, either attached to it or separate. There are lots of great bag tutorials out there, and I chose Mini Tote Bag tutorial at Popper&Mimi the to make a set of bags for a recent crafting get-together.

I used the beautiful Pansies digi stamp by our sponsor, Sami Stamps: 

The tutorial calls for the bag base to be 3.5 inches high, but I made them 4 inches. The pink paper is from Stampin Up! and the other two papers are from Close to my Heart. They are sturdy, if light-weight, papers and were perfect for this project. I used adhesive tapes & ribbons to decorate them.

As I mentioned, I made these for a craft-a-thon at my house last week...several years ago, I met some local crafters online, and we ended up being practically neighbors! We get together every few months and since my Mom is visiting we got together at my house, and I thought these would work nicely to organize our supplies at the table. The green bag was for my Mom, and the pink & blue bags were for my friends and contained small presents. I actually made a fourth one for myself, but it was already filled with crafting supplies by the time I took this photo! Such a handy thing to have, and amazingly sturdy.

I colored the digi stamps with Copics, and used them to decorate the ready-made tags (hand-made, if not by me). I attached them with colored twine.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Fairy Tale: Use a Digital Stamp Image
Miriam's Crafting Blog Monthly Challenge: Containers


Thank you for visiting, and hope you'll join the Bag + Tag Challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies,