Project Tuesday Gift Bag

OMG...I have been slacking and not doing much of anything:( Well, I received a phone call the other night and was scolded for my "slacking"...And you know who you are:) Thanks for that because it got my butt moving. Sometimes we jsut need a swift kick in the...butt to get back into the swing of things.

I made this gift bag for the PROJECT TUESDAY GIFT BAG CHALLENGE. I think that I made it just in time. Not too sure what is going in the gift bag yet, but I know that I will give it to my sister Sylvia.

The snowglobe and the Santa Sleigh are both from the Christmas Noel Cart and embossed the globe with d'vine swirls cuttlebug embossing folder. Also added some pop-dots to make it a shaker snowglobe and filled it with Martha Stewarts Mica Flakes. I made the tag from A Childs Year Cart and heat embossed the sentiment.

DH said that it was too blue so that is why I added the irridescent pearls (not sure what they are actually called) around the top and the bottom of the bag. (I think that it looks much better in real life compared to the pic).

Thanks for taking the time to read my babbling and/or looking at my gift bag!!!

Etched Mugs

I fell in love with these mugs that I found at the Dollar Tree. I thought they would be great for hot chocolate. So I bought several and decided to etch names and snowflakes on them. They names were pretty easy to etch, but the snowflakes were a little time consuming. It seemed like it took me forever to tape around everything because I didn't want the etching cream to get everywhere it was not suppose to be. I'm really happy with how they turned out. I am just showing one with a name because there are little snoops out there, lol, and I don't want them to see one with their name on it. I really don't remember what cart I used for the names...I think that I used a few different ones, but for the snowflakes I used Christmas Noel and Christmas Cheer Cricut carts. I used design studio so that I could cut out several snowflakes at various sizes. I plan on putting spoons dipped in chocolate, marshmallows and hot chocolate in the mugs. Thanks for looking!!!!!!