Marvelous Possibilities

Today is our STAMPIN' UP! OPEN HOUSE January 26, 10:00 to 2:00 and Scrapbook Crop-a-thon 1:00 to 6:00 at 101 Willow Pond Trail, Lino Lakes, MN   Come and join us to see new products, samples, and make a couple of free Make-n-Take projects for free.  We have these cute little door prizes for our guests today.  Hope to see you there.  For further information, check out here for details.     I made some of these cute little Smartees cards earlier in the week, and everybody thought they were so darn cute, that I made up a bunch or our guest today.  With the Patterned Occasions stamp set from the SaleABration brochure makes such darling cards with all it's cute little sayings, there is one to fit almost any occasion.  I found a new blog this week, Still addINKtive challenges , and they were all about using the SAB stamps sets, and the Patterned Occasions was one of the sets they called for, so I took the challenge....

I made up another one of my Smartees card, and just wanted to show you how cute it turned out.  I have been having so much fun playing with the Patterned Occasions stamp set.  The images are so playful, and they are perfect for these little tiny cards.  I make these with a 3 1/2" square card, with an inch added to the side to hold the Smartees candy rolls.  It's the same design I use when I make post-it note holders with a pen on the side.  I found my inspiration for the colors in the card at the Pink Elephant Monday Challenge which had a color/photo inspiration this week.  Don't the strawberries look yummy.  I am tempted to make some like this for our Open House on Saturday.  I'll have to see if I have time.  LOL!  I used the layout from Clean & Simple Stamping challenge this week.  (I am so glad I was able to find the right blog for the sketch.  I dislike it when there is nothing to identify the picture...

 I got a lot of teasing from my family recently when they saw this giant size bag of Smartees candy in my craft room.  They mused about who would buy a big bag of candy that was not chocolate.  They thought I was eating them!  I explained that I bought the giant bag on clearance after Halloween, and I used it for craft sale crafts, and I still had all of these left over.  Little did they know that I already had another project planned for those little rolls of Smartees, but I was just waiting for my new SaleABration stamp sets to arrive.  This set, Patterned Occasions, had these cute little jeans that say "Congratulations, smarty pants", and I was primed for the project.  I took the design from the post-it holders that I made in the past, and made it wide enough to hold 2 rolls of Smartees.  You could alter it to fit a little candy bar if you wanted to.  In the green card I decided to wrap the Smartees with matching paper, but...