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Hello, Summer!

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Howdy, crafty friends! Thanks for allowing me a little break as we wrapped up the school year and wound down over the holiday weekend.

The kiddo said ADIOS to 8th grade and will be headed off to high school next year. *gulp* Not quite sure how time went by so quickly! This weekend we just enjoyed some down time, and it was nice to get a little breather and enjoy time unhurried as a family.

This week will be a busy one as I fast & furiously work to finish up product and prep for a craft fair this coming weekend. My mom will be joining me again, and we’re looking forward to our first summer event. We typically stick to fall events. So we’re interested to see if we’ve managed to put together a good selection of product based on a different season. What would you be looking for at a summer craft fair?

One of the new products I’ll be offering is the cute little Fun in the Sun gift bag that includes some sunscreen, hydration packets, and some SPF lip balm — a perfect hostess gift for those summer poolside get-togethers! The Notes & Totes die set makes the perfect little bag to hold all of the goodies. I’ve made an assortment of these little gift bags and have pulled all of my favorite (retired) summer-inspired patterns to create the bags. For this bag, I’ve used the retired Bloom Impressions paper and accented with Crumb Cake. For a good hold, I chose narrow tear-and-tape to assemble.

Is this not the cutest? I really hope these sell. What do you think — yay or nay on the idea?

Products used in today’s project:
Crumb Cake cardstock
Bloom Impressions DSP (retired)
Notes & Totes dies
Stuffings: hydration packets, sunscreen, lip balm

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Show Day

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It’s show day! Show days are always a little frazzled as you get the final touches on the booth setup and hope for the best.

If you’re local to the DFW area, come see me at First Methodist Rowlett! I’m in booth S in the Family Life Center.

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Lip Balm Gifts

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It has been a busy week this week, and I wish I could say that it involved more time in the Song Sparrow Papercrafts studio. But alas, the call of work and homelife have prevailed. We’ve all had our share of homework to do. And I don’t know about you, but we’ve been watching the trek of Hurricane Milton with bated breath.

As I’m preparing for an upcoming craft show, we’re taking a look at some of the fun gifties that I’ll have in my booth. Aside from having the fun edible treats, I love to create little gift items that contain something useful. And who doesn’t love a good tube of lip balm? I have some in just about every room of the house, plus my car and my purse and at my office.

I found a super cute gift box tutorial over at The Paper Pixie that I have adapted/simplified a bit. Are these not the cutest little boxes? You can use solid or patterned cardstock for the box itself. I had some thicker patterned cardstock, and it worked super well. But as you can see, a plain box doesn’t have to look plain once you’re done dressing it up!

If you’re interested in a PDF tutorial for these cute boxes that includes my little shortcuts, simply drop me a comment with a link to your socials (or other means of sending it to you). I’ll be sending out all of the requested tutorials from this week’s projects over the weekend.

I’ll be popping in with a few more craft show goodies over the next few days. So I hope you’ll pop in and check out more cute gifties.

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Best Laid Plans

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We’ve made it to a new week, and you may have noticed my absence at the end of last week. It’s crafting show season and I have 2 that fall very close together. Needless to say, I didn’t budget quite enough time to do ALL.THE.THINGS last week and so my planned blog post materials had to be set aside.

Over the weekend, I’m teamed up with my mom to set up a booth for an event in her area. We had a lot of fun, and I figured out just how much more work I have to do to be prepared for my next event in TWO short weeks!

So this week, I’ll be sharing some of the projects that I make especially for my craft fair booths. And first up are these super cute little Hershey nugget treat packages. I really love these for a quick little something to pass along to someone as a pick-me-up or thank-you.

When I’m preparing craft booth items, I always start by using the retired product in my stash. So these nuggets use several different packets of retired fall-inspired paper patterns. And then I dress up the packaging with dies that meet the theme. We have such lovely fall-inspired die sets that I, of course, had to reach for both Autumn Leaves and Changing Leaves for my dress-up elements for these nugget packets. I’ll be offering a variety of seasonal packaging for the nugget treats, including fall, Halloween, and Christmas.

If you’re interested in the tutorial for these Hershey nugget treats, drop me a comment with your e-mail or social media link so I can send you a copy.

Pop in tomorrow to see what else I’ll be offering in my craft show booth.