Haute Pink Decorative Clothespins

Here is my newest addition to my Etsy store:

I love these clothespins! They have so many uses! I've used them for hanging pictures, cards, baby blankets, wet dish washing gloves, and much more!

I made them by decoupaging sparkle Mod Podge onto wooden clothes pins with some pretty pink cardstock then hot gluing on the ribbon & buttons. The bows are made by hand and I tied the buttons on so they're super sturdy!

I hope you like them! Come check them out at Cutie Z Creations!

I'm always open to any suggestions on how to improve my products or shop so please feel free to let me know!

I'm always happy to make any custom orders as well; not just clothespins but pretty much anything!

Thanks for looking!

Cutie Z Creations

Well, I finally did it! I opened my own Etsy store! I named it Cutie Z Creations after my cute little baby Z. Right now the shop is pretty sparse but I'm looking forward to making it grow. I'm very excited to say that I've already sold a mobile!

Now I'm looking to my friends and family to help my shop gain some strength so if there is anything at all you want made I will make it for you at a very big discount to get myself more established.

Some ideas of what I can make are: Mobiles, Cards, Invitations, Jewelry, Personalized Metal Stamping, Ornaments, Banners, Party Favors, Fairy Dust, and pretty much anything else you can think of!

I have also decided to change my Blog to promote my Etsy store. Not much will change, It'll be all my crafts but the blog name will be different, that's all!

Here's my store; come take a look!

Omedeto Banner

I know it's shocking, but here's another craft I put together for my bro's wedding party!

This is an Omedeto Banner, which, I believe, means Congratulations in Japanese:

I used the Ribbons & Rosettes Cricut cartridge for the background rosettes, the Nate's ABCs cartridge for the lettering, and the Pagoda cartridge for the flowers.

Here's a close-up of an "O":

There was lots of folding & gluing involved but I think it turned out quite pretty.

Pagoda Card Holder

Here is the Pagoda Card Holder I decorated for my brother's wedding party on display with some of my Favor Boxes:

Here's what the original looked like on the box (the original didn't have the flowers on it):

I did some serious cutting out and Mod Podging:

I put together the flowers using these from the Pagoda Cricut cartridge:

Here's how they turned out:

My final creation!

It took a lot of Mod Podge and time but I think it looked great!

Wedding Party Favor Boxes

I made 100 of these bad boys for my super cute new sister-in-law Elizabeth and my handsome bro Kenny for their wedding party.

They got married in Hawaii (jealous!!!) so we threw them a wedding party before they left.
Here's the couple newly married! Love them!!!

Here's how the favor boxes started:

100 pieces of "Far East" scrap-booking paper! I guess it's important to mention they had a Japanese themed party.

I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2 cartridge to cut out the boxes (I had 10 Cricut mats going!):

I used the Pagoda cartridge to cut out the Kanji in black Vinyl; the Kanji means "love" in Japanese, then I added my "Made By Candice" stamp.

Here's the wording I printed out on transparent paper then used the Baby Steps cartridge to cut out the shape:

I used the Create A Sticker machine on the wording to attach it to the boxes; I went through a lot of those!

I did the same for the "thank you" tags but used the Pagoda cartridge for the tag shape:

On one side it says "thank you" in English and on the other in Japanese:

Here they are! 100 favor boxes!

This was by far the most I've ever made of one thing; it was a lot of work but I had a good time and Kenny & Elizabeth are worth it!

Special thanks to my lovely sister-in-law Camille for helping me stuff them with Japanese candy & adding the "thank you" tags!

Thanksgiving Banner

Again, a little late but here's the Thanksgiving banner I made, it's actually currently still on the wall. :p

Here's the banner in its entirety:

A bit close on the letters:

For this banner I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge for the turkeys and leafs, and used the Cricut Alphabet for the letters. It's hung up by twine and I attached the leafs using clothes line clips. I Mod Podged paper onto the clips to make them cute then hot glued the buttons on after tying raffia on the buttons.

Here's one of the turkeys:

A close up of the buttons on the turkey:

The eyes are buttons with black bling jewels glued on top.

It was fun making something a little different and nice to finally have some Thanksgiving decorations!

Happy Halloween Banner

It's a little late but I wanted to show off the Halloween banner I made this year. It's currently hung up in my craft room until I figure out a good way to store it till next year.

Here's the whole banner:

I made the banner using the Pretty Pennants, Flower Shop & Kate's ABCs cartridges.

Here's a close up of some letters:

I used a coat or two of extreme glitter Mod Podge to give it some sparkle.

A close up of the flower:

The flowers were a lot of work but I thought they turned out quite nice, obviously I used sparkly buttons for the center. Can you tell I like me some glitter... :)

I held the banner together by putting in black eyelets then tying them together with ribbon. I thought the eyelets might make it a bit more sturdy but I think it makes it looked rather nice too.

Now back to work making party favors for my soon to be sister-in-law's bridal shower! Those posts will come eventually... Lots of work but lots of fun!

Flower Explosion Box

A little fair warning; this one has a lot of pictures! I tried to keep the number of pictures down but there was a lot to this project! I made a Flower Explosion Box from my Mini Books Cricut cartridge. It took me a good couple of days to get done but I think it turned out pretty well and I think my mom will like it! I made this for my mom's birthday and I decided to make something for her because I know she appreciates all the work that goes into stuff like this and she has so many things that I like making her things with pictures of the kids, I can usually get tears from her with that kind of stuff too. Love you Mom!!!
Without further ado, here is my Flower Explosion Box!

The finished project:

The box opened:

The little Flower Explosion Box I put in the big one, but I'll go into detail on that one later:

The first layer of the big box:
Even if you're not a Twilight fan; you know you love it! ;)

The second layer of the big box:
My cute kids!

The third layer of the big box:

The bottom of the big box:

I chose the Twilight/Fairy theme because my mom loves Twilight & fairies! I admit, I also like them!

Here is the small box I put inside the big one:

Underneath the small box lid:

The key chain I put inside the small box:
I was going to make it a necklace but my mom isn't a necklace person so I decided to switch to the key chain, I think it turned out pretty cool. I'll go into more detail about how I did the key chain further down.

Small box opened:

First layer of the small box:

Second layer of the small box:

Third layer of the small box:

Bottom of the small box:

Total contents of the small box:

Total contents of the large box:

Here's what I used to make the key chain:

For the message in the bottle I just used a piece of brownish paper that I printed the message on and then burned the edges and ended up dipping in water to make it look like an old piece of parchment. I then put a little glitter in the bottle, of course!, then wrapped the paper around a toothpick then put it in the bottle and sealed it back up. I thought it turned out pretty cool!

How the paper originally looked versus my creation:

I added the jewels to the locket with mod podge and I added the pictures of those cute kids. :)

For fun, here are some pics of my boxes before I decorated them:

Big box:

Small box:

The contents of the small box before being decorated versus after being decorated:

Here's what I used to make the flower I put on top of the big box:

I made the butterfly on top of the flower with my Everyday Pop-Up Cards cartridge.

There you have it! My Flower Explosion Box! Sorry for so many pictures but a lot went into making it. I hope my mother likes it! We're going to dinner with her tomorrow and I'll give her the Flower Box and the card I made her!

Thanks for at looking at my latest creation!