Stampin' With Michelle Pepper

It's my friend Carrie's birthday and since we haven't got a car at the moment, I haven't been able to go shopping for a present. So what do you do the night before? Well, you make a handmade gift! My inspiration came from SU! Demo Tania Bell who had shared in July a  video tutorial  on how to make a lidded box from a single 12" x 12" sheet without cutting.  Problem was, there was no instructions for the smaller boxes so imagine the mental gymnastics that I was doing late at night (as I got too engrossed in watching Iron Man 3 to multi-task as I originally planned, so I got to working on these close to midnight, lol).  I am quite proud of myself, so these measurements are available at the bottom of this post, for your convenience :-) The smallest box in this set had room for only one Ferrero Chocolate. I managed to squeeze in 2 treat size of Picnic bars in the middle box, and the largest box is good for 3" x 3" cards (I made a set of 6 card...

This week the Cue Word for CASology Challenge is Dessert. Of course, chocolate is top of mind. I pulled out this dear old retired stamp set called Eat Chocolate which I love but haven't used it nearly enough. I have been working on the bag sample on page 88 of the 2013-14 Annual Catalogue, using some retired Designer Series Paper (the name of which escapes me). As soon as I saw them both together, I knew what I had to do. Yes, I set to work in the kitchen. (No, not in the middle of the night, but the next morning.) Soon enough, out of the oven came a batch of some gooey chocolate brownie...hmmm....Once cooled and dusted with icing sugar, into a cello bag went a slice, a strip of DSP set around it and topped off with another sentiment from this great chocolate lovers stamp set. And ta-da, you have an exquisitely dressed up treat bag for someone special. And let me tell you, it is only fitting to dress up this decadent brownie! By the way, I can actually sa...