Little Pink Studio

The December Little Pink Box

Hello! Since it's the middle of January I think it's about time I share with you what was in last month's Little Pink Box. December had 2 creative projects, both angel themed. I thought that they could work for Christmas, but could also work for winter, especially the garland. First up, I was inspired by a beautiful  angel I found on pinterest and this was my take on that. I also included materials to create a few different types of these angels as well. 

(and in different sizes too)

Look at all of those fabulous paper ruffles! 

Next up was a litle angel garland inspired by my popular bobbin doll kit. This time the little dolls have become angels and create a sweet garland. 

And lastly I included these super sweet vintage doll shoes, because everyone loves little golden doll shoes, right? 

I completely added wrong in December and I ended up with 2 extra boxes. (the full Little PInk Box) One of them I sold immediately to a wonderful regular customer, and the other, I just added to the shop. So if you'd like to purchase it, buy the December box. (make sure you choose December rather than January. The January boxes will ship as regularly scheduled at the end of January)

I also added a couple of the angel doll garland kits to the shop. The kits include more than enough materials to create 7 angels and the garland. (more than double the number of dolls in the bobbin doll kit, for less than double the price!) 

By the way, January boxes are only on sale for 2 more days, so if you would like to grab one be sure to do it soon.

Much love, Cerri

Handmade gifts

Hello! While Christmas is not yet a distant memory, I thought I should pop in here and share some of the handmade gifts I created for friends and loved ones this year. Some were swaps, and some just gifts. I love to make gifts for people, and am always happy when I have the time to be able to do that. The angel piece above I made for my Momma. 

I participated in a stocking swap with my sweet and talented friend, Heidi. This is the stocking I made for her. (I'll share the beautiful things she sent me in a separate post, as they reallly deserve their own post!) We've both been bitten by the pretty planner bug so inside I included some things she could use in her planner, a vintage book, and some vintage trims. I also made her a couple of gifts to go along with the stocking. The stocking was a burlap stocking that I altered. It had ruffles at the top, and I dyed those the light pink, then added more layers of ruffles by adding the vintage lace in between each ruffle. I then covered the stocking with all sorts of vintage lace and a sweet image printed on fabric. 

I made these super sweet glittered deer head mounts for Heidi and another friend as well. 

I meant to make a few more of these, but ran out of time. I sitll may though, as they're not really just for Christmas, I think. 

I found myself smitten with the idea of making little shadow boxes out of vintage ornament boxes. Not a new idea, but rather my take on them. 

It seemed once I made the first one I really couldn't stop and was raiding our boxes of vintage Christmas decorations. I will just have to pack those ornaments away a little differently now. Ha. And yes, you read that right. "I will have to", meaning I have not yet put away our Christmas decorations. It's on the agenda for the weekend though. :) 

These sweet shadow boxes were actually easier to create than they were to photograph for me. They're very 3 dimensional, and there is lots of "snow" and glitter inside in case you can not tell. I replaced all of the vintage plastic with new transparencies as the plastic wasn't in great shape, and the transparencies are more clear. So each box is as if you're looking into a window with a little winter magic on the other side. I'll be looking for more boxes this year, in hope of making more of these next year. 

This little vintage elf was another gift I made. He lives w/in a small glass "cake plate" now. This is how he appears without the glass top, and below is how it looks with the top on. 

I had a few more of these planned as well, but you know, that time thing.... 

I am bound and determinded to still finish a December memories book as well, and will share that as I go. I can't wait to show you the wonderful old book I repurposed for it. It's so perfect! 

I have a few more things to share and will hopefully have them up on the blog before Valentines day. Ha. Maybe I'll even get more posted this week. I'm crossing my fingers. 

Back soon, Cerri

 PS, I have compltely caught up on orders that were waiting to be shipped while we were on holiday, so if you placed an order during the break, it's on it's way! Yay! Thanks for your patience with that. Y'all are the best, and I appreciate my customers so very much!

Sweet stocking ideas and shipping deadlines

Hello! I wanted to pop in today with ideas for some sweet stocking stuffers. Any of these would be great for the crafters in your life whether they are young or old. 

First up, our bobbin doll kits. They've been hot sellers this holiday season, and I think they would make a super cute stocking stuffer. The package is small, the instructions are included, and it seems that all girls both young and old are loving these little kits. 

Our little cameo frame kit is another perfect stocking stuffer for the crafty girls in your life. The packaging is small and could easily fit in a stocking. This could be made into a magnet, a free standing frame, the cover of a journal, an ornament, etc...you get the idea. Ha. 

There are a couple of our mini holiday book kits available still, and they too would make the perfect creative stocking stuffer for the scrapbookers, memory keepers, and paper crafters on your list. All of the instagram photos taken during the holidays could be printed and added to this sweet book. 

Vintage hankie journal kits are a perfect stocking stuffer idea for anyone that loves vintage, and journals or scrapbooks. They also come in a white version for that bride to be on your list. 

For the vintage paper lovers in your life, our vintage ephemera stockings are the perfect gift idea. 

These sweet stockings actually sold out the first day they were listed, but I was able to restock them, so there are still a couple left. They're one of my personal favorites from this holiday season, and just filled with vintage ephemera! 

For the list makers, note takers, and journalers on your list we have some super sweet handmade and embellished journals in the shop. 

A subscription to The Little Pink Box would be a great stocking stuffer or gift for the crafty lovers on your list. You can purchase a one month, or a three month subscription. I'll email (or mail) you something adorable to print out and give to your recipient. 

And of course our gift cards are a great alternative as well. You can choose gift cards in any amount from $10 to $100, and I'll mail or email you a sweet printable certificate to wrap up. Gift cards are also a great last minute gift idea as I will be happy to email gift certificates (and Little PInk Box subscription certificates) all the way until Christmas eve!

Crafty kits are a perfect gift to give for Christmas because as soon as the husstle and bustle of the sesason dies down, there is still the rest Christmas break from school left, snowy winter days that it's too cold to go outside, and days where crafting is just what is needed! 

A note about shipping: The USPS states that all packages shipped via priority mail by the 20th will arrive in time for Christmas, so I will be taking orders until Thursday, the 18th. I am shipping all items the next day, and shipping via priority mail. Gift certificates and Little PInk Box certificates can be purchased and emailed as late as Christmas eve.  I will be taking a little break from the shop after this week, (other than to email certificates) so be sure to get your orders in before that. 

From the bottom of my heart I thank you for your support this holiday season! 

I have several things I want to share with you this week here on the blog, so check back with me. :)

Much love, Cerri

November's Little Pink Box, and a couple new things

Hello! How is your holiday season going so far? For me, it's going by way too fast and I feel like I am behind on mostly everything. Remind me next year to start all of my preparations much earlier, would you? I love this season so much, and wish it could last a little longer. I want to enjoy the lights, drink chai tea and hot cocoa, make pretty things, decorate my home, bake cookies, and all of those things that make this season so magical. I just need time to slow down just a bit. 

The little winter scene ornament above was one of the 2 projects we created with the November Little Pink Box. It's a tiny glass dome with a sweet little scene inside created with a glass glittered deer and a white Christmas tree. There's also teeny vintage pink pearl ornaments decorating the tree. 

I love how this turned out, and am hoping to have time to make a few more with different things inside. 

We also made these super sweet vintage angel tree toppers. I designed and created this topper using ALL vintage materials. The body is a vintage paper thread cone, the angel head is vintage, her dress and wings are made of vintage lace, and even her little pink topper thing is made from a vintage felted sweater. I love it when I can make something using all vintage materials, don't you? I'll show you how she looks on my studio tree as soon as I get it decorated. Ha. Speaking of my studio, I still need to blog the studio redo. Hopefully I will get to that later this week. 

How sweet is that face? I actually had one extra kit for this topper and have listed it in the shop. :)

I have also added a couple other kits to the shop this evening. First is this petite holiday book kit. It's made with vintage red leather covers, and comes with 2 petite collage sheets, vintage lace and trims, and vintage ephemera. It's perfect for creating a special little mixed media memory book. 

This kit comes packaged in a clear stationery box. 

Something else I am super excited about are these vintage ephemera stockings. This summer I found a lot of these vintage old stock mesh stockings that were used to hold toys and trinkets for children in the 1950's. I couldn't wait to do something with them for my shop. So, I filled them with all sorts of vintage ephemera. There's vintage tags, Christmas seals, cards, postcards, milk caps, and more! They're all a little different, and would make a perfect gift for your crafty friends. (or yourself!) 

You can find these items in the shop, and remember if you have already spent $40 with The Little Pink Studio this holiday season shipping will be FREE for you for the rest of the year! I'm also tucking in some little goodies with each order to show my appreciation for each and everyone of you that supports my shop! 

I'll be back soon! Cerri 

Vintage style December daily journal kits

Hello! I hope your weekend was lovely! The first part of our holiday shop update is now live in the shop, you can see all items right here.  I wanted to share with you this years vintage December daily journal kits I have put together for you. I do plan to have more, but these are the ones I have finished, ready to ship, and in the shop right now. The first is a gorgues kit that I have covered in one of my favorite vintage wallpapers. Both covers have this wallpaper and the inside covers have pockets for extra memorabilia. Just like your kits from last year, the covers are pre punched and all of the cardstock pages have been cut to size and punched for you. How easy does that make it to put your kits toghether?! The kits are filled with vintage and new papers, embellishments, wrapping paper, vintage ephemera, vintage tags, trims, fabric, etc. You can see a full lsiting of the contents in the listings in the shop. I am not sure if you can tell, but this wallpaper is pink roses with gold outline. The leaves are and detailing is gold, I'm just not sure it shows here. So this kit is primarily pink, ivory, and gold. You know, my favorite colors! Here's a look at what else is in the kits. 

It's really impossible to show you all of the details of these kits, but if you've ever bought a kit from me, you know they're always generous, and full of lovely things, more than you would need to complete your project. (oh, and the holes are punched in this kit, they just weren't when I took the photos) And as a surprise this year, all of my book kits will come with a super sweet Little Pink Studio book bag! 

This next book kit was really hard for me to list. How wonderful is that cover? The sweet illustration and title are imprinted into the cover. The kit contains the same types of items, but with a more muted, neutral colors. There are hints of pink and gold, and even a tiny bit of green, but the overall colors are nuetral. Some original book pages and illustrations are inclued. 

 

And I was lucky enough to find some more of the darling book covers I used last year that sold so quickly. 

I have a couple of those kits available as well as the same book kit but with a different cover than I have seen before. 

The book, the kit, and the pages are all the same, just a unique cover. Isn't is the sweetest? 

Like I said, I do plan to have more book kits ready soon, and I actually have a few more kits I want to get finished and listed. So I will be adding more soon. 

As a reminder of the shipping promotion we're offering for the rest of the year:

And, as part of a celebration and thank you for running this little shop of mine for EIGHT years this month, I am running a special shipping promo. First of all, all orders over $60 ship free. But the best deal is that when you purchase $40 worth of product between now and then end of the year, you will receive FREE shipping until the end of the year on future orders! It doesn't matter if you spend $40 in one purchase or in 2, etc. once you have spent $40 your purchases for the rest of the year will ship for free!

I will also be tucking some free goodies into each order! You can check out the 3 previous blog posts for more details on the products being offered today, and you can see them all right here as well!

I'm going to get some sleep, as I pulled an all nighter to get this all finished and listed as promised. I hope you will love it all, and as always thank you for your continued support!

xo, Cerri

 

 

More holiday shop update peeks and a sweet deal!

Hello! Just taking a break from putting kits together and sharing more holiday shop update peeks with you. I designed 3 new sets of Christmas themed "flair" or buttons this year. They're all flat backed so you can use them in paper craft projects, jewelry projects, make tags, embellish project life pages and December daily albums. (or anything your creative heart desires!) They're all packaged in a sweet stamped muslin bag. 

Here's the other 2 sets. 

I love how they all turned out, and hope that you do too! And those cute Santa bags? They will also be in the shop! Here's more peeks of miscellaneous things that will be part of this shop update. 

There is actually 4 new tags sets, this is just 2 of them. 

And, as part of a celebration and thank you for running this little shop of mine for EIGHT years this month, I am running a special shipping promo. First of all, all orders over $60 ship free. But the best deal is that when you purchase $40 worth of product between now and then end of the year, you will receive FREE shipping until the end of the year on future orders! It doesn't matter if you spend $40 in one purchase or in 2, etc. once you have spent $40 your purchases for the rest of the year will ship for free!

I have some more tricks up my sleeve as well, and I'll share them soon. Be sure to check out the first and second holiday shop previews. 

See you tomorrow. :)

Are you wondering where the heck my holiday shop update is?

Well, hello there! I'm sorry to disappear like that. But the truth is I have been working around the clock getting my holiday shop update ready. Turns out I had more ideas than time this year. But, I will have lots of new, fun stuff in the shop on Monday morning. I will more than likely continue to add things since, as I said I have lots of ideas, and also, we have plenty of time before Christmas still. I thought I would show you a few peeks today and will pop in over the weekend to share more. The above little winter wonderland scence might seem familiar to you. That's because it was a Little Pink Box project last year, but I liked it so much I decided to bring it into the shop this year. So that is one of several new kits that will be a part of the holiday shop update. 

In addition to several vintage December daily kits that I will show you later, I also made several holiday themed deluxe hankie kits. They have a sweet hankie journal kit along with vintage fabric, trims, buttons, millinery, and vintage ephemera too. I've included vintage wallpaper, vintage wrapping paper, calendar pages from the 1940's, vintage holiday tags, etc. Plenty of materials to make a super cute little memory book or journal. 

And once again I am bringing back my collage angel kit. She is just so near and dear to my heart as she was the very first kit Isold 8 years ago this month! I can't believe I have been running this crafty little business of mine since 2006! I feel so blessed to get to do what I do, and of course I couldn't do that, if you all didn't love what I do and buy my kits and supplies! I'm going to be running some promotions, doing some giveaways, free gifts, and more starting next week, to show you how much I appreciate you all so you'll want to stay tuned!

But back to my sweet collage angel ornaments, I made a new example this year from the same kit. The kit actually has the materials to make 3 angels, but has enough vintage wallpaper and other papers that you could make a ton of ornaments! It's like a vintage wallpaper pack combined with an ornament kit. 

I made this one by layering vintage wallpaer with a pretty rose print wax paper (included in the kits) and covering the body with mica flakes. (also included in the kits!) The wings were made by layering more vintage wallpaper. 

That's just a tiny peek into this year's kit. Everything is packaged in a sweet luxe blush envelope.

I'm curious, what is your favorite color palette for this years holiday season? For me I seem to be drawn to the pale pink and gold. But also surprisinly, I'm kind of liking some vintage black and white Christmas items. In fact, I plan to have the same December daily kits I had last year, but also some different color themes as well. (some of which will just be "one of" kits)

I'll share those later, but I can let you know that this kit will make a return, along with some varying materials. 

So, I'll be back tomorrow with more peeks at what is to come with the hoiday shop update. I can't wait to show you everything I've been working on! 

Happy weekend! Cerri

PS, Are you crafting this weekend? Or getting your home ready for Thanksgiving? And how many of you have already put up your tree? I love to know what everyone is hustling around doing during this wonderfully busy time of year!

An inexpensive and lovely gift idea

Hello! I was thinking of some inexpensive and handmade gift ideas and remembered these candles I made last year. They really are a lovely gift and cost next to nothing. You can find these unscented glass candles for around $1 at Dollar General or Dollar Tree stores. --Even some grocery stores cary them. Then simply raid your lace and millinery stash to embellish them. 

Wrap different laces around your candles and adhere with a strong adhesive. I used the Ultimate glue, as usual, because it holds everything and works on every surface. 

You could also add a bit of vintage millinery, or leave them simply covered in lace. Give them as hostess gifts, party favors, neighbor gifts, or to just about anyone that enjoys a candle. No one would ever know how little they cost you to create! 

The other thing I love about these particular candles is that they are unscented. I have had allergies most of my life and the older I get the more they seem to bother me including most scented candles. I have even had to leave shops that had candles burning---but these candles burn nicely and have no scent. :) Perfect for gals like me. 

This is the original post I did about these. It also has some other lovely lace covered candles I had found around the web as inspiration. There are probably tons more on pinterest as well. 

Are you making handmade gifts this year? What are you making? I would love to hear about them!

Cerri xo

 

A five minute ornament tutorial

Hello again! Like I mentioned yesterday, I love to craft during the holiday season, even if it's just for a few minutes at a time. So today I wanted to share this cute, but super simple and fast ornament with you. 

All you will need is a glittered snowflake ornament found in just about every store that sells ornaments, a crocheted lace applique, a sweet little image like the one below, some strong adhesive, and glitter glue. 

Simply save the image to your computer, print it out on cardstock, and punch a circle.

Glue the lace to the snowflake ornament, and glue the image onto that. Add a bit of glitter glue around the edge of the image, and once dry, hang it on your tree. Easy peasy. 

So fast and easy you can have a slew of pretty little ornaments in no time at all. They would also be super cute topping presents or holding places on your holiday table!

Happy creating!

Cerri xo

Another winner and pretty images for you!

Hello! I loved reading all that you are making! I love crafting all year, but this time of year especially! Even if I can only carve out a few moments at a time, I just love to make things and glitter everything! 

The winner of the collage sheets is Stevie-Lynn! Shoot me an email with your address and choices and I'll get those out to you. 

Join me here tomorrow for a tutorial to make a super cute ornament that  will take you five minutes to make. Really, 5 minutes. Tops. :)

xo, Cerri