These were my favorite peppermint sticks.

My Grandma Judy would have these in a Santa mug on the living room table for the grand kids. I would dip them in my hot cocoa. They were crumbly and easy to chew. I feel sure that's why I had so many cavities! I bet there is a picture of us somewhere pretending like we are smoking cigars...
What kid can resist these? I remember tearing open the ends and taking a lick of each to find out what flavor they were.

In honor of "candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup"...my first Christmas card of the season!
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I didn't stop there! I found a cute wreath on Pinterest using real candy canes.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/292171094560488607/
Of course I had to make one out of paper!

I stamped the candy canes image numerous times, colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers and trimmed with detail scissors. To create the heart shapes, I did some mirror image stamping on a piece of smooth rubber and pressed the paper evenly over the top. It worked like a charm!

I glued the tips of the candy canes together and dipped each heart in melted UTEE using my poor neglected Melting Pot. It gave the pieces a glassy hard candy look, but dang that process is messy! I stamped the large stamptangle star with some gold glitter embossing powder, heat set and trimmed with detail scissors and hot glued all the pieces together. Now, I need to get motivated to decorate for Christmas!

There's a new monthly challenge at Just For Fun Rubber Stamps and the theme is ANY HOLIDAY!

Stamp a card, tag, ATC, mixed media project, etc. celebrating your favorite holiday for a chance to shop at jffstamps.com. You don't have to use a JFF stamp, but if you DO you will receive a 2nd entry into the drawing doubling your chance to win!
Make something festive and link up! I'll look for you in our gallery!

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Pile it On Challenge #137 ~Non Traditional Christmas Colors
Hiding in My Craft Room #329 Christmas Colors
Scrap and Craft Inspiration #10 Anything Christmas
Club Scrap 12-2017 Card Sketch Challenge

Wow! Both are adorable but that candy cane starburst is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was a whole lotta fussy cuttin’! 😂
ReplyDeleteSuch a fabulously colourful, trendy card, love those colours! CarolG
ReplyDeleteThank you Carol!
ReplyDeleteLove the candy cane wreath! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Cindy!
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ReplyDeleteYour candy cane images and this post made me smile :-)
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother always had ribbon candy around the holidays - mmm so good!
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ReplyDeleteI did! Now I have something new to read!
ReplyDeleteThank you...:-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful projects! Thanks for joining the Scrap & Craft challenge!
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