Styled Prints Design Loft

You may or have may not noticed but recently I started an etsy shop "Styled Prints Design Loft" with invitations and other party decor!  I must say I am very excited, I loved working in the past with the other creative people for my invitations and printable.  I though it would be a good time to continue with my creativity in other channels of the entertaining world. Offer my creative and styled way of saying "You're Invited" Click over and see for yourself!  In the next few weeks you will find much much more, and a new website.  

Don't forget to click over and peek and the designs.  

http://www.etsy.com/shop/StyledPrintsDesign

Here are a few  samples to view here~ 

Peace, Love & Styled Prints Design Loft,


Stacy

Pre-School Valentine's

Class parties are always one of my favorite things about Valentine's Day!  Our four year old is so beyond excited to share "her heart" with her  friends she has been telling us all week!  Now while buying commercial Valentine's are very practical for so many, I prefer to try to be a bit creative and make handmade one's.  I saw a cute photo of a Valentine on Pinterest along with others and you can find my board here~ (follow along with me if you don't already, and i can follow you back) and you will see below my Emma's three versions of Valentine's she is handing out today!  She is so stoked!  Hope you all have fun with Valentine's class parties this year!  

http://pinterest.com/ScrumptiousBlog/valentine-s-day/

Owl always be your friend ~

You're COOL~ 

You TOAD-ally POP as a friend ~

Peace, Love & Class Valentine's ~

Stacy

Royal Wedding Favors Idea

Hi!  I know many of you including myself are thrilled that the biggest Royal Wedding in history of this decade is less than 48 hours away!  My oldest daughter, who is 11 is so intrigued by all the details surrounding the wedding.  She spent hours yesterday reading about the family tree and all about the Royal Family!  I love it!  


Luckily for us, we are on the East Coast and Live coverage begins at 4am, I wouldn't miss it! We have been watching Royal Family episodes this whole week.   Haley plans on waking at 5am to watch, as many of her friends to she said.  But then she does need to get off to school that day by 7:45am.   I thought it would be a cute idea to make her & the other girls at her lunch table Will & Kate Royal Wedding favors.  Haley will take them to hand out on Friday at lunch! (Yes, I am that Mom, but the girls will love it I'm sure!) I also jump at any chance to send in special treats for the girls or class!

With the help of Kim from The Tomkat Studio's Free printables & a box of TastyKake lemon krimpets it was simple!  Here is what you need:

Printables ~ Click here for The TomKat Studio to download your free printables
Box of Tastykake Krimpets or any short of cake package sweets
Ribbon
2 inch craft punch
Ribbon punch
Treat Bags

There you have it a sweet Will & Kate Royal Wedding Favor for my daughter & her friends!  




Peace, Love & Royal Wedding Favors,


Stacy

{Updated} Ghostly S'mooooore's DIY Treats

Happy Friday!  Can you believe Halloween is next week?  There will be lots of Halloween & Harvest celebrations going on in the classrooms next week!  Here are 2 ideas for you to make and share with your son's/daughter's classroom or when they arrive home from trick or treating next Sunday!

First, last year in my daughter's 4th grade class I had the pleasure to read her class a book and hand out some special treats.  I picked up a short version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"  this book is age appropriate and all 26 of them sat quiet and attentive, which had me nearly falling off of my stool while I was ready it.  Honestly, I was a little intimated to do this simply because I didn't want to bring in a book that was too young for them and certainly not one too old.  So if you are looking for a tween appropriate quick Halloween book this is defiantly one to pick up~

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow book by Washington Irving  on Amazon.com
These were the cinnamon shortbread cookies I made for them~

What's the plan for this year??  Ghostly Smooooore's treats with homemade marshmallow ghosts!

Do you want to make them and share them with your little ghoul's or their class?  Here's what you need~

~First you need to make the marshmallow.  Don't have a recipe for it?  This is the one I used from the Food Network Marshmallow recipe.  It was very simple, not as messy as I thought it would be or as I had read from other sites.  Basically if you've ever made rice krispy treats, you can make this and get it into your 13x9 pan without much of a problem.  Oh and I didn't use a candy thermometer either, just went by the time in boiling in the directions. 

~With the marshmallow you need a ghost cookie cutter, the one I have in the picture above is from Williams Sonoma. 

You also need:

~Graham crackers

~Snack size Hershey chocolate bars

~Plastic snack bags

~Halloween Printables.  The ones I used are from Bird Crafts and they are only $7 in her Etsy Shop!  Order ~them and she will email them to you with instructions and you print them yourself!

~Double sided tape

~Scissors, a scorer if you have one does make it easier to cut & a ruler

~Black icing or edible black marker for the eyes of the marshmallow ghost

~ Bakery Twine ( mine is The Twinery)

After the marshmallow is done, as per the directions cut out as many ghosts with your cookie cutter that you can,  the amount will depend on how big your cutter is.  Give him eyes and write "Boo" if you wish on him and let it dry.

For the treat bags~ 

In the mean time get your graham crackers & chocolate bars in the snack bags.  Also cut out your printables and put the double sided tape on the inside of the labels to stick to the top of the bags.  Like this~

I opened the bars for my bags so these favorite treats of many are ready to go with out much work for the ghouls & goblins other than opening their bags!

Here are my finished Ghostly S'mooooores~

For the "at home" S'Mooooore's~

Simply stack 2 graham crackers, 2 chocolate bars, top with your homemade marshmallow ghost and tie with your twine!  Hmmm a nice warm (if your in chilly fall weather) hot chocolate would go perfect with these treats after an evening a trick or treating.

A perfect ghostly treat for your ghoul's and goblins at anytime this next week!  Easy and with the homemade marshmallow you put a little extra DIY love in the scrumptious treat!  

Any questions or comments let me know!!  Thanks!

Peace, Love & Ghostly S'mooooore's,

Stacy