and I’m elated to have you join me. Welcome on your journey – from the lovely, crafty Antonia’s blog.
{Link no longer available. It has been disabled because the blog hop is now done. 🙂 You can still purchase the mini kits in Jessica Sprague’s store. Bags made with the designer’s 4ever bloghop kits: label from Carina’s mini kit, polaroid frame, banner and rick-rack heart from mini kit by Splendid Fiins, glitter splats from JS admin team and Heidi Swapp mini kit, star story stick made with 4ever mini kit by the Queen of Quirk. Paper strips on prizes below from above kits, as well as In the Making mini kit and Live Design’s mini kit.}
The labels can be used in digital or hybrid scrapping. A very 4th of July one and another for other occasions as well.
We love the 4th of July around here – here’s the blog post from last year if you would like to see what our small-town celebration looks like. We love having popcorn on the 4th – sometimes buttery – sometimes carmely, sometimes in the afternoon – sometimes during fireworks. I like it all. I thought it would be a great deal of fun to dress the popcorn bags up this year and put in prizes a la Cracker Jack. I hope you enjoy them too!
Here’s a close-up of the popcorn bags:
The labels can be printed directly onto paper bags – a little tricky, but I found great directions here, or they can be printed as labels and adhered to the paper bags.
And a photo of the prizes that can be found inside:
The prizes are packaged with the adorable papers included in the bloghop from the JS designers. A cute idea I got from sugarbsupplies where I bought the glassine envelopes. I used them partly because glassine is resistant to water and grease. Also because in my research I found out glassine is used to package fireworks. Perfect! And Zotz are included in my prize packages – a fun, fizzy candy that screams fireworks and fun to me. 😉
Here’s the story stick “prize” {craft} included in the download:
These can be made ahead of time and slipped into the bags, or the supplies can be included and each person make their own (that’s my plan). I used colored pencils for the base. I glued the sharp point into the star part, but if you’re feeling brave (or have older celebrants) it would be neat to have the stick be writeable as well. 🙂
Here’s info about the story sticks (also included in the download):
Feel free to visit as long as you’d like, and when you’re ready –head on over to the beautiful, effervescent Brenda’s blog, stop #14. 🙂
Lovely! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much for the hybrid goodies!
thanks for the cute project!
Thank you! These will make very cute recipe cards!
Becky, this is seriously awesome. I love the popcorn with a prize in a bag and the story stick idea. Super cute!
Great kit thanks for participating in the hop.
Thanks for the great goodies!
thank you so much, becky, for your awesome contribution to our celebration! you are wonderful! xoxox
So cute! Thank you for sharing your talents!
How adorable, I love the story stick idea. Thanks so much!
Love love love. You are amazing!
Love it.. thank you. .. by Simona from Italy (Rimini)
This is such an awesome idea. I love the story sticks. I am a teacher and what a great way to opent the school year. Thanks.
Oh cuuuuute! 🙂 Thanks Becky!
oh my cute!!!! thank you!!
Thank you so much – love these labels!
Thank you so much for these adorable labels! And, for your wonderful, creative ideas 🙂
Cute ideas! We always have a little gathering of about 1000 people or so for July 4th at our church’s campus. This is an awesome idea for my “potluck” contribution. Thanks!
Thank you ever so much!
The bags and labels are darling!
Thanks so much! I can’t wait to unzip and start playing.
So creative!!! Thanks.
Thanks so much for the fun labels. Love your popcorn bags!
I LOVE this blog hop! What very different ideas! I’ve missed it EVERY YEAR!! NOT THIS YEAR!! LOL! 🙂
Thanks SO MUCH for this kit!! Thankful to you and the other designers for the time and effort to help our creations look AMAZING!! Inspired to create!!
What a fun bunch of ideas! Thank you. All I would say about your blog is that the text is VERY difficult to read. Way too light colored but I love all your fun ideas and links. Thanks again!
Love this! You did a great job. Thanks for the beautiful template!
Thanks sooo much for an awesome blog hop! You are just tooo generous!
Thank you for the free label and story stick star and directions! Congratulations on 4 years
So creative, Becky! Love it!
Thanks for sharing this idea – it would be perfect for our Family Reunion!!!
This is so cute! I may have to try this with my 4 boys. Thanks for sharing!
Such a lovely label! Thank you for sharing it on this bloghop!
Just in time for end of the year project in the classroom. Thanks so much!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
Love the labels! Thank you so much! I’ll definitely be back to look around. Right now baby is sleeping and I’ve still got how many stops to make??? Be back later to look around some more!
What a cute & original idea! Thanks for sharing, Meg
These are wonderful! Thank-you!
Thank you!!
Thanks for the freebies. Very cute labels!
I wasn’t able to leave a comment the other night, but wanted to make sure I came back and said thank you for this fantastic gift. Thanks so much!