Happy Monday, friends! How are ya today? I hope you're doing well! This week's Make-It Monday is featuring the BRAND NEW Ice Cream Corner product collection! When I say you're gonna love it, I mean YOU ARE GOING TO LOOOOOOOVE IT! So stinkin' cute! The Designer Series Paper is just adorable and the coordinating Stamp & Punch bundle are pretty sweet too!! See what I did there? ;-)
Well, anywhooooooo........ I thought I'd share a fun little set of notecards I put together with one of our Gold Mini Pizza Boxes. All of the cards are full on #SimpleStamping! Nothing but Stamps, Ink, and Paper, but very cute!
I used Blackberry Bliss for all of the sentiments. This helps tie all the cards in together for a cohesive set a little better. It's always so incredible how big of a role colors can play. The Ice Cream scoop is Terracotta Tile, while the cone is Soft Suede ink. The stamp set has that fabulous distINKtive technology, so all the shading and highlighting is done for me! I love that!
The popsicle is awesome because it's actually two different stamps to create the whole thing. You can see where the two different colors are. Each is it's own stamp. The top (and envelope) are Pool Party, while the bottom is Bermuda Bay. The stick is done with Soft Suede.
I love the candles!! I used Blackberry Bliss, Terracotta Tile, and Bermuda Bay inks for the candles and Bumblebee for the flames.
On my last card here, you can see the "bottom" stamp a little easier It's so artsy and cute with the splash of Blackberry, isn't it?
All the cards come together to represent the set very well. I love the simplicity of them.
For the outside of the box, I chose to add a bit more. I started with a 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" square of the coordinating Designer Series Paper. Then added a 3 1/4" x 1/2" strip of DSP. I used the Layering and Stitched Ovals for the sentiment piece and some of the GORGEOUS Blackberry Bliss Sheer Ribbon from the collection to finish it out. What do you think?
I hope you've enjoyed today's projects! They were so much fun to create! You can find the Ice Cream Corner collect on page 48 of the new Spring Mini Catalog.
If you would like to receive the upcoming Spring 2021 Mini Catalog and Sale-a-Bration Brochure, click the catalog image here to go to the request form!
Good morning to you, friends! It's time for Make-It Monday! I'm super excited to share this week's project with you because it is FABULOUS!! It's useful, creative, beautiful, and can be given as a wonderful gift! YAY, YAY, YAY, and YAYAYAYAYA! hehe.
I give you.......
The Friendship notecard box (with gift box)!!!
I had so much fun creating this box and I want to share it with you! I think you'll enjoy it too!
I will warn you ahead of time, however, this box took 4 sheets of cardstock for the easel box itself and an additional sheet for the gift box.
That being said, let's do this! :-D
Piece #1: The drawer itself. The photo shows the score and cut lines, as well as what the piece should look like.
Piece #2: The drawer sleeve. This is what the drawer will slide into when it's assembled.
Piece #3: The easel top. The bigger part glues to the top of the drawer sleeve, while the two smaller sections create the easel.
Pieces #4&5: The bottom of the sleeve glues to one of these pieces for the base of the box. The other piece is to glue onto the easel for the top of the box.
Piece #6: That little strip is a 7/8" x 5 1/8" piece, that will cover the brad and reinforce the front of the drawer.
The DSP You'll need:
* (1) 7/8" x 5 1/8" for the drawer front
* (1) 3 1/2" x 5" for the drawer liner
* (2) 4 1/8" x 5 5/8" for the top of the box and the easel front
* Additional cardstock/DSP/embellishments to decorate your box the way you choose
First, assemble the drawer.
I used a brad for the drawer pull, but you could just as easily use a twine loop with a knot or whatever you want.
I used that little strip of cardstock to cover the ends of the brad. It just gives a nice clean look to the drawer.
Don't forget your drawer liner! :-D
Next, assemble the drawer sleeve. I "tucked" the little tab between the two side panels so that it would leave a smooth finish on the inside and keep my drawer from getting hung up.
Double check to make sure the drawer fits in the sleeve good.
Once you've confirmed your drawer works properly, you can finish it up. One of the 4 3/8" x 5 7/8" panels is the base of our project. So, apply glue to the bottom of the drawer sleeve and center it over that panel and adhere.
Then, adhere the easel panel to the top of the drawer sleeve. The easel part should be to the back. Once you've got that attached, you can glue the other 4 3/8" x 5 7/8" panel to the top section (ONLY) of the easel panel.
There you have it! Your box is made and you can begin decorating it however you like. I enjoyed sponging all the edges of mine with Soft Suede to give it a more "VINTAGE" feel. But you can make yours however you like.
The drawer holds 5 embellished notecards and envelopes without trouble. Adding more might be a tight fit, but could be done if you tied a ribbon around the cards to hold them together.
Here are the ones I made for my box:
You can find a little video about today's project on my Youtube Channel here. I would love for you to subscribe! I post a new video each week and plan to start uploading more often very soon!
I created a gift box to protect my beautiful notecard box too! It's super simple and follows the standard "Simple Gift Box" rule.
I wanted the box to be only slightly bigger than my notecard box.
so my dimensions were 8 3/8" x 6 7/8", scored at 1 1/4" on all four sides.
If you aren't sure how to make the box or need a quick refresher, you can watch my video here:
I truly hope you enjoyed today's project! If you did, please go over to Kylie's page and vote for mine. You can get there by simply clicking the VOTE button here:
If you like today's box, you may also like this one:
As you can see, I've really enjoyed making them! Even though they take a lot of paper, they are absolutely FABULOUS!!! I intend to give them as gifts this year!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, my friends! I hope you enjoyed this fun project and will create one for yourself or to gift away to someone else!! Giving random acts of kindness is always so much fun!
Good morning friends! I hope you're all doing well today! It's time for CASE IT Wednesday!! This week's CASE project comes from a quarterly publication that Stampin' Up! demonstrators receive in the mail. It's full of fabulous techniques, ideas, business tips and more. I found this project and new it had to be my next CASE, for two reasons: #1 - It's yet another excuse to use the Birthday Cheer Bundle (buahahaha) and #2 - it uses the Stamparatus to make that FANTASTIC background piece!!
So actually, the fact that I could use Birthday Cheer was just a happy coincidence. I was honestly more thrilled with the "step stamping" technique of the Stamparatus. I really wanted to show this technique to you because I just knew you would love it!
In fairness, I just used Birthday Cheer to decorate the envelope and to stamp a fabulous sentiment inside the card. ;-)
I've mentioned before, how much I absolutely adore the Rectangle Stitched Framelits. They're FANTASTIC!!! If you don't have them in your craft room yet, you are missing out on greatness!
I cut a rectangle from this piece of pool party. I also saved that leftover piece because I saw potential for a card with it. hehe. Waste not, want not!
Now the fun part!! I used the Stamparatus to create the repeated background on the rectangle. Once you set it up where you want it, it's a simple matter of moving the plate down a step each time. SUPER EASY, but FABULOUS results!!
To begin with I lined up the two stamps from the Itty Bitty Birthdays set, directly on the rectangle. I closed the Stamparatus plate down to pick them up, and then inked and stamped. After stamping the first set, I moved the plate down to the next notch. I did NOT move or touch the stamps again, except to ink them. Leave them on the plate and just move the plate down a step each time. Repeat that step all the way down the piece.
Since this is actually a notecard, I just used little scraps of Whisper White that I had in the bin to make the sentiment pieces.
I tied some white baker's twine around the rectangle and tied the bow at the edge. Then I attached this layer to the card, using dimensionals. The only thing left to do was to cut the cupcake out of the "How Sweet It Is" DSP and attach it to the card with the white scraps.
This card took no time at all and is the cutest thing!! You could easily make a dozen of these in an hour or two!
And did I mention how cute they are?!!
Well, there you have it my friends! I hope you've enjoyed today's CASE IT project. Sale-a-Bration is going on for only a few more days, so you can still get these products and earn a FREE stamp set or paper pack from the Sale-a-Bration brochure! Don't miss out! On March 31st, all those freebies go away for good. :'( Sad day!!
You can find all the products I used today, down below. Simply click on one of the photos to be taken directly to my website. :-) HAPPY DAY!!!
Thank you so much for stopping by today! I truly do enjoy your visits! Let me know in the comments below, if you CASE this project. :-) I'd love to hear from you.
