A special little gift box

Well it's finally friday for everyone and it's time to have a nice relaxing

crafty weekend for me.  Today i am sharing a quick little paper gift box

that i made to put some homemade goodies in that i am going to make.

The boxes come in a set of six so they are nice to make up ahead

with some of those scrappy pieces of paper that you have laying

around.  I did mine in Graphic 45's Home Sweet Home collection so

that it looked more country looking.  To cover the box i measured

each side and cut each of the pieces a 1/4 inch smaller and glued each 

of them on to the box.  For the front i cut a few Spellbinders circle dies

in coordinating prints and glued them together with 3D foam dots.  And 

then i cut a pretty Butterfly in red and ivory and glued that on the top.

Then i cut another piece of the ivory and stamped the Just for you in

black and then flagged both ends of it.  It is from the Just for you Set

and has 3 other stamps in the set as you can see below.

It's a really wonderful set and i use it all the time.  

Well that's it for me today and thank you for stopping over

for a little bit of inspiration today.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Teresa

Walnut Hollow & Quietfire Design Blog Hop - Give Thanks

Hello!  My name is Kathy Jo and welcome to day 2 of the Walnut Hollow and Quietfire 2014 Blog Hop!   We’re pleased you’re joining us and know you’ll find lots of creative inspiration for combining Quietfire stamps on the beautiful Walnut Hollow wood products.

For my project, I used Walnut Hollow's card box, item 1704OP

and Quietfire's newly released stamp set Give Thanks

The box is planned to be a Christmas gift and will contain Thank You cards for the recipient.  

First, the box was painted antique white.  Graphic 45's Birdsong paper was cut to size and applied to the box lid.  The base of the box was covered with faux black leather card stock.  Ivory lace was applied along the edge of the lid and a key hole embellishment was applied to the front.

Birdsong paper was die cut using Spellbinders' Elegant Ovals.  The gorgeous Give Thanks was heat embossed in gold on vellum and then die cut using Spellbinders' Floral Ovals.  Green Graphic 45 paper was die cut using Spellbinders' Foliage Flourish and was glued around the edge of the vellum.  Coordinating flowers, an antique key embellishment, mini gold ribbon and butterflies were also adhered as shown.  Stickles was applied to the butterflies as the final touch.

Here is another look at the finished box:

I just love this box!  The sentiment is so beautiful and the lovely box with the curved lid edge just begs the recipient to open it!

Would you like to win newly released Quietfire stamps and Walnut Hollow product?  How about the prize pack below?

Very awesome prize pack!  To be eligible for our grand prize, your work is simple:  Please leave a comment on each of our blog posts, nine here on the Quietfire Creations blog and five on the Walnut Hollow blog hop posts here: http://walnuthollowcrafts.wordpress.com/   So that will be 14 comments in total on two different blogs from September 29, 2014 to October 3, 2014!  The winner must be a resident of North America. 

Here are the links to the other posts today to make sure you did not miss anyone:

Sherry

Walnut Hollow

We will draw the prize on Monday October 6th, 2014 and the winner will be announced shortly after in a separate blog post. We look forward to seeing your comments!  Tell your friends!

Have a great day and good luck!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo

Small Packages Tied Up With Ribbon!

Good morning!  Sherry here again this week and I have a couple of things to share today.  Over the last week, I’ve been working on some mixed media pieces using the Spellbinders Media Mixage line.  I shared some on my blog the other day, but I wanted to share one here with you today!

I used the Spellbinders™ Media Mixage™, Rectangles Two for this piece, along with UTEE and lots of beads.  The UTEE and coral additive made unique designs within the bezel.

I’m planning on giving these pieces as Christmas gifts to some members of my family, and while I’m always hoarding little boxes, I’m afraid that I might not have enough on hand.  I decided that to solve my problem of “not enough little boxes” I would make my own gift boxes.

The template and tutorial for this mini pizza box can be found here on Splitcoaststampers.  I use this template as the basis for the box, but I do like to add a band that goes around the box to hold it closed.  A strip of white paper was cut and formed loosely around the box, basically to get the folds.  Once I have the folds marked I scored them so that the band will bend easily.  

The small snowflake from Those We Love Are the Snowflakes was stamped randomly around the box (before it was glued together) in white.  The sentiment on the tag is from Christmas is the Day was stamped in sepia and then die cut/embossed, and layered using Spellbinders Ovals.

The box is the perfect size to hold small gifts.

Oh and by the way, the ribbon was dyed with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink.

That’s it for me today!  If you need any small gift boxes, I hope you give these a try!






Project Supplies:

Quietfire Design - Those We Love Are the Snowflakes Quietfire Design - Christmas is the Day Spellbinders at Quietfire Design Spellbinders Media Mixage at Quietfire Design Adirondack Pigment Pad, Snow Cap Ranger Collage glue stick Ribbon, Solid Wrinkled, White, 1/2" wide Ranger Heat-it Craft Tool Paper, White, 80lb Cardstock Ranger Non-Stick Craft Sheet Ranger Misters, 2oz Ranger Distress Inks at Quietfire Design

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