Heart a Bloom treat box

Happy Friday! A friend needed a few little boxes to put on the girls desks with chocolates inside and asked if I could come up with a few for her. That is an easy request so I got to work and came up with these. I used the bloom in the digital set Heart Abloom as I can enlarge it to fit the boxes. 

The measurements for this box are easy. 

The bottom: cut a piece of cardstock 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Score at 1 inch on all sides. Fold in the edges and adhere to form base. 

The top:  cut a piece of cardstock 4 7/8 x 4 7/8 (now I might have that last part wrong. Basically two little tick marks from the 3/4 mark if the 7/8 isn't the correct conversion) Score at 1 inch on all sides and adhere to form the top. 

The belly band I took a piece of maroon cardstock 1 inch thick and wrapped around the box and adhered together in the middle. The bloom covers the over lay so no need to worry about that. 

Colored the bloom with various Copic markers and then added to the belly band. A few layers to the lid with some swiss dots for texture and voila. She can add whatever she needs to at this point but I think she will keep them as is since its a surprise. :-)  

Check out the Bloom Brigades creations today:
  Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Julie Koerber

Card Box Four Tutorial with Natural Beauties

Good morning! Today I am going to show you the final part of my Spring Border gift set with a tutorial for Card Box Four. This is similar to the other versions just a little different for the front of the box. This is what the final box will look like when complete. 

Below is the tutorial for you using Natural Beauties for the box front since that is the clear stamp set that Marcy used for her Spring Border One and Spring Border Two digital versions. The Natural Beauties is like a mini me set, super cute!  :-)

 Step One: Cut a piece of card stock 9 inch length by 7 inch width. Score a 1 inch border along all sides. Add designer paper if desired as I have done here. Snip the ends of each corner, add adhesive and fold in to create base. Set aside.

 Step two: Cut a piece of card stock 4 1/2 inch width by 7 inch length. Score a 1 inch border on three sides. Add your desired decorative cut edge. Here I used Lawn Fawn's stitched scallop edges. Snip the two ends as shown.

 Step three: Add desired designer paper or stamp if you wish. I added silver cord to the bottom as I will be adding other embellishments later.

 Step four: Add adhesive to all edges and to the ends you snipped. Start by adding just the end to the box inside as shown. This is the view and way I adhere to make sure that it lined up with the box edge.

Step five:  This is the side view for you to see that it lines up. Next add one side at a time and press to make sure it adheres to the edge. This will help with the strength of the sides of the box as well.

 Step six: This is what it will look like. Finish decorating as desired.

This is my finished box without the cards inside. I added a kraft layer behind my image from Natural Beauties and a button with matching silver cord. A few rhinestones and then some sparkle. 

Here is my final card box four again with the envelopes and the cards inside from the gift set. Voila! If you want to see the other versions of my card boxes just check the side bar at the top under Sweet and Classic Tutorials.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Maddy's birthday purse

I finally got to use the new die that I got for Christmas from Our Daily Bread Designs, it is the new or new to me timeless tote. I think its totally cute die and had fun making this. My first one so bare with me. She likes pink so I knew the base would be easy but the papers for the side pockets and the front pouch needed to have some flowers. So I grabbed the ODBD Blushing Rose designer paper for those. Added a few pearls and then assembled. 

I need to figure out if I want to stamp the sentiment directly on the front (probably should of done that thought first) or if I just want to add a tag. hhhmmmm.. I have time to think on it. A giftcard will fit perfectly in the little pouch in the front and some chocolates that she likes inside. I have a few other  that I plan to create with this for gifts. Should be fun and I will keep you posted. Thanks for stopping by today. 

Power Poppy's Natural Wonders Release week, Day three

Welcome to Power Poppy's Natural Wonders release. We sure are excited to share with you Marcy's newest art work. Before I get to my creation be sure to check out a few things.

• Marcy has inspiration and info about the newest design over on the Power Poppy Blog. Be sure to check it out. 
• Have you played in our new Creative Confetti inspirations on Tuesday's? You NEED to check it out each week and play along. You have a chance at winning a $25 gift card to PP just for creating and linking for a chance to win. How fun!
• Another change at winning Power Poppy bucks you say? Why yes... Check out this months Power and Spark challenge Hitting the books brought to you by miss Katie. This challenge has a chance to win $50 gift card to PP. Now why wouldn't you play along?  :-)

My creation today using Fortunes of Fall is something I have wanted to do for awhile. Several people have done versions of these pumpkins using toilet paper rolls and I have adored them. So I created my own version today. It is super easy and I think turned out darling. 

I actually found this burlap ribbon at the dollar store a few weeks back. I wrapped it around the roll a few times and made sure that it over lapped. Then rolled some chocolate paper for the stem and some swirly sprigs I guess you call them in green and orange. Now leaves are probably not on pumpkins normally but I liked the addition to this, they are from the Chrysanthemum XL stamp set. My tag uses the pumpkin stamp from the set that is on a tag. Colored with various Copics and then a button or two with the sentiment tag. Voila! A few of these will make great little gifts for friends. They are going to love them. 

Check out the Bloom Brigades creations today:

  Allison Cope 

  Christine Okken 

  Cindy Lawrence 

  Julie Koerber 

  Kathy Jones 

  Katie Sims 

  Tosha Leyendekker

12 Days of Christmas, Snow Kissed

Good Morning! Today is Day 7 of Power Poppy's 12 Days of Christmas. It is my turn with these cute altered treat gift ideas. I hope you check out the PP Blog for information. Thanks for stopping by today.  :-) 

So Grateful book

Finally you say... a fall themed creation. I did say I had one but needed to wait to post it for two reasons. One is it was a gift for my sister that now has this in hands. Second it was designed using the Hues To Use colors on the PP blog today.  :-)  Sneaky huh... ;-)

Back in 2002 I created a book that we write in every Thanksgiving with what we are thankful for over the last year. I have posted a picture of what our book looked like before as I had remade the original cover. It's always nice to look back over the years, especially the boys and what they write. How they develop more thoughtful and meaningful things to be thankful for as they have grown up. My sister wanted to start a book for her family so I created this one for her. And I must say I like her book more than my own now. HA!  I might need to recover mine again. Different skills and supplies come out over the years ya know.  :-)  Anyways...

The image is called Maize for Days that was printed to fit the panel I wanted. Various Copic colors were used to color the corn. A decorative Spellbinders die shape for the base. Some textured swiss dots to the cream panel and some colored brads added. Wrapped some crochet lace around the middle and some wrinkled ribbon that is probably the last of in my stash. Some gold sparkle added to the tops and voila! 

My sister loved this book. I dedicated the first page in it to her family from ours. Thanks for stopping by today. 

Abundance Collection Day Four

Welcome to Power Poppy's Abundance Collection sneak peeks! We are excited to share with you today Dahlia XL. Squeel!!! Another of Marcy's large blossoms to work with and it is just as fabulous as the Tiger Lily XL. Created a fun gift bag for today. It is rather large so I took a picture out back.  This was a plain kraft gift bag and I altered it up a little bit. Some designer paper and card stock for the base. Pierced along the top and bottom of the cardstock base. Part of my sentiment stamped directly to the bag and the other to a tag.

Here is a close up as I have layered the Dahlia into three layers. and cut between the layers to add the leaves. The orange like color is actual Twinkling H20 added to the petals. Yep have those sitting around for ages and thought I would use them as well. However it has been a long time since I used those and well.... I put it on too thick I think but it looks nice in real life. A different kind of shimmer than the one from yesterday's Pearl-Ex pigments. Just trying to use up more of the stuff I collect over the years.  :-)  This flower layered is just awesome, so many possibilites.

Check out the Bloom Brigades creations today:

  Allison Cope
  Christine Okken
  Cindy Lawrence
  Julie Koerber
  Kathy Jones
Katie Sims
 Tosha Leyendekker

Now before you go we have a few reminders for you.
Our July Power and Spark "On the Case" challenge has a few days left. This is your chance to win $50 in Power Poppy bucks.
 This weeks Hues to Use challenge is posted which is your chance to be a guest designer with us.
Marcy has information posted on the blog to be sure to check it all out.
Thanks for stopping in and see you tomorrow with another new sneak peek.

Card in a box tutorial

Good morning! We are in the baseball play off's boys and girls, woot woot! Saturday was a beautiful day on the field and we had a great team we played for the double header. Gracious hosts especially since it was a two hour drive to their school. EEK!  Great time with the kids on the road trip up and beautiful landscape along the way. This week is game one and two if we win out we continue otherwise it is winner goes home. Let's hope we can win out and continue to the championship. Now for my creation...

 Mother's day is just a few days away so I figured I better get going on my cards. This is my first Card in a box along with new dies from Power Poppy. This is the final project with the tutorial just under for you to create your own. So let's get started.

 Supplies: Peony Muse stamp set, Peony Muse dies, Surprise box die, cardstock, adhesive, embellishments desired.

Step 1: Die cut box base and designer paper tabs if desired. Also one insert for the center of the box.

Step 2: Adhere designer paper tabs to the box if using designer paper. Pre-fold your edges and the tabs. Add adhesive to the tiny edge to secure to edge. Note, when you fold the box the decorative edges will want to be facing out. Pref-old before to get the idea of the shape.

Step 3: Fold into box shape and secure edge as shown.

 Step 4: To the left is what the box will look like when laying flat. To the right is what it looks like when opened up at a stand.

Step 5: Add adhesive to the edges of the insert piece and secure to the inside of the box. This is looking at the box from the top view.  Stamp the flowers, stems and leaves onto cardstock. Color as desired and then die cut with the matching dies. (picture not shown, I forgot that one. Sorry)

Step 6: I found that laying the box flat on top of the envelope helped me to position the pieces without going over the edge. This helps as it will slide right into the envelope and nothing gets torn.  :-)  Position the first bloom along the back with some leaves peeking out the edge. I didn't actually adhere the bloom at first until I knew how it would look.

Step 7: After I adhered the flower I folded up the box to see what it would look like.

Step 8: Start to layer as desired the remaining blooms. Notice (below) that my first one is moved a little. I found that you were not able to see it as well so I just removed it carefully and moved it up a tad.

Step 9: Added more leaves and a smaller bloom. Here is the card standing up. Now you can finish decorating as desired.

The final card in a box using Peony Muse. My sentiment is from Sweet memories stamp set die cut using a few dies. Added another peony bud to the edge, some sparkle to the petals and some sparkling enamel dots. I have another mom's card to create, in the meantime hope you get a chance to create your own. Have a wonderful day. 

Tiger Lily Gift Box Tutorial

Good morning. Today I am finally getting the Tiger Lily Box instructions for you that I promised. It has been crazy busy with school and sports that I just needed to sit down and get it done. Besides my sister was wondering if the second box was going to be for next years teacher at the rate I was going. ha ha  So let's get started. I did try to take the photo's in my light box, but it was to hard so its on the front counter. Hopefully you won't mind.  :-) 

Supplies: Cardstock, designer paper, scissors, Tiger Lily XL stamp, giftbox punch board, scoring tool, foam mat.

Step 1: Stamp out two flowers and some leaves. You could do another layer if desired, I kept it with just the two as before.  Color as desired. Cut out each flower and leaf as shown.

Step 2: To pop the leaves up on the box you will need to cut in between the petals but not all the way to the center. They have a natural break line to the center and I use that as my guide. The flower on the left shows how far I cut into the center between the leaves.

Step 3: Once you have cut between the petals you can use the scoring tool to help roll the flower petals in an upward motion. I use this first, then I tend to use my finger to give it more of a rounded look. It will flex as you handle the petals so don't worry if it doesn't stay the first few times. Do this to both flowers and the leaves and set aside.

Step 4: This box is a little thinner and taller than my original to make it different for the other teacher. I used the measurements for the large box, 11 x 11 sheet of paper on the giftbox punch board instructions. To secure the flower to the box without having to tear it open, I have added a belly band to the box. Cut two pieces of solid card stock 1/2 inch width x 11 inch length. Score both pieces at 1 inch, 4 3/8 inch and 8 1/2 inch as shown.

Step 5: Turn strips opposite of each other, add adhesive to the inside of the right strip and secure to the back of the left piece. It will leave the little flap up as shown to the right below. Add adhesive to the little flap, that will be hidden on the inside. If this is confusing, don't add adhesive at first just wrap around the box for a visual.

Step 6: Place box in center and wrap around. I have it held in place to show you. Add adhesive to the left far edge strip and secure over the top of the box. The little flap will be secured on the inside of the band.

Step 7: Take your flowers and add dimensionals to the middle. I forgot to photo the flower stems in the middle earlier as you see them now. These will be added to the center and secured with a dimensonal as well.

Step 8: I find it easier to handle the flower and roll the petals with the belly band off the box until finished. Layer the flowers and secured to the belly band. and roll the ends up and out as you prefer. Secure the center and slide the belly band back onto the box to finish final details. Decorate as desired.

Step 9: My final Tiger Lily giftbox in pink.  The leaves are secured onto the belly band under the petals so when it slides off as you see below it is all one piece. I added some sparkles to the petals and rolled them a bit more once on the box.

Voila! I hope you have time to create a gift today and have fun. Enjoy your day!