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Gift box punch board

Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone. I’m rather more organised than this time yesterday morning and have only one more gift to wrap. Fortunately in my family we don’t open gifts until after brunch which comes after Martin’s motorbike ride (if it’s warm enough – and it is this year) and my run. So there’s time. I was too busy making dinner last night to finish off.

I had a few pieces of paper to wrap (tickets to shows etc) and I wanted to make them less obvious and more substantial and so I got out my gift box punch board. Every time that I use this, I’m grateful to Jill who bought it for me as a Secret Pal gift last year.

I wanted to use a tag from the Oh What Fun tag kit that I made last week and went hunting for a DSP with mint macaron. I found the perfect paper in the It’s My Party DSP. I agree it’s a large box for a voucher. There may or may not be some paper towel and walnuts in there just to confuse the recipient. My sister was delighted to see that I was using the tag that she designed (in the middle) and that went perfectly with paper from Merry Moments DSP and some retired mossy meadow ribbon. The sentiment is embossed in white and is from Flurry of Wishes.

The final box is also using Merry Moments DSP but this one is upside down so that the box closure is on the bottom. This made the top cleaner and I decorated that with a bow made with the bow builder punch out of real red that was already dry embossed with stars using the Lucky Stars TIEF. Here’s a closer look at that

For details on the tags, please see my post from last week.

I really like the gift box punch board – I have three examples of different sizes, the board has instructions on it for 15 different sizes (in both cm and inches) so it’s really versatile. Really easy too.

I’d love to stick around and write more and put off my run, but I’d better get moving. I hope that your day is filled with love and fun and joy.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Softly Falling bottle tag

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So you’re down to the wire now and grabbing bottles of wine as gifts and wondering how to package them? How about a bottle tag? I CASEd this one from my ornament tag from last month.

These are easy to whip up – I know, I just made this one at 7am. A change in vacation plans means that today is the last day that I’ll see my boss this week. But it’s okay, I don’t think that Peter reads my blog so I’m not ruining the surprise. I cut a strip of whisper white card almost as wide as the bottle (almost 3 inches) and eight inches long. I scored it at 3 inches and cut a hole in the short piece with the circles framelits – how handy that the framelit can be used to measure how it fits over the bottle. I then embossed the longer end using the softly falling TIEF. Then out came my favourite sleigh ride edgelits again – I truly hope that you bought these because they are now retired – and some real red paper. For some reason (not awake yet perhaps?) I decided to put on the santa and his sleigh going from right to left, attached with dimensionals.

For the back, I stamped one of my favourite greetings from Flurry of Wishes in real red on a scrap piece of paper. Well, Merry seems most appropriate here, no?

I hope that this helps with your packaging. And I hope that Peter likes it.

Happy Birthday to Eimear, my sister’s upline and my surrogate one – they live in the UK and I’m in the US so we’re in different trees. But I’ve been adopted which is lovely. Oddly I thought I was adopted as a child since my siblings had intense ginger hair and mine was blonde. Logically, they should have been the adopted children since my hair was the exact same colour as my mother’s!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Oh what Fun

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A couple of my friends came over to dinner this week and to make some tags. I had the Oh What Fun tag project kit all ready but because Nicole hasn’t stamped ever before, I decided to add a couple of extra tags to show her some of the fun things that we can do with ink and paper.

We did them pretty much to the instructions although we used mint macaron ink for all the green rather than garden green for some. Apparently I was having too much fun to read the instructions! And then after we were finished we decided to upgrade the thin bakers twine to metallic cording trim or real red cotton ribbon or even metallic gold thread since it matched the bow so well. On the back we stamped the to and from which is also in the set that accompanies this tag set (and the kit is on sale at the moment). Sometimes I confess, it was difficult because we’d already finished the tag with bows or dimensionals before stamping. Definitely challenging.

Once we’d each completed the 10 tags in the kit, it was time to move on to the extras. First we started with the bow builder punch and the merry moments paper and numerous glue dots. My sister designed this tag when she was here last and I know that Julia likes this punch. Then we took the precut 2 inch strip of cherry cobbler and made the top pretty (and made a hole for the twine) with the scalloped tag topper punch. Then it was time to impress Nicole with the heat embossing – it’s a shame that it’s in white since the metallics really pop but she was wowed anyway.

The last tag was using my favourite sleigh ride edgelits dies which I cut out of a real red circle the same size as the base of the tag. This way the curves match up. The textured whisper white piece is the next size down in the circles collection and we then dry embossed it with the softly falling textured embossing folder. This wowed Nicole also. It’s really fun showing people what you can do with paper and ink and tools.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hearth and Home

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I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a winner this week. I’m especially happy because it was a sketch challenge and I had to spend many days mulling over how I wanted to do it. I’m glad that it was a success in the end.

I’m not sure what kind of card I’ve made for today – it could be a Christmas card since it has tree, but it could also be a birthday card. I left the inside blank so that I can decide when I need it!

I made the background for the scene using the same sponging and spritzing technique that I detailed when posting this card that my sister showed me at the crop. I used the same three colours here – blushing bride, lost lagoon and night of navy. Briefly – you sponge the three colours and then spritz with water a couple of times and this gives the gorgeous sky effect. The window frame and trees are cut out in night of navy using the hearth and home thinlits and the sleigh ride edgelits.

Here’s a tip – when you look at your beautiful sky, do NOT think that it would be a good idea to trim it to the same size as the window frame by also using the hearth and home dies. Of course that would cut out the windows which is exactly the piece that you need! But, if you were to do something that ridiculous, you CAN piece them back together onto another piece of card so that you can make it work. Oops!

So I added my trees between my pieced back together background and the window frame. This done I tried all three sky colours as mats and bases and came to the conclusion that a lost lagoon mat and a night of navy card worked best. It allows the blushing bride sunrise to really pop. I put the window onto the card with stampin’ dimensionals. The envelope is lined with the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds designer series paper.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hearth and Home

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Firstly, thank you to the team at Can You Case It? and especially Amy for selecting my card as a Design Team Member pick this week. It was a great start to my weekend to see that I’d been selected.

I had a number of challenges that I was intending to enter but I was distracted with the fun that we had at a class last night and haven’t made the appropriate cards. So here’s one that I made recently, incorporating vellum again.

I knew that I wanted to use this pattern from the Winter Wonderland Designer vellum stack and decided that I’d use it behind the window frame but that’s about all I’d decided when I started this card. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in deciding on a single element and building the card around that! I cut the window frame out of early espresso using the Hearth and Home dies and trimmed the vellum to fit behind it. Then I cut out the trees using the sleigh ride edgelits in gold foil to match the dots on the vellum. I guess I’ll pretend that the sun is shining on them or something. I glued the trees to the back of the window frame with the multipurpose glue and then attached the vellum in the same way. This completed, I contemplated the rest of the card and decided that the softly falling embossing folder would work well. I attached the window frame to the card with dimensionals to keep a gap between the vellum and the raised dots. I also ran the flap of the envelope through the big shot with the same folder so that it coordinates.

I decided to use a die cut word on the inside of the card – why not, right? This is using the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and the sentiment that I chose happens to come from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set which is sold in a bundle with the thinlits dies, thus saving 15%. I was going to say that it was coincidental that I chose this set, but I guess there’s a reason why Stampin’ Up! bundle it together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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