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Square Pillow Box Thinlits dies

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I’ve been pushing myself lately to do more sketch challenges – normally when a challenge site offered a sketch, I’d skip off to another site to find a colour challenge. But it’s rather rewarding to wrestle with a sketch and come up with something that feels right. Both for you and the sketch, that is. So the sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts has been percolating in my brain for a couple of days. I wanted to really include the sketch in the design rather than adding three somethings almost as an extra.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Greetings Thinlits and Square Pillow Box Thinlits and Endless Wishes

Here’s the sketch that inspired my card – as you can see, I flipped the sketch.

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I remembered that the square pillow box thinlits dies has three trios of images including these trees. The dies are retiring at the end of the year, so grab it now! I cut them out of the very vanilla cardstock and liked how the mossy meadow looks peeking from behind. Martin said he would prefer a different green – apparently he’s not as addicted to mossy meadow as I am. I then bypassed my much used merry die from the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and went with jolly which I cut out of the gold foil. The Christmas sentiment is from the retired Endless Wishes set – I like how it nestles in between the j and the y. I know that there’s a technical term for the parts of the letters below the line but I can’t remember what it is. And it’s not important! This would really be an easy card to mass produce. Even with lining the envelope – I tend to cut out two liners at a time since the DSP is a lot thinner than card stock. That was you build up a stack of liners which makes dressing up your envelopes very quick.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Get your Santa on in March

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A Christmas card in March. No, I haven’t completely lost it, nor have I become unbelievably (to my friends and family) well prepared. I’m the person who tends to be just finishing the packing when it’s time to leave for the airport. The explanation is that I decided to enter this week’s Merry Monday Christmas challenge which was to create a red and green Christmas card.

Stampin' Up! Get your santa on

This little chap actually normally has a banner above him, but I masked that and stamped him in memento black on whisper white. I then used the eraser on the end of a pencil to add the juggling balls in garden green – approximately where the banner used to be. Then I got out my cherry cobbler blendabilities and coloured him in. I debated whether to add a sentiment and keep the card horizontal but in the end, decided to go with a vertical card. So after cropping the image, I added a skinny mat in black and then glued it to a base of garden green.

Since I had already mounted my sentiment – and curved the “very merry” to mimic the juggling balls – I decided to stamp it on the inside of the card:

Stampin' Up! Get your santa on and Endless Wishes

The sentiment is from the Endless Wishes stamp set and is stamped in garden green. The envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP in garden green.

Here’s the banner for the challenge

See you tomorrow,

Liz

In the pink’s Christmas challenge

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I was browsing the challenge sites that I usually frequent and found a reference to a new one (to me) – In The Pink,  who are running a Christmas challenge this month. I decided that this was the perfect challenge for me to get out Strawberry Slush again; I’ve been neglecting this colour after making the pink cat card for my dentist a few months ago. I struggled with that card and ended up rather “pinked out” by the end of it – not a state that I knew was possible! So here’s my entry:

 

Stampin' Up! Endless Wishes

As I mentioned, I used strawberry slush for the card. I cut a piece of card 1/4 inch smaller than the base and scored, using the Stampin’ Scorer, a quarter inch from the edge all the way around. I liked it best with the raised edge being the front of the card. I then used the Stampin’ Up! Endless Wishes stamp set to emboss the greeting in white embossing powder. Next I took the blushing bride embossing powder and heat embossed the 3 large snowflakes (they are actually the medium sized snowflake from the set) and then filled in with the smaller snowflake with more embossing, this time in white. After that is was a simple matter of popping up the mat with stampin’ dimensionals and dry embossing the envelope with the lucky stars embossing folder. I think I’m going to try this design in a few other colours too. But first, I should probably write more of my Christmas cards and get them mailed!

Hersheys Nuggets boxes

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Along with the hersheys kisses trees and the superhero curvy keepsake boxes, I made some boxes to hold eight nuggets to take to the craft fair. I found the directions on Susan Itell’s site. It’s surprising how quickly they come together – I easily made 10 boxes and 12 trees on Saturday afternoon.

choc boxes red

I also made some in green

choc boxes green

and here’s the inside

choc box inside

I don’t have the top note die that Susan used so I used the second largest label framelit and that fit the box perfectly. Pictured above is my first box where I did cut out the one inch square as per Susan’s directions but later on I left that square intact. It made the box stronger although it did mean that it wasn’t as good at sitting open for display purposes.

Staples only had the Avery labels #8460 in large quantities but I noticed that the labels were 1″ by 2 5/8″ and that there were a bunch of others the same size. So I ended up with label #5460 instead (I think it’s just a matter of them being laserjet labels). I stamped the smallest snowflake from Endless Wishes in pool party and then the joy from the same stamp set in real red.

I made five different tops. Using the Mingle all the Way stamp set I stamped the Holiday Happy sentiment in both garden green and real red on whisper white card and then cut it out using the third largest framelit. If I’d have had the top note die, I’d have used that but the labels framelits turned out to be easier since there’s no snipping with scissors – just cut out using a smaller die. The Mingle all the Way was stamped in encore silver ink directly on the box top and surrounded with the smallest snowflake from Endless Wishes. I’m now thinking that the top would look even better if I’d embossed it in silver. Next time I’ll do that.

I also used the santa from Get Your Santa On and coloured him in the medium cherry cobbler which seemed to be the closest in shade to the real red. For my final box top I used the scene and snowman from White Christmas colouring in using the pumpkin pie Stampin’ Write marker and the real red.

I was really pleased with how these came out and they were very enjoyable, relaxing and satisfying to make.