Need another card idea for Father's Day? How about this fun idea using our featured Big Shot Wednesday die, Buttons #5. The large circle buttons look just like checkers. The card supplies are:
Make sure to check back for more button ideas on Wednesday!
We just had to play along this week with Pals Paper Arts Weekly Challenge. You all know how much we LOVE our 3D projects. You may remember seeing this idea last year on our blog when we created a few things for Easter. This box, made with two Stampin' Up! exclusive Scallop Envelopes, also holds two Ghiradelli squares. This time it was used to hold a post-it note pad. Notice the color-coordinating butterfly stamped on the memo pad.
Supplies used:
Do you remember making your own decorative paper? This paper is made with 2 pieces of waxed paper and hearts punched from tissue paper. We used the Full Heart and Heart to Heart punches to make our hearts. Place the hearts in a single layer, across one piece of the waxed paper which should be laying on a thin towel. Carefully lay the other piece of waxed paper on top of the hearts being careful to not "blow" all the tissue hearts off. Iron the two pieces of waxed paper together until they melt.
We then used this new DSP with several Big Shot dies - Two Tags, Scallop Envelope and Petal Card. What fun, colorful treat holders. You can see we filled them with Ghiradelli, foiled hearts and mini candy bars.
This handmade paper could be used on a card, decorations, flowers and you can create handmade paper for any holiday or occasion.
This has to be the most versatile die anyone could buy! We have cut two Top Note die cuts from felt. Cut one of those in half; you just need one and a half. We have stitched these two together creating a "pocket." This pocket is perfect for holding a gift card, cash, a note or treats.
The red hearts are made by punching red felt with the Full Heart punch. As you can see from the samples, you can use a regular, whip or blanket stitch around the edge. You could even just glue the two together with fabric glue if you don't want to sew. Of course, you could always dig out the sewing machine and do a straight or zigzag stitch.
We couldn't get through this fun month of projects without using our Stampin' Up! matchbox die. We have filled the box with nuggets. What a surprise. We love using nuggets. They are the perfect thing for so many boxes and who doesn't love chocolate!
This box is made with Pumpkin Pie card stock for the base and Cast-A-Spell DSP for the top, belly band and the layers under "a halloween hi!" The layer pieces are also from the Matchbox die. The stamp "a halloween hi!" is from The More the Merrier on page 17.
The nuggets are wrapped in Whisper White card stock with stripes made by taking stamp pads directly to the paper.
If you remember, last month our Big Shot featured die was the Fancy Favor box. On August 26th, week #4, we put four together to create a desktop organizer. See our post and instructions here.
Well, check out the one that Sherry Hostetter made using our basic idea, but added her own twist - she made it even bigger!! Thank you, Sherry, for sharing your idea and pictures with us and our readers.
I thought I would show these fun but easy little bags made with this month's featured Big Shot die, Fancy Favor. All three are made with regular card stock and wheeled with black ink. These really make very quick party favors or a quick workshop project. Ribbon was used to close one and mini clothes pins were used on the other two. A hole was punched in the center of one and covered with acetate.
As you can see, I only had odd colored clothes pins but quickly fixed that situation by coloring them with a Sharpie. They dried very quickly. Don't forget to think outside the box when you don't have the color of embellishments you need!!!! Have fun.
This card is one I recently did for our group, Forever Hearts of Rubber, masculine swap and for the LNS Challenge. I can't get enough of the Top Note die by Stampin' Up! And this DSP, gotta love it! Hope my dad likes it. <grin>
This top note card was created using 2 top note dies and the large scallop circle. This is the perfect size for an actual card, gift card holder, candy holder or post-it note holder. I just used cardstock and added texture but it would also be cute layering with DSP.
What can I say? Even though we are using the Top Note Die every Wednesday in May, there was just too many fun things to do with it so I just had to show you more ideas. These will hold many sizes and kinds of candy but here are two ideas.
