Sunday, October 10, 2010

Stamp-A-Holic, 2,4,6,8 Favour Box - Stampin' Up! Trendy Trees

Hi again, I got home from work, and decided to get into the craft room, because although I was in there earlier this morning, it was to organise invites, and nothing too creative, as the design was all worked out and ready to go...
So, I was looking through my blog roll, and came across a post by the crazy talented Bronwyn, from AddINKtive Designs had posted about a 2-4-6-8 favour box. My interest was piqued... I visited, checked out her gorgeous box, and decided I needed to know how to make it! So, onto the Stamp-a-Holic's Challenge blog,  took a look at their tutorial (was sad because it was a video, and it chews through our lame internet,) googled around until I found a text version of the tutorial, and had a play! (This is the tutorial I used)
Part of the SAH challenge was to create the project in under 45 mins.... now I generally don't time myself.... ever! But, this took me approx 35 minutes to create from scratch, and that included looking for cardstock, and inks, and what stamp set I was going to use....
I used Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo and Whisper White C/stocks, with Trendy Trees stamped in Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry (this is a new colour combo fave!) I then thought it looked a little boring (after adding the handle, which is held on by tiny white brads) so decided on making a little tag for it....
This is the scallop circle, with a smaller circle in the middle and some pink rhinestones my mum bought me a while ago attached. The swirls are the 'tree tops' from Trendy Trees stamped in Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive. 

6 comments:

  1. This is so pretty and the tag just finishes it off nicely. Thanks for playing with the Stampaholics this week.
    Cynthia

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  2. Cute box, Jess! It's easy to do and to think I'd never made one before! Glad you were inspired to give it a go too!

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  3. Gorgeous box Jess! Thanks for playing along this week with us StampAholics!

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  4. Thanks for playing along with us this week, Jess. The little tag makes a nice addition. See us again next week!

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  5. Looks awesome Jess!!!

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  6. whow how wonderful this is - your box is just adorable
    I thank you so much for playing along with us
    we really do appreciate it!
    hope to see you next week again

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