Sweet Tweet LifeStyle Crafts Club Project

Good Morning!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend because we sure did!  We were able to get out of this 110 degree heat and celebrate 2 very specials lady's birthdays down at the beach where it was a perfect 75 degrees...  2 days at the beach with friends/family followed up by a Mommy, Daddy and Adam Fun Day watching Monsters U equals a perfect weekend in my book! 

I'm stepping away from Red, White and Blue today and sharing an idea for a Sweet Tweet Goody Box using Life Style Crafts QuicKutz dies!

This month's Page's From the Heart QK Club Members are getting the Songbird Die, which is part of the Detailz Dies.  The cool part about the Detailz Dies is that you can use them in multiple ways; you can die cut with them, cut and emboss with them and use the die as a stencil to enhance the embossing!  Holla!  3-in-1!

I really enjoy using the different boxes and bags that Life Style Crafts has - its fun to be able to put together a quick, unique and expensive looking gift or treat for someone special without having to run out to the store to pick up different pieces!  Everything you see here is a QK Die (with exception to the tulle) - you could change this idea and instead of using the bird and birdcage, you could use a flower, truck, car, graduation cap, birthday cake, stars for the Forth of July, Santa or Reindeer for Christmas... you get the idea! 

Here's what I did:
1. Die cut your rectangle matchbox and insert from cardstock.  Fold at perforated edges and glue to create your box.
2. Die cut your bird, bird cage, flower, banner and circle from paper of your choice. (I used my scraps for this step - great way to use scraps!)
** I distressed all of my pieces**
3. Glue your insert (mine is patterned paper) to the top of your box, centered.
4. Cut your flower into thirds, use one piece of your flower and glue on top of your insert that is on top of your box.  It's a little layered detail that adds a lot.
5. Now your going to assemble your birdcage & bird BEFORE you adhere it to you box.
     - Put pop-up tape on the back of your birdcage near the bottom - this will be covered by your banner so don't worry about it showing.
     - Cut a small piece of tulle and gather it so that it creates a fan shape.  Glue to the front of the birdcage near the bottom.
     - Bend your banner ends so that your banner has dimension.  Put pop-up tape on the back of the banner and adhere it to the top of the birdcage, covering where you glued the tulle.
     - Put pop-up tape on the back of your bird and adhere to the banner.
     - Tie a small loop of twine and glue it to the circle.  Write your message.  Put a little rhinestone where your twine and circle meet to dress it up a little.  Loop  around your birds neck, hiding the tied piece behind the bird.
     - Add glitter to the ends of your banner for a little sparkle... I like how it give its just a little pizazz which still looking shabby chic!

Place some little yummy's in the box and give to a friend, child or as a small hostess gift! 

That's it, any easy way to use a variety of dies to create a special little gift box!  Please leave me a comment with any questions!

Thanks!  Have a great day!
Andrea

Another Crate project to share...

I made a little shadow box for my scraffice today... I really just wanted a project where I could use either Emma's Shoppe or Portrait since they're so beautiful and a little more girly - and since I couldn't pick one, I used both!  Here's what the shadow box started out as -

My Dad brought me back these little ducky feet egg holders from their vacation - isn't that awesome?!  My Dad is the best, seriously, I only have the most amazing things to say about my Dad - he's good, and kind, and honest, and brave, and funny, and smart and fun - and so much more!  Anyways, he knows that I LOVE Carlton Walking Ware and thought that these little guys might be a nice addition to my collection, and he's totally right!  Anyways, as soon as I saw the box I thought "Hmm, what can I do with that?"

And this is what I came up with.  I used paper from both Emma's Shoppe and Portrait, the little sewing machine, silhouette and heart are all chipboard shapes from the 2 collections.  The little bow above the portrait is from Jenni Bowline - it's hard to see but it has a little bling on it, super cute!  I also used s string of pearls to go around the whole box, and on the outside I covered the sides and top with paper.  The spools of thread I found at a scrapbook store yesterday on our train trip - I covered one with twine, one with paper and one with crocheted lace.  Here's a few close-ups of the boxes -

And here's a angle where you can see the sides of the box.  I got so lucky that the color of the box already went with my color palette, it made it so that I didn't have to cover the whole box!  Yay!

I left the Silhouette box a little plain because I think that I want to put a chipboard "A" for Andrea there, but I might decide to give this away as a little "Thank You" present, so I'm leaving my options open!

Happy Monday, hope the beginning of your week brings great things!
Andrea

A fun-filled weekend!

I can't believe it's Sunday already, the DH has to go back to work tomorrow and I feel like we just started the weekend!  But what a fun weekend it was! 

Saturday I worked on samples, I did get my hands on the new Crate Paper lines... all of them!  I made a super fun carousel based on a project that I found on Crate Paper's blog.  I used Toy Box, which was soo much fun!  I LOVE cute and fun boy stuff!  And I LOVE how cool it is, like, I felt like I could've used the patterns on anything, they're not babyish, they're not cutsie, they're really just plain, ol' printed awesomeness!  Here's how it turned out -

{Dump Truck angle}

{Dukes of Hazard angle}

{Top view with tricycle}

It's on display at Collective Journey's - but it was deceptively easy to make!  I want to make more!

I also finished my Spring Banner with Graphic45's Once Upon a Springtime, I'll post a picture this week. 

We spent time with my parents, they got back from a 3 week vacation on Friday and I think they missed the boys - my Mom found some great deals, I'm starting up an Esty shop so I'll be selling some of it there! 

And today we went on the train!  Yay!  Adam was so excited, we got onto the Metrolink at the San Berdo station and took it to Claremont, walked around for a few hours, had some lunch (and ice cream!) and then came back home.  Adam didn't want to get off the train - here's a happy Adam face to prove it (and a tired Mommy face!)!

I hope that your weekend was full of fun and craftiness!

Andrea