Inspired Designs

Razzleberry Friendship

I needed to make a hostess gift set for my workshop last night and while I was surfing SCS I found this stunning card by justbehappy.  I decided to CASE it and modify is slightly and also use it for inspiration for the top note treat box I made to accompany my card.

I used the color combination of rich razzleberry, old olive and certainly celery for the card.  I added a pierced border to the rich razzleberry dp mat that was adhered to a certainly celery mat.  Two square panels of old olive cardstock and certainly celery dp were added to the left side of the cardfront and a length of white organza ribbon was tied around that side of the card.  I popped the layered mats off the old olive cardbase with dimesionals.

The sentiment "My Dear Kind and Wonderful Friend"was inked with old olive and rich razzleberry markers and stamped on a nestability oval shape. It was layered on a certainly celery oval and scallop oval circle and popped up on dimensionals.  I added a rich razzleberry stamped butterfly and a layered rich razzleberry flower from the For All You Do set to finish off the cardfront.  A circle ice brad was added to the center of the layered flower.

I always like to give a matching gift box to my hostesses so I decided to make another top note treat box to match my card.  The base of my box is made of certainly celery cardstock.  I added a white organza ribbon around the box to finish it off.  The layered top note consists of certainly celery cardstock and rich razzleberry dp.  The sentiment "My Dear Kind and Wonderful Friend" was inked with rich razzleberry and old olive markers and stamped in the center of a whisper white nestability oval diecut. It was matted with a slightly larger certainly celery oval and old olive scallop oval.  I added a rich razzleberry butterfly and a rich razzleberry layered flower to the box top.  A small circle ice brad finishes off the center of the layered flowers.

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Stamps: All Holidays, For All You Do

Ink: Old olive, rich razzleberry

CS: Whisper white, old olive, certainly celery, rich razzleberry dp, certainly celery dp

Accessories: Big shot, nestabilities, top note die, white organza ribbon, dimensionals, circle ice brads, crafter's tool kit, sticky strip

Scary Skeleton Top Note Treat Box

It has been awhile since I have posted.  I had tried to make a few cards for some SCS challenges over the past few weeks but was having major stampers block so I put the stamps aside and took a break.  I spent alot of time with the twins before they went back to school.  I resumed stamping this past week and my stamping mojo is flowing again so all is good!

This is a treat box that I created for my technique groups this month.  I just love that little skeleton image from the Scary Skeleton set. 

You can find instructions on how to make this treat box on Angie Tieman's blog - Schwoo!  They are super easy to create and I love the top note layout on the top and bottom of the box.

 The trimmed pumpkin pie top note was stamped with the cat face and bat from the Scary Skeleton set and this was layered on the basic black top note.

I wanted to make my skeleton look like he was dancing in the moonlight so I adhered him on matted whisper white, pumpkin pie, and basic black circles.  I trimmed the one side so it was flush with the straight edge of the top note.

The skeleton was embossed with whisper white embossing powder on basic black cardstock and cut out.  I left a basic black border around the edges of his body.  I also stamped the bat in basic black ink on whisper white cardstock and cut it out.   I popped it up on a dimensional in the upper right corner of the box.  The "happy haunting!" sentiment was stamped in basic black ink on whisper white cardstock and it was punched with the window word punch.  I layered it on a punched basic black modern label shape and adhered it in the lower right corner of my box.  I added a striped pumpkin pie ribbon around the base of bthe box to dress it up.

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Stamps: Scary Skeleton

Ink: Versamark, basic black, pumpkin pie

CS: Basic black, pumpkin pie, whisper white

Accessories: Big shot, top note die, window word punch, modern label punch, sticky strip, pumpkin pie striped ribbon, bone folder, paper cutter, heat gun, whisper white ep