A Peony Gift Box

Ever since I made my Sizzix pansies project, I have been hooked on the flower dies from Sizzix's Susan Tierney Cockburn (Susan's Garden).  The flower I have used for this project was made with the Peony bigz die.  All of these flower dies have their own video, just below the die photo, on the Sizzix site, to show exactly how they are made, which is great!  I used light pink card stock, and shaded the petals with PanPastels.  This is the largest of the flower dies and it made a great topper for this Eileen Hull Square Box.  Eileen has a great little video on how to construct this fast and easy chipboard box on her blog here.

I used Prima's Delight paper from the Firefly collection.

I used buttons for little feet on the bottom of the box and on the flap.  To keep the flap closed, I used a small magnet.

This box is a nice size, perfect for a small gift and so easy to make!  Once you start making these flowers, you will be hooked too!  I have a card to share, using the poppy flower die, but that's for another day!

Until next time,

Jan

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A wheelbarrow full of pansies

Hi everyone!  I've always loved pansies, and the new pansy dies from Sizzix's "Susan's Garden" make beautiful ones.  I have a tutorial today on the Sizzix blog showing how I created these flowers and a cute little wheelbarrow to display them in.  You can find my tutorial here!

Hope you visit me there!
Have a great weekend,

Jan

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Urban Scrapbook's June Kit

It's already that time again for Urban Scrapbook's monthly kit.  I don't know where the time goes, it seems like I just finished  the previous month's kit!  Here's my layout:

This month the kit is filled with paper and embellishments from Cosmo Cricket's Honky Tonk collection.  There's also a little bit of Prima, Tim Holtz, ribbon, cardstock, and cork paper.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with that cork paper, so when in doubt, use hexagons!  Hexagons look great anywhere, and my trusty Sizzix die cut through the cork easily.  I embossed some of them and highlighted with Silks glazes and Inka Gold paint.  One of them I die-cut a small bird (Sizzix's Tim Holtz mini bird die), painted it, and then set it back into the hexagon.

The 3-d flowers were die-cut from Sizzix's Flowers w/leaves sizzlit.  I love how different the flower turns out, depending on how the petals are formed with a stylus!  My crackle looking background was made by brushing tinted crackle paint on my paper, then I used Tim Holtz distress paint on a crackle image stamp and pressed it into my painted paper.

The rest of the Urban Design Team layouts can be seen here.  It always amazes me how different our layouts turn out using the same kit.  I think we have a very talented team, what do you think?

I was busy receiving new stock yesterday at the store, and we got in the new October Afternoon "Travel Girl" collection(they never disappoint me!), Kaisercraft's True Romance, Miss Empire (love this one!), Blastoff and Webster's two new collections by Adrienne Looman.  It never fails, we get a ton of new stuff whenever it's pay week!

Have a great evening!
Until next time,

Jan

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More Sizzix Graphic45 Cards!

I thought I'd share a couple of cards I did today, using once again, my Sizzix Graphic45 Framelits and stamp sets from my previous post.  I couldn't stop at one card!

I stamped and cut out two of each die cut, as in the previous post, and pop-dotted one on top of the other.  This time, I die cut a third one out of acrylic, and stamped the Memories stamp with permanent ink.  This one, I adhered behind the top layer. 

To color my die cut images, I used Majestic Blue Silks glaze and a small amount of Viva Inka Gold paste.  The flowers were all hand cut.

Again, I die cut and stamped two of each image, then pop dotted.  With this card, I coloured the images with Gelatos.  I used Kaisercraft's Porcelain Rose paper for both cards.  These die and stamp sets are so beautiful, I'm sure I'll use them many times!

Today, on the Sizzix Blog, there is a Design Team review with links to all of the designer's blogs.  I hope you check them all out, the projects they created last month are amazing!  You will certainly be inspired and if you aren't already, discover some wonderful new blogs to follow.

Have a great evening!

Jan

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