Vintage Valentine Mailbox

Hello Crafty Friends

It is Pam sharing with you today!

I am adding to my Valentine collections.  I send out quite a few so I will probably make mutlitples of this one because it was pretty quick.  I am using the Vintage Mailbox as my main focal point on this card.

Design Steps:

1.  Using the Vintage Mailbox cut out the pieces in pink designer paper, silver and dark gray card stock.  Using Puppy Love Letter die cut out the pieces in cream and pink card stock.  Ink all the pieces in black ink.  Assemble the pieces

2.  Use a dark gray A2 card base, piece of pink card stock 4 1/8 x 5 3/8, piece of designer paper 4 x 5 1/4 and a piece of pink checked designer paper 2 1/2 x 4.  Ink all of the edges in black ink

3.  Glue the designer paper to the pink card stock.  Glue the pink checked piece to the designer paper slightly above center as shown

4.  Glue the gray piece of the Vintage Mailbox to the pink checked paper slightly left of center as shown.  Place dimension dots on the back of the mailbox and then pop it to the grey piece

5.  Glue down the cream envelopes and add the little pink hearts.  Finish by adding a sheer ribbon, some heart rhinestones and your sentiment.  Then glue it to the gray card base

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I would like to wish you all a Blessed New Years and thank you so much for stopping by!

Nugget Treat Boxes Tutorial

Hey crafty friends,

Happy Wonderful Wednesday. I hope this day is going well for you. Today I am sharing the tutorial for the project I created Yesterday. Here is a picture of the project yesterday (with a different version).

This is a picture of my project only from yesterday. For details on this project, see yesterday's post.

Tutorial

To make the box, start with cutting your piece of cardstock to 8x10.5. Below is the template I designed. 

Per my template, cut out the red areas of the paper. 

You will want to score along the green lines. So to make it. Cut your paper to the size listed above.

Along the 10.5" side, Score along the following: 1.25, 2.5, 3.75 and 5" marks. HOWEVER, for the 5" mark, you want to only score up to the 1.25 in from each side of the 8" side.

On the 8" side, score at 1.25" and the 6.75" side which is the same as 1.25 from that side.

Last thing: Snip just a little from the flaps so that there is just a little wiggle room when you glue them together. You see that by the thin strip of light red at the end of each one.

Here is what it should look like when you have it cut and scored. Notice, the 5" score line really isn't across the main part. It is really to reference the measurement for the side tabs to cut out the larger sections.

Here is what the base looks like once it is folded up. This is the smaller base.

Here is a look at the finished larger sized box. 

Here is the larger nugget box template. Remember to snip just a little from the flaps so that there is just a little wiggle room when you glue the flaps together.

Here is a side view of the larger box before I closed up one of the sides. Here you can see that it is two rows of four on the bottom and the top.

Here is a view of the two treat boxes. You can see the size better.

Here is a different view from the top to show the size difference as well. 

The main difference is that the larger one equates to twice as big as the smaller. You can do 8 nuggets in the smaller one. Two rows of 4. One stacked on top of eachother.

The larger one allows for two rows of 4 with two rows stacked for a total of 16 nuggets.

Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to come back and see what the rest of the super talented designers are up to. Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda

Hersheys Nugget Treat Box

Hey crafty friends,

Melinda here with you and I am very glad you stopped in today! It's another Terrific Tuesday!

It's my turn to share here at the Cottage Cutz blog. So here is what I came up with. I created this fun Hershey's Nugget treat box with a fun message panel. Take a look.

Here are my elements, ready to put on my box.

Here's a closer look at the sentiment. I used the fun sentiments from two die sets. The Warm and Wishes are from a retired die and the birthday is from the Sentiment, Happy Birthday die. The balloons came from the Spring Party Car die from last year's spring release. I layered all of those onto a colored paper mat that is on top of the second to the largest double-stitched rectangle die in that set. I cut that out of white cardstock. 

Here is a closer look at the adorable Merry Moose. While he was a Christmas die, he works perfectly for the cold weather too! I tucked his hat behind his antler and left off the pom pom to make it look less "christmasy".  I cut him out of all white cardstock and then colored him in. I would say that I do that with my dies about 75% of the time. I love coloring them in.

This is the back of the treat box. The finished outer size of the back panel shown here is 5.5 x 5.5. I didn't put an additional panel after the colored mat, but you could easily do so and write your personal note here.

Stay tuned, tomorrow I will share the template and tutorial on how to assemble the box!

Dies Used For This Project

Merry Moose

Spring Party Car

Sentiment, Happy Birthday

Double Stitched Rectangle

Well, that about covers it for today. Be sure to come back tomorrow as I mentioned above. I will share the details and tutorial on how I made the box! You won't want to miss it.

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Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!

Melinda

M - Fold Cat Sympathy

Hi crafters!

Kris here sharing with you a fun fold sympathy card I made for a friend who recently lost her beloved cat after a long battle of health issues.  I've used the Loyal Pets die along with the Love My Dog, Love My Cat die and the hearts are from the Be My Valentine Puppies and the Stitched Heart Set to create this Marvelous Fold card which got its name because it has an "M" shape when displayed.  

*Please pardon my bad lighting and tint of my process photos below.  Using a purple mat is not idea for photos as it changes so much and messes with the colors of my papers etc.  I've used Doodle Bug Designs 6" paper pad called Fairy Garden because I thought the rainbows go with a pet who has "crossed over the rainbow bridge."

CUTTING & SCORING:

White Card Base = 4-1/4" x 10-1/2" scored at 2-1/4", 2-1/2", 5", 5-1/2", 8" and 8-1/4"

Cloud patterned paper = 4" x 2-1/4" (x2)

Rainbow patterned paper = 4"h  x 2"w (x4)

Pink cardstock = 4" x 1/4"

DESIGN STEPS:

1.  Fold and burnish all score lines on card base as follows:

  • the 5" and 5-1/2" score lines are mountain folds and all others are valley folds

2.  Tape or glue the center strip between center score lines.  Adhere the 2-1/4" wide (cloud papers) to the middle panels, and the 2" wide (rainbow papers) to the outside panels. 

3.  Fold the outside panels in (like a gate-fold)  and attach the other 2" wide (rainbow papers) to the front panels

4.  Die cut the decorative elements as shown below and assemble.

5.  Add some foam tape in the center of pink strip and attach the heart.

6.  Top open, bend side panels back until the flaps open and stand up as shown.

A hand written message and/or stamped sentiment can be added to the back of card.

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Happy Crafting!

~Kristine

2024 Birthday Cards

Hello Friends

It is Pam sharing with you today!

I have a few birthdays coming up so I thought I would get started on my 2024 birthday cards.  This one is going to my sister who loves gardening, birds and being outdoors.  I am using two Black Friday release dies called Garden Birds and Trellis Background. I am also using an older die from the Easter release Spring Lillies.  All of theses dies are still available in the online store.

Design Steps:

1.  Start with an A2 white card base,  cut a piece of white card stock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and cut out the Trellis using the Trellis Background die.  Glue the Trellis to the front of the card

2.  Use the Spring Lillies die and cut out the pieces in white.  Use your inks and dabbers to color the flowers and stems (I used TH's Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade)

3.  Use the Garden Birds die and cut out the pieces in white.  Use your inks to color the bird. (I used TH's Peacock Feather, Black Soot, Hickory Smoke and Blueprint Sketch.  I also used Pink and Main's Fire Engine) For the eye I used a black Glaze Sakura pen and then a white Sukura Gelly Roll pen for the dot in the eye

4.  Glue the flowers down first making sure you have room for the bird.  Glue the bird in place and then add the sentiment

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I would like to wish you all a Blessed New Years and thank you so much for stopping by!