Gift Box Card

The best of June greetings to you!

The Club Scrap Pattern Play Blog Hop is underway. Click HERE to start from the beginning or to view the list of crafty bloggers participating this month. Below is the Gift Box Card I've created with this fun, vivid collection.

Gift Box Card Created With Club Scrap Pattern Play Collection

The folded card base measures 5-1/2 x 4-1/4" and holds a 2x2x2" mini gift box. I plan to put a little gift inside the box and have it sitting on my daughter's breakfast plate on her birthday next week! I know she'll adore it.

Here are a few photos taken during the construction phase.

Cutting The Nook

Assembling The Gift Box & Lid

I made a similar card for the Club Scrap Blog with the Color Me Happy Collection. For more detailed card assembly instructions click HERE. 

It's such a fun way to give a little gift to someone special. I couldn't resist repeating it with the Pattern Play Collection.

NEXT, on the hop, you'll have to check out what Lilian at The Leaf Studio is up to.

Thank you for hopping by.

Kay

Personalized Handmade Music Box

Welcome Club Scrap Hopes Kit Blog Hoppers!!!

This blog hop originates from the Club Scrap Creates Blog, click HERE if you want to start from the beginning and hop along. Here is the project I created for today with the Hopes Club Stamp Kit, Musical Hope Chest, personalized with my dear daughter's photo.

I'm a huge fan of being part of the creative process when designing the Club Stamp Projects. While this kit comes complete with printed paper for wrapping the handmade music box, I used the paperless Components Kit now available! My own photo (printed on copy paper using a laser printer) and old book pages worked well for covering the box. I'll let the pictures do the talkin'. There are handy detailed instructions included in the kit, so I don't want to be too redundant.

Trim a 5x7 laser printed photo. 

Use a photo to cover the box lid.

Wrap old book pages onto the box base.

Rub brown acrylic paint to color the box base.

Install the music box mechanism.

Add a little paint onto the lid so it coordinates with the base.

After adding the lid, attach hardware and wooden legs.

Next on the hop is Cathy at The Artful Gamut. Stop by to check out what she is up to with the Hopes Kit! Enjoy hopping along!

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day!
Kay

It's What You Make Of It

The month of February is flying by! On the 20th of each month our Club Stamp Kit ships, so the Up, Up & Away Club Stamp Project has found it way to our member's craftrooms now, already! I mentioned the beginnings of this project just two blog entries ago, when I worked up a prototype, so now it's about what this project grew up to be as The Art On A Sting Club Stamp Project, now available online.

Like many projects, it's what you make of it that makes it your own. This project has many possibilities and I enjoyed whipping up a couple variations :)
First, here I have the handmade box wrapped in the vintage balloon print papers provided in the kit. I finished the box off with Up, Up & Away rubber stamps on a couple nested cardstock panels. It may just look like a box wrapped with pretty paper to you at first, but once again, it's what you make out of this box.....

...the lid of the box holds the surprise here.

Little works of art are suspended from the lid. The printed hot air balloons are included in the kit for trimming out, coloring/altering and attaching, it's art on a string -- inside a box.

 I certainly could have stopped there with using the kit contents only for making the project, but I also wanted to use some of my own papers, metal hardware embellishments and rubber stamps to make a couple different looks from the same kit.

See, a completely different look on the same project.

I used Club Scrap's Serenity and Papillon rubber stamps on this project, the ivory paper I used to wrap this project is the plain side of the Club Scrap Logo Printed Gift Wrap.

This is the fun part, lifting the lid.

Side Note -- Man, it's really hard to hold the project still with my left hand as I try to snap the pic with my right! but you get the idea I'm sure.

I used two threads here to hang my rubber stamped butterfly and quote from the lid, using two threads stops the attached stuff from spinning. However I liked using a single thread per hot air balloon in the previous project because there is nothing to read on the balloons, and they simply look cute when they spin after pulling them out of the box.

Now lastly, for the project I made with photos inside, first about how I decorated the outside. 

The flip side, plain side, of the printed paper included in the kit is rubber stamped here with the Up, Up & Away Unmounted Rubber Stamps. Then I added color with colored pencils, rubbing on ink, spraying mists and applying glitter glue.

Now again, the really fun part of lifting the lid...

....a couple of photos nest inside this one. Basically I choose/created items that are symmetrical in shape, they can be glued back to back to sandwich the thread suspended from the lid.

Once again, heheee, it's really hard to get the hanging part of the project to stay still for photoing while holding it with my left hand and trying to take the photo with my right hand (no time for a tripod today, too many projects to make). It's really good I have long arms, but please excuse my blurry pic above! 

Another version of this project, that I have in mind but haven't gotten the chance to make yet, is simply decorating the outside of the handmade box by mounting photos on the outside. Maybe I'll get that one put together this week :) Looking forward to it.

It's what you make of it that makes a project special to you!
Thinking this project is a perfect example of that for me:)

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I'LL SEND A MESSAGE TO THE WINNER NEXT MONDAY. FUN!!!

Thank you for looking and good luck winning the free Club Stamp Kit!
Kay

Hidden Doorways House

Happy New Year!
It's still January, I can still say that, right?

As always, I've been enjoying the month's paper crafting here at Club Scrap. The January kit theme is Random Doorways, and what a fun theme it is. When designing the Club Stamp project for this month, I started with the thought of a door shaped mini-album. However one thing lead to another and I ended up with a door shaped mini-album attached to a hand crafted house.

 

I made this house project after shooting the project card for the kit, the Random Doorways Club Stamp Project kit comes complete with printed paper for wrapping the house and coordinating cardstock for creating the door, but I used my own papers and embellishments to create this paperless version of the kit. I think it's such a fun project that I wanted to keep sharing by doing this blog post:)

 

 

The house lifts off the base and has room for a hidden doorways mini-album also on the inside.

 

 

Lots of room for rubber stamping and pics inside the mini-albums.

 

 

 

I enjoy seeing all my great Club Scrap rubber stamp quotes inside along with my snapshots.

 

 

 

While I'm at it, here is a little bit about the construction. Of course the project kits from Club Scrap come with full instructions (that's really the way to go),

 but here are more visual tidbits about this project.

 

 

First the house is constructed from book board.

 

 

Then I rubber stamped on white text weight paper and wrapped the house.

 

 

 I applied acrylic paint using baby wipes onto the house.

 

 

The moisture from the baby wipes gives the paint more of a washed worn antique look.

 

 

After selecting papers and an Extra! Extra! transparency from my Club Scrap stash, I began construction on the mini-albums.

 

 

The Club Scrap Random Doorways Unmounted Rubber stamp sheet happens to have this perfect door image to cut around for making pages for the cute little album. I continued until I had enough pages for my albums and then used the basic kettle stitch for attaching them together. Then of course I glued the mini-album onto the front of the house.

 

Lots of room for creativity in this house I would say. It was a great project for a cold winter Wisconsin day! A cute little Valentine house for my daughter would be a fun idea too, with Valentines stuffed into the inside, I better get going on that one.

 

 

Don't let January slip by without doing something creative, even if it's on a mini scale!

 

Thanks for looking,

Kay