Category: Tutorials

Blends Gift Box

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I am absolutely loving my TFI Crafty Friday Lives – it’s nice to be online, crafting with like minded friends sharing ideas and inspiration. Hosted on Facebook at 7:30 every Friday, I bring a new project and showcase the items used to make it. Yesterday, I made this gorgeous gift box which holds 10 Stampin’ Blends pens.

I was inspired by the amazing Helzie over @ SlimmandStylish.com who used the ‘All Things Fabulous’ stamp set during a Youtube Live. It was a set that I had skipped past when I looked through the catalogue and hadn’t really paid much attention to it. Then I saw Helzie use it and immediately loved the dimension you get from the triple stamping.

It’s an amazing set to use to make your own version of Designer Series Paper (DSP) and you get a different result every time and because they’re stamps, you can change up the colours as you wish. As you’ll see on my video below – I switched the colours round to suit the feature colour of the box.

I love it – and the box is a great way to gift a set of blends (or other stationery) to a friend or family member.

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

 

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • Lid and Base = 81/4 x 73/4 inches
  • Coloured Cardstock for Lid = 6 x 61/2 inches
  • Whisper White for Lid = 61/4 x 53/4 inches

Scoring:

  • Base and Lid = ¾ on all sides (using a shim for the lid piece)

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Feeling Boho Blue

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Small boxes are absolutely adorable and they’re even better when you get to make them from a single suite of products! This project uses the absolutely gorgeous Boho Indigo Product Medley, a selection of goodies with dark blues as a theme – Night of Navy & Misty Moonlight in the Stampin’ Up! world.

I love darker colours, so getting to use these lovely dark shades of blue is right up my street. The product medley can be found on page 9 of the 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue, just before the kits. It contain a whole host of goodies including a stamp set, a 6×6 Designer Series Paper Stack, co-ordinating dies and two sets of ribbon!

To showcase this suite, I chose a relatively simple box to make – no fancy folds or over the top decoration. This box is 3 inches square and is a lovely size to house sweet treats, some small cards / tags or perhaps some jewellery.

The ribbon finishes off the box really well, I love the frayed edge on it and it feels so soft! And the best part? You can buy refills for the medley if you run out!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • DSP Lid = 6 x 6 inches
  • Embossed Base = 6 x 6 inches

Scoring:

  • DSP Lid: ¾, 11/2 inches on all four sides
  • Embossed Base: 11/2 inches on all four sides

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Penguin Fun

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I love cute stamp sets, especially ones that I can colour in with my blends alongside my children. When the Autumn / Winter Mini Catalogue went live for demonstrators, my children flicked through the pages and immediately chose the ‘Freezin’ Fun’ stamp set used on this card as well as the ‘Have a Hoot’ and ‘Warm & Toasty’ stamp sets. They all have gorgeous outline images of animals which we can colour to our hearts content.

This card uses a great technique for creating your own backgrounds without the need for Designer Series Paper (DSP). Now don’t get me wrong, I love DSP – but sometimes you want to use something else or the papers don’t quite suit what you’re wanting to achieve.

The background was achieved by choosing 4 different inks – on this occasion it was differing shades of blue to create a snow flurry sky effect. The snowflake stamp I used comes from the ‘Snowflake Wishes’ bundle, using versamark to stamp them randomly before embossing them with white powder.

The ‘Freezin Fun’ stamp set forms part of the ‘Freezin’ Fun’ Bundle, which I absolutely adore as it means I can die cut each of the images to use on my projects. This card allowed me to showcase them perfectly against the blended ink background. The die set includes the stitched edge which forms the snowy hill on the background.

I absolutely love it and have made differing version already, one of which is shown in my video below. Hope you enjoy!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • Card Base = 41/8 x 111/2 inches, score at 57/8 on the long side
  • Background Layer = 37/8 x 55/8 inches
  • Stitched Snow Layer = 37/8 x 2 inches
  • Scraps of Whisper White for stamping.

 

Chocolate Vellum Box

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How amazing is the ‘Nothing’s Better Than’ stamp set? You may not like all three feature items in it, but at least one of them will be a vice, mine is chocolate (and sometimes cocktails!). A couple of years ago, I made chocolate boxes for my team which included a long thin chocolate bar – a bit like a Ripple / Flake / Twirl / Time Out. I thought I’d remake these to make full use of the stamp set.

I used chocolate inspired card stock with Early Espresso and Soft Suede for my two samples, using tone on tone stamping by using the matching ink shades. These boxes could be very easily adapted to suit the coffee sachets available in supermarkets, ideal to gift to a caffeine crazy friend / family member.

I wanted to give my boxes a wrap of some sort and a contrast away from the dark shades of cards, so I added a small piece of Plush Poinsetta Vellum around the middle. Finishing off the wrap with a chocolate inspired sentiment. These are such cute boxes and easily to reproduce on larger scales. I have recently made 15 of these for my UK team, which took me no longer than an hour to complete.

I hope you enjoy making them as much as I did!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • Cardstock = 41/2 x 101/2 inches
  • Vellum = 4 x 5 inches

Scoring:

  • Long side (101/2): ½, 11/2 inches on both sides
  • Short side (41/2): 1, 2, 3, 4 inches

 

Gleaming Christmas

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Weeeeeeeee! Another sneak peek of product from the Mini Catalogue which launches next week! Some of you may recognise the paper I have used in this project and that’s because it carried over from last year!

I absolutely adore this paper, every single pattern in the pack is gorgeous and I bought so much of it last year and used it for practically every gift I made boxes for. This year, I decided to make a box and mix it up with some other sets available. This box was made for my work colleagues last year, it housed trophies for award winners who had gone that extra mile for our customers.

The box is made up of two sections, the copper foil inner section and a wrap on the outer made from the Brightly Gleaming Speciality Designer Series Paper (DSP). I decorated the box with a copper foil tree using the Pine Tree punch and finished with touches of Night of Navy in the sentiment and ribbon.

It makes a gorgeous box and an item I would love to receive if made by someone else.

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • Designer Series Paper (DSP) = 111/2 x 21/4 inches
  • Copper Foil = 61/2 x 91/2 inches

Scoring:

  • Long Side (91/2): 21/4, 41/2, 63/4, 9 inches
  • Short Side (61/2): 21/4, 31/4 inches

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