Before we show you the second part of stamping with Chrissy we would love to share with you the winners for the draw of the magazine of October 13. The two names are: Nikki C. and Amanda Profumo.
Ladies, please send your addresses to bettina@mystampbox.com and go brew a nice cuppa to wait the arrival of the mags. Have fun reading! Make sure to check out Jolene’s article on homemade gifts.
And now over to Chrissy, who is showing more cool projects with the Boo! set.
With the holiday season closing in on us, many of us are looking for quick and easy gifts to give to friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, etc. For this project, I have created a quick and easy 3″ gift card and an easy peasy treat sack – a perfect spooky surprise for your child’s lunch box or a coworker’s mail room box.
The card was created using a leftover strip of my patterned paper that I made for the “Boo” accordion tag. I added a strip of torn black card stock, a piece of cute gingham ribbon, and the “Happy Halloween” sentiment from the Boo! set. I cut out the sentiment and adhered it to a scrap of black card stock and cut it out again. Then I added it to the card with foam tape to add dimension.
For the treat sack, I just stamped a few of the Boo! stamps onto a glassine bag and let it dry. So quick and easy. You could even have your kids help you out with this task! Once the ink was dry, I filled it with some candy, folded over the top and punched two hole to string the ribbon through. You could easily add a small tag too, if desired.
Don’t worry if Halloween is approaching too fast … both the treat sack and the little card could easily be reworked for the another holiday just by changing the stamp set and color scheme – the Christmas Minis set would be perfect for recreating these in a Christmas theme!
Stamps: Boo! from my Stamp BOX
Ink: PTI Orange Zest, Pallete Noir Black, Paper: PTI White, Orange Zest, True Black
Accessories: PTI balck & white gingham ribbon; orange ribbon from craft store; foam tape; glassine bag
Did you know you could use the Boo! Halloween set to make a winter-themed card?!
In this project, I am going to show you how to get more out of your Boo! set just by using the solid circle stamp and a punch.
First, you need a punch and scrap paper. For this project, I used a snowflake punch. Punch out a few snowflakes and layer your punched card stock over a scrap piece of paper.
Next, ink up your solid circle stamp and stamp over the hole you punched out. This will remove some of the ink, but leave the ink intact where the punched out shape was.
Then, stamp onto your card stock and repeat as desired. Once I finished stamping my circle snowflakes, I used the punched snowflake hole as a guide to add some snowflakes with a glitter pen.
Once you have your patterned paper complete, the assembly for this card is pretty simple. Cut your snowflake paper strip and a wider pink strip of card stock and distress the edges of both. Adhere them together and wrap a length of grosgrain around the top of the panel and tie a knot before adhering to your card base. Finally, stamp your sentiment on the bottom and add some stacked buttons to your knot with twine.
Thanks for inviting me over! I love how this card came out and I hope I’ve inspired you to experiment with creating your own patterned paper using your my Stamp BOX stamps.
Chrissy
Stamps: Boo! and Everyday Lines from my Stamp BOX
Ink: PTI Aqua Mist, Paper: PTI White, Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, Accessories: PTI Aqua Mist grosgrain, vintage buttons; twine; Sakura glitter pen, Tools: Heidi Swapp edge distresser tool
Gorgeous projects Chrissy! Love the stamp and punch idea!
Congrats to the winners! Chrissy, I LOVE that idea of stamping and using the punches. Clever stuff!
Chrissy this is an awesome idea! I’m going to have to give it a try!
I have not tried this before, love the look of it you always do a fab job on your backgrounds;)
Congrats to the winners!!
These are beautiful Chrissy! Well done!