Cereal Box turned Gift Box

I found this cereal that I love at Target a few months back. 

I've gone through about 10 boxes since then and I haven't had the heart to throw any of them out.  They're made from a pretty sturdy cardboard and have a little plastic lid, so I thought I could repurpose it for something.  Then I thought, it would make a great gift box for Christmas/Birthday gifts.  I pulled out some supplies and turned the box into this lovely:

 

I wrapped the box in a piece of patterned paper.  The 12x12 piece wasn't quite big enough, but I used the ribbon and scrap to fill in the last piece.  I stamped SOG's Tree Trimming Kaylee on some copic quality paper and color in her hair and skin.  I paper pieced the ornament she's holding and her clothes and accessories.  I added a little jingle bell to her headband.  I popped the front panel up on dimensionals over the ribbon.

 

To finish it all off, I stamped three of the gift images from Warm Wishes Tia in a stack and paper pieced each of them to creat a little to/from tag.  

I'm loving how it turned out and can't wait to work on the others I've been hoarding :-D

And since I used my SOG stamps, I'm throwing it in for the Get Odd Guest Challenge  Wish me luck!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
From the stash - ribbon, SU! Jingle Bells, scrap papers

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Fall Project on a Snowy Day

Happy Saturday!  What is with the weather?!?! I love this time of year with all the colors of the changing leaves, so why is it when I look out my front door, I see this!!

 

Despite the winter weather, I have a little fall project to share.  I made some treat bags for my coworkers (I'm told I missed my calling as an teacher!)

I found some white paper bags and stamped each name on the bag with versamark then embossed it in orange.  Then I stamped the spider and web from the {stamps} of life's webs4us.  I didn't like the look of just the outlined letter with the web showing throw so I colored in all of the letters.  (sorry the pics are a little dark)

 

After all of the bags were filled I punch two hols with my crop-a-dile then tied it all shut with a twine bow of charcoal and mandarin twine.

 

 This little project will be part of the following challenges:

Fingers crossed that this winter weather goes away until winter is officially here!!

--Angie 

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Happy Birthday, Man!

This week, I'm playing along with YCU's Masculine Card Challenge.  I decided to make a set because I was using some Mister Huey's color mists and the cards were made pretty quickly.

I sprayed the color mists onto white card stock.  Added the black washi tape, a button tied on with twine, and embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment.  Then matted it on a black card base... quick and easy!

Here are the individual cards - 

Bluegrass

Orchard

Bonny Blue

Clover

Challenges this set will be playing along with:

Anything Goes!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 


From stash: Doodlebug Buttons, Black polka dot washi tape (maybe from the Smash line?)

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Elebration - Paper Pieced and Colored

What a week!!  My birthday was this past Monday, so the hubby and I took a long weekend to have a mini vacation.  It was rainy for most of the trip so we didn't get much time to do the hiking we planned, but it was great to get away for a few days.  So now we're home and I'm getting back into the swing of things (slowly since I don't go back to work until Saturday).

This weeks challenge at iCopic is Baby.  I don't make a lot of baby cards so I thought I'd play along.  I used the baby theme, combined it with the sketch at CPS and was off.  Once I settled on a stamp to use, I couldn't decide if I wanted to color it or paper piece it so I made two cards - one each way.  Here they are - 

paper pieced

colored

I think the stamp is super cute.  Here's a close up of the two images -

paper pieced

colored

I'll be playing along with the following challenges:

     

--Angie

Supplies - 
other things from stash - pearls, label punch from EK success, white gel pen

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