Valentine's Day LOVE Box

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges they want you to share anything made with a heart on it.  Here is a 2" square box that I made for one of my stamp clubs this month.  It opens up and you can put candy or a small gift inside.

Here are the instructions to make this lovely little box:
Love Box


By Debi Davis

Supplies:

8” x 8” White Daisy cardstock
(4) 1 7/8” x 1 7/8” Tulip cardstock
(4) 1 ¾” x 1 ¾” Black cardstock
(4) 1 ½” x 1 ½” background & Texture paper
(4) 1 ¼” x 1 ¼” White Daisy cardstock
(2) 1” x 2” background & Texture paper
(1) 1 7/8” x 1 7/8” background & Texture paper
(1) Scallop Heart punched from Tulip cardstock
(2) 6”-8" pieces of Ribbon
Red Lines tape
Tombow adhesive
3-D Foam Tape
Black, Tulip, Baby Pink and Blush Ink pads

Directions:

Score the 8” x 8” piece of cardstock at 1”, 3”, 5” and 7”.
Turn 90° and score at 1”, 3”, 5” and 7”.

Cut out along the score lines as pictured.  If you cut out the shaded triangle spaces the box will fold better.

Add Red Lines tape along the box tabs as shown: Peel off the red lines backing and build the box.

Decorate your box as desired.

Glue on all the layers of paper on the sides, bottom and top of box. Use 3-D foam squares to attach the side white squares. Punch two holes in the center of the top of the box, going through all the layers including the heart.  Tie a knot on one end of the ribbon and run it through the hole. Do the same for the other side. Fill with candy or gift and tie the top closed with a bow.

I hope you enjoy making this box and don't forget to check out what other people have come up with at the Heart 2 Heart blog.

It's a Color Challenge

Oh my I almost forgot to add last week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge.  Click here for the link.  It is a color challenge, and let me tell you I really had to think outside the box.  Here are the colors for this week's challenge.

Here is my card.  I was having a hard time getting a good picture of it.  It is a standard card base in Colonial White and then I used my Martha Stewart punch to scallop the edge of the card front.  I used Sunset polka dots from the Hooligan's paper pack and Indian Corn Blue polka dots from the Magic Moments paper pack.  The Tree is from Four Seasons B1319 stamp set.  I stamp it using the Brown Bag ink.  Then the Sentiment is from this month's stamp of the month A Little Thanks.  The cute little blue bird if from Childhood Portriat D1373 stamp set.

Back to School - Really?

What already?  I think I'm ready for school to start....{smiles}
The Heart2Heart Challenge this week is a back to school challenge.

Here's what's happening this week - we are creating Back To School projects! Cards, layouts, altered items - whatever makes you think of heading back to the classroom!

So Click Here to go to the Heart2Heart Challenges blog to see what the design team and other people have come up with.

I'm posting a Teacher Appreciation gift that I made back in May for one of our wonderful teachers at my kid's school.
It is a package that holds four 3"x3" cards with matching envelopes and three chocolate nuggets (because everyone can use a little chocoltate).  I used the Animal Cookies paper pack (the colors just remind me of school colors) and various stamp sets.  So fun to make.

Now let's see what wonderful ideas you have made.  Be sure to post on the Heart2heart blog.

Top O' the Morning St. Patty's Day Card

Hi All!

I'm not much Irish, 1/8th to be exact, but this little leprechaun is so cute I had to make a card with him.  My kids like to celebrate all the holidays and I have been informed that it is way past time to start decorating for St. Patrick's Day.  This helps get me in the spirit.

I used CTMH Animal Cookies paper turning the stripe over to the green side. The card pattern is from the Wishes Book and is called "Lucky Layers".  I just love the How To books by CTMH, they make stamping so easy.  Sorry about the shadows on the card, it is actually sunny here in Oregon today!

CKC Portland Fun

Hi - What did you do this weekend beside watch the "Big Game"?  I hope that you had as much fun as I did.  I was able to attend the CKC Portland convention.  I took classes and did some shopping at the vendor fair and it was a day full of fun creative projects!  I was very excited that my friends Amanda and Cari were there too!

Here is a small sample of some of the classes that I took.  In all of my classes we recieved so much product, but ran out of time to complete everything.  Hopefully I will get a little time this week to finish some things up.

This is the first class that I took.  It was by Technique Tuesday.  We recieved product and instructions to complete 6 very cute cards.  We only made it through 2 of them in class, but I'm looking forward to finishing the rest.  Look at the cute stamp set that we all got to take home.  The ribbon on the first card we dyed with brown ink on one side and blue on the other.  Then when you twist it you get to see both colors.

Another class that I took was how to create your own embelishments.   We made flowers and butterflies.  I can see how this technique would be really fun to add embelishements to cards or layouts that match your papers you are working with.

Here is a close-up of the flower.  We used a circle of paper, cut slits with our scissors and added glitter polka-dots.  Glued dimensional elements and a button on top.

On this layout we made our own butterflies.  I just need to add some pictures to this.

This was my last class of the day.  We were to make 12 cards, but we only made it through 4 of them.  So I will be working on completing the rest of these.  I kind of changed some of the original designs a little, but I like how they turned out and that they are more funky than I would usually make myself.

I aslo took a summer vacation album class.  We recieved an adorable album, matching paper pack, and tote bag too.  We made 5 of the 10 pages, so when I get that one finished I will post some pictures of that too.  It was a great day and I'm looking forward to attending again next year.  Thanks CKC!

Love the Topstitch Paper!

I had such a fun day on Saturday at the Unit Meeting for CTMH consultants.  We did a lot of great papercrafting and sharing information with each other.  Thanks to all the Consultants that came and shared their talents with everyone!  I had a blast!

Here are some items that we made using the very cute new Topstitch paper pack from our Spring 2010 catalog.

This is a Journal cover for our new Journals that Treena Patzke taught us how to make:

This next item is a Tag booklet taught by Karen Gerlach.  I can't wait to put some pictures of my kids in it.

Here it is opened up:

Here is the bookmark that I taught.  It can stand on a table or slide in a book:

And here is the card that I made for the February Stamp of the Month Swap - It's a little sneek peek of the adorable "Piece of Cake" stamp set we will be offering next month:

This is just a small sample of the many items that we made on Saturday.  Stay tuned and I will post more of the fantastic artwork we had so much fun creating!  Thanks again to Julie and all the Consultants that were there!

Thanksgiving Placecards

This is the placecard that I created for Thanksgiving this year.  I used my 2" scallop punch and created a little box to hold M&M's.  I used Autumn Terracotta Paper from CTMH and the Turkey is from a retired stamp set by CTMH.  The letter "D" is from the Typewriter keys stamp set.  (set to retire this December)

I punched out two scallops and then cut off 6 of the scallops making the bottom flat.

I cut a piece of cardstock 3" x 3 1/4" for the box.  Then I scored it along the 3" side at 3/4", turned it around and scored again at 3/4".  Then I scored it along the 3 1/4" side at 1 1/4", turned it around and scored again at 1 1/4".

I cut the center scored lines and folded to create a little box, using Tombow to adhere the sides together.

I cut the handle at 1/2" x 5".  Stamped the design on it, inked the edges and then adhered it to the little box centering it up.

I punched out a smaller circle and stamped the Turkey on it using Chocolate Ink.  Stamped my initial using Typewriter alphabet and cut out.  For the back I punched out some retired CTMH paper with leaves on it.

Glued everything on, tied a ribbon on the handle and filled with M&M candies (holds about 20 candies).  It is small, but oh so cute!!!

CTMH Regional Celebration

I am back from the Close to My Heart Regional Celebration, and let me tell you I had a blast!  They shared some new business information with us and best of all learned new stamping and scrapbooking techniques!  All the friendly consultants and corporate employees made this weekend extra special - Thanks to all!

Here is the Layout we made using the Twitterpated paper pack - love the colors:

These are some cute cards that we made using the Jingle paper pack:

Here are some cards that we made during crop night:

STAMPAGANZA is here!

From November 3 - 30, 2009, when you purchase any two stamp sets (sizes A, B, C, D and/or E) at full retail price you will recieve a third stamp set of your choice FREE (of equal or lesser value).

This is the sale that everyone has been waiting for and it is here just in time for the Holidays. Let Santa know what you want for Christmas and have him contact me at 503-669-4104 or by email Debistampnfun@aol.com and I will be sure that he has just the right gift for you.