Beautiful Wings with the Curvy Keepsake Box

Today I have a couple of projects to share with you for an up-coming Mom and Me Class this Saturday. The moms and kids will work together to make a very fancy Curvy Keepsake Box covered in butterflies. Some are from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit that is retiring this year after gracing the pages of Stampin' Up! Catalogues for ever! The big butterfly on top is from the Butterfly Thinlit dies! There is another Top Secret project that I can't share yet because the kids will be making for their moms for Mother's Day while the moms work on this project:

This project was cased from Diane Ouellette, who in turn cased it from Connie Babbert. Thanks for your inspiration, ladies! You can see a butterfly theme happening! Let's take a closer look at the Butterfly Box:

• It has been awhile since I last played with the Curvy Keepsake Box, but I wanted a 3D project for the kids to enjoy. It would be great for candies or snacks, but also for keeping small treasures in.
• The colours I used were Melon Mambo, Basic Gray and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper. I think they suit each other quite well in a dramatic way. I used the Butterfly Thinlits to die cut the butterfly out of the Glimmer Paper. I tried using the Dryer Sheet Technique to get all the little bits out of the butterfly wings, but due to the type of paper, it didn't work as well as it usually does. Oh, well, poking out all those little pieces will be a great job for the kids to do! 
• The Basic Gray cardstock really shows up the embossed design from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits well. As I mentioned they are retiring and are on sale for 50% off!

• On the sides, the labels are made using the Daydream Medallions Stamp Set, also on the Retiring List. The design was stamped in VersaMark Ink on the the Basic Gray cardstock and heat embossed using Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss Powder. Usually, it's hard to tell when the Iridescent Ice powder is heat set on White or Vanilla. But it turned dark on the Basic Gray and it was so easy to tell when it was set. Rather dramatic actually! I die cut the backing with the Floral Frames framelits.
• The center of the frames was stamped with an image from the Hello There Stamp set which is a retiring Hostess Set from the Annual Catalogue. I stamped it in Melon Mambo Ink and punched it out with the 1 1/4" Circle punch. It created a tiny border of white around the solid Melon Mambo which helped it stand out on the Basic Gray. I love how that worked out.
• As you can see the butterfly die cut on top was snipped in half, with each half mounted on one side or the other of the little handle once the box is closed. It doesn't interfere, however, with the box opening and closing.

If you have kidlets between the ages of 5 and 12 and live in the area, please let me know if you'd like to attend this event this coming Saturday from 1 pm to 2:30 pm.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

*Daydream Medallions Wood Stamp Set [131976]	*Daydream Medallions Clear Stamp Set [126467]	*Hello There Clear-Mount Stamp Set [133922]	*Hello There Wood-Mount Stamp Set [133919]	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315]
Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115320]	Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121044]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [126948]
Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss Powder [101930]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	**Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die [118138]	Butterflies Thinlits Dies [137360]
Floral Frames Framelits Die [127012]	1-1/4" Circle Punch [119861]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Glue Dots [103683]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]

*Retiring June 2

**Retiring June 2 and on sale for 50% off.

Butterfly Frenzy for As You See It Challenges

I have several customers who LOVE butterflies! One collects them and the others just love to use them and have them on the cards they make!  But really, who doesn't love butterflies?  They are beautifully fragile and part of what make our world so lovely.  I know my customers are going to adore today's As You See It Challenge, because there is a whole flock of butterflies on it.  Actually, a group of butterflies should rightfully be called any of the following:  a swarm, a rabble, a kaleidoscope or a flutter.  Since bees swarm and rabble sounds much too rambunctious for butterflies, I like flutter or kaleidoscope to describe them.

So, the As You See It Challenge this week has a whole flutter of butterflies on it!  Maybe that will convince some of my customers to enter the challenge! Yes??  Come on, you know you want to!

                                    

And here's what I came up with for my own personal flutter:

• Back to Kinda Eclectic again.  Sure hope I don't wear it out before the year's over!  I used it for what it's designed for: collage stamping to form the background for my butterflies.
• My colour palette is Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla.  Overall it forms a soft subdued look.

• To get the two rectangle shapes from the sketch, I simply inked up two clear mount blocks, one in Crisp Cantaloupe and one in Pistachio Pudding, and stamped with the empty clear mount block.  It gives a soft look to go along with the colour choices and the stippled look provides a shape that doesn't compete with the butterflies for star billing.
• The butterflies themselves were made by taking a square each of Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding cardstock and running them through the Big Shot using a perennial favourite embosslit - Beautiful Wings.  The embosslit die cuts and embosses at the same time - so handy!
• The sentiment is from Kinda Eclectic and I think kindness is symbolized by the butterflies.  Some are big kindnesses and some are tiny, but like a butterfly, they fly a long way, helping us to create and maintain relationships!  How's that for a philosophical thought to end this post!

Have a great weekend! See you on Monday with a new video tutorial!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!


Product List

Kinda Eclectic Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135347]	Kinda Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135350]	Crisp Cantaloupe 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131298]	Pistachio Pudding 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131294]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2X11 Card Stock [101650]
Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad [131176]	Pistachio Pudding Classic Stampin' Pad [131177]	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [126976]	Very Vintage Designer Buttons [129327]	Linen Thread [104199]
Beautiful Wings Stampin' Up! Embosslits Die [118138]	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine [113439]

VIPs

Wow!  An absolutely stunning day today - shorts weather, really, although I don't think I have any that fit. So with the weather so much more spring-like than this time last year, I'm not too sad about the Canucks being out of the play-offs.  Who wants to watch hockey now any way? (Oops, was that blasphemy to some of you? Sorry!)

These next cards I made are for some Very Important People in my world - my Workshop Hostesses!    I want them to know how much I appreciate their support, so I work especially hard on their thank-you cards.  Here are the latest:

The Framelits Label Collection makes such elegant looking cards and that particular piece of Attic Boutique DSP from the Occasions Mini is one I've been itching to use ever since I saw it - so soft and pretty.  Don't forget that if you want to order something from the Occasions Mini, you have until April 30 to do so.  Follow the links on this blog to my website to shop 24/7!  The stamp set I used, Apothecary Art, is also from the Occasions Mini Catalogue, but I'm hoping it makes the cut to the new catalogue along with the Framelits.  They are so versatile.  I coloured the image in using Pool Party and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Markers. 

Here's another view:

 

Isn't Pool Party and Early Espresso a delicious combination?  The little butterflies adorning the front of the cards is made using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and the Big Shot machine. I am entering this in the Our Creative Corner challenge: Butterflies.

I hope that Monday is kind to you! 

Apothecary Art Stamp Set

Attic Boutique DSP

 

Framelits Labels Collection

Happy Saturday!  Just a quick post to show a card I whipped up for a dear lady in our church who has been very sick.  Ken just took over some supper for them and I sent this card along.  I love these colours - Island Indigo, Pool Party and Sahara Sand!  I embossed the vertical banners with three different SU embossing folders, two of which are Adorning Accents.  The stamp sets are SU Bliss and Teeny Tiny Wishes, and the Butterflies are made with the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  I also made this card to enter in the OCCC "Over the Edge" Challenge!