Boxed Sets

Last month, I made a group of cards for a friend's charity event in Alabama. I was thinking it would nice to box the 4 cards with envelopes - in hopes of bringing in a bit more money for the charity (children's cancer treatment).
A while ago, my friend,Linda, shared a package of die cut boxes with several of us. I decided to use it as a template and make my own out of card stock.

This is the box I used as a template. I just traced around the edge onto a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock. Below is one of the boxes with the card that goes inside:

This is the closed box, with the cards and envelopes inside:

For the box below, I decided to use a black band to tuck the top flap into it as a closure. The cream lace is self adhesive paper lace. This was my favorite (especially since red is my favorite color!)

Such a simple trace and cut activity and it looks great!

Club Scrap Blog Hop

Happy Valentine's Day! Many of us Club Scrap members are sharing the love of Club Scrap. I chose to showcase out recent special release kit - My Funny Valentine. I love the colors of this kit. Not your typical valentine colors of red and pink, I love the black, teal, red, and fuchsia.

I used a couple of Technique Junkies techniques on 2 of the cards. The flowers are from my studio, but all ribbon, card stock and most of the stamps (exception - "hugs..." from an older Club Scrap kit) are from My Funny Valentine.

I thought the colors and images would work wonderfully for these very mini treat boxes (think mini M&M's!). I stamped and stenciled the designs onto the card stick, and popped up some of the images.

Below is the list of blogs participating in the blog hop; the link in red is the next blog on the list:

http://www.capecodscrapper.blogspot.com/
http://crzymomstidbits.blogspot.com/
http://www.jujusfolly.blogspot.com/
http://liftbridge.blogspot.com/
http://chrissiecreations.blogspot.com/
http://tlscrap.blogspot.com/
http://orezonia.blogspot.com/
http://www.pagesofpictures.com/
http://scraphappysistersink.blogspot.com/
http://squirrelyart.blogspot.com/
http://wbellino.blogspot.com/

Heart to Heart

I am still experimenting with my Cricut. I have been trying to find some fun little holiday treats to send college kids (and to prepare for future classes). I cut the card and the envelope from Club Scrap's Heart to Heart kit using the Wild Card cartridge. The stamps are also from Heart to Heart. The little treat box was cut from the same kit using the Boxes,Bags and Tags cartridge. I stamped hearts in red an the box. It will hold a small plastic bag with candy hearts, M & M's, or a small candy bar. This is a great (as well as quick and easy) valentine treat to hand out in elementary classes. Too bad my kids are in college! (not really!)