Tropical Altered Cigar Box

Hello everyone! :)
With so many different styles of cigar boxes out there, I had to do another one! :) Now since I took soooo many photos, I will try to keep the reading to a minimum. :)

I used our Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue collection throughout the entire box as well as the mini!

I made this flower using some of our Color Me Crazy flowers and some I had in my stash. I also made the stick pin with some pearls I had in my stash.

Here I used Glossy Accents to enhance the flowers in her hair and I used Shimmerz on her eyes and lips! Here's some more views of the outside of the box.

 This is the front.

This is the side. I did both sides pretty much identical.

This is the back.

This is the inside with the mini in it.

I tried to get a good pic of the inside to show that I used some Diamond Stickles to accent the fish on the paper all around the inside and just used some felt from my stash for the bottom.

Now for the mini! :)

Lo's from Summers Past!

 Here's a couple of lo's I did last summer of a trip I took to Ocean City, MD a couple of years ago!

Exploding box!

Hello everyone! :)
For my 4th of July project, I thought to myself, since the fireworks will be exploding, why not make a 4th of July Exploding Box! Now I know that the technical name/use for these are boxes BUT, to me these can be cards, minis and boxes! They come in many different shapes and I decided to go with the pyramid shape!

I used our Echo Park 4th Of July paper kit for 2 of the layers of the box as well as the lid. The title and embellishments on the outside also came in the kit!

Here's the view when it's completely exploded! The inner most layer has a circle with a star and some stripes in the middle that I cut from one of the papers in the kit. I used my eCraft Purpleberry machine to cut the white triangles. Here's where I think the possibility of mini can start. Instead of the circle, you can adhere a photo or for a card, you can put a sentiment there. Or quite possibly photos and embellishments on all tabs! :) Just some ideas! Here's some more views.

 On this layer, I used all sticker embellishments that comes in the kit.

I used the same sticker embellishments on this layer as well and some more triangles that I cut out using my eCraft. The possibilities are endless using this kit, I love it! I also have plenty of paper left to do a couple of layouts as well as cards! Thanks for looking everyone and have a safe and Happy 4th of July!!! :)

My Endless Card

Hello everyone! :)
Today I made what some like to call a "Endless Card" or the "Never Ending Card", using the Echo Park Country Drive Collection Kit.

Because this card has a series of folds/openings, here's a quick video I did to demonstrate how it works and some of the products I used to embellish it that you can order from Cutters Creek. Enjoy!

Products used: Echo Park-Country Drive Collection, Stickles-Diamond, Distress Ink Pad-Mustard Seed, Kaiser-Black Rhinestones, Score Tape

Thank you!

Thanks to everyone that hopped along with us on the Cutter's Creek Blog Hop this past weekend! I really hope you enjoyed yourself and received some inspiration for some Father's Day projects. Good luck to those of you that left comments along the way for the grand prize drawing! 

Happy scrapping! :)

Cutters Creek Design Team Fathers Day Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Fathers Day Blog Hop! If you just came from Fran's blog, you are in the right place! If you just happened upon my blog today and you want to hop from the beginning, and play for the Grand Prize you can start from the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog and check out Chris' great project! The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to inspire you to create something beautiful for all of the “Fathers” in your life! We have a bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas to layouts about our fathers! 

 Here is a quick card I did using a clean and simple design but with a masculine look. First I inked the edges of my card with walnut ink. I used a piece of Core'dination Vintage collection for my background paper and then inked the edges of two pieces of cardstock from our Prima Annalee paper pack and put them in a layered, staggered position. The border strip is from our Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe paper pack. Using a clear acrylic stamp, I stamped the quote first in cranberry then in walnut to create a unique color.

Using my eCraft Purpleberry, I cut a 3 inch starburst shape from the Core'dinations cardstock and then a 2 inch starbusrt shape from the Annalee cardstock. I used a piece of fine sandpaper on the edges of the larger starburst to reveal the core color and inked the edges on the smaller one. After adding a brad to the center of the smaller starburst, I used 3D foam dots to adhere it to the larger one. Quick, easy and perfect for that manly man in your life! :)

Now for the details about the Grand Prize I mentioned at the beginning of my post. To qualify you must leave a comment at every stop along the way. Comments should be made by Midnight, June 3rd. We will use Random.org to select a winner so be sure to check back with us on Monday to find out if you have won!

Don't forget to leave a comment here! Thanks for hopping by!!!

My first altered wooden box!

Hi everyone! :)

I'm in a swap on sb.com called "Graphic 45 cigar box & mini swap! Now I've made minis before but never a altered cigar box. So when I was in my local Dollar Tree, I came across a couple of little wooden boxes. They measure a little over 3.5x3.5, and they have hinges on them as well as a little small magnet to keep it closed. I grabbed them up and figured I would eventual do something with them...couldn't leave them there, especially only costing a $1.00 a piece! So I decided to use one now as practice until my Graphic 45 paper pad gets here that I'm going to use on the cigar box. Sorry for all the pics, but I wanted to capture as much detail as possible. :)

This is the natural box when I bought it. Nice and clean! 

I used my homemade alcohol ink to kind of stain the box. As you can see, my fingers were pretty orange by the time I was done! I'm a hands on kind of girl! :)

This is the completed box. I had a ball creating this! Here's more shots and close ups! Thanks for looking! :)