Pals Paper Arts March Hop Into Spring

Stampin' Up! Matchbox XL Bigz Die
& Thick Window Sheets

Welcome to the March PALS HOP!  This month, we're featuring Fabulous Easter and Spring projects for your inspiration!  You've likely hopped over from Dawn Gross, Dawn's This & That, I'm stop number 10 on the PALS HOP and I'm glad you hopped in!  I'll help you "hop along" from blog to blog where you'll find great ideas for paper crafted creations from the Stampin' Pretty Pals!  Should you hop off course, simply click here for a list of hop participants and you'll be back on track!

 These three little match boxes are great for small gifts for friends and relatives.  I love the pop of color the jelly beans (or jelly babies  - let's see who knows when we first found out that they were called jelly babies and what were they used for.  The answer will be in my next post!) gives it, but you could place milk chocolate Hershey Nuggets in the box and have a beautiful wedding or bridal shower favor.  I experimented with the window sheets and loved how you could see the contents without having them spill all over.  The Tasteful Trim double sided scallop is the perfect belly band for this project as they look like leaves under the daisy!  The plain box was passed through the Square Lattice embossing folder and brayered using Crumb Cake Classic ink.  Hoppy Spring!

Stampin' Stuff:

Stamp Sets -

• None 

Ink - 

• Crumb Cake Classic (121030)

Paper - 

• Crumb Cake Card Stock (120953)
• Whisper White Card Stock (100730)
• Pear Pizzaz Card Stock (119795)
• Wild Wasabi Card Stock (108641)
• Daffodil Delight Card Stock (119683)
• Thick Window Sheets (114324)

Accessories -

• 5/8'' Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon (119958)
• SNAIL Adhesive (104332)
• Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
• Glue Dots (103683)
• Basic Pearls (119247)
• Brights Designer Buttons (119747)
• Easter Basket Grass 

Tools -

• Big Shot (113439)
• Extended Cutting Pads (113478)
• Extended Premium Crease Pad (117630)
• Bigz Daisies #2 XL Die (114520) <- Featured Item
• Matchbox Die (114890 - Stampin' Up! exclusive)
• Tasteful Trim Bigz XL Die (120893 - Holiday Mini  - Stampin' Up! exclusive - still available) <-
  Featured Item
• Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die (118138 - Stampin' Up! exclusive)
• Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (119976)
• Brayer (102395)
• Bone Folder (102300)

Don't forget the Featured Items have links directly to the items in my store.

Putting It Together Tips:

• If you opt to texturize the box bottom, use of the Premium Crease Pad is vital.  Under normal circumstances I found I could use the acrylic pads for most scored die cuts.  But the depth of the impression is so great with the Square Lattice folder that it literally falls apart at the creases unless you use the crease pad to cut out the die cut.
• A word of caution - texturizing the box bottom with the Square Lattice folder makes it somewhat difficult to assemble the box, so patience is really required.  The projects would turn out just as nice without the texture, but I just felt it added another dimension - especially to the white box.  For tips on brayering in textured surfaces, see Applying Color to an Embossed Image in the  Mike's Minute section.  
• After die cutting the Window Sheet band, I found I needed to use my Bone Folder to make the creases crisp.  Believe me, once you crease it with the Bone Folder, it stays creased!

Hop along for more inspiring ideas from Sue Bendinsky, My Color Creations,  stop number 11 on the March PALS HOP!  Thanks for "hopping" by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Dawn G]

1.

Great things come in small packages!!

[Brenda Keenan]

2.

Hi Mike! I love your projects and visit your blog often - thanks for the inspiration :-) I recently received the Stylish Blogger Award and am passing it on to you. Please visit my blog to find out what this means: http://keenankreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/sneak-peek-card-and-blog-award.html

[Mary Fish]

3.

Adorable! Love the beans peeking out.

Hugs, M

[diane oliver]

4.

Mike so cute! Great Easter treats for some lucky little "bunnies". I LOVE how the jelly beans add so much color and really like the embossed sides. Not sure when they were called jelly babies.. probably when the jelly belly jelly beans became popular ???
I love the matchbox and made these last year into one large (4 sided) treasure box for Easter but used the nuggets, but I really like how the jelly beans look.

[Sarah Miller]

5.

Great little boxes TFS
Sarah

[Martha Stewart]

6.

That is such an inviting little gift! Love seeing the jelly beans. I'll have to give those a try. Wonderful projects, Mike!

[Ginger]

7.

cute, cute, cute Mike! Love the little boxes filled with goodies and the clear tops just add the finishing touch.

[Ann Schach]

8.

So cute, Mike! It makes me hungry for jelly beans-babies-bellies!

[Joanna]

9.

I am in love with these boxes Mike! How creative! Each one is soo unique! What a great idea!

[Jessica]

10.

Very cute, I love your little matchboxes! And I can't resist jelly beans, so I never buy them! lolI got my embossing folder on Monday. So my whole order is complete. Thanks a bunch my friend. I've stamped a bunch of images, but am still perfecting them. I really love coloring them with my pastels, with the blender pens. I've had this set of pastels for ages! They are very old Stampin Up pastels, but they last for ever! I'd say they are maybe 20 years old. And they still work wornderfully!

[Carla Bazhenow]

11.

Oh such fabulous boxes. I love them. Love those lids. Awesome gifts! Hugs,

[Erica Fields]

12.

Love your projects today. Not too complicated when you have the BS :)

[Carmen]

13.

I agree with Kathy, as soon as I saw them I thought what a great little surprise to leave on a co-workers desk! Great idea.

[Account Deleted]

14.

Great projects. I love the use of window sheets with the match box die! I also just checked out your Mike's Minute Tutorials, they are great! Thanks for some great tips!

[Traci]

15.

Love this!

[Melanie C]

16.

So creative Mike!! Each one is adorable. I love the lattice look.

[Linda Callahan]

17.

Ahh the Easter season has arrived - this is my first official sighting of Easter grass! These are great little boxes - love the accents on top of the clear windopane sheet - great idea!

[kathy]

18.

This would be a perfect gift for co-workers , customers or even in a large basket -you are so right Mike, it is nice to see the contents without having the treats spilled all over -Thanks for sharing !