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3D THURSDAY – A SHADOW GIFT BOX

I seem to be making lots of shadow boxes of late. They are fun to make and I love the thought process required to visualise and then ‘draft’ the layout and measurements needed to create them.

My philosophy when crafting is ‘measure twice – cut once’. This helps to minimise ‘mistakes’.

This shadow gift box is more masculine in style.

The box is made with a Lost Lagoon base and outer band.

I added a Designer Series Paper panel to the top of the outer band.

I stamped and coloured the adironack chair using Lost Lagoon – Classic Stampin’ Pad and Stampin’ Blends. The Colour Lifter was perfect to create some more colour gradation.

The sentiment was stamped and then punched using the 1 3/4″ circle punch. A 1 7/8″ circle punch was used to cut a Lost Lagoon circle to place behind the greeting.

I wrapped a length of White Textured Ribbon around the box base and tied it in a bow. This provides an easy way to slide the box base out.

Now I just need to find something special to pop inside the gift box.

Tomorrow I have a final masculine card to share with you.

Until then, happy stampin and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY MASCULINE CARD

This card was inspired by an amazing new fun fold card that Rose Coleman created – a Funky Diagonal Fun Fold Card.

This is the card that inspired me –

My card uses the Waterside Retreat products and it is similar to Rose’s creation.

This card gave me an opportunity to stamp, colour and die cut the adironack chair using the Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blends and a Colour Lifter Pen.

I stamped the greeting and used the Modern Oval Punch to cut it out.

Several buoys and liferings were fussy cut and added to the card front.

Finally, I wrapped some Linen Thread around the diagonal element and tied a Loose Anchor Trinket to it.

Huge call out to Rose Coleman for sharing her creation so that other crafters, like me, can be inspired.

Tomorrow I have a gift box to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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WATERSIDE RETREAT

This week I am featuring the Waterside Retreat Suite Collection.

167932 $120.50 (AUD)

Although most of my projects this week have been created as masculine in nature, today’s project is designed as a home decor piece.

When I get to Ikea and restock my shadow box frames, this project will be placed in a white frame and given to a daughter for her home.

After seeing the Designer Series Paper page with all the seagulls in flight, I knew what I wanted to create.

I used three of these pages – one for the background and the other two for lots and lots of fussy cut birds.

The fussy cut birds were layered onto the base page – some once and others twice, using mini dimensionals.

I love the way that the layered birds add both depth and movement to the page.

The great thing about fussy cutting is that you canwatch a streamed movie at the same time.

Once this page is popped inside a white shadow box frame and put on a wall this project will definitely ‘fly’.

Tomorrow I have a great masculine birthday card to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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