stippled blossoms | Craftyhallett

My very clever friend makes these beautiful hand warmers filled with lavender. They are made with Cath Kidston fabrics, and are just beautiful. They needed a beautiful box to match.

Now to make the box I wanted to use the Gift Board punch board, but there wasn’t a box the size I wanted. So I used my magic numbers spreadsheet which is downloadable from this site, and worked out the size 9cm x 9 cm by 5 cm and got the measurements to make the box on the envelope punch board. I then used the gift board punch board to put the diagonal score lines in place and to punch the top so it went together just like the Gift box board boxes – sneaky huh? The box was made from pistachio pudding cardstock

Then I used the stippled blossoms stamp set with pink pirouette and rose red inks to stamp the flowers, with old olive and pear pizzazz inks for the leaves

A little seam binding ribbon completes the look. I did two colour variants in pink and lilac so that they matched the hand warmer inside.

Such fun, I shall be using this technique again, and my board got double duty, and am so pleased I can now create boxes any size I like, not just the pre-sets on the board 🙂

Hope you are having a good day. I am cooking Christmas lunch today for 16 of my work colleagues including the boss …. No pressure …. Should be fun 🙂

I love the Less is More Blog – it always has such a great load of people contributing to it each week, and if ever I am stuck for an idea or Mr Mojo has taken a hike I find something there to get me back at my craft table creating.

This week’s challenge is one layer thank you cards

I really love the Stippled Blossoms set from Stampin Up! and I usually use it for fairly complex fussy cards with lots and lots of layers, ribbons and dimensions, so I thought it would be fun to try and use the set as a one layer

I started with a Naturals White card base and masked off an area using post it notes – like this

Then using Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant as my two colours for the flowers and Wild Wasabi and Garden Green as the two colours for the leaves I started stamping flowers randomly on and off the masked layers.

I then used the Thank You sentiment from the Happy Watercolour set in Black Stayzon – and then took my Marker pens in Elegant Egg Plant and Wild Wasabi and drew two parallel lines down the card to finish off and create the illusion of a layer.

I am slightly just a little bit sad that this stamp set is on the Retired List and will only be available until the end of June, but hey ho – I have my set and will cherish it for many years to come as its so pretty – and now I have proved that I can do simple one layer cards or vintage over the top fussy ones with it!