My Favorite Things

I can't believe it's Wednesday again already!  The weeks are just flying by so far this year.  It's time for another challenge at Amber's Crafts and Stuff and with it, a new project.  This week the theme is Favorite Things and I have used several of mine on my project.  My favorite things include the paper roses I recently learned to make, as well as flowers in general, ribbon, pearls, butterflies and Mariposa designer paper.  I have lots of other favorite things too but there wasn't space for all of them on this one card! LOL

One of my nephews is getting married in May so I made this one to go with his wedding gift.  I'm making the wedding album!  Yikes!  It's a little bit intimidating because I have never made one before and it's a really big project.  But I'm determined to have it turn out beautifully for him and his lovely wife-to-be.  I have most of what I need to make it, I just have to get busy putting it together now.

Here's my project for this week.  The overall dimensions of the card are 5' x 7".  The last photograph is the inside showing the sentiment which reads "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities".  What a positive message for a young married couple, right?  I thought it was really sweet.  I stamped it on cream cardstock in embossing ink and used metallic gold embossing powder and then stamped some small pink hearts around the sentiment.  I trimmed the top and bottom with strips of the same paper I used for the roses and butterflies.  You can see the lovely pattern more clearly in this picture.  I crimped the trim paper to add a little dimension to the interior.  See materials list for details.

Tools and materials I used to create this card:

Core'dinations Pearls in kind of a peachy pink for base card

American Crafts textured gold foil cardstock for bottom mat and bottom sentiment layer

The Paper Company cream cardstock for 2nd mat

The Paper Company black cardstock for 3rd mat

4" x 6" DCWV Mariposa mat stack for top layer

K & Company Classic K stack for the paper roses, butterflies and inside trim

Recollections adhesive pearls

Gold -edged organza ribbon from Michael's dollar bin

Small iridescent white flowers from Michael's bridal section

"For Your Wedding Day" stamp by Stampendous (one of a 5-stamp set called Special Messages)

Lasting Love Quotes stamp set by Fiskars for inside sentiment and hearts.

Hampton Arts Embossing Stamp Pad

Chocolate brown and peachy pink pigment ink pad from Studio G for edging

Tuxedo Black Memento dye ink for sentiment 

Metallic gold Zing embossing powder for inside sentiment.

Fiskars Paper Crimper

Flower punches by Fiskars (XL Poppy) and EK Suceess (medium retro flower)

Butterfly punch by Martha Stewart

Small rose leaf punch by Martha Stewart

Large rose leaves from Michaels

Embossing Stylus Set by Royal Langnickel

Blue Violet Ultrafine Crystal Glitter by Mark Enterprises

Beacon's 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Aleen's Original Tacky Glue

Aleen's Clear Gel Tacky Glue

Scotch Advanced Tape Glider (Pink ATG)

Foam adhesive mounting squares

Pop Up Glue Dots

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Card Craftin' Mamas  - Embellish It! 

ABC Challenge - S is for Sugar and Spice (My color choices are brown, pink and white which remind me of brown sugar as well as some spices, powdered sugar and spun sugar as in cotton candy)

Crafts and Me Challenges - Ribbons

Creative Craft World - Love and Marriage

Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge - Wedding or Anniversary

The Paper Variety - Flowers

Truly Scrumptious - Vintage

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Flowers, flowers everywhere

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional

Tuesday Throwdown  - Sparkle & bling

Woodware USA - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  As always, your comments are both welcome and appreciated.  Have a wonderful day!

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

An Altered Truvia Box

Hi, everybody!  Sorry I have been MIA for a few days.  I had a couple of projects with due dates this week so I had to get them finished.  Between that and looking for a new job, I had little time for blogging.  Soooo... I have a new project that I just finished last week that I want to share with you today.  I always love recycling/ repurposing every day items I have around my house rather than putting them in the recycle bin or the trash can.  I recently discovered a wonderful low calorie sweeetner made from the stevia plant called Truvia.  You have probably seen the commercials for it on tv.  Well, this product only comes in little packets like sugar packets but the packets come packaged in a nifty flip-top box that is perfect for holding 4" x 4" or 4" x 5" cards and envelopes.  I covered the box, inside and out with patterned cardstock and embellished it with lace, ribbon, rub-ons, tiny paper rose buds and some bling.  I used two different patterned papers in the same shades of bluish green.  The paper on the top has white vines, leaves and flowers on it and the paper on the bottom has pink and white flowers and pink lettering.  I rubbed on more pink lettering and some swirly flourishes to add some interest.  The letters are Tim Holtz Grungeboard that I glittered and the hearts are glitter stickers.

I plan to paper the inside of the top but I haven't done that yet.

This design on the top is from a stamp that I stamped in green and then in pink.  I cut out the pink flowers and popped them up on small foam squares.  I added the tiny pink glittered hearts and the pearls in two shades of pink.  I layered the stamped piece on top of some pretty green foil cardstock and popped the whole thing up on pop dots.

Here's what it looks like from the back.  I think I got the soft green ribbon around the bottom edge of the box from the dollar bin at Michael's.  I wish I had bought more of it because I just love it.  The edges are slightly ruffled and it has a tiny narrow ribbon woven down the center of it.  Very fancy stuff!

I hope you like my little box.  Tomorrow my first project for the Crafting Pals Design Team at Amber's Crafts and Stuff is due in preparation of the first weekly challenge hosted by Amber, owner of that blog site.  The challenge will be posted on Wednesday morning and I hope all of my follwers will visit her blog to see what we have created to inspire you and hopefully entice you to participate in the challenge too!  

I have several new projects to share and I hope to post one of them each day this week.  Most of them are cards but I may have another mini later in the week.  Thanks for dropping by.  Have a great week!

Anniebee