You Take the Cake!

What makes the Party Hearty Stamp Set lovable? You get cupcakes, candles, a present, images that can easily be punched out and great sentiments. For this card, I decided to add a surprise inside created with the Three Tier Cake Pop -Up Bigz Die! This cheerful birthday card uses a combination of pumpkin pie, daffodil delight and old olive. The cake tiers have Greenhouse Gala designer series paper.

Mini Box (Created with the Petal Card Double Punch)

Here is a little idea for a cute stocking stuffer, birthday present, tooth fairy box, or gift box.

Take four punched pieces using the Petal Card Double Punch, and glue each of the side flaps together. The side flaps should be folded toward the interior of the box. (If you prefer the inside of the box to be as flat as possible, you may want to snip off one petal flap from each punched piece and glue side flaps to interior sides of the box.)

To close the bottom of the mini box, fold each consecutive petal flap down, tucking part of the last flap beneath the first to hold it in place. Repeat this to close the top of the box. (You can also glue the bottom flaps, if you like.)

The finished box will be approximately 1" length x 1" width x 1" height. You can fit a bracelet, necklace, earrings, simply adorned creation, a Hershey's "hug" and "kiss", a tooth for the tooth fairy, a folded dollar bill, tiny candies, a mini book, a keychain, a magnet, a rolled up message, or anything small that you can think of!

This box was made with riding hood red, daffodil delight and whisper white cardstock, Greenhouse Gala designer series paper, Cute by the Inch hostess stamp set, riding hood red, old olive and early espresso markers, beautiful wings embosslits die and basic pearl. A lady at Convention 2010 swapped a simply adorned insert for one of my 3D items and I thought it would be great to use the same color scheme for this box.

The more punched petal cards you adhere together, the larger the box can become. My next project may be a flower-shaped box created with the punch. Stay tuned!

Another Tropical Party Card Design

No surprise, but I joined another swap... a few days before they were due! Luckily, I had time on the weekend to stamp and create some designs. This card uses the same colors as the previous one. The difference is that I decorated the inside with flowers, leaves and a strip of designer series paper. The coconut was created with a 1-3/4" circle (punched out) of chocolate chip cardstock, backed with whisper white. I continued the jagged cut of the coconut with jagged lines drawn with Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, which were covered with Fine Supernova (Chocolate) Stampin' Glitter. Twill Tape ties everything together. I was thinking about how gigantic the coconut drink is in comparison to the coconut stamp (with the straw and umbrella), so my friend Kathy suggested the possibility of using two straws!