Anything but a card at A Spoonful of Sugar!

As most of you know, making anything other than a card is completely out of my comfort zone! But I do like to try new things and that's exactly what the challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar made me do this week!  I umm'ed and ahhh'ed and couldn't decide what to make!  But after much procrastination, I decided to make a Valentine's cookie box for Steve (and me, if I'm honest, lol!).

 

 

I used that super sweet Elzybells teddy with heart and the new CC Designs Swiss Pixie Key & Heart stamp set (you can get from Bunny Zoe's here) - super cute aren't they?!!  And here is the inside of the box with yummy gingerbread heart cookies...

I really enjoyed making something other than card but I'll need more practice to speed up the process cos this took me aaaaages!!  I am entering this into Michelle's wonderful Make It Monday challenge where you just share your creativity!

That's it from me today - take a look at the other DT's gorgeous creations over the ASOS challenge blog. 

Paper/cardstock: Doodlebug white cardstock, My Minds Eye Alphabet Soup (buy here from Quixotic Paperie)

Stamps: Elzybells bear with heart, CC Designs Swiss Pixie Key & Lock set (buy here from Bunny Zoe's)

Mediums: Copics

Accents: Stampin' Up striped ribbon, gingham ribbon and crepe paper from stash

Tools: Fiskars border punch, My Favorite Things label die (buy here from Dies to Die For)

Cute alert, cute alert!

No, it's not a photo of my Lulu the cutest dog ever, but a card using those ultra cute Pollycraft Twiddly Wings fairies!  The Pollycraft Monday challenge this week was to use a mega hard sketch.  I dismissed it [cos it scared me] but it's been on my mind all week!  Hating to admit defeat, I decided to have a crack at it and I came up with this...

I didn't mean it to turn out this cute but I love it!  And it doesn't even have my fav colour orange in it!  You can just see how the top of the tree and the fairy's hand on the left both overlap the flaps.   I printed the image below twice, coloured the images I wanted and and cut them out separately and positioned them on the card so they overlapped exactly like the original image.  You can see where I shaded the tree trunk at the bottom in a really dark brown so you can't see the original hand and hair on it. 

You can't see it from the photos, but I added Glamour Dust on the fairy wings, the blue flower, stripes on the dress and lightly shaken on that web ribbon so it all lightly glimmers with those pretty little pearls.  I am going to give it to one my very best friends who has cancer of the throat - she's feeling very low at the moment so I hope it's going to cheer her up.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Passion for ProMarkers challenge "best friends"
• Papertake Weekly challenges - sparkly and bright
• The ABC Challenge - G is for Glitter (it's too subtle for the photos, lol!!)

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill white cardstock

Image: Pollycrafts Twiddly Wings digi stamp, Hero Arts wavy sentiments
Mediums: ProMarkers, Glamour Dust
Accents: pink flat backed pearls and web ribbon (both from Bunny Zoe's Crafts)
Tools: Fiskars border punch, Nestabilities label die (inside card), Scor-Pal (to make my gate fold card - so no measuring, easy peasy!)

Happy birthday to .... who?!!

Have you tried the Embellish Magazine Color challenge yet? You have to use pink, blue, green and brown with a birthday theme. Goodness, I found it really, really hard! I've been mulling for days what to do and then I was browsing Cath's Moxie Fab World and she has a challenge to use floss - ping! A light bulb went off in my head and I immediately thought of this design...

I'm still not convinced I colour combination! But it was a good opportunity to use a couple of fav techniques - embossing the spots on the banner, using my Scor Pal to emboss the lines on the brown card and using the floss (of course!).

That ribbon does actually match the pink cardstock really well, but the photo makes it much lighter. I chose that sentiment because it's in a wave which I thought would go well with the banner (flying the breeze an' all that!). I do like this design and think it would look great with sorbet or pastel colours.

Anyhoo, not in a very good mood at the moment - got another very busy week at work that I'm dreading. It's very unlike me - I'm one of those people who usually get on people's nerves for being so upbeat all the time! No doubt I will find my mojo soon! ;)

Papers/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock

Mediums: Elzybells Sugar Candy pigment ink pad, blue ink pad

Stamps: Hero Arts background dot stamp, Hero Arts Wavy Wishes

Accents: American Crafts ribbon, Bazzill floss
Tools: Woodware triangle punch, Fiskars Apron border punch, Scor Pal