Pillow Boxes

I promised to show you pillow boxes I created with the We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board.   I am so totally impressed with all 5 of these Punch Boards.  I wouldn't say this unless it was true . . .  it is super simple to make boxes, bags or envelopes with these fabulous We R Memory Keepers Punch Boards. It really only takes a few minutes to create them.   All the boards are in stock and ready to ship out at Ellen Hutson, LLC.  You can make many sizes; the Pillow Box on the top is 12" long, in the middle is a 6" and a 5" Pillow box.  You can even make one just 4" long, shown on the bottom row.  I used a textured, pearl card stock, Christmas card stock, and the white box was created with white card stock, and embossed with an embossing folder, prior to putting it together.

The Flowers on the Christmas boxes were created with The Susan's Garden Poinsettia dies and the flower on the birthday box was made with Susan's Fuchsia dies.  These boxes will be perfect for small gifts or treats.

The We R Memory Keepers Punch Boards are not very large, so they are very easy to store.  The scoring tool stores in a slot at the bottom of the board.  The board pictured is for creating the pillow boxes.

I have now used all the punch boards and posted them on my blog. To see things made with them on my blog, click on this LINK, and scroll through each post. I am very impressed with all of them and sure you will enjoy having them to create envelopes/boxes/ bags in a variety of sizes.   

Below are the links to products at Ellen Hutson, LLC

 We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board

Susan's Garden Poinsettia dies

Susan's Garden Fuchsia dies

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Cute Candy Box

 I love giving you new ideas for the holidays.  Today I have a cute little box that was very fun to make and will be great to fill with candy for gifts or for stocking stuffers.  This was created with the We R Memory Keepers "Candy Box Punch Board". If you like to create your own envelopes, boxes or gift bags, you are going to love how easy they are to create with the We R Memory Keepers Punch Boards. You will be amazed at how easy and how quick they are to create.  So far I have shown you the Envelope Punch Board, the Gift Box, Gift Bag and today the Candy Box.  There is one more I will be showing you very soon -- it is the Pillow Box Punch Board.  

 I used a piece of 12"  card stock to make a long box.  You need a piece of paper (or card stock) 7" wide and can make the length any where from 4 to 12 inches long, depending on how you want the box.  The board is very simple to use and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow.  If you are like me, you have lots of design paper or larger pieces of card stock you would like to use up, and this is such a great way to make something useful with it.

 I decided to decorate the top of my candy box with a few new items I had fun using, from Memory Box.  I stamped the sentiment on a tag then added the little snowmen using the "Mini Snowmen Dies".  These are tiny but so cute.  I used a very fine marker to draw in the face and scarves then glued on the hat, which I colored with a black marker. The Jingle Bells are very cute.  I cut them out of shiny gold card stock and added a die cut bow.   Below is a picture of both the "Jolly Jingle Bells" and "Mini Snowmen Dies" I used the Memory Box "Crisp Bows" to tie the Jingle Bells together.  These bows are also great for creating little packages with a bow on top.  Behind the tag I added two "Impression Obsession Pine Branch" die cuts.  

How are you doing getting all your Christmas cards and projects completed?   I have a good start, but still have lots to do.

Thanks for stopping by.

Here are the links to the products I used:

We R Memory Keepers "Candy Box Punch Board"
Memory Box "Mini Snowmen" dies
Memory Box "Jolly Jingle Bells" die
Memory Box "Crisp Bows" die
Impression Obsession Pine Branch die

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Susan's Garden Speckled Poinsettia Tutorial

 It is always exciting when I discover something new and can share it with you.  Today I created a poinsettia with "speckles" -- I believe these poinsettias are called "Candy Candy Poinsettias".  I love how it came out.  This Susan's Garden poinsettia is on a 5.5" square card but I have also used it on a gift bag below.  I have prepared a tutorial below for you, so you can create this beautiful poinsettia.

 This poinsettia was added to a gift bag created with the new "We R Memory Keepers Gift Bag Punch Board".  The sentiment is from the Heartfelt Creations "Yuletide Sentiments PreCut Set". 

 This is a side view of the Gift Bag.  You can use a paper width of 10", 11" or 12" for your bag.  The length can be any where between 4" & 12".  I used a piece of 12" design paper for my bag because I wanted it tall.

 Here is the product I used to create the speckled look on my poinsettia.  It is called "Goose Bumps Texture Spray".  When you use it, you want to hold the bottle about 6" from your project and just lightly mist.  The more spray you get on your project the less color will show through if you are going to sponge ink over it.  I die cut all my poinsettia pieces using white card stock.  Next I added the Goose Bumps Texture Spray, which leaves little "bumps" on the paper.  You can either wait for it to dry or use your heat gun.  Don't over heat because the spray will turn tan if you over heat it.  It doesn't take long for it to dry.  Once it is dry, I sponged on Ranger, Picked Raspberry Distress Ink with a sponge dauber.

 You can see how different each petal looks.  The first petal has a lot more spray on it than the others.  Each one will always be different.

 All the petals were shaped with the tools from Susan's Garden Tool Kit.  I die cut 8 petals of all six sizes to create this poinsettia. 

 This is a picture of the bottom layer of poinsettia petals.  Once they are shaped, add four petals - one on every other point of calyx (base), then go back and add the other 4 petals.  It give the flower more dimension when you assemble it this way (it almost looks like you have added two layers).

I created three separate layers for this poinsettia.  Eight petals were used for each layer.  I only used the three largest petals (all the same size on each layer). The glue I used to assemble my flowers is "Crafter's Pick Ultimate Glue".

In a picture above, the leaves are only sponged with "Pine Needles" and "Forest Moss" Distress Ink.  Once I was ready to add the petals to the back of the flower, I decided to sponge on just a little of the "Picked Raspberry" to pick up a little of the flower color.

Once I glued all the layers together, I added glue to the front and back of some of the smaller petals and stuck them in around the stamen.  Also some additional larger petals were added under the flower before the green leaves were glued on to create a larger flower.

 I love using Susan's Garden Poinsettia dies to create my poinsettias because it is so easy to create many different sizes and they always look so realistic. This is the largest poinsettia I have created so far with her dies.

What do you think about this technique.  Do you plan to give it a try?

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  I hope you will leave a comment and let me know if you like this technique. Have a great weekend.

Products used from Ellen Hutson, LLC:

Susan's Garden Poinsettia dies 

Susan's Garden Flower Tool Kit

Goose Bumps Texture Spray

We R Memory Keepers Candy Box Punch Board 

Ranger Picked Raspberry Distress Ink 

Ranger Pine Needles Distress Ink

Ranger Forest Moss Distress Ink

Sponge Daubers

Crafter's Pick Ultimate Glue

Heartfelt Creations "Yuletide Sentiments"

 

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Susan's Garden Rose and Gift Box Tutorial

 

How I love creating flowers with Susan's Garden dies. Today I created a box with a new tool, We R Memory Keepers Gift Box Punch Board, that is available at Ellen Hutson, LLC and created a gorgeous rose to match flowers in the design paper, plus baby's breath, with Susan's dies. First I will tell you about the flowers.

I used the Susan's Garden Rose dies to create this pretty rose.  I love how they always turn out looking so realistic.  I die cut the petals using 60# ivory card stock.  The base of each petal was colored using Susan's Garden yellow Pan Pastels.  Next the petals were shaped with the Susan's Garden Flower Tool Kit.  To match the flowers in the design paper, I sponged on burgundy ink around the edge of each petal, then assembled using Crafter's Pick Ultimate Glue. 

 In the Susan's Garden new collection, she has dies for creating "Yarrow".  So far, I have created these flowers in yellow and in white, which were shown in my display board of new flowers in the Susan's Garden Collection.  I love to see Baby's Breath with roses, so decided the white yarrow could be used to go with my roses.  The yarrow is very easy to assemble, and so much fun to see this cluster of flowers come together.  I followed Susan's instructions, which you can see here.

This beautiful rose is displayed on a box created with the new We R Memory Keepers "Gift Box Punch Board".  I know all you are going to want this tool in your crafting supplies. It took just a couple of minutes to create this box.  The Gift Box Punch Board has directions right on the tool for creating 8 different size boxes.  The directions are very easy and I know you will love creating boxes for some of your holiday gifts.  The directions also include metric measurements. 

A picture of the Gift Box Punch Board opened up.

 The box I created is 4 inches square.  This is a picture of the heavy weight, double sided, design paper scored and punched, ready to assemble.  The design paper I used is from K&Company.

Next, to assemble the box, you use the score tool to crease all seams.  The four corners have little notches to hold the box together.  You can best see the notch on the far left side in this picture - all four corners are notched for assembly.  First you attach two opposite sides together with the notches as shown here.

 When you attach the other two sides together you have this box.  The opening is only on one end.  If you want to decorate the box with flowers, or other embellishments, you can decorate the other end of the box so it can be saved, and it will be opened from the bottom, or you can attach embellishments to just one of the top flaps.

 This is what the closure will look like when closed. 

I wrapped around some ribbon and attached my rose and baby's breath on top.

I have received questions about who I now design for.   I am no longer designing for Joan's Gardens.    I design for Susan's Garden, for Susan Tierney-Cockburn, and am a freelance designer affiliated with Ellen Hutson, LLC.  I receive a small commission when customers click from my blog to purchase at Ellen Hutson, LLC. I want to thank you for shopping through my links.   I greatly appreciate your support.

Here is are the links to the products you can purchase from Ellen Hutson, LLC:

We R Memory Keepers, Gift Box Punch Board
Susan's Garden "Rose" dies
Susan's Garden "Yarrow" dies
Susan's Garden "Flower Tool Kit"
Susan's Garden "Pan Pastels"
Crafter's Pick Ultimate Glue

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Step Card with Susan's Garden Hibiscus

 

 I have some exciting news for those of you who like to make step cards.  Cheery Lynn came out with a "to die for" die that cuts the basic step card plus it die cuts all the pieces to decorate both the front and the inside of the card. No more measuring for anything to make this card!!!   You must continue reading because I have another "to die for" product shown below that is called the We R Memory Keepers "Envelope Punch Board".  Oh what fun I have had today!!!

I made two steps cards and the second one I made an envelope for.  The first card I die cut the basic card with a solid card stock and die cut a piece of design paper for the center and bottom of it.  On the sides, I used the side panel dies and die cut white card stock and embossed them with the MPress "Retro Swirls 1" embossing folder.  I did not use the die cut that can be used on the inside of this card.   

To decorate this card, I used the Marianne Design "LR0272" doily and used a sentiment from the JustRite "Vintage Oval Labels" stamp set.  It was stamped with VersaMark and clear embossed. On the top corners, I added the Marianne Design "Ivy Corners" (CR1253).

 The pretty flower was created with the Susan's Garden "Hibiscus" dies.  It was shaped with the Susan's Garden Flower tool Kit.  

I want to show you another card that was super quick and easy but yet so elegant.  A piece of design paper from my stash was used to decorate this lavender step card.  All the dies were used to decorate both the inside and outside.  A Cheery Lynn "Expandable Tiny Border" was added along the bottom panel to add to the lacy look, then a simple organdy bow added with a glue dot.  How fast was that.  You are going to love working with this die.  

 Now for more fun. This picture shows the Envelope Punch Board and the envelope made for the purple card above.  This envelope is 6" square to accommodate the bow on the card.   It literally took only a few minutes to create this envelope. It makes dozens of sizes of envelopes and the price is less than many dies.

Here is the completed card with matching envelope. 

Products Used:

Cheery Lynn "Step Card #1" (B348)

Marianne Design "Doily" (LR0272)

Marianne Design "Ivy Corners" (CR1253)

Susan's Garden "Hibiscus" (658415)

Susan's Garden Flower Tool Kit

Susan's Garden PanPastels

Susan's Garden Yellow Pollen

MPress "Retro Swirls 1" embossing folder

Cheery Lynn "Expandable Tiny Borders" B215

We R Memory Keepers "Envelope Punch Board"

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