Beautiful Coffee Treat Pouch Gift using the FOREVER GREENERY SUITE

It's finally Craft Show season here in Pennsylvania!!  I've been working on some new ideas for my event at the end of the month.  This quick and easy project is a Coffee Treat Pouch.  I made it using the FOREVER FERN stamp set and coordinating dies.  The pouches were made using the beautiful FOREVER GREENERY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER.  Amazing!!  Get yourself a few packs.  The stamp set, although I did not use it with this project contains beautiful leafy images.  I will post some of my card creations at the end of this video.  My favorite part of this suite is the dies.  These amazingly intricate dies cut out with ease and add so much to your projects. The color palette uses Garden Green, Just Jade, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty Peacock, Shaded Spruce and Soft Sea Foam.  Now that's a lot of GREEN! I used NESCAFE Latte Caramel Packets I found on Amazon.

Nescafe Latte Caramel Coffee Packets

For this project, I used a 6in by 6in piece of DSP for the pouch so you can make four pouches with one 12in by 12in sheet. Placing the paper on the SIMPLY SCORED SCORING BOARD in the portrait position, score your paper at 1-3/4in. Rotate your paper 180 degrees and score at 1-3/4in again.  Along the bottom of the paper, score at 1/2in.

For the embellishment on the front, I cut out greenery in PRETTY PEACOCK, PEAR PIZZAZZ and GOLD GLIMMER PAPER.  For the label on the front I used the LAYERED WITH KINDNESS stamp set and coordinating punches (LABEL ME PRETTY and LABEL ME LOVELY).  I used PEAR PIZZAZZ for the larger label and WHISPER WHITE for the smaller one.  I used the "For My Friend" sentiment in PEAR PIZZAZZ but there are other options.  

The video tutorial below shows how the project came together.  I'll let you know how well they sell for me.  Watch for a CRAFT FAIR REVIEW blog post at the end of the month.

Here are a few of my card designs using the FOREVER GREENERY SUITE.

Thanks again for checking out my blog.  If you have any questions about this project or anything else Stampin Up related, please email me at blreed@comcast.net.  Products used in this blog post are available in my online store.

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Happy Stamping,

Barb Reed

The Wexford Stamper

Having Fun with some CUTE FRUIT

Have you seen the CUTE FRUIT STAMP SET?  It's adorable.  If you looked in the annual catalog, you'd never find it.  It's in this great new publication, called The Beginner's Brochure.  It's a small catalog that was created for beginning stampers or stampers just looking for a quick and easy project.

The images are so cute and fun and it's so easy to make a colorful, happy card.  The best part is that there are little faces that you can stamp on your fruit.  How else would they be so cute? They also sell the stamps as part of a set that also includes an acrylic block, Whisper White cardstock and an assortment of Classic Stampin' Spots.  A perfect set for a beginner to have great success with their very first project.

For my card, I pulled out many of my favorite BRIGHTS.  I used a GRANNY APPLE GREEN card base cut at 8-1/2in by 5-1/2in, scored at 4-1/4in.  I used a fun technique to make the panel on the front of the card.  I cut a piece of Whisper White at 3in by 4in. I then took an acrylic block just a bit larger than the panel and covered the face of it with GRANNY APPLE GREEN INK.  I then took a mister and sprayed water on the block to make some water droplets.  I then placed it down on the cardstock panel. I let it rest a minute until the panel was covered in ink. Then I dried it using my HEAT TOOL.  For the splatters, I used my GRANNY APPLE GREEN BLEND and flicked the ink using the cap on the brush tip side. I "roughed up" the edges a bit with my bone folder to give it more dimension.  Using TOMBOW, I adhered the panel to the front of my card as shown.  I then stamped the fruit and fussy cut them out with my PAPER SNIPS.  The colors I used were MAGENTA MADNESS and GRANNY APPLE GREEN for the watermelon, CRUSHED CURRY and GRANNY APPLE GREEN for the pineapple and DAFFODIL DELIGHT and SOFT SUEDE for the banana.  Don't forget the little smiley face using TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK. For the sentiment, I used a strip of WHISPER WHITE cardstock cut at 3in by 1/4in.

For my 3D item, I made a cute little hand sanitizer box.  As you all know, hand sanitizer has become a hot commodity due to the pandemic.  For a while, I couldn't even find any.  Now that things have settled a bit, I was able to by some Watermelon Lemonade mini hand sanitizer from Bath and Body Works ONLINE. 

 

To start, you will need a piece of MELON MAMBO cardstock cut at 3-3/4in by 6in. On the LONG side, score at 1in, 2-3/4in, 3-3/4in and 5-1/2in.  On the SHORT side score at 1in. I then take my 2in CIRCLE PUNCH and cut a curved section out of the large panel that is between the two 1in-wide panels.  After trimming, your box should look like this template below.

To decorate the box, I took an 8in by 11-1/2in piece of WHISPER WHITE card stock and make my own "CUTE FRUIT DSP."  I used MELON MAMBO and GRANNY APPLE GREEN ink for the watermelons.  I used DAFFODIL DELIGHT and SOFT SUEDE for the bananas and lemons and CALYPSO CORAL for the oranges.  I stamped the SMILE sentiment using TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK. I randomly stamped the images all over the cardstock.  It's really fun making your own designer series paper.  Here's what mine ended up looking like.  I cut the cardstock into 2in strips to use on my boxes.

After wrapping the 2in strip around the box, I finished the product with a 1in circle for a tag with the "you're one in a melon" sentiment in MELON MAMBO ink.  The tag was tied on using the POLKA DOT TULLE RIBBON.

The video tutorial below shows how the card and the box comes together.

Thanks as always for visiting my blog.  If you have any questions about the products or the tutorial, please email me at blreed@comcast.net.  

Happy Stamping,

Barb Reed 

The Wexford Stamper

MONSTER BASH Peanut Butter Pumpkin Treat Holder

I've really enjoyed creating projects using the MONSTER BASH SUITE.  This will be may last Halloween project post, time to move on to Thanksgiving.  My last project holds one of my favorite Halloween treats, a Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkin.  This adorable little box allows you to slide a yummy pumpkin into the box and straight into the trick or treaters treat bags.  

The MONSTER BASH SUITE consists of the SPOOKTACULAR BASH stamp set, the ORNATE FRAMES DIES and the MONSTER BASH DESIGNER SERIES PAPER.  The suite also has amazing embellishments, perfect for finishing off your projects.

To create this project you need a piece of CRUMB CAKE card stock cut at 3-1/2in by 7-3/4in.  On the long side, score @ 4in, 4-3/4in, 6-1/2in and 7-1/4in.  Click on the video below to see how I created the treat holder.

If you have any questions about this or any project on my blog, please don't hesitate to email me or message me.  If you are interested in any of the products shown in my projects, you can go to my online store to purchase them.  Just click below.

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Thanks again and Keep Stamping,

Barb Reed

The Wexford Stamper

Paper Bag Treat Holders with the MONSTER BASH SUITE

Now that it's finally September, it feels more like Fall.  With the beginning of Fall comes the excitement of Halloween.  Today's project is a great one for everyone looking for quick and easy treat holders for your favorite trick or treaters. Stampin' Ups new MONSTER BASH SUITE makes project making easy and fun.

 This project is actually two projects. I used  black mini lunch bags purchased at Michaels. Michaels is a great place to get paper and plastic bags of all colors and sizes.  

First, I put the treat bag on the trimmer and cut it at 4-3/8in from the bottom.  The small portion on top will be used for the second treat holder.  For the larger treat bag, cut two BASIC BLACK panels.  The larger one is 3-5/8in by 5-3/4in, scored at 1-1/4in.  The smaller is 3-5/8in by 4-1/2in.  Using TEAR & TAPE, adhere the larger panel to the back of the bag, folding over at the score line.  The smaller panel adheres to the front.  Designer Series Paper from the suite is then cut and layered on the BASIC BLACK panels (3-3/8in by 4-1/4in, 3-3/8in by 1in).  The video below shows how the rest of the treat bag came together.

The smaller treat holder uses a piece of PUMPKIN PIE cardstock cut at 3-3/4in by 8in, scored at 1-1/2in, 2in, 4-3/4in and 5-1/4in.  Designer Series Paper panels for the treat holder are cut at 2-1/2in by 3-1/2in and 1-1/4 by 3-1/2in.  The remaining piece of the paper bag is then adhered to the inside of the PUMPKIN PIE strip.  The video below shows how I embellished the front of the smaller treat holder.

If you have any questions about this or any project on my blog, please don't hesitate to email me or message me.  If you are interested in any of the products shown in my projects, you can go to my online store to purchase them.  Just click below.

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Thanks again and Keep Stamping,

Barb Reed

The Wexford Stamper

blreed@comcast.net