Gingerbread in Box Cards- Christmas Box cards - I'm Published (sort of...)

A treat for me on these cute Lawn Fawn and Doodelbug  combo box cards is that one was published in the Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine! So cool, Right.

Well.... I got a letter from the editor saying they were so sorry but they published my name wrong---Kathleen Stewart vs, Kathleen Sawyer  (sad face)...  but still my card was published!

This is the card that made it in to the magazine!

This is the card for the challenges - was not in magazine 

Non the less I think the combination of Lawn Fawn box card die and Doodelbug papers and die-cuts are a sweet combination.

See my creation in Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine (SCT) Winter 2017 Issue (under Kathleen Stewart vs. Kathleen Sawyer :(  ) - In the Inspiration Gallery on page 67  (69 -on line)

Challenges:
Scrapbooks.com

613 Avenue Create - #204 anything goes  Christmas/winter (Closes 7 Jan)

Crafty Calendar Challenge -It's Christmas - (Closes 28 Dec)

DLART - December Linky -(Closes 31 Dec)

Kitty Bee Designs - Anything goes - Twist/Christmas - Closes 13 December

Word Art Wednesday- #312 & #313 Anything Goes (closes 20 Dec)

If you have questions on anything about these cards, feel free to P.M. me.

God bless and happy Crafting - Have a sweet Christmas ya'll!

Love Notes Box ** Made The Chirp**

            
        I could call it a Smile Box
This is an altered craft, just right for valentine’s cards.  I currently use it to store completed cards that I have made but think I will change to hold my special love notes.  I really like this box; it reflects my personality and makes me smile when I look at it.



The Recipe
1.      Get a box - Any box will do: this one was a “suit case” type box meant to hold a set of children’s books.  I got this box for free when I was at Boarders close-out sales, it was empty, but I new it would make a great altered project!   A baby shoe box would work great to I think.

 2.      Choose a pallet of four coordinating colors – I used Red, Yellow, Black and Cream/off white

3.      Find a base paper you like. I couldn't find in my stash what I wanted so I made my own using my Imagine: I first used a small diamond shape, colored it black, then flood-filled my mat with little black diamonds.  Print only and – wola!  Diamond Checkered Paper.

4.      I used a plaid sheet from Provo Craft’s Christmas Cheer Cricut 6X12 stack for my red center papers.

5.      Next I used Happy Hunting's  for the following words/phrases: Love Notes, Smile, Notes, Romance, Little Things,  and This & That, as well as some swirls/flourish

6.       Gather coordinating bling - trinkets, ribbons, and flowers, brads, Cricut cuts,  - things you like

7.       Arrange – this is the fun part - decide where you want everything (play around a bit).  Then, once you are satisfied (that is the part that always takes me a while) glue it all in place. 

8.       The last stage is decoupage.  I got a little nervous here; everything got all wrinkly and bumpy – but no fear – there are no mistakes in creativity.  And it all dried nice and flat. 

                     Note on the flowers:  

The back (yellow) flower is paper.  I put cloth flowers on top of that and put them together with a brad.  I glued and decoupaged over the entire back/bottom yellow layer, lifting up the other layers, to make sure it would have a good strong bound and still be 3D – worked great! 

Supplies

Box
Papers:  Checkered paper (homemade base), Red circuit paper(center mat) , cream (contrasting word base) , black (words)  & yellow(flower) papers
Imagine & or Cricut (words, flourish and base paper)
Decoupage & glue
Bright flowers: I used cloth of cream with red and black splatters
Black brads (for flower centers)
Bling – various key charms, gems, stamps, old playing cards, stickers, Cricut cuts
Ribbon:  Black lace ribbon (around the top) and black word ribbon
Happy Hunting’s cartridge (words & flourishes)
Paper clips (to hold note (inside lid))
Black or brown ink (around edges of box and some papers)