Yesterday I had this light bulb go on over my head, and not necessarily the earth friendly type, just a cute one flashing pink and lime green and telling me, "It. Could. Work." So I grabbed that light bulb and ran with it.
All of May, the
Dream Team are being challenged to create "Tiny Treats" for all the various occasions that come up this time of the year...weddings, showers, graduations, and in the case of this Sunday...Mother's Day. I picked up a Starbucks gift card (because, hey, pretty much everyone loves Starbucks, right?), that could be tucked into a cute gift card holder. This was created with the help of a Sizzix box die that I had bought a couple of years ago and never broke out of the package. How sad is that?
My initial thought was to create the little pouch/box out of cardstock or cute paper, or paper with a stenciled background, or maybe the
Mercart colored aluminum, and hey...why not one out of kraft cardstock all distressed and perfect for Father's Day, and...you get the idea. I kind of went wild, and yes, I did all of the above. And then I thought of my stash of crafting felt.
It cut like a dream with my Big Shot Pro, but it needed more substance. So, I ran a second color through to layer with. And then I ran a piece of
Dreamweaver Stencils' Double Sided Mounting Paper through, and this became the lining between the two colors. I punched some holes through the scalloped edge to show off the pretty lime green interior, and I die cut a scalloped circle from a scrap of felt and pasted in
Glossy White the cute tea pot from the
Dreamweaver Tea Set stencil. Once dry, I placed the stencil back on and added the rose and vine with
Memento inks. I used these same inks to stencil the
tea set on a tri-fold insert for my gift card pouch from
Bazzill Dotted Swiss cardstock. (Love that stuff!) Once I finished gluing the sides with
Beacon Fabri-Tac adhesive, and adding Velcro closures, I added the final touch...some beautiful plaid
May Arts taffeta ribbon. These little pouches were so simple to cut out and put together, that it is easy to run wild with anything fairly flat that can be run through your die cutting machine, and have so much fun doing it!
Now's your opportunity to visit the "B" team's blogs, and the
Dream It Up! blog as well, for more "lightbulb moments", before you head off to create your own "Tiny Treats" for the month of May. Don't forget to link them on the
Dream It Up! blog, or email pics to
lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for a chance to win this months prize, and to have your art featured on the blog and/or our
Facebook page. Have you "liked" us yet on
Facebook? If you haven't, you are missing out on a lot of fun!
