Inkredible Stamping

My cousin’s baby shower is coming up this weekend, so of course I wanted to stamp her something as part of her gift. (Jeannie if you’re reading this before your shower, look away!!) She is decorating her Nursery with a jungle animals theme, so I immediately though of making her something to hang on her wall using the “Wild About You” stamp set. I LOVE the animals in that set, they are SO cute and happy!! They look great in bright fun colors or softer pastel colors.

I found a set of three white square frames at Target. They had black ribbons on each one to hang the frames by. I though they were perfect for a baby’s room. So I set to stamping pictures to fill the frames. I made the animals the same colors that they were in the nursery set. I changed things around a few times before I settled on the final design and I’m very happy with the final outcome.

Once the pictures were in the frames though I didn’t like the black ribbon, it just didn’t match so I dug out some Blue Gingham ribbon. I carefully untied the black ribbon and used it to measure the Gingham ribbon. Then I tied the gingham onto each frame. I think they came out SO CUTE! What do you think? Is she going to love ‘em?

I’ve been busy getting ready for Stamp Camp next weekend! I have lots of cute Valentine’s Ideas for you to make this month. It’s so much fun to make candy pretty and I love having something inexpensive and fast that I can make to hand out to everyone who’s special to me on Valentine’s Day. While you’re waiting patiently for this weekend’s stamp camp I though I’d give you some ideas to play around with. Here are a few ideas I got as swaps at Leadership.

This first idea is so quick but really looks great! Cut some Designer Series Paper to fix a miniature candy bar. Wrap the paper around the candy bar and adhere the ends together on the bottom. Next Tie a piece of Ribbon around the middle and that’s it. Don’t you just LOVE the colors in the Loves Me Double Sided paper? The paper was designed to coordinate with Close to Cocoa, Regal Rose, and Taken with Teal. It also looks great with Pretty in Pink, Cool Caribbean, and Chocolate Chip. It was also designed to coordinate with the Sweet on You and Happy Thoughts Stamp Sets. You can see all the paper in this great set, click here.

The next idea take a little more time but it’s so much fun. This is a small folded card and when you pull on the red ribbon a candy bar pops up. It’s another simple to make project with just a few steps.

1. Create a card that folds along the bottom and use adhesive to seal both sides of the card so you have a little pouch. (Size the card to fit your candy bar)
2. Punch a hole in both layers of the card near the top.
3. Take a long piece of ribbon and feed it through both holes. Next push the candy bar against the ribbon, into the pouch. (You want the ribbon to slide in along the bottom of the candy)
4. Tie a knot in the ribbon at the top of the pouch and trim the ends and you’re finished. When you pull on the ribbon the candy will pop up!

This last idea is one of my favorites. It’s a Nugget Box. The box slides out of a cute cover and holds Nugget size candy. You can make these great boxes in all different sizes to hold just about any amount of nuggets you want. If you want to give someone a lot of candy you can even size one to have 2 or 3 rows of chocolates. Here’s the instructions for one size of nugget box. This one holds 4 nuggets.

Box bottom

1. Cut paper to 4" x 7-1/4".
2. Score vertically at 3 1/2", 2-3/4", 1-1/4", and 1/2".
3. Score horizontally at 5-3/4" and 1-1/2".
4. Remove the scored rectangle at each of the four corners.
5. Holding the paper vertically, cut along the 5-3/4" and 1-1/2" scored lines up to the horizontal 1-1/2" scored line.
6. Assemble box by folding along scored lines and adhering.

Box top

7. Cut paper to 4-1/4" x 5-1/2".
8. Score vertically at 4-1/2", 3-5/8", 2-1/8", and 1-1/4".
9. Fold along scored lines, and adhere.
10. Slide Box bottom into the box top and fill with Nuggets.

Happy Stampin’
Julie Edmonds