Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Let's Celebrate!!!!


Spotlight Choice at City Crafter



It's time for another challenge at A Spoon Full Of Sugar and this week we are giving you a theme challenge! We want to see projects for any Celebration you would like!
Now I'll warn you, there are lots of photos on this post as I wanted to show you as much detail as I could.
This project is the one I taught at Personal Scrapbook (a local store) a couple of weeks ago and there was a kit spare so I decided to make it again for this challenge.
I will try and explain all under each photo.

Challenges:
Aud's Sentiments - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Free and Easy
Top Tip Tuesday - Open
Get Crafty with Ann - Anything Goes and a Technique (I chose paper folding)
Craft Your Passion - You've Been Spotted
Papertake Weekly - Spots or Stripes
Tuesday Throwdown - Polka Dots
Dutch Dare - Fancy Folds
City Crafter - Gate fold Card
Woodware USA - Die Cuts or Punches
Cupcake Crafts - Lots of Layers
Frosted Designs - Handmade Embellishment
Pink Gem - Pearls and/or Swirls
Everybody Art - Pearls
Do You Stack Up? - Scallops
Pals Paper Arts - Flowers
Paper Romance - Paper Flowers
Shelly's Images - Flowers or Showers
Card Cupids - Pastels
Flutterby - Pastels (with Butterfly, Angel or Fairy)
Quirky Crafts - Sparkly, Punchy Easter or Spring
Creative Cowgirls - Spring
Sliekjes Card Challenge - Spring
Daring Cardmakers - Spring or Easter
Digi's With Attitude - Spring
Totally Papercrafts - Springtime
Rainbow Lady - Springtime


Project Recipe:
Paper - 3 Bugs in a Rug Chloe Mini Floral
Cardstock - Coredinations
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Daisy
Butterfly Punches - Martha Stewart Large Monarch and Medium Monarch
Banner and Border Dies - My Favorite Things Banner and Dizzy Border
Ribbon - Whimsy Cottage by Michaels
Brads - Target $1 spot
Pearls - Bridal Dept
Tiny Tag Die - Boss Kut


This is the card with it's decorative band.
The card is 6" square and a gatefold style.


Inside the card.


This decorative band goes around the card and is designed to stay up when the card is slightly open. I made a rosette flower using my Daisy border punch first and then scoring in between each scallop and then in the center of each scallop and then fan folding.


This is the box. It is an "All In One" box with the "lid" actually being attached to the bottom of the box. I saw the design on Split Coast Stampers and altered it a little to make a larger box.


To match the band on the card I made a band to go around the box with a coordinating rosette flower on the top.


Here you can see the box as you start to pull the lid up. It looks a little like a Christmas Cracker to me and it can fit 3 Ferrero Rocher chocolates in it! (I tried :))


This opening gets larger the more you pull the lid upwards so you can easily drop in a few goodies.

Anyway if you made it to the end I hope you liked it and I'd love it if you played along with our "Let's Celebrate" challenge at A Spoon Full Of Sugar this week!
Katie

53 comments:

xxxtglxxx said...

Oh My Goodness Katie! :) Wow, this is amazing! Soooooo beautiful, gorgeous, pretty and fabulous - its all of em! :)

Stunning creations, I just love how you have used that punch. Love the gingham butterflies and just so much to see. :)

hugs

xxalisonxx

Laney said...

WOW!! This is truly awesome Katie!!!
so fresh and perfect in every way!!
the colours are amazing !!
hugs
laney

Nancy said...

A stunning creation!! Thanks for joining us in both the Flutter By Wednesday and Woodware USA challenges this week!

Unknown said...

I am now following you because you have simply stunning me, your work is beautiful. I am so looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Thank you for joining us at Frosted Designs

Amanda

WencheP said...

Fabulous project! Love the bright colors. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

-Wenche

Christine said...

Stunning creation gorgeous spring colour combo great take on the chall... thanks for sharing with us at A Gem of a chall.

smiles Christine xx

Leanne said...

WOW this is amazing!

This card would also be a fabulous entry into our OPEN challenge at Top Tip Tuesday!  Hope to see you there!

I also have TILDA candy on my blog, click here to enter!

Hugs
Leanne xx

Diane Louise J said...

Your card and box are absolutely stunning, thanks for the tutorial, I am going to have a go at making one of those flowers now.. thanks again. Diane xx

starcyl said...

Really lovely projects here, the colours are so fresh and pretty. thanks for sharing with us at Rainbow Lady's this week.
Jenny x

stampingmarianne said...

Wow, very beautiful projects!
Thanks for joining us at Creative Cowgirls challenge blog!
Marianne

Denise said...

Wow - what a stunning creation. Just so beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us at DYU this week xx

Lynda said...

Beautiful - thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.

Lynda xxx

Unknown said...

OMG! This is stunning. The paper combo is beautiful to say the least. What an awesome gift set. Thanks for playing along over at Frosted Designs.

Rainbow Lady said...

Wow this is so beautiful... what a lovely creation. Thanks so much Love Cynthia x

Barbara said...

OMGoodness Katie...this is so beautiful! Love both of your projects. Your students are so lucky to have you as their teacher.
Thanks for joining us this week at Craft Your Passion for our "You've Been Spotted Challenge." Hope to see you again on Monday for our next challenge. Barbara GDT XX

Unknown said...

Really beautiful!

Debra said...

Hi Katie
This is absolutely breath taking! Stunning projects!
Thank you for joining us at the Digi's With Attitude! Spring has Sprung Challenge. I hope you join us again next week, good luck!

Debra
Digi's With Attitude! Design Team

Sarah said...

Now that is delightful! I need to try the gatefold card style. I love your blog!

Davi said...

A very beautiful creation Katie!! Thanks for sharing it with us at TT this week.

Ani said...

Everything is so beautiful! I love them all!

Ros said...

This is one beautiful set ... Gorgeous Gate fold card ... love the band to hold it closed ... and your box is amazing ... Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB

Unknown said...

Beautiful!!! I love the colors you used for this set! The rosettes and the butterflies are darling!

Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs for our Handmade Embellishement Challenge!!

Carla said...

Your card and gift box is gorgeous!!! I love how you incorporated the border punch into both. Fabulous!!! Beautiful colors. Thanks so much for playing at the PPA! Hugs,

Caro said...

WoW! These are stunning! Thank you for joining us at Quirky Crafts.

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

What a beautiful set, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

Peggysue said...

Incredible box & card Katie! I don't think I have enuf patience to get all that done. It is beautiful & good mix of patterns and colors. Thank you for joining our Scallop challenge at DYSU. Good luck!

Min said...

Wow, this is just absolutely GORGEOUS!!! The papers and the design are just wonderful!!
Thanks so much for playin' along with us this week for the Shelly's Images "Flowers & April Showers" Challenge.
We hope you'll join us again soon! Hugs & Happy Days! ~Min
Kaymin Kreations

ElizabethR said...

Gorgeous colour choice Katie, thabks for sharing with us this week at Rainbow Lady's challenge, and good luck ! Love Elizabeth x

Linda Breedlove said...

Oh my, your gate card and box are amazing. What colors... so pretty... love the way you did the rosette!

Unknown said...

Such a beautiful project! The colors and all the details are so gorgeous! I love that you have combined so many challenges... I love to do that too. :) Thanks for playing along with Shelly's Images!

Marion Kuipers-van Eijsden said...

You really made some stunning work! How inspiring this is!!! Love the papers and details on everything! Thanks for joining us at Totally Papercraft Challenge this week. Hope you will be back next week! Hugs Marion

Liza said...

Beautiful work Kate, I love the colours and pretty papers. Thanks for joining us at CCC.

Liza x

Dawn♥ said...

Stunning card and gift box! Dawn♥

Jill said...

wow wow wow Katie this is stunning love the card and the fancy edges and flower you've made and the gift box is fantastic too thanks for joining us at PTW hugs Jill xx

Saskia said...

Lovely to see your work at Card Cupids, thanks!!

Greetings, Saskia
(guest designer)

Spyder said...

This is amazing! Love it!! Fabulous! Thank you so much for joining Quirky Craft's Challenge this time round, the voting should start late tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday so be sure to pop back and vote for your favourites, and get your blogging buddies to vote for you! Although, saying all that, inlinkz started the voting early and now has corrected that mistake, but doesn't show when the voting starts, but with any luck that will be corrected as soon as possible!!

Caroljenks said...

What a gorgeous set - LOVE IT!

Thanks for joining us this week over at Top Tip Tuesday for our 'Open Challenge' :)

Carol x

Harriet Skelly said...

Wow so much gorgeous details in this awesome set!! Thank you for playing with us at Flutter By Wednesday and WoodwareUSA!

Mona`s Bittelille Scrappekrok said...

Wow...What stunning creations! Love the colour choice. Looove that rosette flower. Great job! Thanks for sharing you creations at WhoopsiDaisy. Hugs...Mona

Jacqueline said...

Great projects - Love the colours in this set. Thanks for playing along at Card Cupids.
Hugs. Jacqueline

Anonymous said...

Fabulous set, love all the extra parts of your collection, Thanks for sharing with us on the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge this time! hugs Samantha :0)

Saskia Pullen said...

thanx for playing along with Sliekjes challenge blog.

Good luck

Zue said...

This is amazing, so colourful and intricate. Must have taken you ages; time well spent though!!
Have fun
Sue xx

corinne said...

very nice. thank you for joining us on craftyourpassion's challenge blog. Good luck !

Shelly said...

Wow this is gorgeous! Fab layers! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake Craft Challenge! Shelly x

StampingbugKerry said...

What a great goodie box and gift card. Love the girly patterned paper and your rosettes too. Thanks for playing in the WoodwareUSA challenge this week. Good luck!!!
Kerry

Anonymous said...

Beautiful projects.So frilly and feminine.Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion :D
Lisa x

Audrey Ernst (hippieaud) said...

Wow, amazing work as always Katie, just love the colors you have chosen, gorgeous set. Thanks for sharing with our free and easy challenge at WHOOPSI DAISY this time:)

Unknown said...

Both these projects are gorgeous.. Thanks so much for playing along with us over at CCCB!

♥ Doreen ♥ said...

Wow wunderschön.
Danke, dass du bei uns mitgemacht hast.
Viele Grüße Doreen EAC-Team

Denimo said...

Hi again Katie! This is one wonderful project!! I saw this over the weekend (can't remember where) and was so impressed with it then. Great job! Thanks for joining our challenge at Aud Sentiments. We hope to see you back for our next one!
Denise

cnelson said...

Absolutely GORGEOUS projects! Thank you so much for joining us at CCCB!

Anonymous said...

These are such wonderful creations Katie! Thank you so much for participating in the Sliekjes Card Challenge
with it. Good Luck in the draw too xx