Hello and blessed Sunday to y’all. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I hope that if you’re in a Spring Ahead time zone you’re able to adjust to the time change soon. I love Fall Back, but Spring Ahead is not really my style. Plus, y’all know our senior pup, Pixie, is a very early riser. Time changes mean nothing to her.
Today’s blog is not my typical blog. First, I’m keeping it short as I will doing a live tutorial on it tonight (Sunday March 10) at 6 pm CDT on YouTube and Facebook. If you don’t follow me on YouTube, please check out my channel at YouTube.com/@stampwithnel. While there you can subscribe to my channel. If you set your notifications to all you will get a notice when I go live with a video. Since next week I’ll be in Houston, TX at the Stampin’ Up! Onstage event I may pop in on Facebook and/or YouTube with a live update on what I’ve learned – this will include the 2024-2026 in colors, new products and maybe more! It’s the first Onstage I’ll attend live, so I’m not sure what I’ll learn.
Secondly, I didn’t make a card today. Rather, today I have a little treat box for y’all. I’m bringing a few treats for my team mates (I heard chocolate is a MUST at an SU! event), so I thought the treat boxes I made would be fun to share with y’all.
Finally, although I used the Simply Zinnia Bundle and the Zinnia 3D Embossing folder, I did not use the Flowering Zinnia paper or embellishments. Instead I used the Spring-y Lighter Than Air 6″ x 6″ designer series paper and color palette for my project. I know that I don’t have to use coordinating suite products, but I do tend to do so. So today I step way out of my blog comfort zone with this atypical blog post. Here we go —
I learned how to make this treat box from fellow demonstrator Anne Marie Hile. I chose a base of Petal Pink for this box and stamped it with the Simply Zinnia Stamp Set flower, leaves and texture stamps with Petal Pink ink. I used the Very Best Trio punch to make the decorative edges on the outer box.
I cut two pieces of Lighter Than Air DSP to decorate the upper and lower areas of the inside of the outer box. I used the Very Best Trio punch to cut the decorative edges for both sides. I also cut a Basic White panel and used the Very Best Trio punch again for the decorative edges. This will be for the note to the recipient. I adhered the DSP to upper and lower insides with liquid glue, then added the Basic White panel over the top DSP.
I made the interior pocket with Petal Pink cardstock and used a circle punch to cut a notch out of the center of the pocket. I used Tear & Tape to adhere the pocket to the inside of the card between the score lines.
I cut a belly band of Petal Pink and used the Zinnia 3D Embossing Folder to dry emboss it. I prepared an 11″ belly band, knowing that I would not need it all. I found that an 8-1/2″ belly band was a bit too tight for my purposes. I added my goodies to the inside pocket and determined the length of belly band needed when the treat box was full so I wouldn’t make it too tight. I creased the belly band where I needed the folds to get around the box, burnished them with my bone folder a trimmed the belly band to the right size before adhering the overlap with liquid glue.
I used the Simply Zinnia Bundle Dies to die cut the pieces for a flower: base (Fresh Freesia), middle petals (Balmy Blue), upper petals (Bubble Bath), flower center (Petal Pink), disk florets (Lemon Lolly) and the Azure Afternoon stamped double leaves. I adhered the flower pieces together with liquid glue and adhered the flower to the belly band with Stampin’ Dimensionals, covering the overlapping areas with the flower. I added three Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins – one each of color – to the belly band.
And that’s it for today’s blog in all its shortness and sweetness. I hope you’ll check out the video tutorial live tonight, Sunday March 10, at 6 pm CDT. If you miss it, I will post the video to this post.
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Super cute! SO looking forward to meeting and spending a few days with you in Houston! Whoo-hoo!! And – whoever told you chocolate is a must…well, she’s a genius! 😉
Such a cute little treat box! Love the fun colors. 🙂