Baby Shower Favor Box Tutorial Part #1

Here is a tutorial for some Baby Shower Favor Boxes I have made:

Step #1. 

These favor boxes were cut out from my Cricut Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge.  You can make them different sizes, I believe mine were 5 inches.  Make sure to score the boxes on the folds using a Scor Pal or some type of scoring tool.

Place Terrifically Tacky Tape on the end and on the bottom.

Adhere the box together as shown.

Step #2

 Cut out the same images using patterned paper. 

It doesn't all have to be the same color, just matching colors. 

You will see different patterned papers here.

Using my Fiskars trimmer, I trimmed off all the handles,
the skinny sides of the box, and the bottom of the box.

You should only have the big sides remaining as shown below.

Here is the completed two toned favor box.

Step #3. 

Now you need to put the favors in the box:

First I put in some paper stuffing, otherwise I will be in the poor house!  LOL

I stuffed these with Frosted Animal cookies. 

I use baggies from the dollar store and

ties that I have laying around the house.

At that moment, it was the only thing

I could find that was pink and white!

Step #4

Here are all of the boxes stuffed and ready,

now I need to tie some ribbon around the handles. 

I usually attach a pink baby pin or a pink clothespin to these,

but I couldn't find any for this event so I did without.

Step #5

I like to present them on something that looks fancy. 

In this case I used a cake round that I found at Walmart. 

These are inexpensive and they even have pretty swirls on them.

Here they are completed and presented for the mother to be
at her baby shower!

The finished project!

View from the top!

Close up shot!

This is a pretty easy project, however, it can be time consuming depending on how many favor boxes you need to make.  Be sure to tell your customers or your friends that you will need at least two months notice.  Some people don't like to use their Cricut machine.  But this has been a life saver for someone like me who creates these types of boxes often.  If you have carpal tunnel like I do, I am sure you will understand.

Also, there are no more crooked boxes from my crooked cutting! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.  If you have questions, please leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.  Have a wonderful day!

Head over to Pinky's website for a great giveaway!

You can check it out here:

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/2010/06/oh-boy-new-giveaway-free-svgs-and-more.html

The Fox and Kitty....What?

For those of you who do not know.  I work at the The University of Texas at El Paso.  I work at the Library.  In the front of our Library we have a garden with trees and flowers planted.  On Monday, one of our co-workers comes up to me and says "I don't know if you are aware, but there is a fox laying underneath a tree outside the Library.  I grabbed my camera and immediately headed out front to see this fox.  What I didn't expect was that the fox appears to have a friend!  Yes, there was a cat sitting not even two feet away from him/her!!! 

Do you need a good reason to visit the UTEP Library?  I'll give you one.  You really will be smart as a fox once you visit us!!!!  Hee, hee...

Please forgive my un-centered pictures.  I was using digital zoom from pretty far away.  It is sometimes difficult to center pictures when doing this.  Check out the pictures below:

Stamp TV Notebooks

Here are some notebooks that I altered after seeing a video on Stamp TV. I hope you enjoy them!

Happy Tuesday Peeps!

This is a picture of the cover I made for projects from my friend Stephanie's website. Stephanie Barnard has a great website at http://www.thestampsoflife.com/. She features a monthly clear acrylic stamp club that is incredible. First of all, it is so affordable, and will not break the bank. Second, I have to say that I have never had such high quality stamps in my possession. And did I mention that her stamps are VERY trendy! They stamp really well and you will get a great stamp on the first try! She has all of the latest styles coming out, month after month! I encourage all of my friends out there to give it a try! All of the stamps on the project below are from The Stamps of Life! Did you know that Stephanie is also a Fiskateer! Yippee!

Michelle is giving away a Big Shot

You can check out all of the details at:

http://keepsakesbymelissa.blogspot.com/

Good luck everyone!!!

Please Help

Please help the people of Tennessee. Some of these people have lost everything. Clean our your closets and help. It is that time of year anyway. Please go to my friend Pinky's blog for more information on how you can help:

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/2010/05/for-anyone-interested-in-helping.html

Thank you in advance for your kindness.

Miscellaneous Cards

Here are some different cards I have made. This first one was made for my parents anniversary:
This card was completed for a contest on the Fiskateers website:

The card was created for a contest on http://www.thestampsoflife.com/

Thank you for looking!!!

Fiskateer Contests

Here are some pictures from a couple of contests I entered on http://www.fiskateers.com/

Easter Cards

Here are some Easter cards and a favor box that I created. I am very proud to say that one of my cards won a contest on http://www.thestampsoflife.com/! I am a member of The Stamps of Life and I periodically enter items on the gallery.

If you would like to see the slideshow, you can go to:

1. http://www.stephaniebarnardstamps.com/videos.htm
   And then click on:
2. Stamp set slide shows, and then on
3. February 2010 eggs4easter Gallery Projects slideshow

Here are the cards featured in that slideshow:

And the winner is: Thanks for looking, have a wonderful day!

Earth Day Card Contest

Kelly Jo had an Earth Day contest in which we could submit one scrapbook page or two cards. The catch was that we had to use some sort of recycled material. I chose to use Diet Coke cans for my projects. A lot of you have been asking how I put this plan into action, so here is a little picture tutorial for you:



I cut the top and the bottom off using my awesome Craftsman knife and my even more awesome Fiskars kitchen shears (these things will cut anything)!



Once I cut off the bottom and the top, I then cut a slit across the heighth of the soda can:



Okay, now it's time to get out your Sizzix Big Shot or whatever comparable machine you have that will run Sizzix dies. I used my Top Note Die and my Scallop Circle Die for this project. I ran both cans through the machine, just as I would paper. This is how they turned out:







At this point, I sanded the edges a bit, because they were pretty sharp. Proceed with caution when using any type of sharp metal. Then I ran them through my Sizzix again using two different Cuttlebug Embossing folders. I used the polka dots and the swirls for this project. I turned the can over, so that you can still see that it is a Diet Coke can here:



I had so much fun doing this! Now I want to try and paint the aluminum, or alter it in different ways. Thanks for checking this out! Here are my finished projects:

Card #1



Card #2





Have a great day everyone!

Fiskateer's Online Crop

Hello everyone! So this weekend Kelly Jo had an all weekend long online crop on Fiskateers. It was so much fun. Thank you Kelly Jo, for celebrating your birthday with us! Here are some of the items we were asked to enter for contests. The first was a birthday card:



The next items was to create an ATC with a birthday theme. I would like to thank Judy, Fiskateer #6979 for sending me this funny stamped image in a recent Fiskateer swap, check it out:



We also had to post a Mother's day card. I just happened to have made this card at my Stampin Up meeting on the same day, so I submitted it for the contest:

Online Crop Today @ www.fiskateers.com

Please join me for an awesome on the Fiskateers website. Come on over to www.fiskateers.com and click on the message board. I hope to see you there!

www.fiskateers.com

Be there or be square!

Some Favor Boxes

I can make all kinds of favor boxes. The first set below are store bought favor boxes from Walmart. I made them for a couple of friends of mine that were getting married:





These were my first attempt at Favor Boxes. I hand cut all of these boxes for my father's 75th Birthday party. Now I have my Cricut, thank goodness. No more crooked patterns!!!!