Teeny Scraps of Us: favors

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sophisticated Wedding Ensemble with Creative Cuts & More

Welcome to the Baby and Bridal August Blog Hop for Creative Cuts & More You are in for a GREAT treat! Our Designers are very excited to share some beautiful Bridal and Baby shower, wedding or gift ideas with you. These wonderful ideas are PERFECT for your special celebrations!

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two tier cake's in your choice of a smooth or textured cardstock. You can see some ideas with the cake HERE and HERE

You will find the instructions for ways to win this wonderful prize at the end of this post...

Hopefully you are joining us from Pamela Smerker's beautiful blog! If not, you'll want to hop from the beginning at the Die Cut Diva blog so you don't miss any of the amazing creations we all have in store for you!!

If for some reason one of the links is broken along the Hop do not worry, HOP back over to Die Cut Diva where you will find the complete list of all our bloggers!

Ok, let's get started, shall we??
I had the pleasure of attending my brother-in-law's wedding recently, so I had great inspiration to work on this ensemble for you today!

The color sort-of ties in with the album I did for all the pictures I knew I'd be taking of my daughter as a flower girl in her first wedding (http://www.gallery.creativecutsandmore.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1075), but I may decide to put the album up for SALE in our Etsy Store.
I kept it really simple & sophisticated by using all cream papers in the ensemble with the album cover & the chairs covered in the "Quartz" metallic papers to add some glimmer.

EVERYONE loves cake at weddings, so why not have these adorable favor boxes out for your guests?!! I had great fun working with the Large Cake Slice Boxes here! First, I stamped the 2 outside ones randomly with a Tim Holtz swirlly stamp & embossed them in a glittery black (hard to see here).

Then I stamped the center slice with a little more uniform - just along the middle - & embossed it too.

I assembled all the slices using the Killer Red Tacky Tape & tied a black bow on the back of just the center slice. I made the flower from roughly cutting circles in different sizes, crumpled them, then added a little Flocking to give even more dimension (hard to see here).

My thoughts were to alternate this center slice between the others when assembling the entire cake of favors. If you purchase the entire Lage Cake Box Set you get 12 of these adorable boxes! They'd be a wonderful centerpiece for a Bridal Shower or Luncheon too!

Next, I worked on the place cards with these ADORABLE little chairs (inevitably, these are also FAVOR BOXES!)

Again, I stamped the center bottom half of the chair with a TPC Studios Fleur de Leis & embossed it with the same glittery black for the decoration on the front. Once assembled with the Killer Red Tacky Tape, I thought the Bride & Groom deserved a little bling on their cards, so I stamped a little crown, embossed it & added the rhinestones! I simply tied a bow & attached it to the back of the chair to add a little interest from behind! Aren't they fun!

Lastly, I worked with the 6x6 Scallop Album Wrap Cover & 6x6 Album Cover to create this little album.

I glued a couple of pieces of the ribbon to the scalloped edge & made 3 more smaller, flocked flowers for the bottom of the flap.

On the interior cover (cut from chipboard & covered in a smooth cream cardstock), I used another Tim Holtz stamp (can you tell I'm an addict?!) - the stamped/embossed "Frame" is actually underneath a popped Small Vintage Label with "LOVE" stamped/embossed on it.

For the pages inside, I ordered a pack of the smooth cream cardstock from CC&M, cut them to size along the top, but then used my tearing tool to tear the right edges. Then I embossed every other page with the glittery black.

There are 16 pages, including the inside of the front & back covers.
I then placed a simple picture with black adhesive photo corners on the first page to give an idea of how simple I envision the photos to be placed in this book.

I really loved working with all of this & I think I might even re-do some old wedding stuff of mine when I have a minute with some of the great albums at CC&M!!!
Thanks for looking!

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Next you will want to hop on over to Steph Zerbe blog for some more ideas!!

Have fun!!!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

CC&M's June Blog Hop!

Happy Flag Day to everyone!!
Becky here again (you'll find I do most of the posts with Kim & Mom over my shoulder! LOL!!),
Here we are for another fun BLOG HOP with Creative Cuts & More!!

Hopefully you've followed the links & came to us via Lisa Sommerville's beautiful site! Amazing work huh?! If you didn't arrive here from Lisa's blog, you don't want to miss what our designers have in store for you! The CC&M June Blog Hop starts at http://die-cut-diva.blogspot.com/. (My sis, Kim has a great Revolutionary War album at the beginning of the hop & there are some more photos at the end of this post! You don't want to miss it!)

If for some reason one of the links is broken along the Hop do not worry, HOP back over to Die Cut Diva where the complete list will be.

This month's theme? Patriotic & Picnics!
What better time to get ready for all those summer BBQ's & the Fireworks on July 4th than to make up a little card & favor ensemble?!?!

I think we tend to forget that a lot of these cards & favors are not meant to be kept forever & tend to only use our scrapbook supplies for them - they don't HAVE to be acid-free all the time!

But for the invitation, I punched 2 different sized stars w/my Fiskars punches out of some flag-decorated paper plates! (I would have asked for some CC&M stars CC&M card to work with, but I had no idea what I was doing when I placed my order for the Hop!) Then I sanded them a tad & adhered them to a piece of white cardstock that I had already stamped with the Tim Holtz "sun rays" stamp. You'll also notice that the edges look burned? Well, they are! I blasted back to my 4th grade history class where we burned the edges of paper to make scrolls with a match! What fun!! Attached all that to a square in Bazzill Blue Canvas Textured Cardstock, added the dymo label & VIOLA! A great little invite ready to send out! (Inside is another "torched" piece of paper with all the party details!)

The card was fun, but this is what I am most excited to show you...

This "Dinner Bell" Favor was made from the CC&M Bell Box in the Galvanized Silver Metallic paper! Isn't it awesome! (I'm very proud of it!)

Here's what I did to get the rusty look...

1. I mixed 3 colors of embossing powder - Zing's black & chestnut with Stamp-n-Stuffs copper (not much copper) & tested the look on some scraps until I achieved a "rusty metal" color.

2. I stamped embossing fluid just on the edges & corners of each side of the bell as well as the top,

3. I sprinkled the powders on & heated it all up.

4. Once it was cool, I sanded away some of the embossed areas & went over all of them with Tea Dye Distress Ink, but wiped some of it off with a paper towel (the ink will only stick to the paper, not the powder, so that it sinks into any areas missed with the powders from the beginning).

5. I assembled the box by simply folding it all together & gluing along the on edge.

6. I punched some more stars out of the dinner plates, sanded & glued them on.

7. I used my Crop-a-dile to attach the large eyelets in the top & tie some red, cream & blue ribbon from my stash through the holes.

That's it! That's how I achieved my "rusty" Dinner Bell look for the favor box full of YUMMY red, white & blue Jelly Bellies!!

Hope you all enjoyed my post!

Now, you can either scroll on down to see some close ups of Kim's amazing Revolutionary War album, or KEEP HOPPIN' on over to Noelle's blog to see what she has up her sleeve this month!

Thanks for Hoppin' By!

Here are the close-ups of Kim's SUPER creative uses for all her CC&M Dies (You can find all the links on the Die Cut Diva Blog)!!!