Cricut Milk Carton Elegant Favors

Hey everyone,
    I hope all is well.  Today I'd like to share a cute little project that would make excellent favors any party.   I've been wanting to try something with the milk carton idea.  My plan was to buy the Stampin' UP! Milk Carton die; however, that baby is "30 something dollars".  Of course that "30 something dollars" does not include the shipping and tax.  Depending on where you live you can add another 18% plus to that "30 something"-NOT!!!!!   Well one day, I was just looking at some of my Cricut carts and happened to come across the milk carton cut (Oh yeah baby)!  It was great!  I stamped my paper first using Amazing Paper Grace's Vintage Alphabet Soup Background Stamp.  I bought it on the JustRite Papercraft site, I used some black Staz-On ink,  I think I used a SU stamp for the greeting but I can find it to give you the name (sorry),  I used some trim that I got from JoAnn and a couple of Prime flowers called Sherwood Rose Cottage (2011).  You can probably still find these flowers on e-Bay; I have not done a search to confirm that, but it would be a good place to start.  Also to hold the top of the Carton closed, I glued one of the flowers to one of the Tim Holtz tiny paper clips.  Here are a few of the pictures I took of my finished project.  This would be a good one to try.  There are also tutorials on the internet that tell how to make a milk carton from scratch, if don't want to buy the Cricut cart (Tags, Bags & More 2) or the SU die.  Some of the Cricut image can be bought individually for a small fee, I'm not sure if the Milk Carton is one but I would give it a try.   Thanks for stopping by and have a awesome crafting day!

 

Graphic 45 Place In Time Card Series 4th quarter

Here is the last group of cards in the Graphic 45 Place In Time series.  See Gloria Stengel's tutorials. This was a fun journey using my favorite paper line. I hope you will be inspired to give them a try. 

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Graphic 45 Place In Time Card Series 3rd quarter

Here is the next set of cards: July, August, and September.  See Gloria Stengel's tutorials .
July is also a special month because it's my mommy's birthday month.

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Graphic 45 Place In Time Card Series 2nd quarter

Post #2  Graphic 45 Place In Time Cards; April, May, and June.  See Gloria Stengel's tutorials.  I love the May card, especially because its my birthday month!

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My First Canvas Project!

Hi everyone,
Today, I'm sharing my first canvas project.  I followed the tutorial by Gabrielle Pollacco.  Yes, the one and the same Bo Bunny paper designing dynamo! Gabrielle has some amazing works from cards to canvas in her video library on You Tube and you can also check her works on her blog Such A Pretty Mess. Let me just say, some of her stuff is so drop-ya-jaw gorgeous; it should come with a "do not attempt this at home" warning.  When I first started the project, things weren't going well at all but I just kept going and the end results made me smile.  The lesson in that was... its canvas and no matter what, the project will take on a unique life of it's own.   I hope you enjoy the photos and that you'll visit Gabrielle's You Tube channel and or her blog to give it go.  Oh yeah, did I tell you it was a quick project, 3 hours from start to finish!

This is the canvas hanging on my wall in my craft room.

 

 





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