Strawberries for June

Hello Everyone

When June comes around I always think of strawberries. This is a project I actually made last June. I photographed it and ended up submitting it to Stampin' Up! for a competition at a regional training day. I was delighted to see it on display a few months later when I went to convention. In fact if you click the CONVENTION tag on the left you will see it there.

But I felt it was time for a close up and explanation...The basket is made with the Scallop Envelope die - you need to cut four. I made the basket weave with Crumb Cake cardstock and the Square Lattice Impressions Folder.

The strawberry is the Heart of Hearts die and the leaf is made with the 5 Petal Flower Punch. The flower is done with the Boho Blossoms Punch.

So - better late than never...I hope it was worth waiting for!

A little more recently I made a little gift for my friend Susie...this also featured strawberries....

LOL Back soon with more ideas for you.

Love Elizabeth X

Flower Crate Gift Box

Hello Everyone

Today I am sharing one of the projects we are making at class this month. As you can imagine it is quite a complex project to teach, but when I made it, I couldn't resist sharing it with my lovely ladies.

I had seen a similar decorative creation online, but decided I wanted to create it as a gift box, with a lid covered with flowers. You can see the box with the lid off in the following photograph...

We used the woodgrain background stamp, a miriad of punches and dies to make the flowers, the bird and 5 petal flower punch for the leaves and lots of dimensionals to pop the 'planks' up on the internal box.

With such a detailed project for our first item, our other cards are nice and simple this month. Back soon to show you them.

Love Elizabeth