Little Milk Kitty

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today with some final inspiration for the It's a Wrap challenge.  I am really into making gift boxes at the moment.  Today I am sharing a mini milk carton decorated with cat paws and Carmen's Veranda White Cat.

 

Squueeeeeee!  Adorbs!  I've gone with that perfect Christmas colour - brown!

Well, not everyone is into red, green and gold......

I started with a piece of designer paper, scored the box lines and stamped all over with brown archival ink and Lost Coast Designs Paw Print border.  Probably should have stamped, then scored, but when did you last see tidy cat paw prints on your kitchen floor????

I inked all the score lines with ginger Promarker, cut the bits that needed cutting and folded the box.  I stamped White Cat using the brown ink on white card and fussy cut.  I made a little Merry Christmas label, punched a couple of holes and added the orange dotty organza ribbon.  Now just gotta fill it with treats!

You have until 23.59 PST tonight to join the fun.   Any stamped box, tag, wrapping paper welcome for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  See you there.......

It's a wrap: Christmas gift bag

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Hello everyone, welcome to our It's a wrap challenge! Read everything about it HERE and participate!

I stamped a kraft bag to use as a gift wrap for a Christmas present! First I sprayed it with blue and green Distress Oxide sprays. After drying I stamped Cracked Grass and Sky, Cracked Tree and the bird called Megan's Christmas Bird with black StazOn ink. I also stamped some extra stars from the Grass and Sky stamp. I coulored the piece with colour pencils and glittery gel pens. 

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

#133, its a wrap. A gift bottle of wine.

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Hi there, Riet here.  I love this challenge!

It's something different than making a card.

I thought long and hard about this project, and thought it would be fun to wrap a wine bottle!

But I didn't want to do it the traditional way.....

I used the Labels set and the beautiful Lycaonia stamp,

and Pieces of Architecture.

So I changed the label with the nice label set stamp.

I left the original label on the bottle and sponged the edges with distress ink Walnut Stain.

I stamped the wine label stamp with micro glaze then sponged the label with distress ink Dusty Concord.

I sponged the outside of the label with distress ink Chipped sapphire. 

I also did this with the bow and a stamp from the pieces

of architecture set.

The bow is a die cut.

And now the top of the bottle.

Take a strip of paper that fits easily on the bottle.

Make the strip 8 cm wide.

I made a drawing of the model.

Note that the bottom strip is folded forward.

In this way it is a kind of pocket into which a tag will be inserted later.

Sponge it like the label and bow.

Now you make a tag that fits in the bag and sticks out slightly above it.

Make some dots and stars with a white gel pen.

With a stencil I wrote the Merry Christmas on it.

Now stamp the Lycaonia stamp with black waterproof ink.

I coloured this stamp with pencils, but you can decide for yourself with which you colour.

Glue her on the front edge of the bottle band.

Now put the band with the tag in it around the bottle neck, 

see how tight it has to be so that the tag does not bend too much.

Glue the two ends together.

Assemble the bow and glue it just below the Lycaonia stamp.

 And you're done.

I hope you liked it, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

This was my last contribution for this challenge.

But the challenge runs until November 30th.

So you can still participate and stand a chance to win a prize.

And who wouldn't want to win free rubber stamps.

 

It's A Wrap: Black and White Gift Box

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Hi all from Laurie!  We have a fun and unusual challenge going on right now here on the Portal:  It's A Wrap.  So for this one, we want to see what you can make in the way of gift wrap, boxes, bags, tags, etc. using your rubber stamps.

I decided to go with a gift box for this one.  I had this round paper mache box on hand already, so just needed to dress it up!  I used the Ledger and Little Diamond background stamps from Lost Coast Designs and the Architectural Square stamp from Carmen's Veranda.  

I started by stamping the ledger stamp 4 times with black ink on off white scrapbook paper.  I evenly cut all four stamped images with a paper cutter to the same size.  I then turned them over and taped the pieces together to make one large "ledger page".  I put my box lid upside down onto my ledger paper and traced around it.  I cut out around that pencil line to get the top for my box.  I edged it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and glued it to my box top.  There was enough of my stamped paper left to cut 1" strips to glue around the edges of the box lid.  

Then I stamped my diamond background with black ink onto the same scrapbook paper.  I had to stamp three times to get enough to cover the sides of my box.  I cut those to 3 inch pieces and glued them around the edges of the bottom of the box.  I also distressed the edges with the same distress ink.

After fitting the lid onto the box, I tied some black ribbon around the box.  I stamped my Architecture  square onto the same card stock and cut it out, inking up the edges.  I punched a hole in one

corner and tied it with the same black ribbon as a gift tag.  The back side of the tag is plain so plenty of room to right on.

Come join us for this super fun challenge - we are excited to see what fun wrapping things you can create, and don't forget to use your rubber stamps!

Bag gnome

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Hello all Cathy here with a bag for you gifts to go into.

Stamps Used:

Santa gnome with toys

Started out stamping Santa gnome with toys and I used my scan-n-cut machine to cut it out. I then colored  Santa gnome with toys with my copic markers to match the bag that I had. 

After I colored Santa gnome with toys I added some glitter to the fur trim around Santa. I then layered him on a gray die cut and added a saying. I then added it all to the front of the bag. 

I hope you will join the challenge here. Also it doesn't have to be Christmas wrap. It could be for a birthday or anything.

It's a wrap: Pyramid box

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Hello everyone, welcome to our It's a wrap challenge! Read everything about it HERE and participate!

I made this pyramid box using a template, so easy! 

This is how I made it:

I drew all the lines of the box with a pencil through the template onto a piece of stamping cardstock and cut it out.

I pressed three colours of water soluble ink on the glass plate (or craft sheet) , sprayed it with water and coloured the paper with it by swiping it through the wet ink.

The coloured result... 

I stamped with yellow and blue (the same inkas used before) some stamps of Pieces of Architecture and heat embossed , using gold embossing powder, the Daisy Flourish stamp a several times.I scored all the lines and cut the closure.

I sponged the edges with dark blue and fold it and glued it till it looked like a box.;-)

A nice wrap for some candy or chocolate or something to give somebody as a present!

See you next time!

Liesbeth XX

It's A Wrap!

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Good morning and a very happy Thursday - it's nearly the weekend yay!

It's Sue here with my second project for our 'It's A Wrap' project I made another gift bag (in fact I made this one first ) but this time I've stamped directly onto the bag.

 I started with a regular craft bag (these are so strong so perfect for presents) 

I began by splattering with watered down acrylic, then stamped the lovely Megans's Christmas Bird and Christmas Lights. The lights have been coloured with Posca pens, and the bird with Prisma pencils. I did get a bit carried away with the red pencil, but a Christmas Robin needs to be red right?

I'd be lost without my Misc Words, these two just finish off my bag perfectly.

These are the stamps that I used (I told you that I splattered paint)

Megan's Christmas Bird

Misc Words  and Carmen's Veranda

Christmas Lights

I hope you like it, and that you join in with our challenge this month. 

Take care and have a very happy day x

#133 Its a wrap challenge, wrapping paper, gifts and boxes etc

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Hello everyone, Riet here.

Today I have 4 delicious chocolate bars to show you.

Yes unfortunately only to look and not to eat, lol.

They are presents from my granddaughter for her kindergarten teachers.

She is celebrating her birthday,

 and in the Netherlands we give some treets to the teachers and children.

I decided to work with something with wings.

I've only worked with Distress Oxides.

I also used the beautiful stamps from Lost Coast Designs.

The sentiments are from Carmen's Veranda.

The mandalas are masks.

Would you also like to join our challenge?

There is a chance that you will win new rubber stamps.

You can participate with any stamp brand you want,

as long as you use real stamps at work.

click to go to the challenge......

These are the stamps I used.

Click on the picture for the webshop.