Sweet Treats

I guess better late than never. Did I tell you I was a lazy blogger?

I thought you might like to see what I made for the grand kids for Valentine's Day. Cute little pizza boxes. I found the template on splitcoaststampers.com. I forgot to make a picture of the boxes open with the chocolate truffles inside. Yum! Easy little boxes to make.
I used some beautiful digital paper that I purchased from Gina K Designs to cover the outside and line the inside of each box. I cut the round hearts and the word 'love' using Gina K papers with my Cricut Expressions and the Sure Cuts A Lot software. The long skinny hearts were cut using a Sizzix die and machine.

I hope you like my little boxes and if you have questions please let me know.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Embossed Rose box

This started out as a plain white die-cut box from Sunday International. I haven't embossed anything in a while so I thought I'd play around with embossing in clear on the white box. Pretty cool... huh?

STAMPS: Dee Gruenig’s Watercolor Valentine POSH#-82
PAPER: Die cut box from SI
INK: Ruby Red and Marvelous Magenta ink pads “StampinUp!”, Versamark ink SI
ACCESSORIES: Offray ribbon, clear embossing power “StampinUP!”, white tissue paper, sponge, paper towel, mini stick-on stones (my stash)

Emboss rose image in clear on front and back of box/ emboss tiny heart image on two sides
Rub Ruby Red ink over entire box covering all edges of box, wipe off excess on the embossed images with a damp paper towel
Attach 3 little stones on top left corner of box front and back, rub edges of box with magenta ink to darken edges a little
Add tissue paper to box, attach ribbon to tie handles together

Stamped boxes

Close-up of the flower

Just one more snippet before I'm done.

Oh, before I forget, my husband just asked me if I was 'blotting' then quickly he said 'blogging'? Now that's the funniest thing I've heard all day. I guess if I was stamping... I could be blotting. Made me chuckle.

This is a cute little box from the large stash I received from Sunday International to play with. I just wanted to show you something that was so simple and fun to do using stamps.

My Little Purse Box Instructions

STAMPS: Flower, Second Nature from Autumn Leaves; Flourishes, from Autumn Leaves
PAPER: White cardstock, Georgia Pacific (for the flower images)
INKS: Tempting Turquoise, SU!, Twinkling H2O’s, Kaleidacolor rainbow dye inkpad-Caribbean Sea, Black ink, Staz-On.
ACCESSORIES: Sheer organza rainbow ribbon, Hobby Lobby, pop-dots, anywhere hole punch

Rub Tempting Turquoise stamp pad directly onto the flat box, covering all areas, then rubbing with a tissue to blend
Stamp Flourishes (1 stamp image only) in Caribbean Sea rainbow randomly over the background, turning stamp for variety
Stamp flower 2 times on white card stock, color with H2O’s in your choice of color, cut both images out, take one image and using your thumb nail rub the petals of the flower to make them curl up and be rounded, attach curled flower on top of the other with pop-dots, attach to front of box with pop-dots
Punch hole in each side near top edge, attach ribbon by tying knots to the inside of box
Ink the edges of the box with the rainbow ink pad