You’re My Tweetheart…

This is another work that took me forever to finish.  Of course, I’ve been working on other things around it.  It’s definitely a labor of love.  This is my first time making any kind of box like this.  I saw the instructions here at Dannie’s Designs and saved it away to do later.  Here’s a close up of the image by Paper Pretties that can be found here. 


A couple of subtle differences are that I did the birds on the front, that I used a punch on the back edges and that I made a front pocket for return labels and stamps instead of the address book, pocket for stamps and pen that Dannie did.

The tags were made with my Cricut using the “Tags, Bags, Boxes and More” cartridge.  The post-it notes were purchased at Wal-Mart.  In the front pocket I’ve made labels with my friend’s return address for anything she might want to mail out.

Here are the cards I made.  I began by hand-embossing the white card stock. The stamps are from the $1 bin at Michaels, and I’ve used my Nestibilities to cut the flower and background.  I’ve made eight cards, with different sentiments for every two cards. A long while back Michaels offered the monogram stamps and I purchased them to use like I did on the envelope.
There are two different designs inside the cards, one set has the oval on the left and

the other set has the rectangle.  This is not a difficult project to make, just time consuming.  One of the nice things I like about this is that once she uses the cards I made (my hubby said she wouldn’t) she can put store bought cards in the box.

I’m entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges – seeing double (birds)
Rainbow Lady’s Challenge Blog – pet
AI Factory Challenges – 2 layers
Craft Us Crazy – anything
Crafty Sentiments – happy ever after
DYSU – wings
Moving Along With The Times – cute and a punch
Rainbow Lady’s Challenge Blog – pets
Shelly’s Images – anything
Crafty Ann’s Challenge Blog – embossing
Fussy and Fancy – summer
Digis With Attitudes – anything
Fairy Tale Challenge Blog – summer
Paper Cutz Challenge – anything
Pattie's Creations Design Challenge – stamp and glitter
Craft Your Days Away – summer
Totally Gorjuss – punch or die cut
The Crafty Pad – embossing
Gingerloft Challenge – glitter
Lollipop Crafts - anything
Crazy Challenge – ribbons
Paper Pretties – color with anything but markers
Simon Says Stamp and Show – anything
Stamps + Fun = Creativity – no sentiment
Hooked on Craft Challenges – cute
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog – ribbons

I hope you’ve enjoyed looking at my project.  If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. 

Hugs,

dj1952 (Debra)