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For my first project, I have a gift tote that I made pretty much made from a card sealed up on the sides with a handle, but you can purchase a pre-made box or bag as well. I stenciled the bag portion using Michelle Ward's X Rows stencil with black ink on white cardstock.
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To create all the embellishments, I stenciled up a sheet of cardstock using Wendy Brightbill's Peony Blooms and Tim Holtz/Ranger's Oxide Inks. Oxide Inks are so creamy and blend really well together. They were perfect for making the rose a peachy-pink and the leaves a funky green. For this particular project I used Picked Raspberry, Crushed Olive, Fossilized Amber and Carved Pumpkin. And my new favorite applicator is a cosmetic brush, the kind with a zillion little bristles in it. (See it in the right hand corner). Oh my. (Try it. You will like it! Available on a lot of craft company sites and Amazon.) It makes the application so easy! Don't forget to dry the design with a heat tool at the end because Oxide inks like to stay wet.
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Next, I die-cut the bow out from the stenciled paper. You can use a die-cut, as I did here. (Picture below to show what the die-cut pieces look like.) I love Designer Brenda Walton's bow and Spellbinder's Bow-tique and used those. However, if you are not a die-cutter, there are a ton of similar patterns available online for free. There are pre-cut bows and boxes available for purchase online as well, that you can apply the stencils onto directly. I fussy-cut some of the leaf images and used them under the bow on the box.
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I also decorated a party favor box but applied the stencils directly onto the box rather than from a printed sheet of cardstock. It made it easy for placement purposes.
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And don't forget to embellish the tissue paper...I used Wendy Brightbill's Floral Frolics for the background.
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For something new, try embellishing the Peony Bloom with Oxide inks onto white cardstock, then go back over it with glue and apply Fun Flock for dimension. I absolutely love the look of velvet.
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Truly the possibilities are endless. Here is a different color palette used on some different boxes.
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Aren't we lucky to have so many great designs available through StencilGirl® that can stand on their own and be applied to a variety of items? Would love to see what you create.
Thanks for hanging with me today. Hope I challenged you to try something different.
XO,
Debi Adams
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Delightfully elegant projects!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Debbie. Absolutely love what you've done. You're so talented.
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