3-D Wednesday with My Creative Time!

Welcome to another 3D Wednesday!  Today is all about home decor and die cutting!  This is a fairly lengthy post as I wanted to show you how I did what I did!

Here's how this started:

I've had these battery operated candles for a long time. Not pretty but thats what we're going to do today.  I made candle holders out of paper!!  I started by using a 5.5 X 8.5 inch piece of typing paper. I wanted to start this with cheap paper! I used the Flower Border Die on the long edge of the paper, this involves some partial die cutting, but we'll get to that later!

I loosely wrapped this piece around the largest candle and decided that a 1inch flap would would to close it.

So now it was time to work with real cardstock. For these candle holders, I used an 80lb weight, white cardstock cut at 5.5 X 8.5 inches.  

Line up the die as normal along the top of the 8.5 inch side. I left the very end plus one flower uncovered by the top cutting plate then ran it through.  I removed the die and lined up the die using one of the notches on the die..

Now place the cutting plate over so the end of the die is not covered. If this portion is covered, it will cut the border out completely.  It should look like this:

I did this three times to create all three holders.  To make the holders fit the different heights of the candles, I trimmed 1 inch off the bottom for the tallest candle, making it 8.5 X 4.5, the middle candle was 8.5 X 3.5 and the smallest ended up being 8.5 X 2.75 inches.

Now the fun part part!  To decorate, I used the Stitched Pretty Flower and Leaves Dies along with the Bunch of Stitched Doily Dies.  I went with a simple black and white theme.

I used the largest doily as a little mat and the other three as a backdrop for the flowers.

I think these turned out kind of cute.  Start to finish they took about an hour to make, that's including making a template!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed todays longer post and found a little inspiration!

See you soon!!

Laurie

3-D Wednesday with My Creative Time!

Hello and welcome!! It's time to make a three dimensional project using goodies from My Creative Time!!  I really struggle with this because I'm mostly a card maker but Emma has so many dies in the shop that make this easy!!

I started my creating a box with the Gift Card/Gift Box Die using 80lb cardstock.  Before adhering it all together, I stamped a pattern on the lid portion using the polka dot stamp from the Egg Decorations Stamp Set (on sale!). I used a beautiful yellow shade of ink from Catherine Pooler called Sauna.

The real star of the show is this bunny:

I used only the front portion of the Bunny Lollipop Holder Die to create this super cute embellishment for the gift box.  I simply added colour using sponge daubers and Distress Inks.  This set comes with separate pieces that cut the eyes, nose and little eye brows.

The bow comes from the Sleigh Die Set and worked so good here!! I used the same yellow ink, with a gentle hand to add colour to it.

The sentiment (also from the Egg Decorations Stamps) was stamped on one of the Chunky Stitched Tag Dies using the same Sauna Ink. To give a bit of definition to the tag, I added some stitching detail with a grey marker.

And my Easter treat box is ready to go!! You could easily switch up the colours to create more of a masculine bunny, and skip the bow:).

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you found a wee bit of inspiration here today!!

See you soon!

Laurie

Quick and Easy Craft Room Decor with My Creative Time!!

Hi friends!! Welcome to 3-D Wednesday for My Creative Time!  Today's post is all about using your craft supplies to create a dimensional project.  I love this category as it gets me thinking "outside the box" and creating something other than cards!

I love creating little things to put on display in my craft room.  So, I decided to make some wall art.  In my crafty stash, I found these Elmer Wood Slats.  I got these from Wal-Mart a long time ago.  Have you ever bought something with no idea how you would use it but just thought it would come in handy one day?? Yeah, this is one of those purchases.

The wood wasn't completely sanded around the edges but nothing an emery board couldn't fix!  I then went through my MCT dies and picked the Flower Petal Dies and the Stitched Leaves Dies.  Now, the key to making this a quick project is this:  I used printer paper for the die cutting!  Because it's so thin, you can die cut many layers at once giving you tons of leaves and flowers to work with!!

I just happened to have a real nice pale blue shade!!  After die cutting a bunch of paper, I glued the flower layers together and played around with a layout.

What was nice about this project, is that liquid glue worked for everything!!  I was a bit worried that the wetness would cause some warping or bubbling of the paper, but it didn't! And everything stuck so well to the wood slat!

After making the first one with the white flowers, I decided to reverse the colours and do one with blue.  

I also found in my stash, some wood veneers that I thought would finish the flowers off perfectly.  

To attach the twine, all I did was use some strong double sided tape.  These things are VERY light!!

I had so much fun making these and they are hanging in my craft room right now!!  I think they would look fantastic with the wood painted and using actual cardstock but I wanted to show you something quick and easy to put together!

Thank you so much for dropping by today!!  I hope you'll give something like this a try!!

Laurie

Made In Minutes with My Creative Time

Hello, my crafty friends and welcome back to another "Made In Minutes"!!  I honestly need to start timing myself for these posts to prove how quickly some of these projects come together!

My Creative Time (Emma) is known for all their amazing packaging and treat holder dies, so I decided to use one for my project today.  Before starting on Emma's Design Team, I never made any sort of 3-D project or treat holder. I always found them too intimidating with all the measurements, cutting and scoring.  But all of these dies take all the stress right out of it!!

I used the Mini Gift Box Die.  This is a fairly new die to the shop and as I'm writing this post, it's currently out of stock so I do apologize!! But never fear, they will be back in stock shortly!!

I cut the die out of 80lb white cardstock. It cut, scored and folded beautifully!

There is a cut on each of the corner flaps. These create little tabs that simply fold into each other.

You don't actually need any adhesive for this little box to stay together. I did add a couple strips just so the side flaps would stay up, but again, not necessary.

I measured the area inside the stitched detail lines on all four sides to create some layers with patterned paper.

1.25 inch squares worked perfectly which I added to all sides of the box.

So cute!! As you can see, I cut a small circle using the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies and also used the Lower Case Fun Dies to cut out the letter "c" to personalize the box a bit more.

To give you an example of what can fit in these gift boxes, I placed a package of sequins along with a jar of Perfect Pearls.  There is definitely room left over!!

All that's left to do at this point is add my little monogram and tie it up with a piece of ribbon!!

This little box is so stinkin' cute!  

Just think of all the ways you can personalize this box or decorate it for every season!! Or how great would these be for birthday or wedding favours??!! 

Now I promise you that this was literally made in minutes. About 10 actually!  The hardest part was tying the silly ribbon!!

Thank you so much for stopping in today. I appreciate your visits!

Until next time...stay crafty!!

Laurie