Wild Whisper Christmas Coffee Tin

Hi Everyone!

I'm up on the Wild Whisper blog today with a project that is a continuation of Karla's Christmas in July theme! You can see her project that uses the same piece of Sensations paper here. We both instantly thought of Christmas when we saw this sheet!

I chose to upcycle a coffee tin and turn it into a beautiful container. This container could act as a gift box, or it could sit on your counter at Christmas time and hold gift tags, tape, stamps, etc. I also found that it holds a dozen or more A2 size cards, so if you're a cardmaker, and you like to gift a package of cards at Christmas time, you could tuck them in this can and you'd be done!

My coffee tin was 19.5" in circumference and 5-5/8 + 1/16" tall. This allows you to cover the exterior of the tin with one 12x12" sheet that is cut into two pieces. I used a second sheet to cut a small circle to cover the lid.

I love to pick up Christmas florals on sale, so I always have a bouquet in my stash that I can cut into and pull out pieces of this and that for decorating projects.

Pieces from the photo above were used to decorate the lid of the coffee tin.

To add the bells, I tied them to a piece of ribbon, folded it in half with one end longer than the next, and glued it under the bow.

If you compare the photo above, with the one below, you will see that I started out with the idea of spacing pointsettias around the tin. Once I added the gold pom poms to the top and bottom I decided I wanted to remove the poinsettias and let the prettiness of the ribbons be the focal point. There was so much going on on the lid that it felt to me that the poinsettias made the whole thing too busy. Luckily for me they were attached by brads, which made removal easy!

This is a quick, simple project that makes use of something that would just go in the garbage. It is great fun digging into your stash to decorate it as well. (Some of these ribbons I have had for years!) 

Be sure and use my coupon code if you go shopping at the Wild Whisper store! DTLINDA

Happy Creating!

Linda

Wild Whisper: Black and White - Clean and Simple

Hi everyone,  

Today I'm here to show you what you can do with black and white paper, dies, and a pretty stamp set!  All the cards are 4.25" x 5.5".

I began by making my card bases using the floral stamps from Happy Tails.

For the Happy Birthday card's base, I took the smaller floral stamp and stamped it around the edge of the card mat.  The idea is to keep turning your stamp so that the card base has a random look to it.

Then I stamped the same stamp on a piece of white cardstock and matted it with black, die cut my sentiment, added sequins and it was done.  This piece was popped up on the card with foam tape.

The Hello card was done in a similar manner.  This time I used the littlest flower stamp and spread out the stamped images for a more airy look.  

On this one, I used the largest floral stamp in the set.

The Thanks card was made using the smaller floral stamp again.  When I make this type of card, I start in the middle and then stamp around my first image.  Again, as before, you need to keep turning the stamp as you stamp it to have a random look to the overall card.  

It was very, very tempting to colour this card, but I kept to my theme of Black and White!

On this card, the same as the others, the focal piece was popped up with foam tape.

This was a fun afternoon, just stamping and playing!  I hope you give it a try!

That's it for me this week, remember... don't go shopping without using my code (DTLINDA) in the coupon box for a discount on your order!

Happy Creating!