Sizzix Fresh Vintage Blog Hop: ScoreBoard Vase

Hi everyone and welcome back to the Sizzix Fresh Vintage blog hop! Today’s featured die is the ScoreBoard Vase.

If you are a fan of flowers, paper or otherwise, you need this die so you can make a beautiful container to hold all of your handmade posies. But that’s not the only thing you can do with it!

• decorate and use to hold treats at your next party
• make some for your craft area to organize pens, markers and paint brushes
• make a set for the little girl in your life to store her hair accessories in
• use as a gift box for small presents. Tie on a ribbon and tag and it’s a unique and personal presentation.
• cut some out of paper and use them as ice cream cone wrappers- they just fit!- I tried 🙂
• make a special holiday ornament and place in the vase. Add a pipe cleaner handle and bow

Click on the thumbnails below or follow the hop using the Fresh Vintage blinkie navigation tool to the right. The designers have posted some amazing projects on their blogs and shown lots of creative ways that the Vase die may be used. Make sure to stop and check them all out. And we love comments 🙂 so please let us know if you have any questions or thoughts on the projects.

After you have hopped through all the projects, head over to the Oh My Crafts blog and leave a comment. You could win the Flower, Layers #9 die (one of my very favorites!)

So let’s get hopping:

I decided to use the Vase die for a different purpose. I bought a beautiful plant the other day but was not thrilled with the foil wrapper. So I decided to make a little slipcover for the pot!

Thanks to my “dear” husband for filming the video.

Here’s how I made the Plant Cover:

1. Measure the circumference of the pot you’d like to cover. Determine how many widths of matboard you will need to cover pot. To do that, I ran several pieces of scrap paper using the vase die and my Big Shot. I taped them together and wrapped them around the pot to measure. For a 4″ pot, I needed 2 vase cutouts and had a little extra I needed to trim off.
2. Cut or tear 2 pieces of brown kraft wrap into pieces approximately 6″ x 13″. Crumple the paper up and smooth out again. Coat the back of the paper with spray adhesive.
3. Smooth down paper onto matboard. Wrinkles are perfectly fine, even desired!
4. Place paper covered side of matboard face down on die and run through the Big Shot. Repeat with second piece of board.
5. Select the colors of ink you would like to use and a stencil brush for each color. Place the stencil on top of cutouts and start swirling ink around the stencil, blending colors as you go, until all areas of the vase pieces are covered.
6. With brown ink, shade edges of plant cover on top and bottom.
7. Adhere both vase pieces together using Tacky Tape. Wrap whole piece around plant, and trim extra segments off as needed.
8. Adhere vase die cuts end to end so finished design fits around the pot..

TIP: If the pot is just a little larger than the diecut, make a ruffle from fabric or brown paper and adhere inside the plant cover. This will extend the top just high enough to cover the pot edge.

Tags:

1. Die cut 2 flower pieces from matboard.
2. Punch hole with Crop-a-Dile on top of each flower. Write message on back of flower.
3. Add glitter center to flower with Stickles and allow to dry.
4. Cut a length of twine long enough to wrap around the pot twice. If desired, age twine with ink.
5. Wrap around plant and thread tags on twine and tie.

Other Supplies:
brown kraft packaging paper