Welcome to week 2 of our Triple Play Blog Hop!

I am a chicken. I’ve had Karen’s Twist Cube die since Summer CHA and was afraid to try it. But this is seriously the coolest die ever. Karen’s instructions are great and the cube went together quite easily. I can see all kinds of different ways to dress this up.

For my project this week, I decided to make a pop-up gift box for a very special person. I’m not sure who that person is yet, but if you get it, you’ll know that I love you. A LOT! It was one of those projects that take on a life of their own and you can’t stop fiddling with it. You know what I mean.

Love this Making Memories paper- have had it forever and decided it was time to break down and use it. Pink and green were the colors I picked when I was 13 and got my first “own” room. They are still going strong.

You will need:

Sizzix Bigz XL Die – Cube, Twist 3-D (Pop-Up)
Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die – Memo Holder
Big Shot die cut machine
green matboard
pink paint
Blumenthal Lansing buttons
lace
doily stickers
ribbon
Making Memories paper
fleece flower
cool button
glue
doublestick tape
brad
Queen and Company felt vine border

The twist cube is 3″ square and my ScoreBoards Memo Holder measures 3 1/4″ square so I decided to use the memo holder as a base and add the cube to it. First I made the Twist Cube which, by the way, is an amazing feat of engineering by Karen! I added a fleece flower and blingy button I purchased in NY this past weekend to the top of the cube to open it with.

I cut the ScoreBoard Memo Holder out from green matboard. I decided to paint the inside a light pink after botching up an attempt at stamping.  Some of the paint somehow got splotched on the front and so I did some dry brushing of pink paint to blend it in and make it kind of shabby, which I actually like better than my original plan. A happy little accident!

I added green felt vine by Queen and Co. to the front and inside of the folder. I also used a doily sticker as a stencil and stippled white pigment ink over it for a subtle background inside the folder and also inked white around the front edges. To secure the front and back sides together, I cut a strip of paper measure 3/4″ x 7″ and used it as a bellyband to secure the front and back flaps of the case together. I added some cool lace ribbon found on a side trip while taking my daughter back to college.

The cube was secured to the middle section of the folder with a brad so it actually can spin . I added 4U stickers, some more felt vine and lace at the top. I tied a ribbon on as a handle and that was it!

Make sure to click “hop forward” or “hop back” on the Triple Play logo and visit each of the participating designers’ blogs to see what they have created for this week’s challenge. I can’t wait to see!

Iit’s a big weekend here. My annual Barn Sale starts tomorrow and we are busy filling the place up with cool crafts and getting ready for the crowds. Have a great weekend everyone!

Hi friends 🙂 Welcome to the first round of the Triple Play Blog Hop! No one is more excited than I am to see what all these amazing and talented designers created using my ScoreBoard house die as a base. So here we go…

My daughter Jessica is getting married in April so I decided to make a keepsake for her. The church is created in blue, silver and white- her wedding colors. I put a slot in the roof so I can add my spare change for unexpected expenses (lots of them ahead, I’m sure!) Here’s how I did it…

You will need:
#65279; Sizzix Scoreboards Pro Die – House, 3D, by Eileen Hull
Sizzix 12×12 matboard, white
Sizzix Big Shot Pro die cutting machine

Instructions:

1. Cut house from white matboard on Big Shot Pro.
2. Lay the main structure inside the embossing folder and run it through the machine again. Match up the design and repeat until the surface of the church has been embossed.
3. Cut an arched opening above the door. I used a button as a template and cut with a craft knife (I happened to find a bag of laser cuts in my stash and one just happened to fit in the doorway and have a lacy cutout at the top- perfect!) Use whatever you have on hand to embellish the door.
4. Assemble house using tape and/or brads. Turn it around so the windows are in the back. 
5. Center the bump-out piece on the front and adhere to the main structure with ScoreTape.
6. Create the steeple by cutting two additional bump-outs from aqua glitter chipboard (LOVE this stuff). The roof angle was determined by tracing the outline of the main roof over both bumpouts and cutting them out.
7. Adhere steeple parts to each other with double stick tape.
8. Cut additional bump-out roof and adhere to top of steeple.
9. Poke a hole in the middle of the steeple roof and insert cross created from 2 silver pipe cleaners.
10. Cut 6 pieces of fence. Adhere 3 pieces together with ScoreTape. Repeat.
11. Add logo artwork to button and accent with silver Stickles. Adhere logo to center of church front. 
12. Cut roof from silver metallic matboard and emboss using Tim Holtz’s Notebook Page Texture Fade. If desired, go over edges with a silver pen.
13. Add desired accents to the vignette according to event or season. I made a mini stand-up Jess and Jason from a photo. I cut up another spare bump-out roof and taped that to the back of the photo so the photo stands up.

This is the back view minus the steeple- it doubles as their first home! I added glitter windows and the happy couple again.

In the process of creating this project, I designed a wedding logo which will be used for Save the Date cards and other stationery items, i.e. envelope seals, tags, etc. I have been doing some work for a really cool company called Duetica who graciously allowed me to use one of their beautiful fonts to create this logo. I’ll give you a hint- the cakestand is composed of a letter. Leave me a comment if you can figure it out. I will mail a random commenter a special Sizzix prize!  

Check out the FaveCrafts Blog Hop! That will take you to a bunch of cool projects that FaveCrafts designers have been working on in the past month. Here are pix of what I have been up to. For the how-to’s, click on my header and scroll down the page. Hope you are having a great fall so far!