Friday, August 26, 2011

Same Tag challenge

Hello, and Happy Friday (do the Friday dance with me)!
Today I'd like to share my project for the Papertrey Playhouse challenge "The Same Tag".
Recently, Krista (our sweet challenge hostess), sent the group a wonderful little package to use for this challenge. There was a lovely tag, and she was even thoughtful enough to include our favorite color on our respective tags. There was a doily and A LOT of die cut pieces. She told us to use the tag and whatever else we wanted, to see the different things we would each come up with using the same items. How cool is that? Such a great challenge.
So I went with a "more is more" approach to this one, because I wanted to use as many of those pretty die cuts as possible, but I still had three or four pieces left.
I seem to be getting on another packaging kick lately, too, so I designed a box to fit my tag and all it's yummy layers. I'm thinking a nice floral silk scarf would be a great thing to put in here (which means I get do more shopping- tee hee!)
Let me stop jabbering now, and show you what I came up with.
 All of the pieces you see on here were in my happy envelope. There was also a sweet little card from Krista (she's such a doll!)
 I stamped bits of Mehndi Medallion on diagonal corners of the tag, and on the bottom Larger Than Life diecut. I also stamped on the Mat Stack 3 diecut with one of the images from the coordinating stamp set. A teensy sentiment from Mixed Messages, and a bit of inking around the edges of everything to help with cohesiveness (is that a word?), and it was ready to be placed on my box.
Here's a bit of a close up for you.
In case anyone is interested, the box dimensions are 5" x 6 3/4" x 2" (it takes 2 sheets of 81/2 x 11 cardstock to do this).
Along those lines, and yeah, you had to read through this entire post to find this out- I had a couple of requests for the template I used for my Blog Hop project from yesterday. It wasn't a template, it was just another little box I designed, but if I get the chance today, I will put together the info for those of you that want to make your own little jam box.
You're probably exhausted after all this, so I will leave you alone now. Continue on with the rest of your day.
I hope you all have a most fabulous weekend; we will be waiting to see if the hurricane sends us any storms (we're in SC, but about 3 hours inland).
Smooch!

4 comments:

  1. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!! most certainly lots here I wouldn't have thought to do!! love the inking all around, the larger than life dies grouped and over the mat stack die and the tiny tags. those a re such a fav of mine!

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  2. Wow, Kay! I think you win the award for using the most die cuts included in your packet! I wanted to use more on my project but couldn't come up with a layout I liked that didn't look overly crowded, but I LOVE what you did with yours! What an awesome gift package ensemble! Yes, I think a shopping trip is in order for you to fill the box (and then give yourself the gift-HA!).

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  3. Love what you did with the tag and everything else in the envelope! So very creative! I love the bits of medallion and the tiny tags! Your rocked this challenge!

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  4. So fun! Love that inky vintage look!

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