Let's Make A Paint Palette Mini Card for A Gift (or it could be a card too!)

Hello crafty friends!  Today I have something a bit more than just a card!  I've used the awesome Lovely Layers: Tin Palette to make a mini card to go with a paint set gift!  Check out how I made it below!

The first thing I did was use my Classics Prima Watercolor set to paint a swatch of each color onto watercolor cardstock.  Then I die cut each color with the paint tray dies in the Lovely Layers: Tin Palette Honey Cuts.

Next I die cut the tin palette first from white cardstock and another time from glossy black cardstock.  Before I glued the two layers together, I needed to cut the black piece into three pieces.  If you've ever layered two pieces of cardstock together and then tried to fold them, you know that it's difficult to get a good fold.  The top layer needs more room for those folds.  Just use your paper trimmer to cut each section of the palette to make three pieces.

Glue each black piece to the back of the white cardstock tin palette.  I put a large stamp block over the palette to keep it flat while the glue dried.

Next glue each paint color in place as well as the three pieces for the wells of the Tin Palette.  I stamped a sentiment from the Don't Worry, Be Crafty stamp set in black pigment ink.  After I cut it out with the coordinating die, I used a thin foam piece to adhere it to the palette.

While I had the Don't Worry, Be Crafty stamp set out, I stamped another sentiment with black ink.  This time I cut it out with a tag die from the Tag Builder Honey Cuts.

To decorate the outside of the Lovely Layers: Tin Palette I stamped an image from the Work of Heart stamp set with Intense Black ink onto 80# white cardstock.  Then I colored it with some Copic markers and die cut it with the coordinating die.  I used thin foam tape to attach it to the outside of the palette.

I used my bone folder to carefully reinforce the folds of the tin palette.  My tin palette would not stay totally closed so I used a removable glue dot to hold it closed.  Just place the glue dot under the top flap.  Problem solved!

What I love is that you could make this into an adorable card at this point!  Just adhere the finish Tin Palette to a card front and add the tag sentiment to the card.

Next I tied a piece of white and black polk-a-dot ribbon around the Prima Watercolor set.  I attached the sentiment tag with black and white twine.  Then I slid the colored Work Of Heart image under the ribbon.

You may notice from the photo above that the watercolor set has been used!  Haha!  I don't have a new set and had to use my own for the prop.  I would definitely purchase a new set to gift!

What do you think?  Would you like to receive a gift presented like this?  I'm sure I would!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a great one!

Sidenote:  Just thought I'd share with you, my blog friends, why I've been quite here and on social media.  On the last Saturday of July, I went for a bike ride in the morning in our neighborhood.  Long story short, a pit bull dog escaped from its leash and chased me and attacked me.  I am so thankful to God that it wasn't worse than it ended up being.  I was taken to the ER and had to have 18 stitches in my lower left leg.  Aside from the physical part of this, the emotional part has hit me hard.  If you pray, please pray that I will overcome the terror I felt.  Thank you, friends.  

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Poppy Bouquet Birthday Card

 Hello my friends!! Today I'm sharing a sweet birthday card I made using the Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers: Wildflowers, Lovely Layers: Greenery, and the Floral Bouquet Wrap. This was lots of fun to make and I even added a wax seal! I have all of the fun details below.

First I die cut some dark blue cardstock with the second largest Scallop A7 Honey Cut. Then I mixed a bit of Confetti White Perfect Pearls with water and added splatters to the panel. When it was dry, I used Bee Creative glue to adhere it to an A7 card base.

Next I die cut the Floral Bouquet Wrap from a piece of paper in the Fresh Brewed paper pad. I folded it at the score lines and glued the edges to form the wrap. To make it easier to add the jute twine, I added double sided tape to the back of the wrap. The tape will hold the twine in place as you wrap it. Next I stamped the sentiment from the Tag, You're It: Celebrations stamp set with Worn Lipstick Distress ink. I used my MISTI to stamp it a few times and then die cut it with a tag from the Tag Builder Honey Cuts.

I added a little piece of ribbon (from my stash) to the tag and slipped the ends under the twine. Then I made my wax seal by heating Pearl Wax Melts in the Melting Spoon.  Note:  I used my heat tool to melt the wax--so much faster than a tea light!  I poured it onto the twine and stamped it with the Rose Wax Stamper. While it's not a perfect circle, I am totally okay with it! I used a DecoColor Rose Gold paint pen to color the rose.

Next I die cut the poppy from the Lovely Layers: Wildflowers and the greenery pieces from the Lovely Layers: Greenerywith pink, green, and black cardstock in my stash. I used a small detail blender brush to add shading to the poppies and greenery with Worn Lipstick and Rustic Wilderness Distress ink. After I glued the poppy layers together, I did snip off some leaves from the bottom of the stems and also from the greenery stems to make it easier to arrange them in the Floral Bouquet Wrap. I used Bee Creative glue to adhere the stems in the wrap as I arranged them all.

I used all of the leaves I had snipped off and tucked them here and there with some glue. To adhere the bouquet to my card, I added foam dots to the back of the bouquet and the poppies.

I really love how this turned out and hope that you've found some card making inspiration here!  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a fun and crafty day!

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