Welcome to our weekly Artisan Design Team Blog Hop. We are creating projects this week with stamps and embellishments from the new annual catalog. Yes, you guessed it...another round of "flower fest". LOL! In case you are wondering what I am referring to, go back and check out last week's post. I did hear from quite a few of you and it seems like most of you don't mind that I like flowers...so thank you very much for your kind comments. Besides, I don't think of "Hey There Buds" so much as a flower stamp...it is almost like a woodcut design to me.
One of the color combos I really like is just black on kraft. I think it looks very elegant without being too fussy. So I decided to use Hey There Buds and stamp on some of our Kraft Gift Boxes. The trick to stamping on boxes is to carefully take them apart and lay them out flat. I stamped with Memento Black ink, but just about any black ink will work for this project.
Don't expect a totally clean image when you do this. There will be gaps where the folds are, but that is okay...you can camouflage that later by sponging Early Espresso ink along all the edges of the box. The image itself will be "speckled" too, but I think that adds to the rustic feel of the box. Also, I felt like I needed to fill in the spaces a little between the images, so I used an eraser from the end of an ordinary pencil and stamped some polka dots.
All that is left is to use a strong adhesive like sticky strip to reassemble the box, distress the edges with some sponging and then wrap it several times with some linen thread. The sentiment is actually part of the stamp, but I cut it off and remounted on a spare wood block so that I could use it separately. I created a tag with one of the dies from the Hearts A Flutter Framelits. I wanted it to match perfectly, so I sacrificed the inside flap from another box.
That's all for today. Now head over to see the awesome projects Erica Cerwin and the rest of the team have made this week.