Admittedly there isn't a great deal of stamping on this tin! Our niece and her husband are expecting twins this fall, after a long wait and a rough road along the way. Her mom called me and said that Katie would like to have a covered tin that she could put notes in from the many people who have prayed for them through their years of wanting children. I was just looking for an excuse to order the SU Wild About You set--hey, I'm probably the last person to get this cute set! When I went through my paper stash and found this package of Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl, I knew that I was ordering Wild About You.
I needed to stay somewhat gender neutral. One baby is a girl, and one prefers to keep gender a secret. As for a theme, other than wanting to use the cute elephant paper and stamp, I kept having that Steve Green Bible verse song run through my mind, Children Are a Gift from the Lord. It was on a lullaby CD that we must have listened to hundreds of times when Benjamin was younger. . . Anyway, I started by covering my Provocraft tin with patterned paper using Royal Coat Decoupage medium. I coated over the paper after it dried as well. (I'm not sure that the overcoat was a great idea. My Xyroned letters seem to be repositionable, even though I used permanent adhesive!) I used my Cricut Opposites Attract cartridge to cut the letters. Why did I cut the letters when I have practically every SU alphabet known to man? There was so much type that I knew I'd lose the cute background pattern if I stamped my letters on card stock, and I wasn't about to cut out that many stamped letters by hand! On the word "gift," I did have to trim the tails of the letters in order to make the word fit. The little green elephant behind "are a" is stamped in Clearsnap lime pastel fluid chalk ink. The ribbons are attached with sticky strip tape which I applied directly to the tin, then wrapped the ribbon around. I used my SU word window punch to trim for the handle on top.
The card is made from the same Basic Grey papers, but I stacked the elephants for the twin theme. I used a Marvy Giga Scalloped square punch to punch two squares and tape them together to get a rectangle. The grass under the bottom elephant is torn paper in a lime pastel. Ribbon is May Arts that I got from either Cindy or Lindsey--can't remember which! I used a black Sakura gelly roll pen to dot the center of the elephants' eyes. (Ellen carries these.)
Materials:
Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl Collection
SU Wild About You
PaperTrey Faux Ribbon
Marigold Morning CS
Light Lime Green non-SU textured CS
SU Word Window Punch (to punch for handle on top)
SU 1-3/8" circle punch (to punch for latch on front)
Marvy Giga Scalloped Square
Provocraft Rectangular Tin
assorted ribbons, SU and May Arts
Provocraft CRICUT cartridge, Opposites Attract
Xyron
Royal Coat Decoupage Medium
Redline tape (super-sticky tape) to adhere ribbon to tin
Tag is a Sizzix Luggage Tag die
COPIC markers to color exposed white metal in a couple of places (Got to love these! Picture Sharpies on Steroids--322 colors plus a blender pen, refillable, and the tips are replaceable!)
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Sun, Jun 24, 2007 @ 5:22 PM
This is adorable! TFS! Love the basic grey elephants w/the wild about you elephants! So very cute! Love the children are a gift from the Lord! Perfect!