TEBB Challenge #12 Hosted by Sankari

Hi Everyone! Sankari here to bring you another challenge!!! Woo-hoo!!!

Today has been a nonstop birthday bash PAR-TAAY! One of my favorite things to do for birthdays is to decorate - I love making crowns for the bday girl/boy, balloons, streamers, treatbags - the works! So how about a little decoration with embellishment challenge - specifically buttons!

CHALLENGE: Get out your buttons!!! Decorate your creation with buttons as the main embellishment - they can be BIG, small, colorful, different shapes, sizes, etc. - whatever you would like! The main thing is to have buttons (more than one) as the main embellishment - let's see the most creative button usage you've got!!! woo-hoo!!

KEYWORD: Upload your creation to your blog or online gallery (or both). If you’re uploading to online galleries, use the keyword TEBBSW. Then come back to this challenge and leave a comment with a direct link to your creation! In order to be eligible for the prizes, you must leave a comment with a link to your card by midnight PST Wednesday, September 9th.

PRIZE: I will choose my favorite creation from among all the participants and mail you the button box that I created for this challenge along with a $10.00 gift certificate to the TE Store!

GRAND PRIZE: One random person who participates in ALL 13 of our Birthday Bash challenges will receive a $50 gift certificate to the TE Store in addition to an 8x10 custom watercolor Cuppie painting by our very own Jessie Oleson! Click here to check out all of Jessie's adorable artwork at her Etsy Shop. Once you complete and link all 13 challenges, send an email to tayloredexpressions@gmail.com to be eligible for our grand prize! Just include your name and “I completed all 13 challenges!”

MY BUTTON PROJECT:

I love all the yummy buttons in the Taylored Expressions store - especially the Clear Buttons - because you can make SO many fun buttons by combining them with different Designer Papers!!!

Here is what I made using the Clear Buttons, with the August Key Ingredients (which I think is one of my FAVE Key Ingredients and the Perfect Package Card Box (specifically designed to hold A2 cards! :

Here is a closer peek:

Card Details:

All of the papers, ribbon, bling, rub ons and cardstock are from the August Key Ingredients. The rest of the project is made up using the Clear Buttons from TE, Perfect Package card box from TE, spellbinders, and adhesive!

Can't wait to see how you ROCK the BUTTONS!!!!

Have Fun!!!!

Sankari :)

And stay tuned for Jackie who is going to be next with the last challenge!

Make It Yourself Gift

Did you ever need a gift for someone who's crafty and likes to create things themselves? When I'm thinking about gifts for someone who makes cards themselves or likes to do crafts, I feel like a pre-made card set is boring. I'm sure they'd appreciate it anyway, but I like to change things up a bit.

The project I have to share with you today has all the pieces for the recipient to put together their own card set! I've started off with one of the Perfect Package Card Boxes from Taylored Expressions. These make the packaging so easy! All I did was add some patterned paper to the top and sides of the box and wrap it with a BIG bow!

The inside of the box contains all of the pieces for someone to put together their own cards. There are:

-six 4.25" square card bases

- six 4 1/8"x 2 1/8" pieces of cardstock and patterned paper for a layer

- six image/sentiment pieces

- six scallop circles to matte the image/sentiment pieces

- foam dimensional adhesive

-Tombow adhesive

-six envelopes.

Here's what a finished card looks like. Of course, the recipient can make it "their" way and even add things (like ribbon or other embellishments) that weren't included in the package. If not, the cards are simple and cute as is.

The envelopes didn't fit in the bottom of the box because of the little "divider" I created, so I made a little pocket on the lid to hold them!

For the divider, I took an 8"x 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock and scored the 8" side at 4 1/2", 5 5/8" and 6 7/8". "Mountain and valley" the folds and add some adhesive to the inside of the "mountain" to make the divider and insert into the box.

For the envelope pocket I took a 10 3/4" x 3" piece of cardstock and scored the 10 3/4" side at 2" and 2 1/2" from each end, then score one end of the 3" side at 1/2". Fold on all score lines, cut tabs and remove end squares from 1/2" section and adhere pocket to lid.

Insert all of the pieces into the box and affix ribbon and tag and you've got a gift that anyone would love! I hope you've enjoyed my project today! Thanks for stopping to see it! SUPPLIES USED: Stamps- Berries & Cherries (Taylored Expressions); Ink- Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Paper- Berries & Cherries Key Ingredients (Taylored Expressions); Accessories- Copic markers, Perfect Package Card Box (Taylored Expressions), circle and scallop circle punches (Marvy Uchida), Ticket Corner punch (SU)

Perfect Package Halloween Set

Hi everyone! Today I want to show you a set of Halloween cards that I made for my Mom using the Frightful Night set and a Perfect Package Card Box. If you haven't seen Taylor's video tutorial yet on how EASY these boxes fold together, check it out here.

The DP and Cobalt Prism paper is from last year's Key Ingredients kit...I soooo love these colors! The tree, bats and sentiments were all stamped in black craft ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The large frame on the front of the box was cut with my Spellbinders Polka Dot Frame that I got from Taylor. Can you see the dry embossed polka dots? Here's a close-up:



The cards measure 4" square. I made a total of six, three cobalt and three pumpkin. The tree panels on the cards were cut with deckled rectangle Nestabilities. The sentiments on the cards were cut with the smallest deckled mega rectangle die. The black polka dot ribbon is also from Taylor's store. Here's a picture of just the cards:



SUPPLY LIST ~
Stamps: Taylored Expressions Frightful Night
Paper: Prism Vibrant Cobalt, PTI True Black, PTI Select White, SU Pumpkin Pie, Doodlebug DP
Ink: Black Craft
Accessories: Black Polka Dot Ribbon, Bow Easy, Spellbinders Polka Dot Frame, Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles, Spellbinders Deckled Mega Rectangles, Clear Embossing Powder, Perfect Package Card Box
Technique: Heat Embossing, Dry Embossing
Card Size: 4" Square

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Thanks for stopping by and have an awesome day!

Denise