Sweat Treat with Autumn Harvest! {Brutus Monroe

 Welcome back to my Friday inspiration box project! Today I am going to show you a cute gift idea using the Brutus Monroe Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box. 

I really just love these scarecrow and would put them on everything fall. They are so cheerful. This is so easy to make.I picked up the wood crate from the dollar store along with the wide ribbon that I used for the filler. 

I blended Walnut stain and Ground Espresso Distress Oxide all over the box.

Then I spritzed it with a little water to give it that weathered look.

After It dried completely, I sealed it with Distress Micro Glaze. Then I colored in my scarecrow images and pumpkins.

To make the scarecrows sturdy on the out side of the box, I die cut each of the images out of heavy cardstock to glue behind the images that I colored.

Once I glued them together and they dried, I attached them to the crate using glossy accents and foam tape. 

To finish off the packaging, I used a sentiment from the conversation clippings, ribbon from a past inspiration box and a leaf that I die cut at an earlier time using the Brutus Monroe Fall Leaf Dies that I had in my stash. I made them using pigment crystals.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Don't miss out on this adorable inspiration box! 

Kimberly

Hello Fall {Brutus Monroe}

Welcome back to my Friday Inspiration Box tutorial! I just love the colors of the fall! This shaker card features the Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box from Brutus Monroe. I just cannot get enough of these scarecrows! They are just too too cute!

To start, I colored up a couple of the scarecrows that I had stamped and die cut. {copics are listed below} Then, using an oval die from my stash, I cut the center out of the leaf patterned paper included in the box. I cut a piece of the brown cardstock to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and a small piece of acetate to cover the oval for the shaker. I also pulled a couple of the leaves I had colored for an earlier card from my stash, I love when I can do that!

Next, I colored up some pumpkins that I had stamped and die cut. To make the shaker part of the card. I placed my patterned with the oval die cut on a piece of white paper, (which I thought was centered, but you will see was clearly not), to stamp the sentiment where I wanted it to be seen through the shaker window. Then I glued it down to the brown cardstock panel.

Next, I added the acetate to the back of the patterned paper and foam tape. I put a little mix of sequins in the center of the panel that I mixed up from my stash. I really like to glue a few down so they do not all fall to the bottom when I stand the card up.

I attached the foam panel to the card base and finished up the card by attaching the colored in images. I hope you do check out the Autumn Harvest Inspiration Box before they are all gone. This is such a super cute set!

{Copics}

Pumpkin : G20, G24, G43 Y11, YR31, YR65

Scarecrows: Clothes: G20, G24, G43, T0, B32, B34, B37, E40, E41, E43

Face: E000, E00, E11, R20

Straw: Y02, Y21, Y26

Thank you so much for stopping by! I will be back next Friday with more inspiration box ideas! Be sure to stop back!

Kimberly

Thank a Nurse Shaker Cards {The Hedgehog Hollow}

Hello! I would love to share with you a few quick and easy cards I made with this month’s Hedgehog Hollow Subscription Box.

To make the first card, I began by blending white pigment ink through the nurse hat stencil on Cappuccino cardstock. 

Because it is pigment ink, I heat set it so it would dry quicker. Then I used the second layer of the stencil and blended Candied Apple distress oxide.

Next, I cut down this panel as well as two of the patterned papers in the box to 4″x 5 1/4″. I stamped the bandaid image using Color Hive clear ink.

I cut an ultra white card base and added this panel using foam tape. Then, I cut three frames using rectangle dies and Telephone Box cardstock. I also cut three pieces of acetate and glued them to the frames for shaker elements on the cards. I stamped the sentiments on the pieces of acetate using Stazon ink and let them dry.

Once the ink was dry, I added foam tape to one of the frames, put sequins on the panel and adhered the frame. I added the second part of the sentiment that I embossed on Eclipse Black cardstock. 

The next two cards we made using the patterned paper panels I cut earlier. I added them to Cappuccino cardbases using foam tape. Then, I added sequins to the panel and glued a few down so the shaker elements wouldn’t all fall to the bottom. I used foam tape to add the frames that I assembled earlier to the card fronts and finished them off with sentiments embossed on Eclipse Black cardstock.

I just love how quick and easy these cards came together! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Kimberly