Friday, November 1, 2013

Jumbo Grape Gift Box

Welcome to the Third Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop!! 


The best crafters, designers, and makers have come together to create and share  a series of thoughtful, handmade gifts for the holidays during this 3 day blog hop. Our goal is to inspire you to create something from the heart this holiday season as well as share how to use our products in fun, innovative ways. We intend this hop to serve as a resource to you for this holiday season and for years to come.
 
Hop along to each blog in the list. Each day, from November 1 through November 3, 2013, we’ll be posting a brand new list of blogs to hop to. Comment on each blog, share your favorite posts over social media, and then use the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of each post to enter to win the Grand Prize, a gift basket filled with crafty swag from the companies on the hop! We’re ready to inspire, share, and create – are you ready to hop? 

You should have arrive from the Stampendous Blog
If you want to start from the beginning of the hop go to the Clearsnap Blog.

My homemade holiday gift is this pretty box!
This beautiful grape box would make a beautiful gift on it's own.  You could put a plant in it or as I did...fill it with one or more bottles of liquid grape!


Instructions:
Mix Americana Cottonball and Lavender Fields acrylic paint (1/2 and 1/2) together and the box paint box.

Stamp the Wine Labels backgrounder on tissue with black ink multiple times and color with markers.
When paint on box is dry adhere tissue paper to box with Decoupage glue.

Stamp Jumbo grape and leaves four times on white cardstock with black ink and color with markers.fussy cut out grapes and leaves and adhere  to box with Decoupage glue.
Stamp the swirly image from the Jumbo Grapes set with versamark ink on the box and emboss with Amethyst EP.
To finish it off, randomly sprinkle elements from Encrusted Jewel purple kit on the box and heat to melt.
Supply List:
CRS5059 Jumbo Grapes
R159 Wine Labels
EJK04 Encrusted Jewel Purple Kit
EP219 Amethyst Pearlustre Embossing Powder
Americana Cottonball Satin Paint & Lavender Fields Satin Paint
Memento Tuxedo black dye ink, Versamark ink
copic markers
tissue paper, mohawk bright white cardstock
Woodline Works Corp box
Offray ribbon
Heat tool
Americana Decoupage glue


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Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine 

20 comments:

Missoula Gal Pals said...

What a good idea using the stamps on the tissue paper! I love transforming and repurposing containers for gifts. Thanks for the idea!

Rozy said...

Great box!

Dorothy said...

A very nice idea for a gift. Love it. Thanks

Anonymous said...

Love the stamps on the tissue paper, great idea!

Hugs
Brenda

barbara macaskill said...

This is so pretty! Love the base color and the tissue paper stamping/coloring is gorgeous! I have a friend who would love getting something like this as a gift! Thanks for the inspiration!

Cindy said...

Wonderful project! Loved the stamping.

Hazel said...

Thank you so much for a great tutorial,
H xx

de said...

Great idea for the any occassion!

Unknown said...

I love this, such a fun project

Scrappin' Diva said...

Wow! This looks great! Love the idea of stamping on the tissue paper before adhering it to the box!

The Hardy Stamper said...

Oooh - what a faboulous project! I'd love it if someone gave me this as a gift!

Angelica said...

Gorgeous project! A perfect gift- I would really want one for myself :)

Jackie B said...

I'm always looking for new ways to use things I have what a great idea.

Linda T said...

Oh my goodness what a sweet box. I'm in love with boxes. I really like the idea of stamping on the tissue paper before. Thank you so much for sharing.

Leigh Ann Hofferth said...

Beautiful gift idea! tfs

Beatrice Lawson said...

Great idea for a memorable gift!

Iris said...

Beautiful gift box.
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Sherry Butcher said...

Wonderful idea, could use this myself. TFS.

Teresa said...

love the cute little box! t.igo

Stampendous said...

The Encrusted Jewel Technique on this box is lovely, Kristine! You did a fantastic job with it. This is a perfect gift idea! Thanks for using our product and sharing such a neat idea!