Stampin' Up! Seasonal Chums Tea Light Box

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Welcome to the Pootles Blog hop celebrating the new Autumn / Winter Stampin' Up! Catalogue.

I love gifting tea lights, they are the perfect small gift for saying Thank You. I always make a box to put them in, but I guess that's not a surprise! Usually I wrap a belly band around the box and decorate that but when I saw the Seasonal Chums gift tags in the new Autumn / Winter catalogue I knew they would be a perfect addition for my little boxes.

I started off with a piece of  Thick Whisper White cardstock and I stamped the front of the snowman on it randomly. I decided not to colour in these snowmen as I thought it would make the tag stand out more. I used the fabulous Basic Black 3/8" Shimmer Ribbon to tie around my box and attached the Snowman tag with Basic Black Bakers Twine. You can just see on the photo below the shimmer.

Isn't the Snowman so cute - shame about my colouring in, I think I need some stronger glasses!

Don't forget to use the link below to continue hopping around the blog to see all the other fabulous projects. Clicking Next will take you to the lovely Corenne at CorenneMarieDesigns.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Autumn / Winter Sneak Peak Cat punch

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Welcome to the Crafty Cupcakes Team Stampin' Up! Blog Hop for August 2017. Each month members of the Team take part in our Team Blog Hop to share with you our cards and projects made using the fabulous Stampin' Up! products. You are currently visiting Jillian Selwood from the UK and below you will see the full list of everyone taking part. To move to the next blog just click the name after mine in the list. This month our theme is a sneaky peak from the new Autumn/Winter catalogue that goes live on 1st September 2017. 

Halloween seems to get more popular every year over here. We usually get between 80 and 100 trick or treaters on the night knocking on our door! Well it's a good excuse to buy lots of sweets and chocolates isn't it. I always make something special for our neighbours children and this year will be no exception. 

As soon as I saw the cat punch in the new catalogue I wanted it. Although we have two dogs I do class myself as a cat person. I wanted the cat to take centre stage on the box so I used the classic label punch to make a long groove in the card layer. I punched two 3/4" circles and attached them either side of the groove with a Stampin' Dimensional, then I glued the punched out cat to the top circle. This means the cat can move from one side of box to the other.

I stamped BOO! near the top of the layer using the Brushworks Alphabet Stamp set.

I made the box using the Gift Bag Punchboard, I just love how neat the flaps are, makes the box look professionally made.

I stamped the 'face' on the cat using the stamp from Foxy Friends stamp set, I think it looks a little too big but still much better than if I attempted to draw a face myself!

I wrapped some the of new beautiful basic black 3/8" shimmer ribbon round the box and tied a dubious bow on the top.

So all I need to do now is make three more boxes and buy some sweets to fill them up. I think I will leave the sweets until nearer the time otherwise I'll eat them all.

Thank you once again for visiting my blog and taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss so make sure you carry on hopping through the list. Remember that currently you are at my blog Jillian Selwood so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next.

Until next week.

Jillian xx