Triple Play Blog Hop - Week 4

Today I Created | A Shadow Box

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to week 4 of the Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop. Today's featured Sizzix die is the ScoreBoards, Frame & Frame Back w/Stand by Eileen Hull.

This die is a really cute shape with scallops and flowers, unfortunately, most of my photos seem to be of my son so scallops and flowers didn't seem to work for me. I was sitting and eating a pizza with my son while describing this die shape and suddenly looked at the pizza box.

Pizza boxes are made of corregated cardboard and this die is a ScoreBoard die designed to cut thicker boards. A frame made out of the pizza box perhaps??? In the middle of eating a pizza slice I grabbed a pair of scissors and started to cut off the top of the box so it wouldn't get any grease stains. Luckily my son is somewhat used to my sudden creative impulses.

Since the pizza box represents something that my son really likes, I decided to create the entire shadow box of things that remind me of him. Off I went to collect bits around the house.

To create the dividers and sides, I cut parts of the corregated board into 1" strips and hot glued the sides to the back. Next, I used more 1" strips to create dividers. The dividers looked plain so I wrapped them in Japanese Washi Tape from cutetape.com. After the sides and dividers were in place I glued the front of the frame in place.

I added Vintage Transparent Deco Tape along the top of the Frame Back and more Washi Tape along the left side. I also added Distress Ink and rubber stamped a truck image using a Tim Holtz's clear stamp. I did not want to cover up the fact that this is made from a pizza box.

I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoy my project using the Frame & Frame Back by Eileen Hull for Sizzix. Be sure to click on the Forward or Back buttons in the Triple Play blinkie on the right to see what other talented designers created with this versatile die.

Use Your Wings

Today I Created | Another bit of my type tray story.

I believe that creativity is like wings, you need to stretch them and use them to help your ideas take flight.

Wings symbolize so much to me. I wanted to do something that actually showed off my "wings".

I printed a photo of me taken in London. I mounted this on cardstock and cut it out. The wings are acrylic that I first die cut and then added texture using Sizzix products. I adhered them to the back of my photo. I used tiny alphabet rubber stamps to write the words on cotton, adhesive tape from cutetapes.com.

Always remember to Use Your Wings!!!!

Old School Organizing

Today I Created | Rollodex cards

I bought a Rollodex at a garage sale the other day. The seller complimented me for being "old school" in my organizing choice. I have been playing with the concept of organizing my phone contacts but in an altered, creative way. New Rollodex systems are rather expensive for something that I was just going to experiment with but for $1 I couldn't go wrong.

This card is for my friend, Holly. I had saved her new address torn from the Christmas card envelope. I wanted to incorporate the actual ephemera plus I added the holly sticker as a quick visual clue. Holly is also a writer so I added the typewriter tape from cutetapes.com.

This is the first of many cards that I plan to create.

Postcard Card

Today I created | An embossed Postcard using a Tim Holtz Texture Fade by Sizzix and Core'dinations paper.

I have had this unused paper in my stash for a while so it seemed like a good time to pull it out and use it. The Texture Fade hasn't been released to the market yet but I made this paper to play with.

After embossing, I sanded the paper but it wasn't enough. I inked the edges and still wasn't happy. I finally used some Crackle paint and reinked parts to make it look interesting enough.

The tape is from cutetape.com. The butterfly is a paper punch. The charm is from my Tim Holtz stash.