New Stampin' Up Catalog Blog Tour – Day 2

Welcome to day two of the Blog Tour!  I hope you had a good time touring through the projects yesterday, weren’t there some great ideas?

I think by now a lot of you know I like to remake trash into treasure.  I recently bought this box of envelopes on clearance at a drug store (you have to have a box of these around for those non-handstamped items you have to mail.)  I thought I was getting a good deal but it wasn’t until I opened the box that I found out just how good the deal is.  Do you see how the box opens?  It opens so you can have a neat little holder for the envelopes.    As neat as it is though, I thought I could make it a little neater.

This is the half of the box that is holding the envelopes that came in the box.  I covered the box with Cherry Cobbler cardstock that is stamped with the Elements of Style stamp set in Early Espresso ink.  I also sponged the ink onto the box.  (By the way, if you give this a try yourself, it’s always easier to stamp the cardstock before putting it on the box.  I’m not always so good at taking my own advice!)  Wrapped around the bottom is a piece of Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon.

The second half of the box fits our Small Open-End Envelopes (page 171) perfectly!  I covered this box the same way as the other except that I used our new Very Vanilla 1/8″ Taffeta Ribbon.

At this point I was on a roll.  I was out of box but I wanted to have some storage for my mini square envelopes as well!

Here’s the little box I came up with for my 3 1/8″ square envelopes.  I used the same cardstock, the same stamp, ink and ribbon so it matches.

Here’s the entire set.  What do you think?  One of these days maybe I’ll be able make a box to fit our Medium size envelopes . . . after the catalog party tonight and card class on Tuesday and party on Thursday . . . .

Thank you for your comments yesterday – I always love to receive them!  Be sure to continue on the tour to visit Maria and then come back tomorrow for another project!