I
know I said I would be posting more often. I'm sorry. It's been kind
of tough waiting for my son to finish up training, then going to get him
up in Missouri and then taking him back to get on a plane for Japan.
Yes, Japan. That hit me like a ton of bricks, which is why he probably
waited until two days before we went to get him to tell me that was
where he was being stationed. Stinker.
Anyway,
I've been deep cleaning and purging as well. Both are things I never
get to during the school year. Summertime is my catch up time for
cleaning. It was supposed to be my catch up time for crafting........grrrrrr.
This
project is an older one. My daughter got a job about three months ago
that she just loves. I made this to celebrate her first paycheck. It's
called a "cookie tower" and can be found here. This lady is an svg box genius, ya'll!
My daughter loves Payday bars
so it worked out perfectly. Paydays for payday. lol I put 5 of them in there and had room for
another 1 or 2 more. It's designed to hold about a dozen standard-sized
homemade cookies. Isn't it cute?
My
daughter is a true country girl and will probably wear a denim wedding
dress. lol Maybe not. She loves denim and bandanas and anything rustic
so I used a chocolate brown paper I had gotten from Michael's during
one of their 8 for a$1.00 sales. It's finely textured and gives a little bit of an elegant-rustic feel to projects. I usually snag every bit of it they have. Sorry! The patterened paper and the ribbon
also came from Michael's. The paper is just off their racks-no kits or
paper packs. The twine came from a military surplus store my son loves to
visit when he's home. It was much thicker than what you see so I just pulled the fibers
apart to make it thinner and easier to manage for a small project. The
tag, I think, came from my eCAL software. I'm not a hundred percent
sure. If it didn't, then it was a free download from someone's blog.
I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but when I got my Eclips the Christmas
before last, I was so happy and taken with it, that I barely slept for
three days, searching for free downloads, perusing, and downloading tons
of free svg's. Then I cut all kinds of templates that I keep in a
storage container so that I can look at them to visualize future
projects and get ideas. My husband had to put me on lockdown so that I
could go back to work after Christmas break and be able to function. It
was worth it! Anyway, I could have gotten that tag from anywhere is
what I was trying to say. lol
To make the frame, I cut the tag regular size and as a shadow from the bandana paper. I used the cut-out from the brown paper to make the tag. I also cut it from denim and bandana in the same size and then trimmed down to fit on the tag itself as a simple embellishment.
The window is plastic cut from Cricut cartridge packaging. I just cut out a small rectangle and red-sticky taped it on the inside. I do have transparency sheets, but I tend to keep plastic packaging for stuff like this, where I only need a small piece and need it to be sturdy. Waste not, want not! (You can clean it so food can touch it.)
Quick tip: Cut another cookie tower out of wax paper (swipe your blade with Goo-gone before cutting to avoid waxy residue building up on your blade) and then glue to the inside of the box before assembling. That way, oil from the cookies doesn't seep through and ruin your design and you can still see the delectable treats inside the box.
By the way, I'm linking up over at D.L.ART. Go on over and check out all of the cute projects and link up one of your own. :)
