Have you tried the Mini Milk Carton Big Shot die from Stampin’ Up!? Yesterday I posted this cute project for the UDI color challenge.
I got mine not too long ago and started to play around with it. My first few tries were a bit of a mess. First I had to figure out the perfect sandwich to get it through my Big Shot so it cut in the right places and scored in the right places. You may need to play a little too to get it just right – and then my suggestion is to stick a label on your die so you remember it for the next time you use it. For my die and my Big Shot I ended up using this combination – starting from the bottom – cutting pad, piece of card stock for a shim, Mini Milk Carton die, piece of card stock that I’m cutting, Crease Pad. This is the perfect combination for me but yours might be a little different.
After that it was the trial and error of actually assembling it with out turning it into a mess. This is what I finally figured out and so far it works perfect every time. I hope this makes sense to you.
first fold all the straight lines on the box and if you want to decorate the panels it might be easiest to do that while it is flat. Don't mess with those diagonal score lines at all.
The Tag punch is the perfect size for the Mini Milk carton – so any images that you have that fit the tag punch will make perfect decoration for the sides of this.
glue the tab to form the box shape and then glue the four flaps to create the bottom of the box. Then locate the two sides at the top with 2 diagonal score lines.
Take your hands and hold those two sides so that you can poke your finger in between the diagonal scores on both sides. As you push in on the two sides with your fingers close the top of the box.
Now your top is shut - for my example I have a mini library clip holding the top shut, but you could do a variety of other things. If you want to open it like a milk carton see the next picture.
One side of the top has score lines and tha is the side with the milk carton spout. So fold back on those two score lines.
Then push the spout open - just like you opened your milk carton when you were in elementary school!
So basically don’t mess with those diagonal score lines until you fold in the top and they take care of themselves to form the top of the box and the spout.
And now for the frosting on my cupcake – I used the Frost White Shimmer Paint and put a small amount in a plastic tray and then added a drop of Concord Crush ink refill. I mixed them together – I actually used a q-tip to mix them together and used it to “paint” the frosting on my cupcake.
As for the little button – its the same as the one on the Birthday Bakery card I posted a couple of days ago. I just threaded some frayed ribbon through the bitty button and attached it on top of a punched heart.
And one more thing – I will be at the Baltimore Stampin’ Up! regional on Friday – if you find me and tell me that you are one of my blog visitors I’ll have a surprise treat for you! I hope to see you there!
Let’s play Bingo…..
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1, 2, and 3 winners.
Here is piece #2 –the floral image from Tiny Tags tamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
Today’s stamping project is in an earlier post – so scroll down to the next post if you didn’t see it. Thanks!
It is time to start ROUND 4 of Monika’s Blog Bingo!
Here is piece #1 for Round 4: small swirly circle from Circle Circus stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
Here are the rules for playing Monika’s Blog Bingo (I reserve the right to adjust the game if necessary):
First since I plan to mail a prize to the winner you need to live in the US (sorry if you don’t but the prizes are SU product in most cases).
Second: I created 16 cards so I’m going to have 16 people play in each round and I hope to do multiple rounds. ( I know I said 15 to begin with but I miscounted and starting with group 2 there will be 16 players).
Third: You need to email me at [email protected] with Monika’s Blog Bingo in the subject line and tell me you want to play. I need your name and your mailing address (so if you win I can send you a prize).
Fourth: I will email you an image of your Bingo card – each card is unique and I will have them numbered so I know which one you have.
Fifth: After I have all 16 players I will post a Bingo Piece each day on my blog – so you have to keep coming back – it will likely be at the end of my regular post for the day – and if I don’t have a regular post it will just be by itself.
Sixth: I will post Bingo Pieces until someone has Bingo – you must have 5 in a row – across, down, diagonal – just like normal bingo and once you have Bingo You have to email me that you have – send the email to [email protected] – subject I have Bingo!. I will check your card against the pieces that have been played to make sure you have Bingo. And if per chance there is more than one on the same piece, I will pick the winner by the time stamp on the email – first one wins after verifying the Bingos.
Then I’ll mail the winner a prize!
A couple more things on how I am playing this game: Only one group will play at a time. If you are playing in a current group you cannot sign up for any other groups. Once your group is finished and if you did not win you can sign up for another group and play again.
I hope you’ll play along with me! Is everybody ready….
Welcome to week 3 of the new weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. All I can say about this weeks color inspiration – is where can I get some of those? I need one now! Look at what Gretchen has for us this week –
Yummy! I was kind of late with this one and didn’t have any ideas at all so I started to play with the colors and throw a card together and before I was done I threw it right in the trash – well not exactly I saved all the pieces that I hadn’t messed up already. So it was time for a do over because that first idea did not work out at all. I left and ate some dinner and came back with a new idea. This one turned out cute – I just wish I had some chocolate to put inside – well I actually do have some chocolate – Greg brought some back to me from his trip to Paris – but I have it hidden in a secret place so I won’t eat it too quickly. Anyway here is my second attempt at a creation with these colors:
I’m going to add some more details later with step by step pictures on how I make my mini milk cartons – mine come together perfectly every time but I have a little trick. And I’ll tell you how I made the frosting for the cupcake too! Come back on Wednesday for the details on both of those. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Card stock: Concord Crush, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Large Tag punch, Small tag punch, Heart to Heart Punch
Bitty Buttons
Concord Crush ribbon
Concord Crush Designer Series Paper
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’m going to post my Bingo information in a separate post later this morning – so check back on my blog in a little while.
And one more thing – I will be at the Baltimore Stampin’ Up! regional on Friday – if you find me and tell me that you are one of my blog visitors I’ll have a surprise treat for you! I hope to see you there!
This project was one from my Love Your Pets class. Its a treat jar – mine is decorated for a dog but I gave the class the option of doing a dog or cat. We used the D is for Dog and C is for Cat stamp sets. And the jars are decorated with the new Stampin’ Up! fabric in Holiday Mini Catalog and the Big Buttons.
I used one of the fabric patterns from the Deck the Halls bundle and the coordinating Big Designer Buttons. The fabric is torn into strips and wrapped around the jar to overlap the ends. Then I used Linen Thread to tie around it and hold it tight and then I put one of the big buttons on it. So its not a fabric sewing project but it is a fabric project!
The lid is decorated with elements from the D is for Dog stamp set. And the new 2″ Circle punch is exactly the right size for the top of the jar – these were the regular mouth jars not the wide-mouth. And I ran the circle through the Square lattice embossing folder too.
I also created a tag to tie around the button – the D is for dog stamp is punched with the small tag punch and layered with the large tag punch. The paw print is punched with the 3/4″ circle punch, and the bone is cut out. They are all threaded on a piece of Linen Thread and tied around the big button.
I filled it with dog treats and now it sits on my counter. I really like this fabric because the patterns aren’t really Christmas patterns – you can use them for every day projects not just holiday projects. I can keep this on the counter year round. And I know Aspen and Magnolia will be happy about that!
If you are checking in on Monika’s Blog Bingo – I finally found my winner on Sunday afternoon. So it’s time to get a new group started – this time it will be group 4 and here are the players:
Marilyn from NY
D from WA
Cinthia from MA
Susan from Wis.
Peggy from Maryland
Sandi from MI
Ruth from CT
Ola from Indiana
Sue from MS
Cristy from TX
Judy from CA
Jeanette from GA
Amy from MN
Cinda from GA
Patty from FL
Kim from NJ
I will email Bingo cards for Round 4 to all of you and the first Bingo piece will be called on Tuesday 9/28. I really like how everyone is from all over the US! Isn’t it fun? Thanks for playing along. I’ll have an updated post with all the rules when we start on Tuesday.
I tried something new today – well several new things actually – and hopefully it works like I thought….
First I created a Movie from my My Digital Studio album of my Convention scrapbook pages. I have posted a few pages here and there on my blog and now I have all the pages finished and I wanted to create a movie and post it on my blog.
So the movie was done and then I had to figure out how to post it. I was able to upload it to Stampin’ Connection – which is an online community for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators.
Next I uploaded it to YouTube – that’s the first time I have done that – but apparently I already had an account and I just followed the steps on the screen. And now here it is:
I hope you could view it! It looked like some of the pages were fuzzy – I’m not sure why.
It seems that this will open up a whole new area for sharing projects – but we’ll have to see if I can go there….
As of the time I’m writing this post on Saturday night I have not received any emails that someone has BINGO – but there could be one before this actually posts on Sunday morning. I think some of my posts got messed up because WordPress was down on Friday night. The times on my posts seem all messed up and what I posted on Friday is what got emailed to my email subscribers on Saturday night. And the Saturday post didn’t go out in the email yet. So I’m going to wait for tomorrow to draw another piece. Really there should be a winner by now – I can’t believe it is taking this long.
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Have you tried the Mini Milk Carton Big Shot die from Stampin’ Up!? Yesterday I posted this cute project for the UDI color challenge.
I used the Frost White Shimmer Paint and put a small amount in a plastic tray and then added a drop of Concord Crush ink refill. I mixed them together – I actually used a q-tip to mix them together and used it to “paint” the frosting on my cupcake.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 4 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1, 2, and 3 winners.
