Welcome to my stop on the
London Calling blog hop! Today's hop features the February 2015 Club Scrap kit London Calling.
These stamps are the "bees knees"!
I love going through my stash of Club Scrap
Scrap Rap magazines for ideas and found the perfect one for this kit, the Scrapbook-in-a-box project from the 2009 Birds of a Feather
Scrap Rap. So, without further ado, it's time for tea...
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| A few years ago my sister and brother-in-law made a trip across the pond and brought me back a Royal Albert coffee mug. This was the pattern the year I was born. So perfect for my photo shoot! |
While I was making my project, I kept thinking how I wanted to decorate the cover of the box. I looked up traditional British gifts and one of the tea boxes had the Union Jack as a cover design. So, I made a stencil!
Don't you love how the design in the paper shows through the ink?
Yeah, so I bungled my first attempt. The red diagonal cross I inked blue. Humpf....BUT I ended up liking the second attempt better!
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| I used the green patterned paper from the CS Lite kit for this one. The pattern showed through the ink on this one too! |
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| I filled the pockets with tea packets and wrapped a few Red Velvet Oreo's in place of English biscuits. |
I added a few extra bits and bobs, some cutaparts, vintage mini postage stamps, some tiny teapot embellishments and ribbon.
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| Instructions on how to make the perfect cuppa. I used the Chancery Cursive font and printed on the blue cardstock from the Lite kit. |
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| Doesn't that sound delightful! |
I finished it all up with a card. Umm, do you see the boo boo? I didn't see it 'til I was finished. Oh well, I don't really suppose any of the Americans I would give it to would notice unless I showed them a pic of the Union Jack first, so Bob's your Uncle!
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| The crowns were cut using my Cricut and the Indie Art cartridge. |
Grab a cuppa and chivvy along to check out what FABU project Cathy has to share on her
blog! Cheerio!
Totally Brittish your project! Love the surprise box and all it's details.
ReplyDeleteThe card is matching perfectly. Cheerio!
What a great gift idea! Awesome Wendy.
ReplyDeleteLove your explosion tea box
ReplyDeleteBeautiful explosion box and all the detail is fabulous Wendy. Would you like my mailing address?
ReplyDeleteI am hopping along here and continually in awe of the creativity shown with this collection. Highlights for me here are that you totally rocked that homemade stencil! How awesome is that? And I'm glad you continue to receive inspiration from past editions of the Scrap Rap. Yay!
ReplyDeleteWendy, love that you made the explosion box into a tea bag holder gift!! Awesome idea and the union jack stencil is amazing! Great job!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful exploding box and the decorations are so detailed!
ReplyDeleteWonderful box and card. Maybe I should make something like this for my son's teacher for end of year... *thinking, thinking*... I probably should. it would be super cute!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! It is a lovely project and card!
ReplyDeleteSuper fun explosion box! It's great and love the tea references :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous gift set Wendy! The exploding box is darling and love the matching card.
ReplyDeleteHi Wendy! Love the Union Jack card and box! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteLove the box project - and red velvet Oreos are really yummy!
ReplyDeleteCute, cute! But I thought you were going to cross the pond for a visit. I think it is time for you and Chris to go on a European vacation ( with or without the guys). Love you all, Aunt Linda
ReplyDeleteOMG! What an adorable box. The surprises inside are so unexpected. I love it!
ReplyDeleteHow awesome that you made your own stencil!! (Which you were probably glad of when you had to re-do the top huh?) Everything turned out so cute, what a super nice gift...and Oreos...yum.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project! Love the stencil you made. (I secretly hoped for a Union Jack stencil for this collection, but I love the phone booth mask we got instead!) Just might have to make one of my own . . . you made it look so easy!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Wendy, what a delightful group of designs, love them all. I would love to go on a vacation and see London.
ReplyDeleteHugs Diane
That is an adorable box, and I totally love your Union Jack stencil!
ReplyDeleteI painted a Union Jack-ish flag as the base layer of my canvas, and my daughter gave a massive eyeball because the thick/thin of the white lines were not done correctly. Therefore, I completely empathize with your tiny boo-boo. I suppose we shall be sent to the naughty chairs in the corner... where we can craft away! ;)
This is way cool! Red Velvet Oreos?
ReplyDeleteYou did so much with your creations! The box, the stenciled image...you're very creative. Thank you for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteYou did so much..the box, the stenciled image, incredible! Thank you for sharing your creativity!
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ReplyDeleteAbsolutely adorabe! What a delightful gift! I have a British son-in-law this would be perfect for. Thanks for the directions. Hope I can do it justice.
You are sooooo talented. Lucky us!
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