waiting for post wednesday

Happy wednesday! Are you ready for some post?
Today I am going to show you this mailbox I altered. It is one of those metal mailbox tins you can get at Target. A friend of mine sent me this one year ago and I was waiting for the perfect moment to use it. Since my daughters love to exchange little notes with their friends and created special little boxes to save them in I got the idea for this project from them.
I was looking through the "older" collections and decided to go with this little cutie from the very first Belles´n´Whistles collection: Belle Sitting with Teddy. She´s just so perfect for this project: it seems like she is sitting there, patiently waiting for some mail to arrive, having her little teddy with her to have someone to talk to during waiting.

I tried to match the lace that I put at the end of the box with the lace on her shirt. I also put the image on top of the little metall thing that is added to the box to stop the wiper if there isn´t any mail. So I was able to cover it - but also add some depth to the project and it looks a bit like she is sitting in front of the mailbox.



I have more pictures where you can also see the front and description on how I made this project posted on my blog. If you are interested - you´re invited to visit me here.

Tasteful Tuesday

Okay.. today I want to share with you a feast of Cupcakes.. we all love those, don't we?? If you've been on our BnW/ ROP Challenge blog yesterday, you'd know that we started another fun and lovely challenge, set by our darling Susan :)
If you didn't , go and check it out here.

If you did, you will know that this card was my DT entry for this time. I love how soft it looks with those light colours. But I want you also to check these two cards out.. done with the same stamp. Both are done by two of my favourite cardmakers.. they are both very inspiring to me.. and I'm sure to many of you.


This card is done by Kim Piggott









and this one by Kathy









Aren't they simply gorgeous! Leave them a message here, to let them know what you think of their cards, and do click on their names to check out their fantastic blogs for yourselves!! Belles 'nd Whistles are soo proud of their fans!!!! :) You are the best!!

Challenging Monday!

Edited to add (Monday Feb.8th at 9:00 AM EST): 

*** Due to a little mix up with the challenge dates the winner of the last challenge will be announced on Wednesday! Sorry and thanks for understanding! The new challenge will be posted during the course of the day! ***


Hello and a wonderful Monday to everyone! Hope you all had a nice weekend! For my card today I used one of the older Belles 'n Whistles images but oh so cute Lil' Miss Poppy. Isn't she just adorable? And for a change I pulled out my distress inks and colored her instead of using my Copics. Today is also the start of a new challenge over at our combined challenge blog Roses on Paper and Belles 'n Whistles. Sweet Susan is our host this time and she's challenging us with a fabulous color challenge: Pink - Brown - Vanilla. And these are the colors I used for my Lil Miss Poppy card. Otherwise I kept the card pretty simple. Used 2 Martha Stewart punches, ribbon and rhinestones & half-pearls.

 

  

I hope to see you over at our challenge blog and joining in our fabulous color challenge!

And as always Summer has chosen a fantastic price for you to win. 

You have time to enter until Sunday February 21st.

Hugs,

Wrap Around A Cup - Gift Wrap

Happy Friday Everyone! I'm back today with another gift idea, part 2 of my gift set. :-) I showed you the little paper basket on Wednesday and that was part 1 (actually the whole set consists of 4 parts). This time I made a wrapper for a mug. I used the same colors as I did for my basket so everything will fit nicely together. The DP I used is from the new Basic Grey collection Origins. The image is colored with the same colors but instead of the Cupcake image I used another cutie from the new Sweet Things collection: Beary Big Hugs.

I thought making a wrapper is a nice idea and something different than putting the mug in a box and decorate the box or alter the box the mug was sold in. And let me tell you, it is pretty quick as well ;-).

I decorated the top with Prima flowers, rhinestones, half-pearls

and added a large bow and some smaller strands of ribbon.

The image was put on the front and I trimmed it as well with a matching little Prima flower, matching ribbon and rhinestones. And to have a connection to the decoration on the top I let the rhinestone swirls coming from the top, continue on the front.

I hope you like my mug wrapper as well. I'll show you the rest of the set next week.

For now have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by here today!

Hugs,

***Sorry to bombard your post Iris (which is an absolutely STUNNING one, BTW!)...I forgot to announce the randomly selected winner from Monday's post! Vicki (basement stamper)...you've been selected! Please email me with your choice of stamp and your mailing address...I'll get it out to you soon!

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And a GREAT BIG THANK YOU for all of the wonderful birthday wishes eveyone! The day was indeed a very nice one! MWAH to you all! Summer =)***

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMMER!!

It's a VERY special day today, it's Summer's Birthday!! I have been holding off with using this stamp called Cupcake, I saved it especially for her birthday isn't she a cutie! The DT and I look forward to celebrating Summer's birthday because she is such a sweet and caring person. One of the many wonderful things you have done is put together this fabulous stamp company and showcasing Elisabeth Bell's beautiful creations! We ALL just adore them and YOU of course!! Here's wishing you a VERY Happy Birthday and many many many more to come!!

I have finally chosen the winner of my Belles n' Whistles blog candy and have posted it to my blog, please stop by!

Basket Full Of Sweets - Mini Paper Basket Tutorial

 

Hello everyone!  Today I like to show you a little paper gift basket I made. This is a real quick project and ideal for giving some sweets maybe at Valentines or together with another gift for a birthday or the like. Those baskets are not only for Easter where they are typically used I guess. I find them quite versatile. I filled mine with some small, single wrapped chocolate bars and it's going to be part of a birthday gift set. I chose the image Cupcake from our latest Belles 'n Whistles collection Sweet Things. I just loooove this image and think she is just perfect for my little sweet basket, don't you think so? For the colors I chose green, brown and yellow because I like to use some of the DP's from Basic Greys Orogins collection for my card and gift wrapping later on. So my little basket will fit perfectly then.

  

 Here's a close up of the image. I colored her with my Copics.

  

 And here you can see I decorated the handle with some rhinestones.

 

I decorated the back side with a punched out heart.

I made a little tutorial for you on how to make these cute baskets. I thought maybe you'd like to know and you'll see they are really quick & easy to make.

Mini Paper Basket Tutorial

First cut 3 pieces of cardstock (different colors if you like) in following sizes:

1 square: 5.5 inch x 5.5 inch, 1strip: 1 inch x 8 inch, 1strip 1/2 inch x 8 inch
(picture below)

  

Next score the square on all four sides at 1 3/4 inches

 You can now round the corners using a corner rounder punch, if desired. Fold at the score lines.

Using scissors cut along the score lines of one side (but not all the way through
- see next two pictures) and repeat on opposite side.

  

  

Apply double sided tape or adhesive according to the picture.

  

 Push the middle flap back and overlap the outside flaps in a V-shape, adhere.

Do the same on the other side.

 

 

 You are almost done assembling your basket...I told you it's fast and easy ;-)

Your basket should now look like this:

Now on to the handle. Adhere the two strips on top of each other.

 

 Apply double sided tape or adhesive on both ends of the strip and attach to the inside of the basket.

  

 And 'Voila' your mini-basket is done! Now it's ready to be decorated, get creative!

 

I hope you liked my little tutorial and maybe you like to give it a try as well.
 

And don't forget to show us your Belles 'n Whistles creations by uploding your pictures into our gallery. We would love to see what you've created and you never know maybe you are next to be in the spotlight right here on our Belles'n Whistles blog!

Thanks for visiting us today!

Hugs,

Beary Big Hugs for the Sweetest Boss! :)

Hiya all!!!

Wasn't it fun yesterday with that darling digi stamp?!
I bet you had as much fun as we did, because your response was great! :) Thank you for your feedback, I know Summer appreciated it...


And speaking of my sweetest Boss.. Summer :)

She has given us this wonderful opportunity to present you these stamps, and designing with the cutest images. One of our and yours favourite it seems, is this cute cute image! And my sweetest boss loves this image as well, don't you boss? :)

And this sweetest person has her Birthday two days from now.. so THIS is my beary big hugs from here, to her, with sooo much love!!

Summer, this won't reach you in time for your birthday.. sorry! I already told you that :)) But imagine that instead of seeing it here, you are seeing it in your hands :) Which hopefully you will soon! I know you enough to know that you understand ;0)






And for all of you Belles 'nd Whistles lovers.. I hope you also find the time from now till the 4th to give Summer your best wishes, in any way you find best for you.. Please help me show her what a wonderful person she is :) And Today I want to send my very BIG hug to our Jacque. She has already posted on her blog about her health issue right now, so I know that I'll be voicing Summer, and the DT's thoughts when I tell her "We wish you all the best today Jacque, and a very speedy recovery. We love you and are with you ALL THE WAY. You are in our thoughts and in our Prayers. God bless you!"




A teddy charm, to go with the theme.
For more photos and info , please go to my blog (I also have some sweet stuff for you over there!)


A happy Tuesday to you all my sweet friends, and finally, a beary big hug to you, Belles 'nd Whistles lovers!!