Sunday, March 20, 2011

March Madness Blog Hop Day #2

It's the second day of Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack's Mad About Paper Blog Hop!

Here's my Day Two project: Soccer Kick Off Gift Box
with penny slider top


You should have arrived here from JoAnn's blog. Tammy's blog is the next one on the line up and you can reach her blog by clicking on her name below. If you have problems with the link, her blog's URL is in parentheses after her name -- just copy/paste it into your address bar. (And if you didn't see yesterday's projects, be sure to check those out too.)

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Thank you for hopping!

About the Gift Box:
I had so much fun making yesterday's project that I starting obsessing on what to make for my second project... Well, luckily Mom called me and told me about her new project: penny slider cards (also called spinner cards). Since I wanted to stick with a sports theme, I immediately imagined moving a ball across the paper, maybe making a little loop...

This was also a perfect opportunity to use the Smirk brand paper in my stash. Their For Him series includes some soccer-themed items, and the soccer ball brad fit over the penny perfectly!

I wish I could say that I drew the loop myself, but I had to design a template for it in SCAL first. I ended up manipulating the Latin Small Letter A from the Wingdings typeface. What can I say, it worked perfectly. I cut the template on my Cricut, traced it onto the decorative paper, and then cut it out with my knife. If you'd like to try this yourself (and you have SCAL), see the download link at the bottom of this post. Please let me know if you use it!

I wanted to put something in the box, so I decided to wrap some Hershey's Milk Chocolate Nuggets with the patterned paper. Well, we only had two left, but get the idea!

Decorative paper and brads: Smirk for Him
Other supplies: Core'dinations and Hammermill cardstocks, ZipDry glue, Tim Holtz scissors, Cricut & SCAL, HP copier & ink, Fiskars papercutter & finger knife, foam tape, Copic markers (100 & R59, for edging)

Slider card tutorial at Splitcoaststampers
Download penny slider loop template SCAL cut file

9 comments:

  1. Oooooooo CG! This is scrumptious!!! Another for my folder... I love the colors! TFS!!!

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  2. that is sooo awesome! I WANT ONE! :)

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  3. OMGoodness!!!!! This is so cute cool at the same time, I have to try this. TFS

    ~~Netta~~
    CraftCreationsbyNetta@blogspot.com

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  4. Super cool! I have grandsons who would beat each other up (kiddin')to get one of these, lol! Thanks for the lovely comment on my blog, and hugs to your Mum, :D.

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  5. That awesome! I made the pennies slider before but I just love yours!

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  6. This is absolutely adorable. Thank you for sharing with us.

    pennyspad at sbcglobal dot net

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  7. What a great interactive card.

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  8. love it and the paper is just too cute TFS

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  9. Oh this is SOOO Clever! I have not seen a penny slider before! I must read up on how to create this! Great job!

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