Slightly addicted!

Oh wow, I am so hooked on making mini milk cartons! :lol:

Remember how I said (just yesterday?!) that I had a gazillion ideas for how to decorate these boxes... well, I've been trying a few out (and have plenty more whirling around in my head!)...

For this first one I tried something different and used the off-cut from die-cutting the butterflies from my first carton as a stencil and spritzed through it using a couple of drops of Stampin' Up! ink (from the refills) mixed with water in a spritzer bottle (I've been experimenting lately with using SU inks in this way).

For the next one I had the awesome idea of combining the milk carton die with this yummy embossing folder (also from SU's latest mini catalogue). I think it gave a fantastic effect (this idea in particular would be awesome for elegant wedding favour boxes). :)

I really liked the embossed design just left simple in white but I also thought it might look nice coloured in... so I used chalks to colour in the embossed designs.

Of course, the natural next progression in using the embossing folder was to use colour-core cardstock (in this case Whitewash Core'dinations) and sand the embossed areas.

And then I had the idea to use the bird's egg stamps from SU's Nature Walk set of stamps to make a little border around the bottom of a carton... and that led to this design, made using various stamps from the Nature Walk set.

These are so quick to make and so effective and I'm just addicted! :lol: I really need to stop making milk cartons and get on with some of my other projects! :lol:

How cute is this?!

I loved the look of Stampin' Up!'s new milk carton Sizzix die as soon as I saw it in the new mini catalogue and I just knew I had to have it! ;)

My order arrived this week and I couldn't resist having a play straight away:

I love these little milk cartons so much! I have about a million ideas for how to decorate/alter them. With this first play I decorated it very simply - I cut the milk carton from cream shimmer card and used the butterflies Embosslit (also from Stampin' Up!'s new mini catalogue) to cut embossed butterflies from the same card and attached them to the carton. Doesn't it look lovely?

I think these little cartons are so versatile. Great for gifts and imagine how fab they would be for e.g. really cute and unusual wedding favour boxes!