Poinsettia Book Gift Box PYC #11

I can't tell you how excited I am to share this project with you!  It is the perfect combination of gorgeous papers with wonderful SVG files.  Without further ado, here is my poinsettia book gift box...

 Don't you agree?  These papers were meant to be made into this book.  Honestly.  They are the from The Paper Parade and the collection is called Reflections Christmas by Echo park.  The chipboard embellishments are also part of that collection.  All of the SVG files in this project are from different collections from SVG Attic.  The book itself is from the Nevermore collection.  Yes, that is a Halloween set, but inspiration comes from all places, doesn't it?  The beautiful poinsettia is from Winter Wishes and the swirls are part of the card that is in the Mom's English Garden set.

On the poinsettia, I inked around all of the edges of the die cuts with brown chalk ink and slightly bent them in the middle to give the leaves and petals a more realistic look.  For the center I went around the outside of the circles with Platinum stickles and then added glossy accents to them.  I added self adhesive rhinestones to the swirls for a little bit of sparkle.

 To break up the binding, I used some simply red rumpled ribbon, chipboard embellishments and a key that was tied with twine.

 The best part is that the book is a gift box!  This is a view of book opened with a surprise inside!  I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I did making it.

Now head on over to Parade Your Crafts challenge blog and link up your Christmas/Winter projects for a chance to win a gift certificate to The Paper Parade!  Good Luck!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

Entering here:
Dec 23 Scrappy Moms Stamps
Dec 25 Word Art Wednesday
Dec 25 DL ART Christmas
Dec 26 MFP Inspiration challenge (I was inspired by the colors in #1 and the patterns in #3)
Dec 27 The Squirrel and the Fox
Dec 27 Little Scrap Pieces

Dec 28 Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe
Dec 28 Creative Inspiration Paint 
Dec 28 Robyn's Fetish (gold stickles and key, silver gems)
Dec 29 Digi Darla's
Dec 29 613 Avenue Create
Dec 29 Kaboodle Doodles
Dec 31 CHNC - Extra Challenge Christmas
Dec 31 2 Creative Chicks
Dec 31 Ribbon Carousel
Dec 31 Die Cutting Diva
Dec 31 DL ART 

Dec 31 Chalk N Stock 
Dec 31 Great Impressions
Dec 31 Just Be Creative
Dec 31 V's Sweet Ideas
Jan 1 Crafting By Designs
Jan 2 3 Girl JAM
Jan 5 Melonheadz friends
Jan 5 LEJ Designs
Jan 5 Pile It On (P is for poinsettia)
Jan 8 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday
Jan 12 Dream Valley Challenges

Dec 23 Pinspirational Photo Inspired - using red, white, green, cream

Challenge winner at Chalk-Ah-Lot-Cafe

Mario Bros. Book

I made this Mini ticket book pattern into a reward book for my two older boys.  They about flipped out when they saw what I was making.  Actually I tried hiding it from them and somehow they sniffed it out and you should have heard the barrage of questions and overall chatter after they found the pieces.  So much for trying to surprise them!  Oh well.  I guess they like it and that is what counts.The SVG for the ticket book was made by Michelle at ScrappyDew.  Here is a link to their Facebook page where you can find the SVG for free.  I sized the book at almost 6" wide x 3.75" tall.

I kept the embellishments to a minimum since it is for boys but really enjoyed the addition of the different colors of twine to hold it all together.

Yoshi is the first reward they will get. I will eventually fill all the little brick pockets on the inside pages with die cuts from the Scrapio Dew Brothers SVG set at Scrappy Dew.   He is cut at 4" tall.

 This is a close up of the Mario Bros.!  They are cut pretty small, only around 3" so that makes for tiny pieces, and some of the smallest pieces I cut with vinyl so they wouldn't get lost and they would be self adhesive.  That's not called lazy, it is called being resourceful ;)

I hope you enjoy this book and if you decide to make one using ScrappyDew's pattern I am sure they would love to see it on their Facebook wall!

Have a wonderful day!

I am entering this in the following challenge:
http://creativecuttingchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/03/challenge-12-anything-goes.html
Also linking up with Pink Cricut.

Linking up with DL.ART March Linky Party