#TGIFC562 – Valentine Challenge

It’s Friday, and that means one more TGIF Challenge for this month. This week, the designers are all creating Valentine-themed projects. I decided to make a decorative box of candies for my husband combining some new and old favorite products.

I have a variety of ready to make Stampin’ Up! gift boxes in my stash, so I pulled out a retired Mini Paper Pumpkin Box. It holds almost a whole package of chocolates, so it was perfect! To start, I used Blending Brushes to add Balmy Blue and Blueberry Bushes ink to the box. I did this before assembling the box to ensure the ink blending was smooth. Then after assembling the box, I touched up some of the folds with the Blending Brushes as well.

I pulled out my retired Hearts of Elegance Bundle for the heart die-cuts and sentiment. The large heart is cut from Night of Navy Cardstock. Then, I added leaf die-cuts using the current Nature’s Symphony Dies and Nature Walk Designer Series Paper. I LOVE how beautiful those leaves look by simply cutting them from the multi-colored paper. The dark leaf is cut from the back side of the same sheet. I also cut apart the leaf die-cuts so they would wrap around my heart shape.

I stamped the sentiment and texture on the heart with Secret Sea ink and then added some white Frosted Iridescent Dots and Balmy Blue Sheer Ribbon. I also added some tiny Basic White hearts punched out using the Bee Builder Punch.

Here’s the inside. I did line the bottom of the box with the same Nature Walk Designer Series Paper as the leaf die-cuts. There’s just so many chocolates, you can’t see!

To see all the designers’ Valentine projects, click over to the TGIF Challenges Blog. You can also enter our challenge at the bottom of that post.

Have a wonderful day,

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