NC Demos Blog Hop – It’s Hip To Be Square!

Welcome to our April NC Demos Blog Hop! If you started here, thanks for following me. If you got here from Jo Anne Hewin’s blog, thanks for checking out all the bloggers 🙂

Our core team of bloggers had the rare treat of being all in one place at the same time during Stampin’ Up!’ OnStage in March. And while Jo Anne had to leave us early due to the impending storm , we did get a group photo with everyone else. This picture inspired our April Blog Hop theme, It’s Hip To Be Square!

So, our April challenge is to create projects that feature squares! Square layouts, square dies, square stamps, ANYTHING square! Because it really is Hip To Be Square!

I decided to create something other than a card this month. I’m using our Book Treat Boxes since they fit the square theme. I think these are one of my favorite 3-D items. In fact, I will be using them for table favors for 2 upcoming family weddings! This project is also one that I shared this weekend for a 3D Project Swap at the New Bern Quarterly session, so some of you may have already seen it. I’m also giving you a sneak-peek of one of the upcoming May Online Exclusives. The bundle is called Cheers & Sips and you can order it starting May 6th. Since this will post before these items go live, I am not able to list them in the supplies section of the tutorial. But I did include the order numbers in the instruction section of the tutorial included below. And I’m referencing them again here:

Book Treat Box Tutorial

There are so many ways to decorate these boxes. You can even use our stamp pads to color them if you don’t want them to be white. I chose to use our Fluid 100 Watercolor paper to stamp the images for this project. Since I wanted to watercolor, I needed to stamp the images using Stazon ink. Then I placed a drop or 2 of water in the lid of the ink pads and used the retired water painters to color the images. Once the color dried, I went over them with Wink of Stella to add a little shine. I placed several tea packets inside the box so that the recipients could enjoy there own glass of tea 🙂

I encourage you to pick up a package or two of the Book Treat boxes. They are so much fun to play with! Now, please continue through with the rest of the hop participants. Kelly Taranto is up next with her creation for this month!

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$9.00

Book Treat Boxes

[164048]

$10.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$9.00

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

$9.00

Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad

[155611]

$9.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

[147111]

$9.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$8.00

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

[101406]

$10.50

Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[100702]

$11.50

1-3/4" (4.4 Cm) Circle Punch

[119850]

$23.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

$9.00

Book Treat Boxes

[164048]

$10.00