Papertrey June blog hop

Today is the night for the blog hop over in the papertrey forum. It is a neat way to visit people's blogs and get lots of inspiration from all the cool projects that they post. This month's theme was to use transparencies on your projects. I am assuming that includes acetate and similar products. Well I guess this was my lucky month because I already had my project done as I entered it in the June GSS contest at papertrey and I did not post it yet. I was awarded an honorable mention for this project by Nichole too so how cool is that! Now for my project...



This is a 2-4-6-8 box that I made for my friend who recently found out she was pregnant. I took a sheet of 8.5"X11" CS and cut it down to 6"X 8.5". I scored it with my scor-pal at 2", 4", 6" and 8" vertically and then scored 2" up from the bottom horizontally. You can find a picture of the instructions here. I cut off approx 2" from all but the second panel because I wanted that to fold over the front of the box. On the fourth panel I cut out my oval with my CM oval cutter. I then cut out an oval from my sunrise CS which had a 1/4" smaller oval so that it would create a matte inside the lemon oval. I then attached a rectangle piece of acetate to cover the opening on what would be the inside of the box. I stamped the 1st and 3rd panels on the outside with my honey bee image. I stamped my sentiments on the outside of my oval cut out section panel. I cut my bottom sections and then folded them and used red sticky tape to adhere the panels to form the bottom of the box. I filled the box with bit o honey candies that I wrapped with labels decorated with the honey bees and limitless labels set. I punched out a decorative floral border using my Fiskars punch on the lemon edge and attached a piece of sunrise to the bottom of the lemon tart section and folded it over and attached with red sticky tape. To finish off my project I tied a bow with my satin ribbon and attached it.

Recipe:
stamps- PTI honey bees, limitless labels
CS- PTI lemon tart, summer sunrise, acetate
ink- summer sunrise, lemon tart
accessories- scor-pal, sunrise satin ribbon, fiskars floral border punch, CM oval cutter, red sticky tape

I hope you enjoy this project and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Enjoy visiting everyone's blogs and have fun!