ETA (edited to add): Thank goodness for TypePad's feature of being able to type up and save posts to go live at a later date - hopefully I can get the creative juices flowing over the weekend as a great way (for me anyway) to feel better is to create!
The theme for this month's Senior Design Team challenge was Halloween Treat packaging - and to be totally honest I was a little stumped. We don't really celebrate Halloween, but with Veronica starting school this fall and the girls LOVING to dress up (and loving candy is just a given) me thinks it will be a holiday that will be celebrated more and more at my house!
This year I thought I'd take a different track from something candy-related - I found these packs of children's playing cards at the local bargain store for cheap - but they're not very "Halloweeny". So I decided to dress them up a bit and then I'll be sending these with Veronica to give to her classmates come Halloween.
I created a band out of black cardstock that wraps around the boxes (using my ScorPal to score all the lines - I had to move the CS around a bit to get the lines in the right spots but once I determined where I needed to score each piece I had a stack of the pieces scored in a couple of minutes!), then cut a slightly smaller band using Papertrey's Father Knows Best 12x12 paper. I purposely cut the patterned paper in 3" strips so I get 5 strips from each sheet (4 across and one along the bottom of the sheet).
Then to embellish each sleeve I cut ovals with my nestabilities dies out of Papertrey white cardstock, and stamped the raven and "Trick or Tweet" sentiment from the Birds of a Feather set using Summer Sunrise and black inks.
To finish off the sleeves instead of adhering the ovals I punched holes in either side, threaded through some Summer Sunrise Satin Ribbon and tied it in a knot - the band then slips off and the box of card games slips from the sleeve.
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Don't forget to check out the fabulous projects the rest of the senior team came up with!:
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{SUPPLIES}
STAMPS: Birds of a Feather
CS: Papertrey Select White, Black (SU!), PT Father Knows Best 12x12
INK: Summer Sunrise, Black.
ACCESSORIES: Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Hole Punch, Summer Sunrise Satin Ribbon.
