Happy Tuesday everyone!

We are also continuing to celebrate our blog hop with Tattered Angels. Today our host for the day is my good friend Debbie Seyer. Be sure to visit her blog, A Peak Into my Stamping Room, to see her amazing and glimmering project.

I could hardly contain myself on Saturday when I saw Margie’s post, Thinking Inside the Box. How adorable is that? I think we all know… Plus anyone who can add candy corns to a project is a winner in my book. Her inspiring project lead me to see what I could do to think inside and outside the box. So I created another container (inside the box), only this one is round (outside the box). Check it out!

I was trying to think of a way to make a container bottom that attached easily. Usually I think of die cutting a circle and snipping little slits about every ¼”. But this is what I came up with instead…

I gathered the following supplies: Wizardâ„¢, S4-114 Standard Circles LG, S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles LG, S7-017 On the Vine Border Grand, Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Collection Classic Paper Designs, Core’dinations blue cardstock, Clearsnap ColorBox Cocoa Pigment Ink, Tattered Angels Turquoise Blue Glimmer Mist, Glue Dots Continuous Line, PVA glue.

I save “cereal board,” lightweight chipboard, from packaged foods to use in craft projects. This one just happened to be Mini Strawberry Newtons…yum. I cut S4-114 Standard Circles LG, #7, (counting #1 at the center) but did not emboss.

Then I cut S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles LG, #6 from Blue Core’dinations cardstock and didn’t emboss. I added glue to the colored side of the chipboard circle and placed it on the center of the S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles LG. (A little note: If using a wet glue, allow it to dry totally before embossing or, like me, you’ll have glue running out onto your mats…oops.)

I chose a paper from the Crafty Secrets paper packs and left it a full 6″. If you want your container to be shorter than that, trim it down. I rolled the paper into a tube and adhered it with Glue Dots, Continuous Line, just crossing over the ends at 1/8″.

I embossed the bottom by using a regular embossing sandwich:

• White Master Mat
• Container bottom with chipboard down on the Mat (this is the important part)
• Embossing Pad
• White Master Mat

I folded up all the scallops to fit the tube inside of them.

I added a generous line of glue just to the inside of the scallops and fit the cylinder into them. Working around the bottom edge, I placed one hand inside the tube for support and the other on the scallops to make sure the glue held. I worked my way around until they were all well adhered. This is the most tedious part of the process but is worth the effort.

I embellished the container with S7-017 On the Vine Border Grand die template by I cutting/embossing blue cardstock with the W-026 Grand Cut Mat Kit. Then I inked through the die template as a stencil with Clearsnap ColorBox Cocoa Pigment Ink.

If you want to see a little demonstration on how to cut the Borderabilities® Grand, check out this video from Stacey. If you don’t have the W-026 Grand Cut Mat Kit, go to 1:50 on the meter to see the section showing how to cut using the mats that came with your machine.

I added the S7-017 One the Vine Border Grand to the container. The fun little bonus was that it fit perfectly. I was able to hook the two ends together. Using PVA glue, I added small touches of glue around the piece and then added dimension to it by curving the leaves and stems that were not glued down.

As a final touch, I sprayed it with Turquoise Blue Glimmer Mist. Finito!

Since I used only cardstock on the sides of the container, it is not super strong. I could probably reinforce the item by using an additional piece of cardstock, simply glued to the original OR I could use some more light weight chipboard. Well, whatever you choose to do, have fun and see what you can create.

Eli

Welcome! And thanks for the introduction, Stacey! I’m so excited to be part of Spellbinderâ„¢ Blog Team with Eli. And I am amazed and thrilled at how many of you have already stopped by and told us about your favorite die. We’ll be choosing a blog candy winner later this morning.

Whether you own a Wizard or another die cutting machine, you can use Spellbinders Die Templates. Stacey made some great videos, so first I’ll direct you to those to learn how to cut and emboss in your machine. Videos! Back already? Good.

I’m using the S3-004 Symbology Die Template today. It was the first die template I bought and its still one of my favorites. If you didn’t take notes during the video, no worries, I’ve got you covered. The sandwich for cutting a Spellbinders Die Template is included inside the package of all the dies. But here it is so you don’t have to go digging for it (stack from the bottom up) —

1. White Master Mat
2. Thin White Spacer Plate (or Magnetic Spacer Plate if using the Raspberry Wizard)
3. Spellbinders Die Template with cut ridges up

4. Paper, Cardstock, craft foil (the material you will be cutting, the side/pattern you want to show in your final project, facing the die template)
5. White Mat

Now just feed this into the Wizard. What you have is a flat die cut. Exciting, huh? Every other machine can do that too. What makes the Spellbinders special is that you can emboss that die cut! Put the material right back in the Die Template. Then emboss it with this sandwich —

1. White Mat
2. Spellbinders Die Template (cutting ridges up)
3. Paper, cardstock, craft foil, etc in the die template. If it came out, that’s ok, it’ll go right back inside the cutting ridges.
4. Tan Embossing Mat
5. White Mat

Now feed that through the Wizard in exactly the same way. Great! How do you like it? Want to make it more interesting? Put the material right back inside the die. This is the really fun part, because you can customize it to match the rest of your project.

Use the same inks, chalks, markers, paint or other craft supply you used on your project. See, you can go right through the back side of the die to apply it. There you go—Cut, Emboss and Embellish!

Thanks for stopping by! Beth