Valentine Mailbox

I hope you all had a happy Valentines Day! I got back home the day before, so I was very happy!! I also got roses from my 2 favorite men, so I have no complaints.
Before I left town, I decorated a Target mailbox for my mom and sent it to her filled with candy. She loves Baja Breeze, so I chose Urban Garden DSP to decorate the mailbox.

I decided that it would be easiest to place the seam where the flag is attached to the mailbox, so I made a piece of faux rickrack to cover up the seam. I attached a felt flower to each side of the flag and tied on a piece of Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon.

Here is a closeup of the flower on the front of the mailbox. I cut these from one of the papers in the Urban Garden package. I cut the full flower in Kiwi Kiss, a smaller area in Baja Breeze and the center in Not Quite Navy. I covered the NQN piece in Dazzling Diamonds with the 2 way glue pen.

I believe all 3 of my posts this week will be 3-D items--quite unusual for me, so stay tuned!

Happy stamping!

JanTInk's one sheet book

This week's 3D challenge was JanTInk's one sheet book. It is adorable! It would be perfect for school photos. For mine, I decided to print my favorite Bible verses on computer business cards and put them in the book. I am actually keeping this one for myself, but this would make a great little gift for someone who needs some inspiration.
You get 10 pages if you don't count the front and back which adhere to the cover, and it uses 1 sheet of 12 X 12 paper. I chose Urban Garden because it's my favorite! Yes, I used a whole sheet of DSP all for myself!!
You can find Jan's great directions here on SCS.

Here is what the inside looks like. I used the pattern that made 3" X 4" pages.

I made my cover from Baja Breeze textured cardstock. It was 4 1/2" wide and 8 1/2" long. I scored on the long side at 3 1/4", 3 1/2", 6 3/4" and 7". This made the cover 3 1/4" X 4 1/2" with a 1/4" allowance for the thickness of the pages, and it also gave a 1 1/2" flap.

I made a belly band from Basic Gray textured cardstock. It was 3/4" wide and 10" long. I scored on the long side at 4 1/2", 4 3/4", 9 1/4" and 9 1/2". This leaves 1/2" to adhere to close the band.

Tip of the day: Decorate the cover before you adhere the pages inside! I didn't, and now the cover doesn't lay flat for stamping.

Here is a close-up of one of the inside pages with the business card attached. I printed the verses in gray ink and used the ticket corner punch to give them a little pizzazz.

Supplies(all SU except business cards): Stamps: none; Paper: Urban Garden DSP, Baja Breeze textured, Basic Gray textured, business cards; Ink: none; Accessories: ticket corner punch, Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon

Happy stamping!