I had so much fun making the other purse box that I decided to make another one. Only this time, a little bit bigger. The template tells you to enlarge by 133% but who has a printer that will print on 12" x 12" paper - NOT ME!! So after a bit a fiddling and pasting, I made my enlarged template. Phew! I'm sure there is an easier way to do this but as I was in a hurry (well I just wanted to make it), this was how I went about it. My template was by no means perfect. In fact, it had two scallop end flaps - "what?", I hear you say! I couldn't get the template to flip but I knew that I just had to cut off the flap on one side.
Now, in the process of this, after temporarily adhering my template onto my DSP, I cut off the wrong side......so, after just explaining to you all I had to do, I cut off the wrong end! ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! What was I going to do? First I thought I'd ruined it and I would have to throw it out, so I left it overnight or two. Then, my friend Karen came over to do some scrapbooking and I felt creative again. By this stage, I had seen Lin Mei's purse box and she had made some modifications and I thought it looked stunning. Then, the old brain had that 'light bulb' moment!! Woo hoo - my 'ruined' purse box was saved!!! Thanks, Lin Mei.
You can see here that the top of the purse is flat. I cut some bashful blue cardstock and adhered it to the back of the purse first, then adhered the flap that I accidentally cut off to the other side of the cardstock which I had pre-scored 1/4" from each side. I also traced the flap onto more bashful blue cardstock (minus approx 1cm) to layer that over the DSP. I think it turned out pretty well - just another "happy accident"!
Here is the original template. You can see the top of the purse is not flat but in a "V" shape.
Here they are together! Don't they make a lovely couple?! LOL
Challenge number three is: Make a card using kiwi kiss, kraft, baja breeze and basic grey. I've yet to start this one.
Happy Stamping,
.
P.S. - I'm very impressed if you made it this far reading my blog! LOL
Supplies
Stamps: n/a.
Ink: Pumpkin Pie Marker.
Paper: Washington Apple DSP, Bashful Blue.
Accessories: 1/4" Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon, Button Latte, Crop-a-dile, Paper Piercing Tool.
where can i find the template for this?
Posted by: Windy Andrillon | Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:02 PM