Wedding Gift Box with Jenifer Cowles

I needed a quick box for a wedding I was attending recently and this turned out just perfect.  Using 8 doilies I accordion folded them into quarters and hot glued them onto a circle to make a fun layered doily flower.  I stacked a flower on a button for a center.  A sprig of stamens and some wire string and I was ready to go with a fun custom box in just the colors I needed.

To see all the shop items featured in this project, click on the live links, or visit the shop HERE. 

(Note: The shop is temporarily closed, but will reopen soon.  Thank you for your patience.)

To see more of Jenifer's delightful projects, check out her blog HERE.

Butterflies Hover Card with Andrea Amu

Today, Andrea shares this gorgeous card, dripping with glitter and the feeling of spring.

Curtsey Boutique embellishments used include:

Glitter Butterflies

Mini Glittered Clothes Pins

Felt Doily

Other Supplies

Patterned paper: Echo Park

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Chipboard frame: Recollections

Ink: American Crafts

White gel pen: Sakura

To check out more of Andrea's creations, click on her photo below.

It's a Small World with Jenifer Cowles

Today we are sharing this stunning layout from DT Member Jenifer Cowles.  Jenifer says:

"Using some golds, creams and whites on my Layout of "It's a Small World" I was able to really let the details in the picture stand out." 

Jenifer used glitter pennants, felt doilies, french doilies, and ivory rosettes from the shop to create this amazing page.  Check out all of these supplies HERE.

To see more of Jenifer's work, click on her photo below.

DIY Berry Basket Holder Shadow Box Tutorial with Lisa Spiegel

Berry Basket Holder Tutorial

Original Design : Lisa Spiegel

Lisa shares this ingenious tutorial for creating a shadow box display piece from two of our berry baskets. 

1. Cut a slit in the first berry box, then remove the top half of the box following that line.

2. Using twine, tie the basket you cut to another full size basket creating a clam shell appearance.

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3. Stuff a muslin bag with pillow stuffing and tuck in the bottom basket.  Hot glue red doily to the top basket.

4. Hot glue Fabric Flower, Twine tied button, Felt Flowers and Glassine Leaves punched from Glassine bag to top basket.

5. Fold Glassine bag up two times from the bottom edge.  Use stick pin to attach it to the muslin pin cushion.  Adhere wallet sized photo to the front.

6. Pull apart Red Fabric flower to reveal fabric strip.  Tie around the berry basket and embellish with pins.  Pin Burlap Butterfly to the pin cushion.  Enjoy!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

Pint Pulp Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique	Mini Red Felt Rose - Curtsey Boutique	Bird and Vine Embossed Glassine Bags	Floral Print Ruffle Fabric Flower
Red Polka Dot Ruffle Fabric Flower	Vintage Blue Painted 1 inch Button	Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique	Assorted Dyed Doilies - Curtsey Boutique
Burlap Butterflies - Curtsey Boutique

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Other Supplies:

Pillow Stuffing

Maya Road Stick Pins

Twine

To see more of Lisa's work, click on her photo below.

Aspire to be the Best Layout with Connie Mercer

Aspire to be the Best Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Connie shares a layout filled with lovely layers today. (Say that 3 times fast)  Her embellishment groupings are soft and feminine and include our glitter ballerinas, felt doilies, polka dot envelopes and blank raffle tickets.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Glitter Ballerina

Vintage Blue Painted 1 inch Button

Mini Winsome White Felt Doilies

Polka Dot Glassine Envelope

Valentine's Assortment Seambinding

White Raffle Tickets

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Other Supplies

Little Yellow Bicycle paper

American Crafts

Creative Imaginations (thin jute)

Cosmo Cricket  (pink mini letters)

 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

Framed Winter Decor with Andrea Amu

Framed Winter Decor
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Andrea Amu

This project uses the same easel frame concept that Andrea used around the holidays for her Christmas decor.

Again she  removed the glass from her  frame and inserted an embossed 5x5 cardstock base to embellish for an updated Wintery theme.  

For this framed decor she used a variety of Curtsey Boutique notions including, mini glitter snowflakes, white felt doilies and baker's twine.  

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Glitter Snowflakes - Curtsey Boutique

Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique

Mini Winsome White Felt Doilies

Medium Felt Doilies - Curtsey Boutique

Other supplies:

easel frame

card stock

embossing folder

glue-dots

Zig glue pen

To see more amazing projects from Andrea, visit her blog by clicking on her photo below.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Hanukkah Treat Jar with Lisa Spiegel

Hanukkah Treat Jar
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Lisa Spiegel

The first night of Hanukkah was on Wednesday November 27th this year, which is the earliest it has ever or will ever be in my lifetime.  We are celebrating both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah on the same night. I thought it would be fun to come up with a Hanukkah in a Jar kit for the kids. 

 Inside the mason jar (perfect for kids because it's plastic!) is a set of Hanukkah candles tied in twine, a nice new dreidel, yummy chocolate coins (or gelt), the instructions for the dreidel game printed on photo paper and the words to the prayers for the candles as well as a traditional Hanukkah song. 

I stamped a Happy Hanukkah tag, tied it to the lid with seam binding ribbon and added the beautiful felt snowflake to the top of the jar (I love how the middle of the snowflake is the shape of the Star of David!). Each child will have a different top to their jar (as the felt set comes with several different snowflakes) so they can distinguish their jars and can keep all their gelt winnings to themselves!  This was very easy to put together for the kids, and I know they are just going to love having their own Hanukkah Jar!  If anyone would like to make their own Hanukkah jars I would be happy to email them the files for the Dreidel Game and the prayers.  Just leave a comment with your email and I'll get it right out to you.  Happy Thanksgivikuh!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Mason Jars - Pint - Plastic - 16 ounces	Curtsey Boutique White Shipping Tags	Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique
Winter Wonderland Mini Kit	Valentine's Assortment Seambinding

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To see more of Lisa's lovely work be sure to visit her blog, Just a Slice Please, by clicking on her picture.