Embellished Berry Basket with Shellye McDaniel

Embellished Berry Basket
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Shellye McDaniel

 Shellye shares a wonderful project today showcasing our brand new pint pulp berry baskets. She even gives a few tips on how to recreate it.

1. Cut a piece of floral foam to fit into berry basket.  

2. Using 'fringe' scissors (or hand-cutting strips with regular scissors) cut strips from paper bags.  

3. Crush shreds with your hands and then apply to top of the floral foam (I used a quick-dry glue to the top of the foam before covering with shreds).  

4. Determine placement for your forks and then insert into the foam. 

5.  Change up the fork display with different photos, recipes or notes!

Curtsey Boutique Products 

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To see more of Shellye's amazing creations visit her blog, Papered Cottage, or click on her image below.

 

Burlap Valentine's Bag by Jennifer Cowles

Burlap Valentine's Treat Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jennifer Cowles

Jennifer is with us today sharing a treat bag, perfect for the Valentine in your life.

Here is a fun and easy bag for party favors or even for a special Valentine.  I used the red and white bakers twine and stitched a heart in the burlap, I went around a few times and then sewed a felt flower down.  Swap out the burlap string for a nice velvet ribbon and you are done.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

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To see more of Jennifer's artwork visit her blog, Scrapbooking-N-More, or click on her image below.

Wedding Favor Box Tutorial with Jess Mutty

Jess has a fantastic tutorial to share with us today using all sorts of fun items from the shop. Enjoy!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies Used

To see more of Jess' fantastic work visit her blog, The Examined Life, or click on her picture below.

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Love Birds Congratulations Gift Bag by DT Member Shellye McDaniel

Love Birds Congratulations Gift Bag
Curtsey Boutique DT Member
Shellye McDaniel

 Happy New Year!

I am excited for all 2013 has to offer. This post marks the first for our new Design Team. The blog will be so much busier from now on and full of lovely inspiration - I hope you enjoy it.

First up is this charming Gift Bag by Shellye McDaniel and a tutorial on how she created it.

1.  After printing the 'love birds' image, use a 2.5"circle punch to cut out the design; adhere to the center of the doily.  

2.  Stamp sentiment onto a piece of cardstock, trim and add to bottom portion of image.  

3.Machine-stitch around the perimeter if desired.  

4.  Using a Ballpoint-Tip Glue Pen, attach a border of brown/white baker's twine around the edge of the image.  

5. Line the top of the doily to just under the hole of the shipping tag and attach with adhesive or glue dots. 

6. Next, attach the paper bow to the top of the doily using adhesive, foam dot or glue dot.  

7. Cluster two white felt roses to the side of the image (or center, if desired) and add a button or pearl to the center or leave plain.  

8.  Hand-cut or use a leaf punch to fashion a couple of leaves. 

9. Before tying the tag onto the paper bag, fold over the opening of the bag to create a flap.  

10.  Using the hole of the shipping tag as a guide, punch a hole into the top of the bag.  

11.  Tie tag on with a length of brown/white baker's twine.

Little gifting bags are perfect for holding gift cards, money, small frames or other trinkets.  Have a larger gift in mind?  The Curtsey Boutique has a large supply of different sized boxes, bags and sacks available.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

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Other Supplies:

-Love Birds Printable (vintagefangirl.com)

-Adhesive Pearls (Recollections)

-Misc. Punched Leaves

-Ballpoint Tip Glue Pen (Martha Stewart)

-"Congratulations" Stamp (unknown source)

-Staz On Timber Brown Ink

To view more of Shellye's work visit her blog, the Papered Cottage, or click on her image below.