Sunday, March 28, 2010

Blog Hop Monday!

It's super, hybrid blog hop day! So if you are in the mood for a ton of great hybrid ideas using Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs' fabulous templates you are in for a great day. Grab a cup of coffee and come hop along! Did I mention there's a prize? Make sure you hop to Kelleigh's blog and comment on which of the projects you liked the best (vote for me!). You can win a gift card to Kelleigh's store at the Digichick and I could win too!

My project features Kelleigh's Toolbox Template (The Digichick) turned into a makeup box party favor. I mixed it up a bit and made it all girly!


I used Traci Reed's and Meghan Mullen's Girl's Day Out (Sweet Shoppe) kit to decorate the box. To make this easier on me - I opened Kelleigh's template in Photoshop Elements and colored the box black. To figure out how big to make each of the paper pieces I used the shape tool to make a template for each section by making the box just smaller than the actual box. I then moved all the pieces to a printing sheet. I printed on glossy presentation paper and trimmed. I pasted the decorative pieces on to the box before assembly (makes things much easier!!! I added a simple ribbon handle, a button and some little bows on the side to make this extra girly. What little girl wouldn't love this as a birthday favor??

For the invite I used my Cricut to cut the 4" scalloped paper for the background. Everything else was done in Elements.

Here's a few close up shots for you.




For more awesome hybrid ideas hop along and check out a few more cool projects on the blogs below.
Kelleigh
Tracy
Sally
Laura
Julie
Christy
Dana
LuAnn
Jacinda
Viva
Dalis
Holly
Sharyn
Karen Lewis
Linda
Alice
Meg
Sunghee
Carolina
Debbie
Kim

Have fun hopping! Oh yeah and as a bonus for my readers today....come check out my post on Eva Kipler's Blog for a step by step on how to make this adorable Chick Candy Dispenser using another of Kelleigh's rocking templates!

11 comments:

HeatherB said...

Both great projects, but I am in love with that little chickie! :)

Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs said...

These are both so fabulous!! I love the girly toolbox!! What a wonderful idea! I'm off to Eva's blog to check out that Chicky!! SO cute!

Dnadryad said...

I just LOVE the make-uop box, it's so cute !

ComfyMom~Stacey said...

That make up box is adorable!

Debbie Seyer said...

Absolutely adorable!

Holly in Japan said...

Love these cuuute projects. Love your presentation of the makeup bag. Very cute!

sunghee said...

HOw cool are these!!! Chick cand dipsnser can't be any cuter! LOVE IT!!!

LuAnn said...

GREAT projects Juli!! I'd love to have that little makeup tool box with the pretty pink and purple paper! and that chick is soooo dang cute!!!

Sharyn said...

This is far too cute, so wonderfully girly. I think this gets my vote!!

Marlene Diefendorf said...

Oh I love both of your projects. Great job!

Carolina said...

Lovin' the chik box...so, so cute! The Make up box is just brilliant ~love it!!!