Bring Back Beautiful Gift Packaging!

Hello Everyone and welcome to another Bring Back Beautiful Challenge!!!  As we get closer to the season of giving, let’s take the wraps off your creativity to come up with beautiful ways to gift give. Do you have a fun template for a beautiful box? Or, do you have a beautiful presentation for gift cards? Show us what you’ve got! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge project HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB03. You have until October 30th to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!

Today I've decided to use a template that I got from My Time Made Easy called a Trendy Tool Tote!  I had this idea to make the front into a garden using the pansies from A Year in Flowers 1 and a 'fence'.  I followed the instructions to create the tote out of yellow bazzill and then made the decorative panels out of light green bazzill, embossing three of them with Argyle EF.  The fourth I left plain so it would become my garden background.  

 I stamped the pansies from A Year in Flowers 1 three times in Memento Tuxedo Black onto X-press It Blending Card and coloured with Copics (YG13, YG17, YG67, V01, V12, V15, V17, Y15) and then VERY carefully cut them out.  I used my BFF's (Edna15) MS Lattice Border Punch to create my white fence and then popped up the pansies over the top.  I then added some white satin ribbon to the handle, added a bow, button and tag.  The tag was stamped with 'Best Wishes' from the Fanciful Flourishes set and then I stamped the two step butterfly from the same set in purple and overlaid the flourish part in black.  I cut the butterfly out and popped it up on foam tape.


Soooooo.....what sort of gift could you put in here??  Well it's big enough to put an assortment of things, but I thought it was perfect for COPICS!!!  :)  LOL!!!!

Stamps - A Year in Flowers 1, Fanciful Flourishes (Flourishes)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, White, Yellow and Green Bazzill
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Heliotrope Versacolor
Accessories - Copics, Martha Stewart Lattice Border Punch, May Arts White Satin Ribbon, Bow Easy, SU Flower Brads, Button, Gold Cord, Foam Tape.

Don't forget to see what gorgeous creations the other Beauty Girls have in store for you!!!!

Beate Johns
Becca Feeken
Cindy Coutts 
Julie Koerber
Michelle Woerner
Yvonne Hagane 

Before I go, I just want to wish my Mum a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!  We celebrated with her last week-end, but today is the actual day!  LOVE YOU MUM and hope you have a wonderful day today!!!!  :)

That's all from me today, enjoy the projects the rest of the Beauty Team have for you and can't wait to see what YOU create!!!  :)