Friday, February 4, 2011

Happy Mail CR84FN13

Happy Friday! I hope your week has been a good one. We are finally out of the deep freeze here (it got down to -18 on Tuesday) but it is still cold with more snow on the way. I hope the weather is better where you are. My week was not one of my best. My treadmill broke on Tuesday. I had a migraine so bad on Wednesday I had to go to bed in the middle of the day for awhile and today Sophie killed another squirrel and brought it in the house again! I am hoping the weekend will be better.
I have wanted to participate in Mona Pendelton's CR84FN color challenges for awhile but have not had a chance to until now. With everything that happened this week thankfully I was still able to get it done. I am cutting this close to the wire for entering since it ends in a few hours but I made it though. These were the colors. Some of my favorite's.

This is what I came up with

Inside you will find these

I started with Lauren Meader's Happy Mail SVG template that I cut out of PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock. I made the Argyle Heart paper using the Argyle Amazement digi images. The hearts were die cut from the Nestabilitie Heart dies using Pure Poppy and Tempting Turquoise Cardstock. The red hearts are covered in red German Glass Glitter. The Love stamp is from PTI's Border's And Corners Hearts Set and stamped on white cardstock using Dark Chocolate ink. Then I cut them into little banners and hot glued them on. Red baby pom pom trim finishes it off.
The lunch box notes fit perfectly inside the mailbox. I started with a Pure Poppy Base then added some more of the argyle heart paper I made to the bottoms. I embossed the tops with tiny dots. After that I cut some doily Limitless Layer's using Kraft cardstock then I added a Tempting Turquoise circle and another white circle which I stamped with one of the circular images from The Simple Valentine set. I finished them off with a heart stamp from the same set To finish them off I added a piece of white cardstock to the insides to write a little note on.
Here is a photo of the whole set.

I think this would make a great Valentine's gift for a little girl. I will be putting it up for sale in my Etsy shop soon.
That's it for now. I will be back soon with more to share. Until then I hope you have a great weekend and as always thanks for stopping by.

21 comments:

Sue Ann said...

Girl you totally out did this challenge ....... I love the mail box ...... TOO CUTE!! And the matching cards inside ....... GREAT TOUCH!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT ... when I say the mailbox I did think you were going to open it and a cupcake would be the treat inside :)

Lisa Somerville said...

Fab job altering the mailbox! Thanks for playing at CR84FN!

Mona Pendleton said...

Oh my Terri! Love your sweet gift ensemble! You did an amazing job making the mailbox template and the argyle/heart custom stamped DP looks fabulous! Love all the little Valentines that go with! Thank you so much for playing along with CR84FN :)

Is Sophie a Westie? :)

Margaret M said...

So darn cute! That looks like the little mailboxes from Target..they were the rage a couple of years ago. You did a great job decorating and the little cards inside are so sweet..cute Valentine gift idea! Hope your weekend is much better than your week was!

BethieJ said...

Terri this turned out FANTASTIC! I LOVE everything about it!! What a WONDERFUL gift!!!
EEK on the squirrel.. hope this was the LAST ONE!!
STAY WARM!!! Have a GREAT weekend!

Michele said...

wow it is fabulous! xo

Stephanie said...

OMG.........This is just amazing!!!! Absolutely AMAZING! I love everything about it including those darling little cards inside. Just darling!

Laurel Beard said...

Oh my goodness! This is amazing Terri! Absolutely amazing. I love the colors, the layouts, the mailbox, the cards, the hearts placement! This whole project is absolutely adorable. I can see all the love that went into making this beauty! I LOVE IT!

Kara said...

totally adorable!! love this!

Andrea M said...

Terri this is A-MAZING! What a gorgeous gift set! Great job! Thanks so much for playing along with CR84FN!!! Hope you can join us again next week!

tamdoll said...

This is so, so nice! Love the colors and you did such a great job.

Leigh Ann Baird said...

This is perfect! Just perfect! Great colors and the little notes are adorable!

I hate to hear about the migraine because I get 1-2 a month myself and know how awful they can be. I had a migraine yesterday that was killer. I even took something for it right away but it still took all day and lots of laying in bed to feel better. When I finally could get up and function (slowly) I was starving from not being able to eat all day. Yikes about the squirrel!

Lindsay said...

This is so fantastci Terri! Wow! I love the mailbox and coordinating letters! Great work!

Unknown said...

For a woman with the week you had, I cannot believe what a great project you created here with those color and all the 3-D elements. You're my 3-D idol! I just have to say, yuck and double yuck on both the migraine and the dead squirrel in the house, I get the migraines too but I'm thankful our dog hasn't managed to catch a squirrel yet! Yours must be way more agile!!!

Monica K. said...

This is so, so cute!! Love the Valentine's mailbox with the love notes. Such a sweet idea!

Unknown said...

Sweet gift set, Terri! Thanks for playing with CR84FN!

Sue Lelli said...

Terri, WOW! Can't believe this is digi paper! LOVE the mailbox with that FAB shiny heart flag! LOVE the notecards for the inside. You may have been down to the wire but I'm so GLAD you played with us at CR84FN!

Diane Jaquay said...

TERRI!!! Holy cow girl, this is one of the cutest things I've seen in a LONG time! I think I bought that mailbox template when it came out but I've never used it. You've done such a FABULOUS job with it, LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

Jen Adcock said...

Oh Terri, this is too much! Does your talent know no bounds? I think not. This project is AMAZING!!! Dizzingly beautiful.

Becca said...

So cute! You definitely met the challenge! I love it. TFS

Becca

scrappinbeccascraftroom@blogspot.com

Becca said...

So cute! You definitely met the challenge! I love it. TFS

Becca

scrappinbeccascraftroom@blogspot.com