Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Custom Colored Paper

I designed these cool project for the Utah Divas blog and I had so much fun doing so. The first project (in black) is a #2 box from sizzix. I made two of them, sandwiched them back to back and punched a hole. Then, i used tombo multi purpose adhesive to stick the boxes back to back together.

To color the bands of bridesmaid paper, I took a sponge dauber and melon mambo ink and added it to the paper, it dries instantly! How fun are these??

And how cool are these little cups! I think the MOST important tip i can share about these is to remember to stick them together like they are a dixie cup. So you invert the bottom and there's a little ledge. I also overlap the score line on the cup and it makes the cup more solid.

4 comments:

Pam said...

What an awesome idea for that paper! Wow! I'm going to have to give that a try. Thanks so much!

Lisa Somerville said...

Beautiful projects Selene

Sue Burton said...

Selene- I love the coloring- on the Utah Divas' blog you said you said you overlapped the side of the Blossom and Bloom Basket- would you please explain further- I don't catch on so quick :-) thanks
Sue

Selene Kempton said...

Hey Sue ~ I overlapped where the sizzix machine scores the cup on the sides. If you assemble it so that it stops a the score line, the cup sometimes folds in half.... I hope that makes sense!