Hi, and welcome to the Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop! This is a monthly hop with Stampin’ Up! friends around the world; you’re currently visiting Sarah Fleming in the USA. This month’s theme is Something Different. A fun or fancy fold, or something besides a card. I went waaaaay out of my comfort zone and finally tackled an idea that’s been floating around in my head for months.
I bought this container of Ice Cubes in May. May! I’d seen the ice cubes in the Coffee Cafe stamp set, so when I saw Ice Cubes at the grocery store, I grabbed them, planning to do some kind of fancy packaging for them. It’s been sitting in a basket on my desk for months. Long enough that the container is now empty. I have no idea how that happened. >.>
So here’s what I came up with. I cut a strip of 2″ x 12″ (actually, just a hair under 2″ wide) Whisper White cardstock and punched both ends with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. I stamped the long wrapper with a stamp from Touches of Texture, in both Berry Burst and Daffodil Delight. I scored the middle two inches of the strip (I’m sorry, I didn’t get a measurement) to have a defined bottom for the treat wrapper. I attached the Ice Cubes container to the wrapper with Glue Dots, but if you’re going to actually give this to someone, you’d be better off using hot glue, or maybe lots of Tear & Tape. Super helpful, I know. Then I tied the ends together with the Berry Burst 1/2″ Finely Woven Ribbon. I added a strip of Silver Mini Sequin Trim to the bow before tightening the loops.
The cups on the front use the Coffee Cafe stamps and dies. The frozen lemonade on the left is made with Daffodil Delight cardstock (behind) and Vellum Cardstock on top. The “you’re” comes from a stamp in the Cool Treats stamp set (“you’re the cherry to my sundae” — I stamped it, then cut out the word I wanted), and the “sweet” is die cut using the Cupcake Cutouts framelits. I finished off the front with some Metallic Sequins.
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This is such a cute idea Sarah….am going to have to try this
So freakin’ cute! Love this! Gah now I need the coffee bundle :P Thank you for joining in the September Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop! xx
I have no idea what Ice Cubes are but they must be yummy to deserve such gorgeous packaging!
Very cute and yummy looking Sarah … I must admit when I first started reading your post, I wondered how you could buy ice cubes in a container and keep them on your desk! :) xxx
I was trying to think about a good hostess gift. Thanks for the great idea. I think I am going to use this.
Very cute and I love the colors you used….makes me happy!
Great colour combo and I am glad that your idea finally seen the light of day <3
Cheers Shaz
This is fun & bright Sarah. You sort of lost me with the buying of ice cubes (don’t you have a freezer?) but I think I may have worked it out haha. Love your blog’s name too. TFS
Super cute! Love love love!!!
So cute, such a great idea
Such a cute and clever idea for packaging Sarah. Love it!