It’s Thursday again! Yep – that means it’s time for another Lindsay project! Nadya and I have a baby shower to attend this weekend, so instead of a card, I put together a little gift card box. My box is based on this fabulous tutorial by Angie Tieman at SCS.

Instead of using my Top Note Die, I used the free Note SVG file from Beth – you can find it here. I opened the file in my SCAL software and resized it to 8.5×8.5 (keeping the dimension proportional) and then duplicated the shape so I’d have 2 cuts – one for the front and one for the back.  I loaded up some Bazzill Blue textured CS into the Cricut and cut away!  For the 2nd layer, I resized the shapes again to be 8×8 (again keeping them proportional).  This time I used some DP from Melissa Frances’ Hush A Bye Boy kit. I trimmed one edge of each of the shapes to be straight so that it would adhere to the box evenly and added the faux stitching with a black Micron pen. Following Angie’s directions, I created my box with the same Bazzill Blue CS and used Fiskars Glue Dots to adhere the tabs. The ribbon/fiber is also from Melissa’s Hush a Bye Boy page kit (the last of it – sigh).  Once my box was put together, I started working on my image.  The Congratulations sentiment is from Lindsay’s All Around Phrases set and the Baby shoes are from her Babies and Bows set.  I used a digital paper from Kristine (that I recolored) to “colorize” the dots in the sentiment and as the color fill for the laces.  I printed the image on Georgia Pacific CS and then trimmed it with my nestabilities (2.5 inch circle).  The scallop mat is cut from a scrap of DP from Melissa’s Hush a Bye Boy kit.  I colored the shoes with Copic and Prismacolor markers and then accented the eyelets and laces with Sakura pens. Then I put everything together – now I just have to go buy the gift card!  If you didn’t come here from Lindsay’s blog, be sure to visit! She has a new recipe card set in her Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff store and a fabulous Christmas freebie on her blog – plus you’ll want to get the links to all of the other DT blogs – the ladies have some awesome inspiration for you this week!

Have a fabulous Thursday – we’re off to swimming lessons this afternoon!