Polished to Perfection!

Hi Stampers!

It will be a two post day for me today :) This week I started designing for The Cutting Café again! I am super excited for that and can't thank Regina enough for having me back :) This week for our Design Team Project we could choose any file we wished to use.

This week is also our Anything Goes Challenge at Loves Rubberstamps and The Cutting Café is our Guest Sponsor so I combined my projects for this week :) My daughter's birthday is next month so I decided to create a little gift box and a matching card for her and be ahead of things when the time comes :)

Here is the set that I created:

When I saw that adorable little Nail Polish Box Holder Template from The Cutting Café I immediately thought of my Polished To Perfection A'La Mode and thought it would create the cutest set!

Here is a close up of the Nail Polish Box...

I actually used two different files from The Cutting Café to create this. I used the Nail Polish Box Template, which comes with templates for two different boxes, the one like I made and then a rectangular one. You can kind of see in my first photo that there is a little box between these two Nail Polish Bottles. You can fit one or two bottles of full size nail polish inside depending on the shape of the bottle. The sentiment on the Nail Polish Bottle is from the Nail Polish Shaped Card Invite Set. This comes with quite a few cute sentiments that you can decorate with.

Here is a close up of my card:

All of my designer papers are from the Authentique Lovely paper pack. My flower is from prima and I used the Martha Stewart Branch punch to create some little leaves. I had to use my Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress ink to ink the sides of everything. I think this is becoming a must for me :) I used Frantage for the second time and love how it looks. This time I remembered to heat from the bottom of my paper BEFORE layering I so it turned out better I think :) The rose trim is my FAVORITE and it is actually from Stampin Up! I need to buy cases of this - LOL!

You can't see it very good in pictures but on the nail polish bottle I used some frosty shimmer paint to make it look pearly like the frosty nail polishes have. It looks really pretty in person with the shimmery glaze on it.

For the layout on my card I used this week's My Favorite Things Sketch:

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back later today for my Design Team Post for Crafty Sentiments Designs! I hope that you will play along with us in this week's Loves Rubberstamps Anything Goes Challenge! Also ... be sure to check out The Cutting Café Inspiration Blog tomorrow afternoon to see what my fellow Design Team Members created and when you leave a comment on the blog post, you might be the lucky winner of the weekly giveaway :)

Have a great day all!
Laura

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge
Bearly Mine Challenge - #102 Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Paper Piecing
Creative Craft Challenge - Picture Inspiration
Mema's Crafts - September Challenge - Lace & Flowers
Addicted To Stamps - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen - Pretty In Pink
A Gem of a Challenge - Use 2 Backing Papers
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Left of Center Challenges - Girly or LOC
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes With Ribbons
The Paper Shelter - Lace & Pearls
Penny's Paper Crafty - 3 embellishments - pearls, ribbon, flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes