Kinda Eclectic Notecard Set and Envelope Box Tutorial

If you are doing the ESAD blog hop, welcome – weren’t Narelle’s items  at  just beautiful? I might have to add Work of Art to my wish list!

What is ESAD? ESAD stands for “Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators” and is a facebook group just for Australian and New Zealand Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends and blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge, ideas& friendship and we’re always there to help and support each other.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to leave me a comment with your email address then I’ll contact you with information on how to join our group.

Isn’t the new catalogue exciting – so many beautiful things, inspiring new ones and classic carry over items. One of the things that I love best about the new catalogue are the new In Colors – I’m so excited that world trends are moving on from pastels and pink (yes I do have colour aversion). Given that Regals are also my favourite colour family, I am doubly happy with this years five new colours, I used them with one of my other favourite products, the envelope notecards to make a set of cards and then a box to hold them to create a lovely gift.

I designed the box to be made from an A4 piece of card stock, the initial starting size is 21cm x 21cm. The measurements for punching and scoring on the envelope punch board are 8cm and 10cm as per my sketch below.

The box was made in Hello Honey, with a Blackberry Bliss belly band and a white overlay, I was so happy that Gorgeous Grunge and Everything Eleanor stamp sets carried over this year as I love using both of them.

The cards that I made matched the box (or was it vice versa?) all similar design and CASEd from my catalogue launch card here, they were embellished with a sentiment and butterfly from Kinda Eclectic cut with the Chalk Talk framelits and sponged with the same ink.

Here is a close up of one of the cards, the flower is from Itty Bitty Accents and highlighted with some basic rhinestones.

Of course I had to decorate the envelopes to match as I can’t abide naked envelopes – so they were adorned with images from Kinds Eclectic front and back. I made a several of these cards this week, and sent them off as RAKs (random acts of kindness) to recipients who hopefully will get a smile at receiving them. I try to send of RAKs every month to share the love of what I do – if you ever want to be added to my list of recipients, leave me a comment and I will endeavour to get a card to you sooner rather than later!

The next blog on the ESAD hop is Libby’s blog here – enjoy & don’t forget if you have any questions about what I made, please feel free to leave me a comment.