Each month every Stampin' Up! demonstrator receives a complimentary copy of Stampin' Success Magazine in the mail. Each issue is packed full of stamping and business inspiration. My favorites are always the ones that come out around the time a new mini catalog is released because they showcase the new products. In last month's issue, a GORGEOUS flower pot was pictured on one of the pages. I immediately knew I wanted to try to make it.
While I was at out shopping last weekend for pillow gifts for my incentive trip, I came across some cute flower pots that I thought I could decorate in some way. The first I used as a flower pot - inspired by the one in last month's Stampin' Success magazine. My inspiration actually had leaves glued up and around the edges of the pot - I skipped those. And, my pot was larger so I doubled the number of flowers. My flowers are Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, and Daffodil Delight. I cut them with the Fun Flowers Die and embossed them using the Polka Dot and Lattice embossing folders. The centers of the smaller flowers didn't turn out exactly as I hoped, but I like them anyway. I took a 1-3/4" circle punch and punched out a piece of card stock. I then adhered Brights Buttons to the centers of each flower using Glue Dots.
Using my paper snips, I spiral cut each center then curled them up. I used a 8-1/2"x11" sheet of Crumb Cake Card Stock that I cut into narrow strips and ran through my crimper (yes, I finally found it) to make the "potting soil/grass". To embellish the tin, I frayed some 1-1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon (Daffodil Delight) and tied it around the pot. Somehow I needed to tie in the Summer Mini Catalog - since this project was ultimately created to be a sample at next month's open house. So, I punched the "thanks" sentiment from the Pretty Postage Stamp Set and adhered it to a piece of Melon Mambo that I'd punched with the large tag punch. And I used my favorite new accessory - White Baker's Twine - to tie the tag to my pot!
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