Since it is the last week of the month I thought I would make this last project with the Let's Toast stamp set a BIG one.
Not only is this card a 5" x 7" card, but it is an interactive card, holds a lip balm and has a matching gift with coordinating gift tag. It's almost too much fun for one blog post!
If you have been following my blog or my Facebook page for a while then you already know my obsession with cereal flavored lip balm/chapstick. There really is not explanation for it except that I just thought it was cute and fun. It's been a while since I have made a lip balm creation, but then everything just fell into place for this card. A big part of that was the fact that the Lip Balm Pouches and Lip Balm Window dies became available from My Favorite Things. And when you have a Toaster stamp set and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Lip Balm, well, this is what happens.....
I LOVE how this card all came together.
I took two colors from the lip balm to create my color palette; Turquoise and Red. I knew I wanted this card to use the Pull Tab add on die set from Lawn Fawn to make my Cinnamon Toast pop up out of the toaster. And I knew I wanted to have the Cinnamon Toast Crunch lip balm right on my card. After a bit of design and redesign this is the finished card.
Let me show you the inside of the card, so you can see how the recipient gets the lip balm out of the card.
Such a cleaver die set by MFT! You could use this for lots of fun things and I love to have a die that is a tool. With such a large card I did not want to leave the other inside panel plain, so I dressed it up.
The scalloped rectangle is the center of the die cut frame from the card front, a fun die set from Lawn Fawn, called Outside In Stitched Scallop Rectangles.
I love this card so much, I had way too much fun making it and I might have paraded it around my house for each family member to see.
I could not let the fun end there. I needed to dress up my to go cup of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal to match. So I made a tag and used my Let's Toast stamps and dies to dress it up.
Did you notice the little plug for the toaster??? I used a small piece of black twine for the cord and the pat of butter die for the plug. The prongs on the plug are hand drawn with a black gel pen.
And, I have to tell you about the polka dot background on the tag. I die cut two Bread Tag dies, one from Cranberry Bliss card stock and one from Whip Cream Card stock. I then ran the Cranberry tag through my die cut machine using the Lots of Dots die set. This made fun holes into the red tag. I glued this tag to the white one for a fun polka dotted tag.
And how about those spoons!!! In my other cereal/lip balm creation I have used plain disposable wooden eating spoons. Well, one of my friends, Cindi Kurtz, found these spoons, with the colored handles and sent them to me! I LOVE them so much and have been waiting for the perfect project to use them with. I stamped the handles with images from the Let's Toast Stamp set and a sentiment from the Sending Smooches set. Look closely and you can see that I stamped a heart on the lips of the smiley face, it's suppose to be a kiss. Who knew cereal could be such a great gift?
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