Welcome back to 3-D Thursday and this week it is my turn to show you a little something that I created…now being August, I have back to school in mind…which is bittersweet this time around as my babies are starting high school – how in the world did that happen so fast?!
So thinking of back to school, I decided to make a treat that would be perfect to give to teachers on the first day back which is pretty to look at and also has a little chocolate in there too for a well deserved treat…further down this post you will find a link to the FREE Project Sheet that has step by step instructions & color photos that you can save to your computer or print out and have on hand for easy reference.
Here is my treat…it’s a Paper Flower Vase filled with yummy chocolate Ghirardelli squares…
I wanted it to be bright, vibrant and cheerful and I also wanted to make it so that you could make a bunch of these treats for multiple classes in a pretty short amount of time as back to school requires a lot of preparation which in turn can take a lot of time!
In order to achieve that, I designed it so that this project lets the card stocks, patterned paper, ribbon and basic shapes do the work for you – once you’ve cut & scored all of the pieces, you just need to assemble them which I love to do whilst watching a show or movie.
Here is a close up of the vase section…that pretty Lemon Lime Twist & Kraft striped paper is from Foil Frenzy Specialty DSP and the metallic green stripes are super shiny!
The only stamping on this project is the tag which uses a stamp from Tabs for Everything – I deliberately kept the stamping to a minimum to keep this project quicker to make – but I have to tell you, I was so tempted to stamp the flowers! But I managed to restrain myself whilst chanting ‘keep it simple Sarah’ LOL!
The ribbon tied around the vase is beautiful – it is the Basic Black 3/8″ Shimmer Ribbon and has lots of sparkle to it – you can see a bit of this with the sparkle flecks in the photo below – in real life, it is much sparklier and very, very pretty.
Here is a birds eye view looking down into the vase…see the foil wrappers? Yup, there are 4 Ghirardelli chocolate squares nestled down in there…but I can tell you that a few more were eaten in the making of this…hehehehe…
Those chocolate squares are layered using Dimensionals, which are positioned in lines & staggered so that they provide support for the flowers.
And speaking of flowers, here is a close up of those…
The flowers were cut out of Crushed Curry card stock using the new Daisy Punch, the centers a circle of Basic Black and the fab new Lemon Lime Twist for the leaves – for the stems, I used some thick gauge florists wire that I found at a big box store.
All punches & dies that I used on this project can be found in the Supply List & on the Project Sheet below – additionally on that sheet you will find ALL measurements & step by step instructions so you can make some of your own.
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Here are the supplies that I used to make this project – click on any of the products below to find them in the Stampin’ Up! online store:
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