Happy Saturday everyone! The fun continues today, as we literally wrap up birthday week with birthday gift wrap ideas! Imagine the possibilities when you use your stamps to create not only birthday cards, but also one-of-a-kind packages. I’m excited to share two creative wrapping projects from Web Artist Laura Griffin today. Take it away, Laura!

“This first project is a great way to add color to a plain kraft gift bag (the kind you can find in most stores in the gift-wrap section). I’ve used a summer color scheme in this example, but you can change the look by going with a completely different palette.”

”To make the flowers, simply punch out two scallop circles in different sizes from a notecard. (I’ve used Marvy’s mega & giga-scalloped circle punches here.) Cut in between each scallop towards the center of the circle to create flower petals. Adhere the two pieces together with foam adhesive, curling the edges of the petals upward. Finally, stamp the center of the flower from the Circular Designs set onto another notecard, trim, and adhere to the center of your dimensional flower.”

Supplies:

• ClearDesign: Circular Designs
• Birthday Set
• Summer Notecards
• Colorbox Chalk Queue - Pumpkin Patch
• Colorbox Chalk Queue - Misty Meadow
• Versacolor Fresh Green Ink Cube
• Other: scallop circle punches (Marvy), ribbon (Offray), foam adhesive dots, scallop edge scissors (Provocraft), kraft gift bag (Target)

Aren’t those flowers a clever and gorgeous addition to the bag? I just love them. Laura provides us with one more creative packaging idea – take a look at the incredible altered box she created. So pretty!

Laura shares, “This project uses one of my favorite color combinations, green and purple. I’m particularly drawn to the Wisteria & Apple Green colors in Hero’s collection and wanted to find a way to use them on a larger-scale project without being limited by the size of the notecards. By stamping individual notecard panels and alternating them around the entire box, you can easily cover the entire piece in minutes. You can stamp a sentiment for the top of the box or add a message with alphabet stamps to personalize it further. Don’t forget to add pearl accents and coordinating Art Flowers to finish the look.”

Supplies:

• ClearDesign: Circular Designs
• Birthday Set
• Green Apple Notecards
• Wisteria Notecards
• Colorbox Chalk Queue - Misty Meadow
• Versacolor Fresh Green Ink Cube
• Accent Pearls
• Other: gift Box (Target), circle punches (Marvy), ribbon (Target), foam adhesive dots, large scallop edge scissors (Provocraft), heart-shaped straight pin (JoAnn)

What a great way to wrap up birthday week — thanks Laura!

And now it’s time to announce the DesignBlock Birthday stamp winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered yesterday’s random drawing. I used random.org to choose one number from all of the comments. And the winner is…

#125 Michelle, who commented at 9:26 am, “Great birthday background stamp. I can think of at least 6 birthday cards I need to make in the next month that I could play with this stamp. Also, I loved the wedge idea from Jacki’s birthday card. It makes it so not store bought!”

Congratulations, Michelle! I will email you for your address and will get your new stamp right out to you. Enjoy!

Enabler alert! The Design Block Birthday stamp is available HERE in the Hero Arts Online Store!

Thanks for joining the Web Artists this week! I hope you’ve been inspired to create some birthday projects of your own. I have to tell you — I’m blown away by all of the wonderful birthday creations you’ve already submitted to the Hero Arts flickr group for the birthday challenge! WOW! Remember, you have until Sunday at 11:59pm PST to enter your projects.

Imagine, create, and celebrate!

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