ihp design team challenge

Welcome to this month's i {heart} papers design team challenge!  We have a fun inspiration challenge this month!  Just take a look at this gorgeous Candy Shop in Ottawa!  Their photo gallery will make your mouth water!  What delicious inspiration for a Valentine gift!

My jar of chocolates comes from our local chocolatier, Peterbrooke...originally it had only a simple white bow, but I took inspiration from the yellows, oranges, and corals in this photo and came up with a light-hearted lava lamp tag and flip-top greeting to dress it up.

I used a nestabilities die to cut a tag shape from teal-colored card stock, then accented it with Cosmo Cricket Togetherness designer paper and matted it with white card stock.  The lava lamp from Our Craft Lounge's Lava You was stamped with Memento ink, colored with Copic markers, trimmed with snips and adhered over some scalloped velvet trim with tall Zva adhesive dots.  The sentiment was cut out with a nestabilities classic square.  I replaced the original bow with a yellow silk one, then tied the tag on with aqua blue divine twine.

To decorate the top, I used i stick papers tape to adhere more scalloped velvet trim around the edge of the lid.  I cut a small circular card from folded card stock using a nestabilities circle, stamped the "I lava you" greeting inside, adhered it to the lid, and then adhered designer paper matted with card stock to the top of that.   The Copic-dyed Tim Holtz trimmings were inspired by the dangling pom-poms in another photo from the inspiration gallery.

Be sure to visit the rest of the ihp girls to see what great projects they were inspired to create!

Carolyn
Cathleen
Gretchen
Kendra
Loretta
Lori
Lynn
Megan
Tracy
Kate