I love Monday mornings! How many of us can say that and actually mean it?
I can and do for a whole host of reasons. Firstly, as I run my own business, doing something I am passionate about, why wouldn’t I want to be doing it? Because most of what I do is based at home, it means I don’t have to worry about the weather and the trains running late, I just walk across from my front door to my workshop, which takes me an average of about 20 seconds, including unlocking; just a slight change from the 2 hour slog into the office I was doing last year.
But another reason that I like Mondays is that it means there is another Global Design Project Challenge waiting for me in my Inbox, which is a great way to get the creative juices running at the start of the week. This week the challenge is for a 3D Project – basically anything that isn’t a card.
I had great fun doing the stamping, trying out different colour combinations. Cutting the bugs out was not nearly as fiddly as I thought it would be – just remember to move the card, not the scissors. Then I stamped some ants running around and crawling up the box, tied the top with some of our Natural Trim and I was done.
I hope you enjoy this fun project. I think it would be a perfect box for the small boys in your life, who seem to relish collecting bugs.
Of course, as a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, I am lucky to get all my products at a discount, which does mean that my money stretches a lot further than it would otherwise. Yes, I run this as a business, but I know as many people who are Demonstrators just so they get a discount off their stash, as ‘Business’ Demos. Have a look at the current offer on the no obligation Starter Kit and the other offers that are available during Sale-a-Bration, in addition to the FREE item from the special Sale-a-Bration catalogue with every £45 of product you order.
Fantastic project Liz! So wonderful to hear your love of Stampin' Up!® and our wonderful business. It's the best job in the world. Thank you so much for playing along with this week's Global Design Project challenge! We love you playing along with us. 🙂
Hi Kylie. Thank you for you setting up the challenges. You are right, this is the best job in the world, and I am loving being a part of it! Looking forward to next week's challenge already.
Perfect project for this weeks challenge Liz, love those bugs!! Hope they don't bite!
Hi Michelle. Thank you for your kind comment. I really enjoyed this challenge, and the bugs are such fun.
Oh Liz – this project is so fun and awesome for this weeks challenge. Thanks so much for playing along to the Global Design Project this week. xo
Hi Louise. Thank you so much for your comment. I had so much fun making this little box of bugs
We used the same set! I love it! Those little air holes are the perfect detail. Thank-you for taking the global design project challenge last week – sorry i am a bit behind checking out all of the entires! – Krista from Canada
Thank Krista. The air holes were almost where I started with this. I was looking at what dies could work together and having realised the window box dies worked on the bakers box I thin just thought about what would be small enough to fit in such a small box. I am thrilled to have been selected as one of the winners!!