Sizzix ScoreBoard Blog Hop #2

Welcome to this week’s Blog Hop extravaganza! Today we have lots of amazing projects to inspire you with. The featured die is the Cupcake Holder. Last week in all the excitement, I didn’t introduce everyone- so I would just like to include some interesting facts about each of the contributing artists who have been working on this promotion with me. In Hop post #3, I will introduce our Cupcake Holder designers.

From the Box with Flap episode, we had Karen Burniston, a world famous pop-up artist and teacher, fellow Sizzix designer and lots of fun! I met Karen at CHA and it has been a joy getting to know her. Jenn Ellefson is a friend, neighbor and multi-talented designer as well as my blog guru. She will be posting to the Hop as a “regular”. Thanks Jenn :-). Ann Butler works in mixed media, sews, has a full-time job and has 5 kids. She is a fellow CHA designer friend who loves KFC almost as much as me and will also will also be contributing to each Hop. Ann definitely needs more to do… Korie B. and I go way back. Her work is exquisite, she has 2 adorable daughters and a beautiful new studio- check out her blog for pics. AND also… big Sizzix fan 🙂

Hope you have a chance to stop in tonight, Wednesday, October 28 at 10 PM for an informal interactive chat with Tiffany Windsor and show what you are working on. I will be posting some pics from the Hop today AND I will be wearing my pajamas… any excuse! 🙂

For my project, I designed a pumpkin. It’s two cupcake holders on top of each other which you can probably tell. The interesting part of this project is the material it’s made from. And honestly I am not sure WHAT it is. But it’s very cool. I was at Michael’s the other day trolling for fun materials I could run through the Big Shot and test the ScoreBoard dies with. I saw this plastic bag in the felt aisle. The label says “some material made from Eco-Fi” (which is 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles). The manufacturer is the Kunin Group. The material I chose to use feels like felt on one side and crushed up plastic bottles on the other, so I’m guessing this is the Eco-Fi. It went through the die cutter like a dream. It’s thicker and more rigid than regular felt. The score lines didn’t really make an indentation but the material is pliable so that didn’t matter too much. I added the two bottom brads to each cupcake holder and stacked them together to make a pumpkin shape. Then I lined up both pieces along the remaining one opening and joined all four layers with a brad. This is a little bulky but holds it together nicely.

I punched a hole in the top and threaded two pieces of thick brown floral wire for a stem. Twirled some thin green floral wire on a pencil for tendrils and inserted it up the middle with the stem, securing with glue.I glued the tabs on to the top and bottom because I wanted this to be sturdy. I sewed buttons to each section of the middle with embroidery floss, and wrapped thin orange ribbon around the buttons as a closure.

This little pumpkin would make a great favor box, special Halloween gift wrap or a nest for a big creepy SPIDER!!!! Ewwww…

Now take a look at what the other fabulous designers have done with this die…

Jenn Ellefson
Laura Bray
Fabrizio Martellucci
Bonnie Bruns
Barbara Mattheisson
Denise Clason
Lorine Mason
Gabriela Delworth
Ann Butler
Candice Windham
Niki Meiners
Eileen Hull