We've shipped nearly all the St. Patty's Day Kits and I imagine some should land before the weekends starts - so I wanted to post instructions in case you are going to be snowbound like we will be (major winter storm headed our way) and have nothing to do but create... so here are the project instructions:
Lucky Favor Cone:
For the Lucky Favor Cone, remove your Creative Imaginations white flat unassembled paper cone from the kit.
1) Trace the cone onto the back side of the desired piece of patterned paper (I used the striped paper from Reminisce). Cut out the pattern you trace and adhere it with Perfect Paper Matte Adhesive (my favorite glue) or any other adhesive to the cone. If you want the flaps to be an alternate, coordinating pattern, fold up the flaps when you are tracing so that you are NOT tracing around the flaps. Then after glueing the body down, trace the flaps alone onto a separate piece of paper and cut them out and adhere.
2) Use a strong double sided redliner tape, such as Provo Craft's Terrifically Tacky Tape (I use this on EVERY project -- usually use the 1/4" size), to adhere the ends of the cone shut. (All you do is fold each scored line on the cone and adhere the ends shut, so that the skinny piece of scored cardstock is on the INSIDE of the cone.
3) If you wish, you can run a piece of the gold ribbon from the kit through a xyron machine and apply it around the upper half of the cone (It doesn't fit cleanly and neatly around so I actually cut and applied mine in pieces, covering the seams with the scalloped medallions cut with a scalloped punch from the Reminisce Lucky paper, where required. On the reverse side of the cone, I cut a scallop from a coordinating yellow pattern in my stash and set my punched gift tag from the kit in the middle of the scallop.
4) Cut a slit into the glitter pom pom carefully and apply glue, slide it onto the end of the cone.
5) Now the tricky part: be VERY CAREFUL not to cut yourself doing this, but using an xacto or craft knife, carefully cut two small slits in the back of the leprechaun glittery hat. Some of the glitter will come off - don't worry about that as we can glue that back in place easily. The slit should be big enough for the seam binding to fit into. Now fold down two opposing flaps and punch holes that are directly opposite each other, keeping the front facing flaps and the rear-facing flaps UNpunched. (Hope that makes sense)!
6) Starting on the inside of the cone, knot the gold seam binding on one end, and pull it through the hole in the flap on the underside. Do this for each side. Bring the gold seam binding up and thread it on either side, through the slits you've cut in the hat. Bring the seam binding around to the front and tie a bow so that the cone hangs properly with the leprechaun hat directly at the top of the bow. Glue back in place any glitter that came off the hat when pulling the ribbon through. Fill with goodies, and hang, and voila, you're done!
I'll do two separate posts with instructions for the other two projects (basically I will update to this post) -- just because I am paranoid that I will lose the post before I save it, lol!
Project Instructions for Maya Road Tin with Glittered Postcard:
1) Remove your empty Maya Road tin from the kit. (Oh - and do this project last so you can use the scraps from the matboard piece in your kit after you've completed the Lucky Girl Project). Using the scrap from the matboard, cut a piece of matboard that will fit neatly inside the lower part of the tin (I used the bottom of the tin, not the lid). Use a corner rounder to get the corners well rounded and neatly fitting inside the tin.
2) Using the Provocraft Terrifically Tacky or similar tape, tape on all four sides around the tin, then cutting around the curved edges so that the tape conforms to the matboard. Now we will glitter! Set the matboard onto a larger piece of clean paper that will catch your excess glitter - you'll want to save and reuse it - glass glitter is expensive and beautiful -- but fortunately, a little goes a long way! Now you need to look at your postcard and decide which glitter will work better for your background -- if the postcard is predominantly green - I'd use the GOLD glitter, but if it's got a cream background -- you may want to try the green. Peel off the redliner tape and glitter up the edges of the matboard. And you need to be glittering atleast 1/4" of edge on the matboard so that the postcard covers the unglittered area.
3) Now trim the edges of your postcard with the corner rounder. Adhere the postcard with pop dots for raised dimension, on top of the glitter edged matboard. I also added a scalloped circle which I used to anchor my shamrock stamping. I actually turned my stamping green with Tim Holtz Distress Inks - I think I used Meadow and Gold mixed together, but you can skip this part if desired.
4) Using a cropodile, punch holes in the metal tin at the top - determine where the top of the tin will be, depending on if your postcard sits horizontally or vertically. Then punch the holes. Thread seambinding through the holes - I used antique gold and brown together but you could use green too if your postcard calls for it. If you wish - you can add beads at the top where the bow is tied by using clear thread and tying it or sewing it onto the seam binding.
5) Now adhere the postcard and mat into the tin and you're done - it's ready for hanging or gift giving!
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