Love Letter Mailbox With Christi

Good Morning ! Christi here from Scrapping For Tranquility

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With Valentine's Day around the corner, I wanted to make something stunning to decorate my couch table.  It is the first thing you see if you come in my front door.  When I laid eyes on the JGW Love Letters Mailbox, I knew just what I wanted to do.  

Of Course Jodi again gives you a wonderful tutorial to help put this together and it is rather helpful.  She is so detailed in her step by step tutorials that it makes her crafts such a breeze.  

I used one of my favorite girly stacks from Hobby Lobby to put this together and  Polka Dot Cardstock from Joanns.  My Solid Cardstock is AC Cardstock.

I then added the heart brads and other embellishments.  

What I really like about this Mailbox is I made one for each of my grandkids for the classrooms at school and they can have their Valentine Cards put in them.   I let them decorate it how they wanted to .  They had a blast doing so.   There is soooo many uses for this beautiful mailbox. Wedding cards, Beth made a Christmas one.  Folks let's see what you can come up with!  I would love to see your mailbox's!  I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day and thank you for joining me on the SVG ATTIC Blog today!  Blessings!  

Welcome Spring Collection with Lisa

Lisa from The Crafting Cave sharing a "Happy Mother's Day" set I made using 

SVG Attic's Welcome Spring Collection.

This collection is so versatile, I fell in love with it.

 Birdhouse, Birdcage and Watering Can

I used DCWV The Preppy Princess Stack for all the projects listed.

I'm planning on using the Birdhouse to hold a cupcake. I have plastic container

for cupcakes that fits perfectly inside. I cut everything out and then assembled. Of course, 

that's when my wheels start turning. The lattice around the bottom actually goes with the birdcage file and the bird is from the card file. I added a little moss, the flowers, and punched the birds around the top. I dabbed gold ink randomly on the birdhouse.

 As I worked on the birdhouse my brain was in overdrive. (I'm dangerous if I sit still too long!)

The watering can was next and I knew I would want to use it for fresh flowers. (I'm thinking I can 

use a clear cup to hold the flowers.) The file uses a very pretty flower on the sides of the watering can but I wanted to cover it butterflies since I'm using fresh flowers in it. Well, hello, perfect! The birdcage has a butterfly that perches on top of it. I just resized the butterfly file and cut multiples. 

I inked a few of the butterflies using distress inks and added pearls. I really wanted it to pop though. 

So gold and pink glittered butterflies did the trick.

I think the birdcage will make a beautiful centerpiece. Again, I used elements from other files, within this collection, to embellish the birdcage. I added glitter to the bird and let the polka dots on the leaves do the work for me. The flowers are from my stash. 

I have some other ideas for this collection. I'm positive I will be using it again!

I hope you have an amazing weekend!