So, I told you a while back that I'd gone to this really great demo meeting, and did a WOW swap. Remember?? OK, not likely, but I did.
Anyway, I was going to show you earlier, but I ended up giving my 'copy' to another demo there, and I hadn't taken any pictures of it yet!! Then my friend Martha came over, and I was telling her my tale, and she went home and took pictures of my swap and emailed them to me!!! How SWEET is she????????? She's also super talented!! You can check out her blog HERE. Really. Check it out! It's AWESOME!! (and she doesn't CASE like I do!!)
So, here's what I made. I saw the idea on someone else's blog, so it's not my idea, but it was SO cute, that of course, I had to copy it!!! (Plus, it used up a bunch of the 50 million coasters I have around here!!)
It's a little 4x4 box that holds the 'fixings' for S'mores!! MMMMMMM!!! (I used the chocolate covered digestive cookies instead of chocolate and graham wafers... saves a step!!) Anyway, I thought I'd make up a few more to send with my daughter this weekend when she goes camping with a friend of hers. The only thing is, I don't think I have any coasters left!!!
Here's another angle:
So, I used the Happy Camper set, along with the co-coordinating wheel, and stamped each side of the box with something different. One side had the wheel, one just had the trees stamped about 3 times, and then the trailer with some more trees (I masked it), then the bear with the fire and more trees. There was a fair amount of masking, but it was worth the final effect. I ended up making a mask for the trailer, bear and fire out of some acetate scraps that I had lying around, as I found that after about 3 times stamping over the mask made it bleed through. That is SO frustrating!!!
Then I coloured the fire, and the grass under the signs from the wheel. Then I punched through the coasters and tied the corners together with some hemp twine, (or linen thread), and glued the bottom in with Crystal Effects. Let me tell you, that was the easiest thing I could find!! The long 'spout' worked so well to get down into the bottom of the box!!!!
Anyway, that was what I made. 16 of them. Yup, that's right... 16 of them!!! If you try to make them, let me know how it turns out!!!

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