Hybrid Thursday
Have you had your fill of sweets yet? I know I haven't. I am that mom that sneaks candy from her kid's trick-or-treating bag. Yep, I know. Stealing candy from a 2 year old is kind of low, so I have to get my dose of sweetness somewhere.
I used Crystal's October Sweet line to make a baby gift for a friend. By pairing Crystal's awesome designs and a few easy hybrid techniques, I have a gift that is way better than your average gift bag.
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I started off with three round, flat Styrofoam pieces and three dowels that I had painted white with acrylic paint.
I made a hole in each Styrofoam piece and placed a dowel in the side of it to resemble a lollipop.
I wrapped a piece of tissue paper around each piece of Styrofoam to prevent flakes coming off onto my blankets.
Then I wrapped a receiving blanket around the Styrofoam.
Using cellophane, I created the look of a candy wrapper with some ribbon.
Using my trusty computer and PSE 8, I created wrapper labels from Crystal's awesome products. I cut them out, added a little ink to the edges, and adhered them to each lollipop.
I also made a matching label for my bucket. I recommend using heavy duty double-sided tape to adhere paper to metal. It is the only thing that I have found that works and stays where it is supposed to. The brand I used for this project was 3M.
The last thing I did was place another Styrofoam piece inside my bucket and placed the dowels from each lollipop into the Styrofoam.
I also made a card on PSE 8 and added a little ink on the edges to match my lollipop labels.
Credits: Sweet Baby Lollipop Gift by Laurie Pecotte
Patterned Paper: Sweet Paper Collection by Crystal Wilkerson. Elements: Sweet {Eye Candy} Elements by Crystal Wilkerson. Alphabet: Sweet Epoxy Alphabet by Crystal Wilkerson. Dingbats: Sugar Coma downloaded from Blue Vinyl. Font: Pea Chrissi downloaded from Fonts for Peas. Ink: Stampin' Up. Adhesive: 3M and Tombow. Other: Styrofoam, dowels, cellophane, ribbon, tin bucket.
Products Featured in this article:
Sweet Paper Collection by Crystal Wilkerson
Sweet {Eye Candy} Elements by Crystal Wilkerson
Sweet Epoxy Alphabet by Crystal Wilkerson
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Laurie. I thought they were really lollypops at first glance. Great idea to have folks bring one
to a shower and add to a "pot" as you could use blankets, washcloths, baby lovie blankies,
etc....thank you for continuing to share all these wonderful ideas with us.
as someone who has never made a hybrid, or paper page for that matter, what type of paper do you print on for these projects? you don't use regular printer paper. right? is there something that you like to use that prints the elements well?
