Seas the Day

When I saw the choices for our Time Out #294 Pick Two Challenge: Torn, Transport, Star, Stripes, Rainbow, Book, I had an idea but put it off until the time came that I really needed to try it out and see if it would work. I chose Transport, Stripes and Book for my project and made a "book" entitled Seas the Day to hold nautical A2-sized cards with envelopes as a gift. (There are actually many real books with this title) Here is how it turned out.

First, I searched You Tube for a tutorial to make a box with a lid. Once I found the size and type box I wanted, I knew I wouldn't be making the lid, but making a book cover and attaching it to the box. I also knew I would make the page edges gold and that I would make a card front and attach it to the top of the box as the book's front cover. Julie at The Paper Pixie had the exact tutorial for the A2 sized box I wanted. 

Products I used:

Papertrey Ink - Build a Sailboat dies

Hero Arts - Seas the Days Seagulls stamp set (title on front of "book")

Lawn Fawn - Oliver's Stitched ABCs dies (title on spine)

Ink Road - Compliments 1 stamp set (title on spine)

My Favorite Things - Watercolor Wash Square stencil (title on the spine)

Alternew - Osidian black ink pad

Gold card stock

Vellum

Distress and Concord & 9th ink pads

Back to our challenge at Time Out: Newton's Nook is our wonderful sponsor, generously offering a $25.00 Newton's Nook Store Credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner.  Our winner will also be invited to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

You may choose a minimum of two of our words or incorporate up to all six if you like. Take a look at the team's creations and visit their blogs to see the words they used and how they interpreted them. Leave them some love, too.

We hope you will be inspired to join us and play along with this challenge! As always, thanks for stopping by.

Carol