Boy Basics...

Welcome to another Papertrey Ink blog hop! This month we are honoring the BOYS in our lives - dads, grandpas, sons, brothers, etc. There are several boy stamp sets coming out this month, so we each chose one set to work with for our blog hop. I chose the Simple Circles set, because I am in love with the stars....they could be used for so many things!

I made an "Honoring Dad" card and gift box...

There is a border die that goes with Simple Circles, so I punched three borders and then went to town with my stamps and all different ink colors, stamping onto the white cardstock borders. I placed the borders vertically on my card. Then I used the little Ad Sense scalloped circle die for the sentiment, popped it up with dimensional adhesive.

Next, to dress up a plain kraft gift box, I punched a bunch of stars and circles and stamped on these, then sewed them together with my sewing machine. The long banner was wrapped around the box. I left 2 long strings at either end to tie the banner underneath.

I did some stamping with the My Hero, My Dad sentiments on the stars and also directly on the gift box.

There you have it....fill with golf balls or fishing lures, etc., whatever your dad or special guy is into! :)

Stop by the Papertrey Ink ladies' blogs to see all of the other new BOY stamp sets for April!

• Betsy Veldman
• Dawn McVey
• Erin Lincoln
• Heather Nichols
• Jessica Witty
• Lisa Johnson
• Maile Belles
• Melissa Phillips
• Michelle Wooderson
• Nichole Heady

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{Honoring Dad card and gift box}

• STAMPS:  Simple Circles and My Hero, My Dad
• INK: Pure Poppy, Chamomille, Dark Chocolate, Hawaiian Shores, True Black, Ocean Tides
• PAPER: white cardstock and kraft cardstock
• DIES: Simple Circles, Ad Sense
• OTHER: box – craft suppy, twine – The Twinery