More is More

I have another class project to share.  A few weeks ago Debbie Olson very generously shared a template on her blog for a cocoa packet card.  You can see her post and her template here.  I thought this would be a great project for my upcoming class and just a day or two later I happened to be in Tuesday Morning and saw a box of gourmet hot cocoa mix – jackpot!  You never know what you’ll find at that store!  Of course the packets were sealed in a box so I couldn’t actually see them till I got home with them.  When I opened the box I discovered they were a different size from what Debbie had used – much skinnier.  So I set out to re-work the template to fit my packets.  Working from Debbie’s original it was fairly easy to adapt to the size I needed and then my wonderful hubby made my hand-drawn version into a computer template.

I printed the templates out directly on Kiwi Kiss cardstock and everyone cut and scored their own card.  We used Ski Slope dp and paper pieced the cup from Pun Fun.

This turned out to be a really fun sized box – 2.25″ x 6.5″.  It’s funny because after making this I remembered I had purchased a stamp several years ago at Rubber Stamp Convention that stamped an image of a template for this same idea only smaller, yet it had never occurred to me to adapt it to something larger.  Here’s my template if you’d like to use it.

jami-template.pdf

Since it’s based on the one Debbie made I will reiterate what she said when she shared hers on her blog,

“Please feel free to use it and share it for personal projects, but I would ask that no one submit to publications with it. Thank you! “

Thanks for stopping by!

 Project Supplies:

Template from Jami (or larger size from Debbie Olson)
Stamp sets:
Wishing You Cheer pg 37
Pun Fun pg 61
Short & Sweet pg 146
Ski Slope Designer Paper pg 12 of the Holiday Mini
Cardstock: Real Red, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White
Classic Ink: Chocolate Chip
Punches pg 188: 1 3/8 circle, small and large ovals
Ribbon: Kiwi Kiss 5/8” striped grosgrain pg 186