Wall Art and a crafting ESSENTIAL with Lifestyle Crafts New Fall Core Collection!

7.17.2012
Lifestyle Crafts has done it again!



Their Fall Core Collection (debuting at the CHA trade show this week!) is not to be missed! Just check out some of the amazing dies that will be available for purchase over the next few months...

Lifestyle Crafts sent me a few of these dies (the business card holder & the ticket punches) to try out and I'm so excited to share my projects with you!

First off...here is what the dies look like...I'm always amazed by these, especially the box dies. It's so cool how a flat sheet of paper can make the neatest boxes!


Here are the business card holder dies...not only do you get the holder, you get a die for the card that fits inside, too! So cool!!!


And these are the dies for the tickets...single ticket dies are included, too!

I really love the business card holder because I think it's an absolute must-have. Not only can you use it to glam-up your business cards, you can also use it for gift cards, gift packaging, and scrapbooking! Here's what I did with mine...


What?  You can't see the little envelopes??? That's because they're hiding...


See 'em now? Yep...tucked right into that little folder...cool huh?



Here's one close-up...


I used some of my amazing Canvas Corp chevron stripe paper for this one...seriously adorable.


And I used some of my Lifestyle Crafts Tab It dies to add tabs to the card holders...

I already have big plans for this die and Christmas gifts...(smile).

With my ticket punches I wanted to think outside the box a little bit...

I have had this artwork hanging on the wall at the bottom of my family room stairs forever...


I really liked it, but it was getting old. So I grabbed some scrapbook paper and went to work to create something new.

I know I'm probably months behind, but I'm kinda diggin' the ombre look right now, and I'm totally into bright yellow this summer...so I chose my paper accordingly.

I cut out strips of paper with the ticket punches...the one with the circles cuts little perforations between the tickets, so all of the tickets remain together...awesome.


This is back...I know you were probably thinking, ummm? ombre? Where?

I taped extra tickets to the ends of the strip of tickets because the strip was just barely long enough to stretch across the frame opening...


I just used plain scotch tape to adhere the tickets to each other, and to the frame. I change up my decor often enough that I don't like to make anything permanent if I don't have to...and the scotch tape works just fine for this...

Wanna see it all completed?


What do you think? I love the different paper patterns...and the holes between the tickets make the art more interesting that if I had used just plain strips of paper...



I hung the frame back up in the same place (at the bottom of the family room stairs), but the light there STINKS so I wanted you to see how cool it looks in better light...


Oh my gosh...I love the way this turned out! And if I don't get to changing it up when fall starts, it will transition perfectly...the yellows and browns are perfect!

Here are the extra tickets I punched...I already have an end-of-summer project planned for these...more on that later...



Thank you so much, Lifestyle Crafts, for letting me try some of your super awesome new dies!

Don't forget, you can save EVERY. SINGLE. DAY on EVERY. SINGLE. ITEM at Lifestyle Crafts...even sale items! with the promo code MIDWESTERN.

*DISCLOSURE: Lifestyle Crafts sent me these fantastic dies to use and review. All opinions about Lifestyle Crafts and their products are totally and completely mine.*

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