Using the Classic Bright White card, cut the sections shown below using the decorative verso dies to create the pretty detailed layers to go on top of the gold base layers. Use Tonic Deluxe Adhesive to glue them as show in the photo. These sections will create your box base with sides.

Whilst the sections from step 2 & 3 are drying, cut the shapes below using Venetian Gold Mirror card. These will be used to strengthen the closure.

• The sentiments included in the kit are all treat related so would be perfect for holding wrapped sweets or chocolates on your desk or on tables at parties.

• In one of my sample makes I cut a circle of card for a lid and partially die cut (using a very small circle die) a finger pull in one side, to hide the contents from view (see below)

• You could also use the Terrific Twist Showcase as either an open or closed top lantern. If you repeated the above step to create a lid, the top would be closed and if you used the verso die with or without a vellum backing and a battery operated tea light or small string lights, it would create a lovely glow for some ambient lighting in a room.

• You don't have to use the verso dies included, I'm sure you could find some other verso dies in your Tonic stash that would work. Alternatively you could use it as an excuse to break into some of those treasured, speciality paper or card stocks you may have been saving (if your anything like me!) and use the plain cutting die without the verso die to cut decorative panels of patterned paper or thin card.

• You could also go with a completely out of the box idea such as using it as a gift basket. If you cut a length of card stock and attached each end of it to opposite sides of the bowl with brads, it would make a lovely basket for a flower girl at a wedding, or an Easter basket.

• In my second make, I chose earth toned colours that reminded me of a terracotta pot and used a aircraftcreeper diet set to make some gorgeous flowers from classic craft perfect card. I added some leftover polystyrene into the base and glued it down, cut slits in it to hold the flowers in place and covered over the polystyrene with reindeer moss. The possibilities are as vast as your imagination!

To continue the runny effect across the entire edge, line up your die as shown to extend it. Tape into position and run through your die cutting machine. This has now created a stencil for you to ink blend your honey.

Line up the kraft ‘stencil’ over the top of your white card blank and hold it in place with magnets on a magnetic platform. Using the lighter shade of yellow ink (Sunrise Yellow), ink blend the shape, making it darker at the top and lighter on the ‘runs’. Overlay with the darker yellow ink (Amber Ochre) on the top edge and to create some shadow on the runs.

From a height of approx 25cm lightly spray the inked area with Sparkle Spray. Set aside to dry.

To create the effect of ‘no-line colouring’, stamp out the beehive, honey pot and baby bear images using a light coloured ink.

Use the Tonic Keepsake Creator Die Set to cut the appropriate birth day and date for baby. Cut them twice, once in smooth white and the second in ‘Ginger Pie’ Classic Cardstock. Glue the white, on top of the darker shade, with a sight overlap to create a drop-shadow effect.

Die cut (two of each) of the three different branches in smooth white cardstock.

Have a play with the layout of all of your different pieces until happy with their positioning. This is how I decided I wanted it to roughly look before I committed to glueing anything down. I cut the letters for the baby’s name using alphabet dies from elsewhere but alternatively you can also find some really beautiful alphabet sticker/chipboard sets in many craft shops which would work equally as well.

To create the effect of ‘longer’ branches, I overlaid the various short ones. Any obvious ‘seams’ will be covered over at a later point.

Have another play around, this time with how you want your tree blossom to look and then stick into position. I used the larger of my flowers to conceal the ‘seams’ on my branches.

Leave the drops to harden and then place into your box frame.

Box frame complete and ready to be gifted or hung in your own little person’s nursery!

I opted for a more ‘neutral’ colour palette with this one by pairing it with green but the beauty of the ‘yellow’ honey is that it works beautifully well with either blue or pink, if you wanted to be a little more gender specific and of course there’s nothing stopping you from having a brightly coloured bear if you didn’t fancy the more traditional brown colour scheme!

Lots of possibilities with this super cute stamp set so I hope it’s inspired you to have a play!

As always, thank you so much for visiting the blog and reading my post (apologies, it was an extra long one this time!)

Take care and happy crafting.

Kate x

Glue the two side panels together, and then adhere these to the base that you have taken the decorative panels off. This will form the main construction of the finished box. 

Next we’ll assemble the drawer. Cut the large centre glue tab off one of the drawer halves.

Glue the two drawer halves together using the large centre glue tab.

Fold along all the scores and glue tabs around the drawer sides, and adhere them all. The last step is to glue the second drawer panel inside the box, and this provides additional strength to the drawer, along with hiding all the inner glue tabs.

For the lid panel, fold the glue tabs down, and then fold the two decorative front panels up along the score lines. Glue the decorative panels together at the front to create the front face of the box.

Die cut a piece of Vintage White Vellum Paper using the smaller hexagonal die, and adhere this to the underside of the lid piece. This allows you to add a battery tea light or string lights inside the box, and the glow will be seen through the detail cut into the lid.

To help get the lid of the box in the perfect position, I find it easier to sit the drawer into the box, and then glue the lid over the top of it. This will ensure that there is enough room for the drawer to move in and out of the box once it is assembled.

Now that the basic box is constructed, it’s time to decorate! I’ve gone for one of my favourite colour schemes for this: Burnished Rose Satin Mirror and Platinum Rose Mirror Card. There are many different pattern options to choose from, here I’ve chosen a more open pattern so you can see plenty of the Burnished Rose card in the background. I have also cut a hexagonal panel of Platinum Rose to line the inside of the drawer, as this will help reflect the tea light or lights you place in the box later.

To help get the lid of the box in the perfect position, I find it easier to sit the drawer into the box, and then glue the lid over the top of it. This will ensure that there is enough room for the drawer to move in and out of the box once it is assembled.

Now that the basic box is constructed, it’s time to decorate! I’ve gone for one of my favourite colour schemes for this: Burnished Rose Satin Mirror and Platinum Rose Mirror Card. There are many different pattern options to choose from, here I’ve chosen a more open pattern so you can see plenty of the Burnished Rose card in the background. I have also cut a hexagonal panel of Platinum Rose to line the inside of the drawer, as this will help reflect the tea light or lights you place in the box later.

For my alternate lid I have cut 4 of the lid piece (I switched it up with different colours but you can definitely do them all from white too) And I’ve also cut all the decorative panels from Ice Rink Card too.

To make the Ice Rink die-cuts stand out on the white lid, I used the 2 pink Nuvo Alcohol pens from the kit to add an ombre of colour to the intricate panels.

And instead of using the debossing dies on the skinny sides, I’ve used the Enchanting Pink Nuvo Drop from the kit to add Nuvo Drops and also a line of Nuvo Drop too for a different look.

For my version of the lid and base, you want to snip off the pieces shown to the right to give the main pieces on the left.

And you want to stick them together like so.

You can then use your Glide Folder to pre-crease all the score lines.

and then simply assemble the lid and base using the glue tabs, overlapping the 2 side pieces like so.

to give you these :D You want to make use you’re Nuvo drops are dry before assembling too.

Stick all the side panels together and pre-fold all the long score lines on the main body of the box, the secure with the final glue tab to give a tube.

Add the base to the end of the tube, I decided not to glue it, but you can glue it depending on what gift your putting inside :D For the closure I took 2 lengths of the 3mm ribbon and tied one to each of the holes on the base.

I then threaded those ribbons through to holes on the lid, and tied the 2 ends together into a bow on top of the box :D And then I simply added a little tag tucking it under where the 2 sides overlap.

The flash cards inside can be whatever you want. I decided to stick with the dies from the kit, but you could maximise the size by measuring the completed box and creating your own rectangles :D I think you could also use these flash cards as bookmarks, or you could write verses on them to personalise them to the recipient too :D There’s lots of scope for creating these.

You’ll then need all your decorative pieces as shown.

add them all while the typewriter is flat like this so they adhere well, and pay particular attention to way up I’ve put pieces, that way everything is the right way up when it all comes together.

You have 2 choices for the keyboard, for this one I chose the stamped design, but the die-set comes with the debossing die which looks fab too.

I stuck the turquoise piece flat to the stamped image, trimmed around the edge to remove the excess, then added it to the typewriter with 3D foam, again note which way up I added this.

You’ll need the pieces above to create the inner and outer ‘spindles’ for the mechanism to roll the paper in and out, notice the piece on the far right, we can discard this. 

For the inner spindle, you want it to be complete, and you also want to add a strip of red liner tape to add the paper onto too. 

For the paper, cut a piece to 8.5 cm wide, and this can be any length you like, I’ve kept it the longest dimension of the A4 and it still winds in perfectly, it also means you could add a longer hidden message too if you wanted too.

For the outer spindle, this will basically be the place for the paper to wind into and be protected from whatever other gift you might want to put inside, but before we add this to the main body, let’s make the handles for the inner spindle. 

For the 2 handles you’ll need the pieces shown.

and you’ll need to stick each pair together like this :D I’ve also made use of one of the gems off an old Nuvo product too.

Little pegs/clips held tremendously when constructing these.

You’ll end up with 2 handles like this.

Now we can go back to the main construction, use the glue tabs to get your typewriter to this stage, leaving those last 2 glue tabs on each side un-stuck while we add the mechanism. 

place the inner spindle with paper attached through the top slot ready.

Then attach the outer spindle inside the typewriter as shown. 

You can now place the inner spindle inside and feed the ends through the hole on either side.

like so, and once this in place you can secure those final glue tabs too. 

To attach the handles, you’ll need 4 of the hexagon ‘washers’, I’ve added tape to the back of them all to make it easier.

Add a washer as shown, and secure the glue tabs to it, then take a second washer and glue it over the top to secure those glue tabs.

like so, you can then adhere the 2 handles that we made in steps 11-14 onto these washers.

To help the back of the ‘gift box’ to stay shut, you can add the tabs to both parts of the typewriter and then use some 3mm Craft Perfect ribbon to secure.

For that final bit of decoration, use the dies from the die set to create lots of flowers adding some coordinating nuvo drops in the centres.

And finish the typewriter by adding these all over.

There are 4 half circle verso dies, with intricate dandelion and dragonfly detailing and a regular half circle. These half circle dies are perfect to use on Z fold cards (where the front of a side opening card is folded in half vertically) as they cut a beautiful pattern into the card, using the following steps.

You can see here how I completed the above steps and then added speciality card stock over top, along with a frame, which we will come on to in a moment.

There are two decorative edged dies that are a circular(ish) shape, which can be used on their own, to make a decorative topper, or in conjunction with one of the solid circle or scalloped circle dies included to make a frame. Below I have used one of the decorative dies on its own and also created a topper using the scalloped circle die and the two dragonfly verso dies. You can also see how I made a frame using the dragonfly circular die with the scalloped circle die to make a frame from the stunning holo waves mirror card.

The addition of the circle dies to this set inspired me to create a circular aperture in the front of a square card blank and decorate both the front and the inside. This is a very easy concept but makes a really pretty card. I cut several of the dandelion verso dies into pieces of 300gsm white Craft Perfect and snipped out the dandelions, before adding them around the outside of my circle aperture. In between each of these I stamped a dandelion in blue mineral. 

To complete the card I created a simple pond scene for inside the card and added an identical frame to match the front of the card. A touch of Crystal glaze to the lily pad gives a lovely shiny effect. I first stamped the lotus flower onto a white scalloped circle, then stamped the lotus flower onto some masking paper and fussy cut that, placed it on top and then stamped the lily pad, to achieve the effect of the lotus flower sitting on top of the lily pad.

The images in the stamp set are perfect for heat embossing too. For one of my card samples I stamped and heat embossed in white embossing powder the two dandelion stamps, all over a 4 ¼ by 5 ½ inch card panel. I then chose 3 complementary colours of Nuvo hybrid ink and ink blended the entire panel, before wiping off any excess ink from the heat embossed dandelions. This made for a beautiful background for one of my cards.

In summary, this versatile set is perfect for:

• Making Z fold or fancy fold cards with the half circle verso dies

• Making aperture window cards and decorating the front and inside of your make

• Stamping and then heat embossing the pretty and elegant stamps

• Stamping and simply colouring the basic stamps

• Snipping out elements from the verso die cuts to add dimension to your make and to use creatively however you wish! (Though I personally love the classy look of white on white)

I hope you have enjoyed this overview of this fab Showcase set. I think it is incredibly versatile, especially with the sentiment stamps that are included. “You blow me away” is perfect for a card for your partner or someone who has just had a big achievement and “Flying by to say hi” is perfect for a thinking of you card, when you just want to let someone know that you care and lets face it, who wouldn't want to receive a card like that.

Happy crafting, Terri (VeegsTez Creates)

I’m going to start with the tools, since they’re mostly on top of the mess, and getting them corralled will help me see what else is on my desk! The Pencil Case sized Craft Storage Pouch is perfect for all those tools you use often in your crafting projects.

It holds lots and lots of tools, but is handy and portable, so you can take it with you wherever you’re crafting. I love to craft with friends, so being able to grab this pencil case with all my tool essentials and take it with me will be perfect.

So, now the tools are under control, let’s tackle some of the other small bits and pieces around the desk. These Luxury Storage Trays are brilliant, and I love the Divider Bars that you can add to them, to help separate out the things you want to store and organise.

I’ve put all my Stamp Club wallets in the back section. This makes them super easy to flick through to find the set I’m looking for and keeps them neat and tidy. The middle section is perfect for my Stamp Cleaning Pad, adhesive, and colouring tools to keep them at hand and ready to use. Finally I created a larger section in the front to keep my jars of Nuvo sequins, confetti and glitter under control. Hopefully no more jars leaping off the shelf as I die cut in future!

Now onto my larger die sets. I want to ensure these stay in perfect condition, but are easy to track down when I want to use them. The Die Storage Folders are fantastic for this: loaded with clear pockets and double-sided magnetic sheets, I can fit lots of sets in each wallet. I can label each magnetic sheet with the set name too to make them easy to identify.

There’s even a label down each spine, where you can both number your folders, and note which die sets each folder contains. Great for helping to keep everything organised! The desk is definitely starting to look better now. Just a few more things to tidy and store.

Scrap mountain definitely has to be next. Every crafter has one of these, that pile of half-cut sheets of cardstock and paper that you can’t throw away “just in case” but never sit neatly anywhere! This photo really doesn’t do this pile justice, there’s a huge amount of pieces and they get into everything and in my way while I’m trying to work!

The A4/US Letter Storage Box is just the ticket to store this mess! It perfectly fits A4 or US letter paper and cardstock, it’s stackable, it has a lid that lifts straight off so you can easily access your cardstock inside, and it’s see-through so you can see what’s inside straight away. The scraps are wrangled, my desk is reappearing, and I will soon be able to mess it up again making more pretty things.

Last up, the Crystal Drops. For this it had to be the Stackable Drop Storage boxes. These hold your drops upside down, so they’re always ready to use with the product in the tip. All your different drops bottles will fit, just make sure you put Dream Drops in the lower tray as the bottles are taller!

On the ‘smooth’ (overside) of A6 Craft Perfect Watercolour Card, randomly stamp out the small ketchup bottle at various angles, overlapping the page edges in areas. Use Nuvo Clear Mark to stamp your bottle images and then cover the entire A6 page in White Embossing Powder. Tap off the excess powder and heat set all of your ketchup bottles

*TIP* An anti-static bag is my best friend when using embossing powders, especially when multiple stamped images are involved, as it stops any powder sticking in unwanted places!

Spray both the front and back sides of your embossed cardbase (a crafty friend shared with me the tip of spraying the back at the same time to stop the card from curling and it works brilliantly!) Apply both shades of red shimmer powders all over the page and watch how they all start to move around - I absolutely LOVE this bit. It’s so mesmerising!

I wanted my powders to leave more of a ‘watercolour effect’ so to make it less patchy looking, I applied further sprays of water to help them to spread and merge. If you prefer the more speckled effect you could leave out the extra water - It is totally up to you!

Set aside to dry.

Meanwhile, out of your red, green, white and black cardstocks, cut the pieces needed to create your tomato characters. This bit is a lot of fun, playing around with and combining different basic shapes that form many parts of the various die sets we crafters own! You may not have the exact same sized dies in your supplies but to give an idea of the dimensions, I cut the following:

● x1 larger red circle, approx 4.8cm wide

● x1 red circle, approx 3.6cm wide

● x2 small red punched circles, approx 1cm wide

● x1 very small red punched circle, approx 0.6cm wide (done using a hole punch)

● x2 white circles, approx 1.6cm wide

● x2 smaller white circles, 1cm wide

● x2 black circles, 1cm wide

● x2 very small hole-punched black circles, approx 0.6cm wide

● x1 lager and x1 small green ‘spiky’ flowers

These are just a guide. Have a play around with the different sized circles you own. Equally, these shapes could be cut by hand by drawing around objects such as coins and pen lids.

Using a blending dauber, apply some ‘darker’ red ink to the top right and bottom sides of circles to create a bit of shadow and give them a more ‘3D’ effect. Next, take one of the two smaller sized circles and cut it down into two slim semi-circles, as shown. Carefully ink-blend the cut edge also.

Using a dark green ink, apply to the tips of your green flower shapes. Using a small pair of scissors, trim them down as shown to resemble the leafy tops of your tomatoes.

Glue the white and black circles to create your characters’ eyes. On the smaller of the two eye sets, glue the small red semi-circles to appear like eye-lids.

Attach to your eyes and leafy tops to the two largest red circles.

Cut down two small squares of adhesive foam pad and attach to the back of the remaining two red circles.

Attach the circles to form ‘noses’ and then using a black fineliner and white gel pen, add in some details to give your tomato faces a bit of extra cheeky character!

Draw out a ‘splat’ shape on a piece of vellum and then cut out.

Trim down your ketchup card base to measure 10.3cm x 14.8cm and cut a second green base measuring ever so slightly larger at 10.7cm x 15.2cm

Using double-sided tissue tape along the edges and wet glue in the centre; attach the ketchup card base to the green base and then attach this to an A6 card blank.

*TIP* By nature of the watercolour card,once made wet its edges tend to dry warped therefore I find using the tissue tape on the outside gives a far better adherence without any ‘wobbly’ lifting. It is, however, not very forgiving when needing to stick down with any kind of precision. The wet glue in the centre allows some ‘wriggle room’ to allow the card base to be attached evenly before fully committing the edges. I lifted the protective tape cover slightly as shown, to form easy pull tabs which I find are very handy once I have ‘wriggled’ my cardbase into position!

To make your splat shape stand proud of the card, stick some trimmed down adhesive foam pad to the back of the vellum shape (only in the centre so that your tomato characters will cover it). Attach the splat to sit roughly in the centre of your card.

*TIP* Have a dry run first and play around with the orientation of your splat shape to decide how it works best with your tomatoes.

Glue the larger tomato directly onto the vellum. Put some adhesive foam pad onto the back of the smaller tomato and attach, slightly overlapping the bigger one. 

Stamp out the ‘Let’s Ketchup’ and ‘sometime soon’ sentiments in black ink onto white cardstock and trim down. I added a little border detail in fineliner using a ruler. This could be done freehand instead or alternatively kept plain if you prefer. 

Apply adhesive foam pads to the back of your sentiments and attach. Again, you may wish to play around with positioning first and see where they work best with where your ketchup bottles happen to be. I originally saw both of my sentiments going top and bottom centre but found I didn’t like how they covered the bottles, so it’s worth having a little play.

Finally, apply some Crystal Glaze to the noses of your cheeky toms to give them a bit of extra fun glossy pop! Leave to dry to go clear.

Alternatively, clear ‘Morning Dew’ Nuvo Crystal Drops would work just as well if you don’t have any Crystal Glaze.

For the top of the camera, you need the piece with all the glue tabs, and you’ll need to cut the small hexagon out of the end shown, so that the button (bottom right die-cut) has somewhere to attach to.

You can then use wet glue to stick the button together to give.

this, and to secure this, instead of adding glue/tape to the button tabs, add it behind the hexagon aperture and secure the button

like this :D If you have any excess adhesive showing you can add anti-static powder to stop it being sticky.

Now we need these pieces for the lens of the camera, and you’ll see instead of adding tape to the multiple glue tabs on the long pieces, I’ve added it to the back of the 2 circles.

Remove the backing off the tape on one circle and push it inside the tube so that the adhesive is towards the tabs. Then simply press the tabs down, I recommend sticking opposites first to get it level.

then you can push them all in like this, and you can now add the second circle covered in adhesive over this. 

And you can add your extra decoration. See instructions inside packaging for alternative lens.

Now we need to add the lens to the body of the camera, I recommend using some foam tape for this, as I think it makes the front look neater. Again we’re going with the method of adding the adhesive to the perimeter of the aperture rather than all the little tabs, but this time we’re splaying the tabs outwards as shown to hold the lens in place.

Your lens will now be perfectly attached, and again if you have any exposed adhesive on the inside, just use your anti-static tool to remove the stickiness.

For the back of the camera, you’ll need to cut a rectangle out of the back panel, so that you can access the inside. You want to keep this rectangle as it’ll be the back door, and you’ll also need the hinge die-cut too so enable you to attach it again.

Add the hinge at the bottom of the aperture as shown, then simply replace the rectangle back into the aperture securing it to the top of the hinge

We can now start the main assembly, you need to top of the camera from steps 3-6, the main body piece which we can now add the back panel too, and you’ll also need to die-cut the bottom piece too.

Pre-fold all the score lines to help with assembly, and you’ll see the main shape come together and you can start to stick it all together with the glue tabs, incorporating the top of the camera.

For this side seams, I stuck the front panel over the back to give a neater finish :D It also means you can stick all the decorative panels onto that main front piece too.

Then once the main body is put together, you can add on the base with the remaining glue tabs.

I think the Black Gloss mirror card from Craft Perfect makes the perfect LCD screen, and those speech bubble sentiments just finish it off nicely.

As an extra design feature, why not add a neck strap. I used the Craft Perfect 9mm black ribbon for this, add some red liner tape to each end of your chosen length and fold it over to make it nice and strong.

then use your craft pick to make a hole and add a silver brad to each end

To attach it to the camera body, I picked the second full diamond down in my decorative panels and poked a hole on each side

Then I just splayed the brad legs on the inside to secure it in place.

And there you have your finished camera with neck strap :D BUT you can also add a concertina inside if you’d like as well.

For the simplest concertina, die-cut 6 of the scored triangle pieces, and 4 of the scored rectangles (you can multiply this up if you want to).

Add one of the gussets between 2 of the rectangles as shown, making sure the scores on the rectangles are at the bottom.

Then add one to the other side too to make one concertina pocket.