Yeah! I get to stamp today! I have the whole day set aside…well, I may run to the store real quick, too. I’m also going to need to spend some time photographing cards! I’m running out of photos to show you! I know I’ve spent a lot of time creating them, just not the details of photographing!
I haven’t shared this with you before. I sent it in for a Stampin’ Up! monthly contest, but didn’t win…bummer! I’m disappointed because I thought it was very original. However, you just never know what competition you are facing when you send things in!
I made the little manly tool chest from two #2 Boxes die cuts from Real Red cardstock and adhered them together on top of each other. I ran the Brushed Silver cardstock thru the Big Shot with the diamond pattern Texturz plate and covered the front and back. I added small strips of black folded in half for the long drawer handles on the front. The sides, I took a silver Small Grommet and cut it in half, then placed it in the Basic Black cardstock along each side. I watercolored the tools and cut them out, randomly adhering them inside the tool box. I used an elongated Word Window for the words. You can’t see from these pictures, but the bottom has four Silver Jumbo Brads for the "feet".
Unfortunately, I sent the only one I had in for the contest, so I don’t have the measurements or anything. Leave me a comment and tell me what YOU think about this project!!! I thought it looked pretty realistic!
Reminder that the Control Freaks Tour de Freaks Blog Hop is coming up on August 20th! Mark your calendar so you can tour the 13 Blogs on that day! I know I always get AWESOME inspiration from these gals. I was happy that I got to meet up with several of them at Convention this year! Fun to put faces with names!
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I love it Connie! It totally should have won!
How fun! If I had picking the winner, I would have picked you for sure!
Absolutely adorable!! I mean manly! I LOVE IT!! Great work & I can’t believe you didn’t win.
That’s Cute!
This is awesome and a total winner to me! Very creative!
super job Connie..Love it! :)very clever in making it look like a craftsman cabinet…have to see if you can get the measurements back so you can share the pattern!!! 🙂
OMGosh, that tool chest is soooo stinkin’ cute. You should have won hands down. Anyway, it is way cool!!!! Love it.
OMG this is so cute I cant believe you didnt win! What a super cute idea for the tool man in your life.
That is so neat! A guy would love to get a card or 3-D item like that, I’m sure!
Connie: Just loved the tool chest. of course, I love all your cards. But, the
tool chest – now that was original. don’t
give up – it may still show up somewhere on
the Stampin’ Up site! Thanks for sharing
with all of us.
Barbara
Hi Connie,
What were they thinking??!! Maybe they have something else in store for you! Your toolbox is completely “out of the box”!! Thanks for sharing…I wouldn’t be surprised to see it somewhere on SU in the future!
Wow – I am floored that this didn’t win! It is fantastic and SO original!! Maybe it will show up in an SU publication later – I sure hope so 🙂
I know my husband would love this. It looks just like his tool cabinet. Very cool.
My hubby would love it; he is such a CraftsMan tool horse. When he looks at my overflowing stamp collection and says, boy you have a lot of stamps; I can just look back at him and say, gee have you seen the Garage? You have a lot of stuff too.
This is so stinkin cute! You should have won something for this……….
Excellent “manly” project. It looks just like the Craftsman tool box … Patricia
That is freakin’ fabulous!!!!
Oh my word!!! This is AWESOME!!!!
OMG! I can’t believe you didn’t win! That looks absolutely just like the real thing. Geez, now I am afraid to try and send anything in. I think it is adorable.
Lisa Atha
this is sooooo cute!!! I love it – great job, sorry you didn’t win.
love your tool chest. What a great idea.
What? It didn’t win? That’s just wrong. Sooo cute.
Super cute, in a manly way!! 🙂
FANtastic!!!
I sincerely think you were robbed this is stinky cute! I love it! I love your blog you are very talented.
This is absolutley awesome. I can’t believe you didin’t win! totally original and took deep imagination and thought to put this together. you are very talented! BTW Its whitney we aste dinner together at the Japenese steak house at leadership with Cassie I have been following your blog your doing amazing work!
Thanks for your inspiration each day!
Whitney
http://www.whitney69.blogspot.com
This tool box is so cool, I love it!!! Thanks for sharing!
-Cher
Connie, you take my breath away with your creativity….. thank you so very much for sharing….. Now could ya send me some of your creativity….lol…..
Awesome creation!!! I definitely would have chosen this as a winning project.
Melanie, oh my that is Soooooooooooo
cute …and your blog is great!!have a great day sweetie…..we are moving to Owensville Ind….I bet thats close to youwell I hope it is any way…………….
Mary R
Oh my goodness! That’s amazing! I can’t believe you didn’t win. So original, yet so perfect!!!
Well you would have gotten my vote! 🙂
YOU won in our hearts Connie!!! Absoultely Adorable!!!!
I LOVE this idea!!!
Connie, I have a tool box like that but it has a bigger one that one fixs under it ,I have my art supplies in and I wanted to know is that a stamp by any chanceI would love to have one we live in a small apt and that why i have this big tool box and belive me it in my dinner room , We have no room for my art & crafts and omg I have over 500 set of SU stamps,,thank you for showing us ,,,
MaryRedford
Connie, I am so glad you reposted this…somehow I missed it back in August. Definitely scores 115% on the cool scale, not sure why it didn't win either but it shoulda! Jan