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Speaking of having fun, I am having fun relaxing, shopping, and visiting with family at the beach house at Capistrano Beach. The other day I had some quiet time so I pulled out some stamp stuff. I decided to make one of my favorite types of projects and it's what I call I "box top"card/flat pouch. To make one you simply cut four squares of paper or card stock and fold each of them in half both directions. Then you adhere them in a plus shaped formation and then fold the sides in like the top of a card board box.

I used Baked Brown Sugar card stock and Season of Style DSP for my "box top" pouch and then I added a tag that I made using a few new things. The stamp image is from a new photopolymer set called Christmas Tagables and the tag pieces are from the Pop and Place tag kit. To ink the image I used Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Write Markers. In between the two tags is a small Gold Foil Paper snowflake cut from the Festive Flurry framelits, I think it looks like a sheriffs badge.

Tucked inside my "box top" pouch is an ornament I made using the Festive Flurry bundle. First I stamped the three snowflakes with Versamark ink and then poured Heat and Stick Powder overtop. I heat set the powder and then added the Gold Glitter. With a little hot glue I layered the three snowflakes for lots of dimension. In the sun this sparkles like crazy.