The 1st birthday party on friday was SO much fun! Unfortunately, my memory card gave me the “card full” message (apparently I’ve taken enough photos this year to fill up an entire 8GB card) so I was frantically deleting in between photos so I could capture a few new ones. I didn’t end up getting anything super great of B, but here’s a cute one of him crawling through the space we rented (a crawler’s dream location- SO much space!!):
I wanted to give all the babies a little 1st birthday present at the party, and decided to burn them all a copy of a two cds that we listen to often in the car. They are cds that I was pretty sure none of the other parents had, so it seemed like a good plan. And then I realized I had nothing to put them in. Whoops. I wanted to make something fun, so I headed over to Pinterest to see if I could find a DIY paper cd case (spoiler alert- I did!)
I used to be a pretty avid scrapbooker and stamper, so I dug into my stash for this project. I used some really pretty burgundy paper with a gold sheen to it – unfortunately it photographed bright red, but let’s just pretend it is burgundy in these photos. I also used a big stamp that I’ve had forever that I haven’t gotten a chance to really use yet.
I used a brown and a gold embossing powder. I’m a big fan of embossing- it’s easy to do and adds a lot of dimension to a stamped project.
The above photos is probably the best representation of the paper color. And look, you can see how much I paid for the stamp! Ha. Isn’t it a pretty stamp? I was excited to find it in my stamp stash- I’d forgotten all about it!
I used a clear-ish ink to stamp the design, since I was using a colored embossing powder. I stamped it approximately in the middle of my sheet of paper
I then sprinkled some of the brown and gold embossing powder over the wet ink
I shook off the excess and then applied some heat using my embossing gun to melt the powder
Tada!! Pretty! Then I had to fold the case. I used this tutorial, which was super easy. First I placed the cd at the bottom of the paper, in the approximate middle:
By the way- Caspar Babypants is a great cd (weird name, I know), if you’re looking for music that won’t drive you NUTS after it plays on repeat in your car. The singer is the lead singer from Presidents of the USA (…millions of peaches, peaches for me…) and the music is similar to that, so it’s fun.
I folded the sides of the paper over the cd
Then I folded the bottom (while holding onto the cd) up
I folded the top corners in
And then folded the top down and tucked it into the pocket that the cd was sitting in
That’s it!! Super easy and cute!
I enjoyed making these- I am definitely going to be making more in the future!
What do you think? Have you crafted anything fun lately?