Today’s craft room creation is a belly band for candy treats. I made for these for the life guards that taught swim lesson for my kids. These make great little gifts and you can use any type of candy bar. I used the Mythical Kraken stamp set by Kindred stamps, it was the inspiration for this project, because the sentiments in the this set are perfect!
I started by stamping out a bunch of the sea monsters with Versafine onyx on to Bristol smooth cardstock. I made these with my daughter so I only color two out of the whole sheet we stamped. I also forgot to take a photo of this because we were having too much fun getting crafty. we used zig marker and used two color blends to color our sea monsters.
Once everything was colored I sat and fussy cut out all of the sea monsters. A tip to make it look like you are perfect at fussy cutting is to take a water based black marker like memento, run it along the cut edge to hide the white core if the paper and blend the edges into the stamped lines.
I used a light blue cardstock from my stash to make the belly band to go around my Swedish fish candies. My cardstock measured 5 inches x 7 1/4 inches scored at 3/4 inch and 4 inches on the 7 1/4 inch side. fold on all the score lines.
I used the bubble stencil by kindred stamp and mermaid lagoon distress ink to add a little texture to the background.
The misti stamping platform is an amazing tool when you have to stamp multiple times. I only needed to line the stamps up once. I put one sentiment stamp on each end, I would stamp one sentiment then flip it around and stamp the other. then slide in the next belly band stamp, flip and repeat
Glue the sea monsters on the front center just above the sentiment. Then glued the lager back section that has the second sentiment stamped on top of 3/4 inch flap and then slide in the candy.
I hope you enjoyed this project I will be back soon to share more craft room creation with you.
Brandi M.
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