Friday Fun With Acetate!

Oh my gosh - I am so excited to show you what I created for you all today!  I was surfing the web this morning and posted my Facebook status as being soooooo happy to have received a TON of happy mail yesterday - a yummy Verve order, a TCP order and some goodies I had ordered from Scrappin' Great Deals. (I know - awesome, right?)  So, my friend, Miss Jenny Peterson chimed in and suggested that I put some of those supplies to good use and participate in this week's TCP Tuesday Challenge #182 to use acetate in a project.  You know - acetate?  That clear, plastic, transparency stuff?  It just so happened that I had a whole box of them in my filing cabinet so I was in luck.

Initially, I wasn't sure what to do with it... Use it for die cuts?  As the base of a card?  I popped over to Splitcoast for some inspiration and came across this tutorial to make your own note card holder and  I had one of my "light bulb moments."  OK - so today is my anniversary... 16 years of wedded bliss.  We have had our ups and downs like any couple, but for the most part, the years have flown by and have been filled with much joy and happiness.  SO, I thought I would make some "tickets" using my NEW TCP stamp set, "Admit One, " and my new TCP Cut-Ups dies (Big Ticket, Circus Panels, and Circus Border) and then make one of the little boxes to hold the tickets.  Fun, right?  I LOVE the colors for this week's CR84FN Color Challenge and HAD to use them for this project:

I started by making the little box using some acetate for the sides ... please excuse the holes in the acetate.  I originally had a handle on the box but didn't like how it looked so I took it off!  LOL

Then I got busy making four tickets to put in it.  I think I will make some more but I figured that was a good number to start with.  I LOVE how versatile this "Admit One" set is... I was even able to stamp our wedding date on the tickets!

After I used the Big Ticket die to cut the tickets out of white cardstock, I mounted them on some DSP from Pink Paislee and My Mind's Eye and then mounted the whole thing on acetate.  When I decide what sort of "treats" the tickets will be good for, I will just write them in.  Don't you LOVE it?  I am SOOOOO happy with how it turned out and SOOOOOO easy.  You could make just the tickets and give them to your kids as "rewards" - good for one meal of your choice, good for one day of dishes done by mom.... you get the idea!

I had so much fun this morning - THANKS Jenny!!  And thanks for the challenge, TCP - it *was* a challenge for me but a really great one.  Enjoy your weekend, everyone.  See you next week!