Tents - Donna griffith

i've been looking through catalog and loving all the projects that i'm seeing in it especially the tents that are featured here on this page and i want to show you how to make those now you may be wondering where do we get the inspiration for all the projects that you see in our catalogs and a lot of them our original designs but when we do need inspiration we looked the same place that you do on the internet and that's where we found the pattern to make this fun little tent favor in your search engine just type summer camp ten pattern and we selected the pattern that was featured on the waffle flower dot com site when you print that out it looks like this this was a little bit smaller than what we wanted to make the size of our tents and so we made a couple of modifications first of all i enlarged it a hundred and thirty three percent so i got the size that i would like and then i also wanted my tent to not be open on both hands i wanted one end to be completely closed so i added this little tab here so that i could add some adhesive to it and close off the back of the tent i also wanted the slit here in the front of the tend to be a little bit longer so i drew that line a tad bit longer there once i was done with all of those modifications and i copied it onto old olive cardstock cut that out scored on all of the fold lines and then i'm ready to go ahead and start uh... stamping the image onto the back of the project now the stamp set that we used is the wood grain background stamp and you can see this is pretty big and kind of hard to hold in your hand so whenever i'm using stamps this size i'd like to lay them directly on the table and then turn my ink pad upside down to ink it up and then you can just put the ink on your stamp like that so you can see that my pattern is larger than what the stamp image is so fold the paper just a bit so that i can get it on to the uh... image correctly so this is how i did it i folded these flaps in and then folded that one down so now i have a size that's perfect to fit onto my stamp so put that on to the stamp and once i have that image transferred it'll look like this so i had these two sections and now i just need to do this one here so i'll fold it up exactly the same way again and then i'll turn this around and i will put the image on that way and of course i'm inking up my stamp in between all right when i'm done with that now we have all three sections that are completed and i just need to get these pieces stamped now those are at an angle so i'll fold those in so that i can line them up so the image from the stamp is going up and down so to do that i'll fold this bottom flap up like that and the top flap down like that and then i want to have this so that it's lined up with the bottom of my stamp edge so i'll do that one like that and then the other side i'll just flip it around and stamp it so that the image is on there and when i'm done it looks just like this you can see how that pattern is a little bit different then what's on the sides of the ten so then i would just cut the slit in the tent and you fold those back just a little bit and then i added sticky strip to all the tabs to make it so i can put my tent together and it will just fold together just exactly like that so here's one that i've done that's completely finished and then we want to add a little pennant to the top of our tent and the way that i made the pennant is that i stamped on whisper white card stock using midnight muse ink and this image is from the abc 123 alphabet and numbers stamp set and then i punched it out using the three fourths inch circle punch and then layered it on top of a little triangle piece of tangerine tango cardstock and to get my toothpick in there i just used the paper piercer to start the hole and then that just fits in there like that so this will make up perfect favor for a camping themed birthday party and the last thing that you need to do is just putt in some candy now your demonstrator can help you find any of these products that you might need in your supply so that you can make this and if you don't have a stampin' up demonstrator go to our website and you can find a demonstrator who's close to you so have fun making this project and until next time happy stamping