August Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!

It's that time again! Time for PaperTrey Ink's monthly Blog Hop. This month Nicole challenged us to find ways to use empty CD cases. I had to think really really hard on this one. Click here to see what everyone else made. I can't wait to see all the creative ideas. Here's what I came up with:

I took two empty CD cases, decorated the inside, and then snapped them together in a square shape. My initial thought was to put a house plant inside, but I don't have any of those (lucky plants!) so I cut these beautiful flowers from one of our flower boxes. They are called Mandevilla and they are growing everywhere. I didn't really decorate the CD cases because I didn't want to take away from main attraction, which is the flowers. Plus, this Basic Grey paper looks great on its own. I only have tall vases so I was able to put the flowers in a plastic cup and hid the cup behind the CD cases. All four sides are decorated, I just didn't get a good picture of the back side.

Here is where I used my Papertrey Ink stamps. I love the green with the pink!

Here's how I got the butterflies to stay where I wanted. I used a brad to adhere the butterfly to a pencil. The brad is actually pushed inside the eraser. Then you just stick the pencil in your arrangement.

Stamps: Butterfly Kisses (PaperTrey Ink)

Paper: Basic Grey's Sultry collection

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Green Galore (SU)

Accessories: 2 CD cases, 2 pencils, brads, flowers, cup, water, green ribbon (offray)