My Valentine and I love dad jokes, especially puns. We also live in a pine forest in the mountains. So I when I came up the “I pine for thee” pun, I decided to put some of my steel rule dies to use making him a Valentine.
Of course I included a Bigfoot, just to make sure it came from me!
Luckily, I have lots of woodsy papers on hand!
The paper on the interior map is of mountains, the hearts are purple woodgrain and pine tree toile. The interior sides are night sky/constellation and the bottom is a plaid in coordinating colors. It is the back of the exterior side paper which is stylized pine twigs.
The base is a copper cardstock on chipboard. A wood bead topped with a copper-y paper brad tops it off! A piece of wood stained with green ink holds the box off the base.
Underneath is a simple Valentine stamp and signature.
The shadow box, pinecone, and tree slice area all cut with Sizzix Bigz Tim Holtz steel rule dies. The letters are also Tim Holtz dies, but not steel rule.
The whole kit and kaboodle is made from stash. YEY!