You Are My Sunshine

Around my house, the girls and I are anxiously awaiting the end of the school year, and it can't come soon enough! Everything around us tells us summer is already here, except for that alarm that wakes us up at 6:15 in the morning!  Ugh!  We're just not morning people... at least, I'm not.

Here is a very easy and simple project that I made with the Match Box Sizzix die using the new Out of This World stamp set by Molly Stamps! I love this friendly looking sun from that set. That look on his face is how I'll feel when I won't have to hear my alarm clock in the early mornings!

To make the cover for the match box, I simply stamped Mr. Sun onto a piece of acetate using StazOn and centered him where I wanted him to be before cutting the piece. Score and fold -- use the bone folder to help keep that fold nice and neat -- and secure with two mini glue dots on the end corners.

As a simple embellishment, I stamped "you're my sunshine" and punched them out with the window punch Hold the left ends on top of each other and punch a 1/8" hole through both thicknesses; set aside. Wrap natural hemp around the width of the box and knot once. Put one end of the hemp through the 1/8" holes of the tag and tie a bow. With each loose tie ends, pull through each button holes and tie two knots to secure. Fill the box with yellow candies (like Jelly Beans -- I used yummy lemon drops!) and slide close.

I showed this to my younger daughter and she loved it! She wanted to know if she could give it to one of her BFFs. They take Spanish class together and they like to sing the song, "You Are My Sunshine" in Spanish... very cute, because the words they didn't know in Spanish they kept in English, which were most of them.