This gift box today is an idea that has been around the blog world for years. I thought I would give it a Christmas touch.
This gift box is known as a Sour Cream Box or as we know it downunder as a Sunny Boy Box. You can find the instructions here. They are just too easy!
I have created a medallion using the Simply Scored from Gumball Green card. The greeting is from “More Merry Messages and coloured with Markers. It was then punched out with the 3/4” circle punch. I cut a strip of the Cherry Cobbler Tulle and wrapped around some cotton thread in the middle to gather it up. This was all adhered together and added to the box with Dimensionals.
I have been wanting to show you this for a little while. Over the recent school holidays Carlie and I found these letters in a discount shop. It was good to find our own letters. I undercoated them in White paint. Carlie decided to paint her’s with coloured paint spots but when it was done she didn’t like it, so I had to sand it all back and repaint it in white again. I think she has lost heart now so it could be some time until she has it finished. So, I will show you mine.
Here is a side-on view.
I have used the Flirtatious Specialty Designer Series Paper. The white doily is cut from one of the pieces in this pack. The butterflies are cut with the ‘Beautiful Wings’ Embosslits and the swirls from ‘Swirls Scribbles’. I added some pearls to finish it off. I was happy with the way it turned out. It now sits proudly on a shelf in my craft room.
Just a quick update on my swaps for Convention. I haven’t had a chance to get back here all week. I have been working really hard. I can now say they are ALL DONE. I managed to get 85 completed. It is a bit short of my original goal but that will have to do. I still need to put the recipe labels on them and bag them BUT they are finished! (I am so relieved let me tell you. I was getting a bit over it!!!). I will show you what I have come up with next week.
Thanks for stopping by. Stop in for a visit again very soon. You are going to have to now aren’t you because you want to know what my swaps look like!!
Last post I showed you a Take-Out Box I had created. I have now put together a tutorial for you. This is created with the Petal Cone Die on the Big Shot. I hope it is clear enough for you.
TAKE-OUT BOX
1. Cut 2 Petal Cone Die pieces. You would need to do these one at a time so it doesn’t cut the score line rather than score it.
2. Place ONE of the pieces in your cutter. Place the score line at the circle end at the 7.5cm (3″) mark. The score line must run Vertical in the cutter. (This is really important). Have the point of the tab resting against the grid at the top. Check the photo for correct placement. I hope this is clear enough. Once in position cut the card piece. Do this with both pieces.
3. Move the piece along the cutter to the 5cm (2″) mark. Have the score line running vertical again at this mark. Have the point of the tab running up against the grid on the cutter. See the photo again for placement. Now score the card piece. I use my bone folder some people have the scoring blade on the cutter.
4. Now you have your pieces cut. Cut up the score line at the bottom to the score line and also cut off the small rectangle at the bottom of the side tab. (Does that make sense??). Now your pieces are ready. Place Sticky Strip along one tab at the side and attach the 2 pieces to have one long length. (Sorry missed a photo of this step). Stamp your pieces at this point before assembling.
5. Assemble your box together now. Add Sticky Strip to the other tab and adhere the box together. On the bottom of the box fold in 2 opposite tabs. Then place Sticky Strip to the very top edge of one of the other tabs and adhere these 2 tabs together.
6. To fold up the top I interlocked each of the curved edges like this shown in the photo. If you want to add a wire handle like the sample I did in the previous post then you can punch two holes in either side of the box with the Crop-A-Dile. Then I curved a piece of wire and pushed it through. This is optional to add the wire.
7. Now you can dress it up how you like. On this version I added some Very Vanilla Satin ribbon and a tag using the Triple Layer Doily Punch.
The ideas are endless as to how you can create your box, let alone all the goodies you can fill in it. 🙂
I hope you enjoy creating your own. Thanks for looking.
You can tell how far behind I am with blog posts with this project. I created these before Christmas for some special people. It has just taken some time to get them up here! These are fridge magnets created with the Butterfly Bigz Die.
Here are just some of them. I made various colour combinations. I will show you a close-up of one.
I first cut a scallop circle with the Big Shot. I stamped the swirl from ‘Elements of Style’ and sponged the edges. The butterfly was cut with the Butterfly Bigz Die and then ran through the Big Shot again with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. I adhered this to the scallop circle. I stamped on a greeting. This one is from ‘Tiny Tags’. I added co-ordinating ribbon and a mini calendar. On the back I added a magnet. These were fun to make – and give!!
Have a lovely weekend. If you’re on the East Coast of Australia. I hope you stay dry. We have had a lot of rain and still a lot to come apparently! Great weather to stay indoors and stamp. 🙂
In the last post I showed you a little Valentine’s Treat pouch. I have made another one. This was for a workshop last week. (Thanks Deb 🙂 ) I have used the gorgeous papers you can choose Free during Sale-A-Bration. This is from the Everyday Enchantment pack.
If you want to know how to make them just head to my previous post. For the band, I stamped the little images from Everyday Elegance along the Lucky Limeade card strip and wrapped around some of the Lucky Limeade organdy ribbon. You can choose this as one of your Free Sale-A-Bration items too.
See the loopy ribbon?? I came across this idea from Barb here. I think it is a cute idea. Just a little different to a regular bow and it is very easy. Basically, take a small piece of scrap card, the width of it being the size of the loops you want. The size I used here was 5cmx6cm roughly (approx. 2″x 2 1/2″). Then just wrap your ribbon around the card an odd number of times not too tightly. I did this one 7 times. Then carefully slide your loops off and wrap a brad around the centre of the loops. Does that make sense??? I adhered this to the pouch with a dimensional or you could use a glue dot.
I have more Sale-A-Bration goodness to show you next time. Have a good weekend everyone. Stop by again soon. Don’t forget to say Hello. It is nice to hear from you.
Christmas has come and gone but I wanted to show you these gift bags. I created these for some customers who ordered gifts for other people for Christmas. I had some stockings left over from my Christmas Gift packaging class a few weeks ago. I had a template for the stockings and could print them off directly onto the card. We had created Gift card holders with them. (We joined 2 together with the topper).
Here is the Gift Bag.
For the stocking, I embossed the Old Olive stocking part with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. The Real Red pieces were embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I added the tag from the Stitched Stocking stamp set but I am still really not sure about that addition???
Here is a close-up.
The presents were created by punching out DSP with the 1 1/4″ square punch. (The gold card is not SU!). I created the bows with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch. I thought they looked pretty cute!!!
Once I worked out how to create them it was quite quick to put together.
I hope you have had a lovely Christmas??? For us, it’s been a nice time sharing it with family. The last 2 days have been spent collecting together the gift wrapping and packaging!
I hope you stop by and visit again soon. I can start showing you some new creations now instead of Christmas cards!
Last Friday I had my Summer Mini Catalogue Launch and it was my last class for the year. I am a bit sad about that. I love meeting up with my lovely ladies, although I am looking forward to a little break. I just wanted to show you the fun project we did. Christmas is almost upon us (17 days to go apparently I was reminded of today – and I still have to hit the shops!). I thought it would be good to create some Christmas tags as I haven’t had a chance to get any done in classes so far. This is the little bag and tags. (sorry it is a bit hard to catch the bag without the glare).
To create this I cut a large scallop circle with the Big Shot and then embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. This was folded in half and 2 holes punched with the Crop-A-Dile to thread the Old Olive Satin Ribbon through. The backing to the bag is a piece of Old Olive Card measuring 10cmx16cm and attached inside the Scallop Circle topper with Sticky Strip. You can then attach a cellophane bag onto the card piece with sticky strip. The ‘Joy at Christmas’ label is punched from Perfect Punches in Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive. A rhinestone is added to the label although you can’t see that too clearly.
Here is a close up of the tags. At the launch they made 4 of each.
For both of them I punched out a 6cm (2 3/8″) scallop circle in Cherry Cobbler. On the left is the tag from Stitched Stockings set stamped in Old Olive. A small bow from Old Olive Taffeta ribbon was added to the top (Yes, I know it was small I heard enough complaints the whole time about how hard it was to tie the bows – Sorry ladies!!!!)
On the right we used the new A la Carte stamp ‘Stylish Star’. It was embossed in silver on Whisper White card and punched out with the 1 3/8″ circle punch. A 1 3/4″ circle in Old Olive was punched out and they were both added to the Scallop Circle. I added a large Rhinestone in the centre. A hole was punched at the top and the new Cherry Cobbler Twine was tied on. I love that new Twine it is so soft. It comes in the Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and the White – so good!!! I haven’t shown the back on this one but we also punched out a circle with the 1 3/4″ in Whisper White and “to” and “from” from the set ‘Fabulous Phrases’ was stamped in Cherry Cobbler.
Hope your not getting too frantic with the Christmas chaos. I might even head out to the shops. I am so bad. I have never left it this late for Christmas shopping but life has been a little choatic lately!
Thanks for stopping by. Come visit again soon and don’t forget to say Hi and leave a comment when you stop by 🙂
You might remember a rectangular black and white box I showed you a little while ago. (I will give you this link below if you missed it). Recently we did one like this box in Razzleberry for a workshop. Of course, I used the brand new stamp set ‘Delicate Doilies’.
For this box we stamped the doily in Razzleberry over the box. The pink strip was run through the Big Shot using the Perfect Dots Embossing Folder. It’s a long strip, so you run it through once and then turn it around and run the other end through. We punched 2 flowers out in Pretty in Pink with the Fancy Flower Punch. These were scrunched several time and distressed. Then we ran the Pretty in Pink ink pad to pick up the colour on the creases. These were adhered together and added to the top of the box with leaves from the 2 way Bird Punch. The doily was stamped again on scrap white card and the centre punched out with the 3/4″ circle punch. This was adhered to the centre of the flower with dimensionals and then Dazzling Diamonds Glitter was added using 2 way glue pen to add the ‘bling’. Here is a close-up.
The instructions for making the box and to see the black and white box I created can be found here.
I hope to be back again soon with some more creating. Maybe I will show you some Christmas creations!
That title sounds a contradiction doesn’t it??? The stamp set “Hello Again” is another retiring set. I have to say I haven’t used it a lot since I got it. Last week I had my “Last Hurrah” class to say Good-bye to some of the products that are leaving us. I chose this set to use and I had a lot of fun putting this together. Everyone got to make this mini card folder and a set of Love note size cards. Here is the set together.
A close-up will make it a bit easier to see!
There were 2 cards in Pretty in Pink and 2 in Rich Razzleberry. The little box frame was created by inking up the clear block and stamping on the Whisper White card.
On the flower card, I stamped first with Old Olive onto the card piece and then with Rich Razzleberry and again with Pretty in Pink onto scrap card. The Razzleberry flower was punched out with the 1″ circle punch and the Pretty in Pink was punched out with the small circle on the Owl punch. On the other card I added some bling with the Adhesive Rhinestones on to the greeting strip. This was punched out with the Word Window Punch and then the Modern Label Punch.
Here are the Rich Razzleberry cards.
Both of these have bling added with either Dazzling Diamonds or a Rhinestone.
Now for the pouch that the cards go into.
The pouch was inspired by one that was made as a Make and Take at the US Convention last year. It was for little ‘Inchy’ cards. I adjusted this to fit the 3″x3″ Love note size cards. I forgot to take a photo of it open but it just folds up. The flap is cut to a point. This tucks into a slot created with the Word Window Punch. The ribbon is stapled onto the flap and tied in a knot.
This is a great little set to play around with and it is a bargain at the moment. This set is 25% off so you can grab it for only $16.46. You have to be quick though. Some of these retiring items have sold out already. Have you checked out the retiring list yet?? If not, then check it out here. Don’t wait around though, these items don’t last long. Contact me to place your order if you don’t have a local demonstrator.
We did make another card at last week’s class but I will show you that next time. That’s enough from me today.
Have a good weekend. It looks like it is going to be a wet one here this weekend. Mmm, maybe some stamping time!!!!
Last post I showed you the Black and White box I created for the Just Add Ink Challenge this week. I thought I would show you now how I put all the elements together. (As if you really want to know!!!)
This is the box.
A Black and White Box!!
I will go through each part.
BOX:
I used the box template on Keesh’s blog here. This is how I made it.
Cut your card 21cmx21cm. On one side score your card at 3cm, 9cm, 12cm and 18cm. You should have 3cm left on that side. Turn your card and score at 3cm in on both sides. Cut all the score lines on the long side up to the score line that runs across. Fold on your score lines. (Before you assemble the box you need to stamp/emboss first as I have done. I will explain that lower down**). To assemble your box add Sticky Strip or Snail adhesive to the small tabs and adhere them together.
**Before assembling my box I stamped the swirl from Baroque Motifs in versamark and then clear embossed it. You can see it a bit clearer in this photo.
Close up View.
BOX BAND:
The box band was done in Whisper White card measuring 21cm x 8cm. I used the Polka Dot Embossing Folder. It was too long to run through all at once, so I placed half the card in the folder and ran it through. Then I turned the card over. I lined up the last line of dots on the card with the dots on the Embossing Folder and ran the card through. I wrapped the card around the box with the ends underneath the box. I ran some sticky Strip on one end to join them together.
THE FLOWER:
To create the flower I stamped the swirls from ‘Baroque Motifs’ with Staz On on Whisper White card and punched out 3 scallop circles with the 2 1/2″ Scallop circle punch. I scrunched them up several times to distress them. I layered them together. I find the Tombow Glue to be the best to adhere them together. The whispy black centre was created with the Black Grosgrain ribbon. Cut a small length of the ribbon. Grab one end and start pulling a thread. One end will pull more easily than the other, so if it doesn’t work try the other end. Once you have a thread then grab it and pull for a bit to fray the ends. Stop before you reach the end!!!!!
Here is a photo to give you an idea.
I used a glue dot to stick the end of the ribbon into the centre of the flower.
RIBBON CURLS:
The white ribbon curls are created with the White Organza ribbon. Use the heating Tool to GENTLY heat the ribbon. The heat will make it curl up. Don’t heat too long or it will melt the ribbon. (How do I know that!!!! LOL).
Here is a picture to show you it curling up.
I did 3 short lengths and adhered them on top of the band with Sticky Strip before adding the flower.
ASSEMBLING:
I assembled everything directly onto the band. First the ribbon curls, then some black leaves punched from the 2-step bird punch, then the flower. The tags were created from the set “Lots of Tags” stamped in Basic Black and punched out with the tiny tags punch. I tied them with cotton thread and adhered them with a glue dot just under the flower.
There you have it. I think I included all the parts. Have fun creating your own. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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