I’m making grab bag gifts for my customers that come to class and order. Those that order over $30 get to select something from the basket for free and rather than just putting the gifts in bags, I wanted to package them myself. So here’s a box that I made with undisclosed contents so that it’s a surprise to whoever picks it! I’m calling this my Love and Affection box.

After measuring the proposed contents, I knew that I needed a box that is 6 1/4″ square and about 3/4″ deep. So I cut out a piece of retired DSP to 7 3/4″ square. I scored along each side at 3/4″, and cut along one side of each corner square (the red lines in the diagram). It was a simple matter of adding glue to the little flaps to make the box.

For my lid, I cut the whisper white card stock 1/8″ bigger, so 7 7/8″. At this point, I forgot what I was doing (too focused on other things rather than getting into my crafting zone!) and scored at 1/4 inch which is not right but I didn’t notice yet. Then I stamped the flowers from Love and Affection in watermelon wonder and a retired gold ink. It would have been better to have embossed in gold actually and I think I’ll do that next time. After burnishing my score lines I discovered that the box lid was too big and realised that I should’ve scored at 3/4″ as before! So I used my bone folder to make my paper flat again and then rescored at 3/4″ and burnished those. I was planning on redoing the lid but figured I’d better complete it just to be sure when I decided I actually rather like the extra detail of the score line on the lid. I finished by using some watermelon wonder ribbon from last year – and although it looks as if I used one piece of ribbon, I actually did the bow separately and attached it with a glue dot. Much easier!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz