Along with the hersheys kisses trees and the superhero curvy keepsake boxes, I made some boxes to hold eight nuggets to take to the craft fair. I found the directions on Susan Itell’s site. It’s surprising how quickly they come together – I easily made 10 boxes and 12 trees on Saturday afternoon.
I also made some in green
and here’s the inside
I don’t have the top note die that Susan used so I used the second largest label framelit and that fit the box perfectly. Pictured above is my first box where I did cut out the one inch square as per Susan’s directions but later on I left that square intact. It made the box stronger although it did mean that it wasn’t as good at sitting open for display purposes.
Staples only had the Avery labels #8460 in large quantities but I noticed that the labels were 1″ by 2 5/8″ and that there were a bunch of others the same size. So I ended up with label #5460 instead (I think it’s just a matter of them being laserjet labels). I stamped the smallest snowflake from Endless Wishes in pool party and then the joy from the same stamp set in real red.
I made five different tops. Using the Mingle all the Way stamp set I stamped the Holiday Happy sentiment in both garden green and real red on whisper white card and then cut it out using the third largest framelit. If I’d have had the top note die, I’d have used that but the labels framelits turned out to be easier since there’s no snipping with scissors – just cut out using a smaller die. The Mingle all the Way was stamped in encore silver ink directly on the box top and surrounded with the smallest snowflake from Endless Wishes. I’m now thinking that the top would look even better if I’d embossed it in silver. Next time I’ll do that.
I also used the santa from Get Your Santa On and coloured him in the medium cherry cobbler which seemed to be the closest in shade to the real red. For my final box top I used the scene and snowman from White Christmas colouring in using the pumpkin pie Stampin’ Write marker and the real red.
I was really pleased with how these came out and they were very enjoyable, relaxing and satisfying to make.
