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Fancy Frost Specialty DSP gift box

I’m hoping that you’re a little more organised than I am and have already sent all your Christmas cards and now you’re onto packaging. I know that a lot of people give gift cards because then the recipient can get exactly what they want but just putting the gift card in a card gives away what it is instantly. Hence I’ve created a little box which holds a gift card with room for a few candies or hazelnuts (nuts being my personal favourite for disguising shapes, especially walnuts) so that your giftee doesn’t know that it’s a gift card the minute you give it to them. Of course you could use the box for anything small, but I designed it for a gift card.

I wanted to feature the fancy frost specialty DSP but also have the glorious contrast of emerald envy. The box measures 3 1/2″ by 2 1/2″ and is 3/4″ high. The base is a piece of card stock measuring 5″ by 4″ and you score around each edge at 3/4″. Fold and burnish the score lines well and then cut up on the red lines. You can cut out a teeny tiny wedge from both sides of the square to make the box neater if you like.

Then put glue on your four little square tabs and construct the box. The lid is constructed in the same way but you have to decide if you want to see some of the bottom of the box peeping through. I decided to have the lid overhanging by half an inch to reveal a quarter inch of emerald envy. After adding 1/16 inch (the smallest mark on the trimmer) to give enough ease to allow the lid to fit nicely, the size needed was 4 9/16″ by 3 9/16″. Since we want a half inch overhang, score each side at half an inch. Fold, burnish, cut and glue as before. Your lid should fit perfectly.

Fill your box and then wrap the ribbon around. I’m using the emerald envy from the 3/8″ silky ribbon taffeta combo pack, a set of 2 ribbons currently at half price at $4.50. To finish off my box, I used the Tin of Tags stamp set for the sentiment which I cut out with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. I used a glue dot to stick the label to the underside of the ribbon so that it slides off along with the ribbon.

Here’s another view showing the fancy frost paper a little more

I’m really pleased with how this came out – it’s easy and quick to make and fun to disguise a gift card.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Tin of Tags pretty box

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I recently shared that I was making gift packaging for the gifts that my class customers can select when they place a qualifying order. I wanted to share a box that I recently made which features the Tin of Tags photopolymer set which is on sale at $15.75 (25% off) this month. This is to go along with the new Stitched Shapes framelits dies which are debuting early starting today – I already ordered my set this morning!

So to the box. I already had the contents so I measured them adding a quarter of an inch to the size to give me 5 1/4″ by 3 5/8″. Measuring the height of the contents, with a little wiggle room, gave me 3/4 inch so I cut my base piece of retired DSP to 1 1/2 inches (to make the sides at opposing ends) plus the base of the box – 6 3/4″ by 5 1/8″. Although the diagram below shows the scoring at 3/4″ (the height of the base) and 6 inches for the other side of the box, it’s simplest to just take the height that you want and score that on all 4 sides, so 3/4″ on each side.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - box basic

You then cut up the red score lines (after folding and burnishing) and use glue dots, fuse or even snail to make the box. For the lid, you first decide how much of the base that you want to show. If you want none, just make the paper a smidge larger – just 1/16 inch bigger in both directions and proceed as for the base, scoring at 3/4 all the way around. That extra 1/16″ on the top will enable you to get the lid on. If you want some of the base to show as in this example, figure out how much you want to show, double that amount and reduce the paper for the lid by that amount. So say you have a 1 inch deep box and you want to show 3/4 inch of the base, you need to reduce the paper that you cut by twice 3/4″, i.e. 1 1/2 inches. But please do let me know if you have questions!

For my project today. I made a melon mambo lid and tied it on with delightful dijon ribbon. I used the Tin of Tags set to make my tag, along with the layering ovals framelits dies. A few enamel dots finished it off. Here’s a shot of the top of the box

Making boxes is a lot of fun – and it helps use up DSP that you may (you know you do!) have around.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

How to size a squishy box

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Today I want to share how easy it is to change sizes of the squishy box to suit what you want to put in it. I’ve been playing with this lately because I’ve been making more grab gifts for my customers at my classes. Here are two of them in different sizes featuring the Tin of Tags stamp set on the labels.

You can make the bottom of the box almost 3″ by 3″. Here’s the way to think about it – the box is made out of one piece of paper and with 4 sides. Since the maximum length of paper is 12 inches, your 4 sides need to add up to no more than 12. In fact, no more than 11.5″ because you need an edge to glue. So in the examples above, I have a box which is 2 3/4″ square ( 2 3/4 four times is 11 inches, so that works) and another which is 3 inches across the front and 2 3/4″ deep ( 3 inches twice plus 2 3/4 inches twice is 11.5 inches). The scoring is obviously driven by the size of your sides so in the first case, my 2 3/4″ square, you first cut off the spare half an inch (since the 4 sides plus half an inch for gluing equal 11.5 inches). Then you score along the long side at 2 3/4, then 2 3/4 further along which is 5.5″, then another 2 3/4″ at 8 1/4 inches and finally at 11 inches. I decided to score along the short side at 2 inches and have another 4 inches for the top of the bag. The reason for this was to get 2 bags out of a piece of 12 by 12 DSP and because what I was putting in the bags is not very tall. The tabs at the bottom of the box don’t cover the entirety of the bottom, but that’s okay.

To finish the bag, cut up on the red lines, remove the yellow and glue the box together. Pinch the tops together and you’re good to go. Either punch holes for ribbon or use a clothes pin/peg and then attach a tag using the Tin of Tags set for decoration.

I hope that you can see that it’s possible to make quite a variety of sizes changing the width and depth of the box. Just make sure that the opposite sides are the same widths and you’re good to go. Of course, it’s possible to make a bag out of more than a single sheet of paper, but that’s for another day!

I used the Tin of Tags stamp set to make my tags – love that big Surprise. Mine are using retired DSP (such a good use for it) and the real red ribbon is retired also. The lovely striped melon mambo stitched ribbon is current though and I just got the same ribbon in bermuda bay. It’s beautiful too.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project – feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 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