Card Box Tutorial

Hello Bloggers!

I have a few more boxes to share today.  I made four more boxes on Tuesday. I have more free time now since I don't have to go to work for a while.  Yay! to that.  Now you would think it was a lot of boxes for one day.  When you duplicate the same item, it didn't take as much time at all. Plus I had all the embellishment already so each box didn't take much time at all.  I forgot to take a picture of the purple box before  I sold it.  So here are 3 of them.

I have two different ways to make  this box.

Here is the first one:

1 - 11 x 12 sturdy card stock for box

 Note to myself:  water color papers are very sturdy their thickness are up to 140 lb perfect for this project.

1 - 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 for lid

take the 11 x 12 card stock and on the 11 inch size score @ 2 1/2 and 8 1/2

see picture below

turn and score at 4 3/4 and 7 1/4

cut off  where I marked with the  "X" (1 1/4 x 6 inches)  Then fold on all score lines and make 4 cuts where indicated.  You can use die cut for that area but it will be difficult when you decorate the box later so that was why I just cut it straight.  Assemble the box. 
The finished size for this box is 2 1/2" depth x 4 3/4" tall x 6" long.


Here is another way and this was the one that I used.  The box came out very sturdy!

2 - 7 1/2 x 11 card stock for box
1 - 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 card stock for lid

take the 7 1/2 x 11 inches card stock and on the 11 inches size score at 2 1/2 & 8 1/2. see picture below

turn and score at 5 inches

make two cut

 you should have this

glue and assemble the piece and you should have this.  This will be the back of the box.  I added the word adhesive here so you know where to put glue when you join the two pieces together.  see the 4th  picture below

take the other piece and score the same measurement.  Except for this piece you will need to make
 3 cuts off where I marked with the "x".  See diagram picture

you should have this

take this piece and adhere to the other piece.  Apply adhesive where indicated and that is the box.

The lid is the same measurement for both boxes.
Take the 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 and score 2 1/2 all around.  Then make 4 cuts

Assemble the lid and decorate your box. The finished size for this box is 2 1/2" depth x 5" tall x 6" long.  I hope you will give this box a try.  The tutorial looked like lots of work but it is a very easy box to make.

Any question let me know.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Helen

Rasberry Tart Boxes

Hello,

I don't have the foam board photo frame tutorial today.  But I have two boxes to share.  My dear regular blog readers knew I made those flowers even the teeny tiny ones.  I crochet so many flowers that I think I could do it with my eyes close. :)

These pattern papers were from Stampin' Up! I love pattern papers and bought them to use on projects but I just kept on saving them because I thought they were too pretty to cut up.  Silly me!  I was so happy that each box used only one sheet of 12 x 12 paper.

challenges:
2 Sisters - anything goes
Catch the bug - anything goes
Make it Monday - anything goes

Thanks for taking a peak!

Helen

Fancy Flourish Thank You

Hello,

Sharing a quick card today using Fancy Flourish from Paper Trey Ink.  I really like that stamp set.  I just inked the image, stamped and added a little embellishment and I was done!  Using a butter knife I distressed the edge of the image piece.

I am working  on the foam board photo frame tutorial.  I am hoping to have it post on Monday.

 Thanks for stopping by again!  Have a wonderful weekend. 

Helen

4 Tiers Cake

Hello,

I mentioned last week that I made a 4 tiers cake for a rehearsal dinner.  I forgot to take the pictures before I gave them to Lynn.  However, Lynn took the pictures and sent them to me but I accidentally deleted the pictures.  I told Lynn about it and she kindly sent me again.  It was from her iphone so the pictures are different from my usual ones.

The bottom layer had 17 boxes, next were 13 boxes,  the third layer had 12 boxes and the top layer had 11 boxes.  I made 61 boxes total but not all of them were assembled on the cake.

Again, I made each cake piece looking like this.

 I started this cake boxes back in February because there were so many pieces I had to make.   It took me over 1 hour just  to cut the flowers for the roses. Then I had to make 61 origami bows in 3 different sides. After that  I had to stickle the bows  and added pearl to the bow, cut and emboss the outside of the cake boxes and I had to make 51 tags to go in the box.  You got the idea of how much work it was but I love every minute of it and I would do it all over again without hesitation.  I saw Lynn again after the rehearsal dinner and she told me that everyone love the cake!  That was a music to my ears. :)

I am entering this to:

Make It Monday - anything goes
The Paper Player - anything goes
 4 Craftychicks - No stamping

As the weather getting nicer and warmer now, I had so many things to do around the house that I had to reduce my blogging time to twice a week.  I will be posting on Monday and Thursday from now on.

Thank you so much for checking in on me again.

Helen

Ghirardelli Purses

Hello,

I love to make mini purses.  I made these small purses before for my friend's daughter bridal shower HERE.  I always changed my purse size to fit whatever I am going to put in there.  This time I am making the purses to hold the Ghirardelli chocolates. The chocolates are about 2 inches square each so my purses measured 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches.  The handles are 5 1/2 inches long.  I used grosgrain ribbon for the handle.  I tried using card stocks for the handles. I didn't like it because the handle got crashed when stacked.

The flowers were all made by me. :)

For my purses I used 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches and score as in the picture.

For the rest of the tutorial check here.

Thanks for looking.

Helen

Decorated Foam Board Photo Frame

Hello,

First, I wanted to thanks Jessica Jones over at How About Orange for feature the origami paper bow tutorial that I shared last year HERE.  That page right now has more than 23 thousand views.  Last Friday when Jessica featured my tutorial on her blog I had over 14, 000 visitors in one day.  HOLLY COW!  Thank you so much for sending your readers to my blog, Jessica!

O.k. on to my today project.  If you are my regular blog readers, you knew I love to decorate photo frames because they make great gift!
  I had been trying to make my own photo frame but I didn't know what material to use.  I was thinking of using wood but cutting wood and sanding wood are a bit messy. Then I was thinking of using cereal box but they are too thin.  I was drooling over the decorated quilling frames that Lin at Lin Handmade Greeting Card made.  And that inspired me to think harder.  Then I got an idea.  How about foam board?  I tried it and it work!

The foam board I used was 3/16 inch thick.  Micheal's had a sell last week for 99 cents each.  Of course I grabbed a few sheets.

For this frame I cut it 8 x 10 so one sheet of foam board will give me 6 frames.  This frame fit 4 x 6 inches picture.  I took pictures for the tutorial but all the pictures came out badly so I had to make another frame and will do the tutorial then.  So stay tune!

Here are two more decorated frames using wooden frame from Micheal's.

Lin had a great tutorial of how to make this kind of flowers here.

Challenges:

LoveToCreateChallenge - anything goes

Make It Monday - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by again.
 

Helen

Happiness Always

Hello,

I always give a "thank you" for your order card but the card is not a thank you card. Does that make sense? I recently had two bridal shower orders.  One was the 30 tea lights and last week I just completed a 4 tier cake boxes.  I am so mad at myself for forget taking the picture before I gave the cake to Lynn. And Lynn kindly sent me the photos of the cake and I accidentally deleted her email. I felt stupid to ask her to send me the photo again.

 I made these two cards as a thank you gift for the two orders.  This one was for Lynn.

and this one was for my friend Martiza.

The card was inspired from HERE.

Thanks for looking.  Have a wonderful weekend!


Helen