What I'm sharing this morning may not seem like that big a deal to those of you with electronic cutting machines and a huge variety of .svg files for boxes but those of you who have manual machines and who know how limited we are on the sizes of our dies for making boxes, you'll understand why this IS a big deal. :-D
I personally have three dies for cutting box shapes; one gives me a 1" x 1" x 1" box, perfect for one piece of fancy chocolates; another gives me a 4" x 4" x 2" box (for which I've found very little use); and the third gives me a 2.5" cube.
I was wandering through my local craft store about a month ago and saw a Box Maker which allows you to make boxes of all shapes and sizes with a few simple score lines -- limited only by the size of card stock available to you and your imagination. Today, I'm showing you one I made which is 5" x 5" square and 4.5" deep. I'm just so excited about this because now I'll have boxes for the hand made Christmas ornaments I make every year for all the kids, kids-in-law, grandkids, and great-grands!
I used two sheets of heavy white CS to make the box pieces (one top and one bottom which fits inside the top) and used double stick tape to adhere the box corners. I decorated the top with a black scalloped-circle which had been die cut (Spellbinders) and added three layers of the dragonfly die cut (Memory Box) on top of it.
I cut the dragonfly piece three times, then used a glue pen on only the bottom corner, leaving the upper parts of the dragonflies and grasses loose so that they could be lifted to add some delightful dimension. It worked even better than I had visualized in my mind. :-D
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I'm heading back to my craft room to score and fold more boxes of this size since I'm going to need more than a dozen of them by Christmas time. I'm playing with some ideas of using sheets of scrap booking paper on top of heavy duty kraft CS to make a few so that they'll be already "decorated" when they are folded into the box shapes. I have a ton of old 12" x 12" Christmas papers and I can't think of a better way to use up some of it. Happy Stamping.
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