Wedding Explosion Box: A Nice Keepsake for the Couple

 I love making handmade gifts for everyone. I love how this Wedding Explosion Box turned out. It is a pretty simple design. I definitely could have had more elements but I loved the vinyl elements I was able to add thanks to Cricut Design Space. The bride is a Cricut fan so I was hoping she would appreciate it. I loved I had enough of the cardstock left over to make a coordinating bag and card to go with it. The card included my bigger gift of some cash for the happy couple to hopefully spend during their honeymoon. Now they can add some photos some comments on things they want to remember as a keepsake they can keep for some time to come.

To see the video of this project beingcreated please head here.

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Napkin Fold Box: Design Team Project for August

 

This is going to make a great gift for a friend. It was super fun to make. In thevideo over on YouTube found here, I show you how I decorated a box I had made previously. I also show a few of the goodies I am adding to the box for the recipient. I really loved how this turned out. The idea came from a tutorial from Mixed Up Craft. You can find her tutorial here.

I could not find the sentiment stamp I used from AlinaCrafts but here is the link to her store. She has some great items.

Measurements for this project include a 4 " x 4 " box.

For the Napkin fold, you need an 8" x 8" piece of patterned paper.

For the inside of the box and the lid top you can decorate with paper that is 3 3/4" x 3 3/4",

The sides of the lid are decorated with patterned paper measuring 3 3/4 " x 3/4 ".

The sides of the box are decorated with patterned paper measuring 3 3/4 " x 1 3/4 ".

Thank You Gifts

Hey there you papercrafters!  Hope your weekend is going well.  I want to share with you one of my "Thank You" gifts I give when someone does something sweet for me or maybe one of our clients at work.  It isn't a huge gift, but it's fun to make these little treats that will just make someone's day.  I usually make a few at a time to keep on hand.  

The one I am showing you today is a nugget box with an easel card on top.  It is made using a SVGfile from SVG Cuttingfiles.  I resized it a bit to make it big enough to hold some post it notes.  I then let my Cricut do all the work and cut out the box/card for me.  You could also fill it with some Hershey nuggets or whatever you may think of.  

After cutting out the box and putting it together I did use a circle punch to punch out a little notch to make it easier to open the drawer.

The Owl image came straight from Cricut Design Space.  (I thought it was too cute).  I added a heart shaped die cut from some Colorbox patterned paper.  The wavy line is also a die cut I cut from some scrap pink paper.

To finish it out I used some flowers I picked up on a Michael's excursion, two glittered epoxy stickers from Dollar Tree, and used a sentiment sticker from Dollar Tree that says "thanks a bunch".

Totally simple to put together.  It's a nice size that you can add all type of treats to.

I am entering this cute card/box into the following challenges:

Crafting with an Attitude: #31, Anything Goes  found here.

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog:  #136 Anything goes found here.

Saturday at Sundown

Here is a video with what I accomplished today.   I will post separately a closer look at the two cards I completed.  I will also come back and do a follow up regarding the gift boxes I made.  I plan on using them for a special gift for a co-worker.  I will get that up as soon as I get the gifts inside the boxes.

I also got a bunch of scrap paper cut up in "my" go to sizes.  See below how I store this paper.  I cut down all scraps in to the following 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, 5 1/2 x 2 1/2, 5 1/2 x 1 1/2, 3 x 2, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2, or 3 x3.  I used to horde everything but not anymore.  I go into this box for layers, accent papers, etc.  I love doing this.  It saves me time later.