Friday, September 28

Ornament & Gift Box

I pulled this up from an old blog from 2007... Barb Mulkins taught her idea for Christmas Ornament and matching gift box... this never goes out of style!!

It is a clear glass ornament filled with rolled up paper tubes and a box to package it for giving.
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Here is the tutorial on the box.
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This is the box bottom.  I had the Artichoke box bottom put together and then I decided to create a tutorial for it so this is the beginning of the one I did with the Dashing paper.

I decided that I wanted the middle of the box to be a 2 3/4" square and the sides the same size so I cut my Real Red cardstock to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 (which is 2 3/4 x 3) I scored it at 2 3/4" all the way around.  I cut up the score lines on two opposite sides and stamped the main image from Season of Joy as shown.
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This is a picture of the flip side where I would use Sticky Strip.  Since Sticky Strip is backed with a red strip, I used correction tape so you could see where to place the Sticky Strip.
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Here is the box after you remove all the backing pieces from the Sticky Strip and attach it all together.  It is a 2 3/4 square and the ornament will fit neatly inside.
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This is the lid for the box.  It is 4 13/16 x 4 13/16 and scored all the way around at 1".  Cut up the score lines on two opposite sides and add the Sticky Strip.
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This is the reverse side of the lid showing where to place the Sticky Strip and how I decorated the edges with the swirl from Season of Joy and a 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 square of the Wintergreen papers.
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Here is the finished project tied with the gold cord.


I thought this was a really cool idea... there are so many great DSP designs you could use for this!

Have fun creating and don't forget to share with me.. 
send me a picture of your finished product 
and I'll feature it on my Blog!!

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