Gift Box

These cards may look slightly familiar! I needed to make a nice little gift for my mom's friend. After making the green birthday card last week, I decided that that design would well in other colours. I made 2 of each of these 4 designs with matching envelopes. My colour pairings: Blue Bayou and Soft Sky (I do not have these colours' ink pads, so I substituted not quite navy and sage shadow{stamped off once}); Purely Pomegranate and Regal Rose; Wild Wasabi and Certainly Celery; and Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa. At first I was going to add sentiments, but I decided against it. You really never know what someone is going to need a card for. This style and the variety of colours I included could work for anything from birthday to thinking of you.

I had to package this up nicely, so I put together a box. Here are the instructions: Base: 8.5x7.5, score at 1-3/8 from all edges, cut one side of every corner, never cutting along the same side twice.Lid: 5-15/16x 6-15/16, score at 1/2-inch, cut one side of every corner, never cutting along the same side twice. For a looser fitting lid: do 7-7/16x6-7/16 and score at 3/4-inch in. Assemble using super tacky tape for the corner tabs.Will easily fit 10 cards and 10 envelopes. It's such a quick box design. I've modified this basic template using 12x12 paper to fit gifts as big as clothes! I didn't feel like decorating the box much after assembling those 8 fairly detailed cards. Instead, I found some nice white satin ribbon from a grab bag from Dunwoody Booth, then I added a little happy birthday tag, tied on with silver elastic cord.

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