Monday, August 20, 2007

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.




** edited to add a photo to help out **

11 comments:

  1. These are very nice! What a great gift

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  2. These are awesome gift sets...great idea! Thanks for sharing it.

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  3. This is so great - I love the design and the coordination.

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  4. Stunning gift!!! Thanks for the instructions for the box. This is wonderful! So happy I found your blog today. Hope it is okay if I link to it. I'm sure my friends and family will love your site!

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  5. Love this gift box natasha! Thanks for sharing the deets! :)

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  6. What a great idea! TFS, the cards you made for it are simply beautiful. I'm going to try it myself, i saw Charmiane's with her link to your blog so I had to see your original! I'll post mine on my blog when i make it and add links too! Thanks for a great idea for gift giving.

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  7. Wonderful gift idea! Great cards and box!

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  8. Love this set and the monochromatic look is great!!! TFS

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  9. This is such a great simple crisp looking card.. TFS! I like your blog too. I will be back...
    Kim :)

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  10. The diagram is perfect. Tx for posting. EdieB

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