Mini Box (Created with the Petal Card Double Punch)

Here is a little idea for a cute stocking stuffer, birthday present, tooth fairy box, or gift box.

Take four punched pieces using the Petal Card Double Punch, and glue each of the side flaps together. The side flaps should be folded toward the interior of the box. (If you prefer the inside of the box to be as flat as possible, you may want to snip off one petal flap from each punched piece and glue side flaps to interior sides of the box.)

To close the bottom of the mini box, fold each consecutive petal flap down, tucking part of the last flap beneath the first to hold it in place. Repeat this to close the top of the box. (You can also glue the bottom flaps, if you like.)

The finished box will be approximately 1" length x 1" width x 1" height. You can fit a bracelet, necklace, earrings, simply adorned creation, a Hershey's "hug" and "kiss", a tooth for the tooth fairy, a folded dollar bill, tiny candies, a mini book, a keychain, a magnet, a rolled up message, or anything small that you can think of!

This box was made with riding hood red, daffodil delight and whisper white cardstock, Greenhouse Gala designer series paper, Cute by the Inch hostess stamp set, riding hood red, old olive and early espresso markers, beautiful wings embosslits die and basic pearl. A lady at Convention 2010 swapped a simply adorned insert for one of my 3D items and I thought it would be great to use the same color scheme for this box.

The more punched petal cards you adhere together, the larger the box can become. My next project may be a flower-shaped box created with the punch. Stay tuned!

Greenhouse Gala Side-bound Booklet

The following post is a tutorial for a side-bound booklet that I designed. It was for a Late Night Stampers shoebox swap held one evening during Convention 2010. There were many great ideas from the participants and I wish I had a little more time to walk around and absorb it all. As the saying goes: Time flies when you're having fun.

S T E P S

First, cover the two pieces of chipboard with chocolate chip cardstock using glue stick.


Second, you will make the spine of the book. Take the longest piece of Greenhouse Gala DSP, remove the sticky page lining, vertically center and place one chipboard piece on the right (see pen marking to the right on DSP)... place the other chipboard piece on the left (see pen marking to left).

Wrap the extended edges around.

Next, place the shorter piece of DSP to cover the rest of the spine. (You should now see, from left to right: cover, dsp, cover.)

Fold this in half so the corners of the front and back cover meet.


Third, line up the cover template to the folded side. Punch 2 holes using a Crop-a-dile. Set aside.



Fourth, you will create reinforced pages. Start with one peach parfait strip. Use glue stick on one entire side.

Line up an old olive page to the first score line.

Fold the peach parfait piece in half (according to the middle score line).

Repeat these steps for all the pages. Hint: It helps to line up the peach parfait and old olive pages on top of each other.


Fifth, once the reinforced interior pages are complete, you will line them up with the interior page template and punch holes.



Sixth, place the interior pages within the covers you set aside earlier. Pull ribbon through the holes--a few pages at a time. Tie a knot and snip off any extra ribbon.



Seventh, Adhere the whisper white top note die cut in the center of your front cover. Adhere the butterflies on top of the top note layer.


This is what the finished booklet looks like on the inside:


This can be used as a mini scrapbook, poem book, travel journal, or perhaps some other keepsake. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!