Have a Good, Good Friday...

Happy Easter!

A day early however with it being Good Friday in the U.K. (it's a normal working day here for me so no chocolate just yet!)  I thought you wouldn't mind if I show my Easter Egg box, and something different project, a day early!  As it seems to be Sue Wilson week, lol this year I made my Easter egg box using the Sue Wilson striplet die.  Last year I used Spellbinders A2 Filigree delight die, if you want to see last years creation ( as my blog was new last Easter so lots of my blog friends will have missed it) click HERE.

The whole box is made as a hexagonal box using the striplet for each edge.  There are doors on this box, at the front however they are covered by butterflies!  However they do line up perfectly, that's the beauty of the striplet die!

The below pictures show the doors opening!







There's a lot of pictures but I love this box!  Whatever you are doing with your Bank Holiday please Enjoy...

More Flippin easter Box's

Happy Wednesday,

This is the post that should have gone live on Sunday however I think it is because of the video tutorial

This is the final, for a while anyway, flip box.  This is the project I was planning when I did the tutorial on using the Spellbinders A2 filigree delight die without the edge cutting, to see the tutorial (its now on you tube) Click HERE.

What I wanted was to make the chocolate holding box as easily as possible using one sheet of card without having to stick loads on.  I will film a tutorial on this for next week however it is made with an A3 sheet of card.

As you can see from this piece the filigree is cut however the edges are not meaning that I didn´t need to layer the front piece up, measurements will be on the tutorial as I am writing this late and I cant remember the measurements!

This box holds an Easter bunny (not a lindt one I´m not made of money, but a Spanish Aldi one!)


Next is supposed to be the video tutorial however this is what failed in the first place so It doesn't work properly so its starts halfway through! lol

The box is made from one piece of A3 card which is cut to 23 cm wide.  I scored this, from the front edge, at 3cm, then 12cm, then 3cm then the remaining piece will be 12cm.  Next I scored across the width at 3cm from each edge.  This makes the fold lines for the box, hopefully the video will show the cuts and folds that make this.  Here are the insides...

Enjoy...

Flip Box...

Happy Different Saturday!

Today's difference is an Easter gift / card firstly this picture of the front shows a classic card  The card front is made using Gold Mirror Card and white PMD Hammered cardstock to make a classic filigree layered card.

I used spellbinders filigree delight die, with the centre left on, for the base element.  This was cut in gold mirror card (yes I know my Die DE Jour as well as another example with mirror card I feel like i'm leading a one man crusade to make it fashionable again!)  The other elements are all cut using a combination of Spellbinders ovals large and small and gold ovals.  These have been simply layered with foam tape.

The front is finished with a sentiment from my stash and gold ribbon, twine and some matching (pearl of course) hatpins.


The next picture shows the box / card on the side which shows this is some kind of box, the addition of some gold chocolate eggs (now MIA believed Mr Next Door may be responsible) hints at what is inside!

Finally the card front open shows a box of Easter eggs visible through the acetate window.  THis was cut using gold ovals and has a rim of gold mirror card as well as, if you look very carfefully, an embossed edge.

The next shot shows this, flip lid, opening to get at the choccies!  I added a ribbon tab to lift the lid for speedier chocolate delivery!

This last shot shows the box fully open.  I call it a flip box as there are 2 fronts to the box .

A card and gift all in one hopefully easier to give and post!


Enjoy...

Happy Easter !

The challenge project I uploaded earlier really wasn't me, the colours are too bright and I think the topper is just too fussy.  Therefore I wanted to load another project I have been working on for Easter,

 Easter eggs are very expensive over here with a £1 egg in the U.K. going for over €5 in Spain.

I bought a simple €3 egg and decided to create the box for it myself, here goes.


The box is made from acetate the exact size of the Spellbinders A2 Filigree Delight die in silver Mirri card.  This was mounted onto the box with the oval cut out.  

This provided a perfect window which I decorated with the Spellbinders Papillion 2 butterfly die,  Don't they look gorgeous cut in silver.









The top of the box has corners made from the corner pieces from the same die, silver ribbon and more butterflies.  I hope my mum likes it although as she is on a shopping trip to the U.K. at the moment staying with my partner I may eat it before they get back.  I'll be back with my first ever Design Team project for Lady Anne's cards.  Enjoy...