Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Foliage Gift Box

by Joanne Wardle


Foliage Gift Box

Materials

  • Paper and Cardstock
    • Piece of cream card 10”x3”
    • Basic Grey, Green at Heart 6”x6” pad     ( BG-6x6-GREEN   $5.99)
  • Stamps
    • Rubberstamp Avenue Clear Stamps, Twigs & Sprigs     (
 RSA-CS-M026   $9.99)
  • Inks and Embossing Powders
  • Embellishments
    • Black Organza Ribbon, 1.4"     ( CR-ORG4-Blk   $0.30/yd)
    • Flower soft (spring) from Box Kit, Floral Bouquet Colour Selection     ( FS-Kit-bouquet   $24.99)
  • Tools
  • Adhesives
    • Good quality PVA glue such as Aleene's Acid Free Tacky glue, 4 oz bottle     ( ALE-glue-acidfree   $4.99)

Instructions

  • Fold card in half lengthways and mark the halfway mark along the short edge, score as shown.


  • Stamp foliage onto card


  • Add a piece of paper torn from green at heart pad.
    Run a line of good quality PVA glue along bottom edge and add flower soft.
    Punch hole is side pieces and close with a ribbon.


10 comments:

  1. Magnifique !!! J'adore

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  2. What e neat and clever way to make a box! I'll pick this one to be my favourite for june's best project!

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  3. I love the stamp you've used on this project. I'm picking this as my favourite June project.These boxes are so versatile.

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  4. This is terrific, and there are so many ways you can tweak it to suit your own taste (and the goodies on your worktable, for that matter)!

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  5. This is a terrific project and so easy to tweak according to whatever we have on hand -- love it!

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  6. Very pretty! Thanks for the opportunity to win a prize.

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  7. Very pretty - I'm looking for new ideas to use my flower soft.

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  8. It's lovely and very easy to make. Thanks for sharing!

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  9. Hi Joanne! I used this great tutorial for a gift box I made earlier this week. http://madebycharlottec.blogspot.com/2011/08/kadoosje-gift-box.html I hope you like it!
    Greetings,
    Charlotte

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  10. And another one: http://madebycharlottec.blogspot.com/2012/03/bloemendoosje-flower-box.html
    Really love this boxes! So simple and fast!
    Greetings,
    Charlotte

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