According to my calendar Christmas
is a month away and its time to get my gifts organised and wrapped. I love, love, love to make my own gift wrapping, so today’s
project is about Christmas Pillow Boxes. They really are easy to make and you can make them almost any size you like. I also like to add a tag to my gift wrapping so that they can be recycled to somebody else.
To make the pillow box that holds
a gift card [2 x 4” when finished].
Trim your cardstock to 51/2 x 41/2”. On the side measuring 51/2 inches long score lines at the 21/2 and 5 inch mark using either a score board or an embossing tool. You should have a flap on the end of the paper that measures ½”.
Trim your cardstock to 51/2 x 41/2”. On the side measuring 51/2 inches long score lines at the 21/2 and 5 inch mark using either a score board or an embossing tool. You should have a flap on the end of the paper that measures ½”.
Turn the cardstock over to the inside and on the side measuring 41/2” draw two lines, each a ¼” wide one below the other at the top and bottom.
Leave plain or decorate.
Glue some trim at the top
and bottom of the pillow box. Open the pillow box out and apply
a strip of double-sided tape to the outside of the flap. Stick the flap down to make a tube. Gently press and fold in your
scored eye shapes at each end of your pillow box.
Bigger Pillow Box
Trim your cardstock to 81/8 x 81/2”.
On the side measuring 81/2" long score lines at the 4 and 8" mark using either a score board or an embossing tool and a steel ruler. You should have a flap on the end of the cardstock that measures ½”.
On the inside of the pillow box draw two lines, each a ½” wide one below the other at the top and bottom. Remember that the first pillow box holds a gift card so it doesn’t need too much space inside. This pillow box will take something quite a lot bigger and bulkier than a gift card.
For the next steps follow the above instructions but don’t close the pillow box yet.
To decorate
Secure the Stencil-Art A6 stars stencil onto the pillow box using masking tape. Squeeze a little Dina Wakely lime acrylic paint onto your craft mat Pick up the paint using a sponge. Pounce it few times on the craft mat to make sure there isn’t too much paint on the sponge and then pounce the sponge over the stencil until all the stars have been stencilled. Carefully lift the stencil and leave the paint to dry. When the paint is dry replace the stencil matching the stars as best as you can and trace around all the stars using a white gel pen.
Draw a bauble shape onto card
stock and cut it out, using it as a template to trace and cut out three baubles
from a left over piece of background paper. [The paper was made by spraying Dylusions
Cherry Pie and Bubblgum sprays onto my craft mat and swishing the paper around
and drying. Ink around the edges of the baubles with black Archival ink then draw
two corresponding circular lines near the top and glue on bits of music paper
and attach all three to the front of the pillow box.
Open your pillow box out and apply a strip of double-sided tape to the flap. Stick the flap down to make a tube.
Gently press and fold in your
scored eye shapes at each end of your pillow box.
Glue and double sided tape
Scissors / craft knife
Pencil, Ruler and Bone folder
Tim Holtz Bird Crazy and Crazy Things Cling Rubber Stamps and Sizzix Thinlits Dies
Black Archival Ink, Ground Espresso Distress ink and a blender tool
Distress Markers
Water brush
A little trim
Candied Apple, card pumpkin and Hickory Smoke Distress Markers
Stencil-Art Stars stencil
White Gel pen
Dina Wakely Lime Acrylic paint
Dylusions Cherry Pie and Bubblgum sprays
Sponge
Scrap of left over background paper
Scrap of left over music paper
Experiment with two A4 pieces of cardstock to make quite a large pillow box.
Use something round, [I used a saucer
on the small box and a side plate on the larger one] and line it up with the edge of the pillow box.
Draw around it with a pencil. Do the same on the other end and cut along your
traced lines with a pair of scissors and trim off the pointy ends of the 1/2” flap.
Place the pillow box on a mouse
pad or something similar; line your saucer up facing the other way [towards the inside]. You want to
make an eye shape. The edge of the saucer needs to touch both corners of the
paper you've just cut. Hold the saucer firmly, [you don't want it to slip] and
use an embossing tool to score around the saucer. Do this on both ends.
Leave plain or decorate.
Stamp the bird from the Tim Holtz
Bird Crazy Cling Rubber Stamp and the Christmas hat from the Tim Holtz Crazy
things stamp set onto a piece of scrap using Black Archival Ink. I cut them out using the matching dies.
Colour them by scribbling a bit of the colour from Distress markers onto a craft mat and pick up with your water brush and colour as you like. When the bird and Christmas hat are dry glue the hat onto the bird and attached to the gift card pillow box.
Bigger Pillow Box
Trim your cardstock to 81/8 x 81/2”.
On the side measuring 81/2" long score lines at the 4 and 8" mark using either a score board or an embossing tool and a steel ruler. You should have a flap on the end of the cardstock that measures ½”.
On the inside of the pillow box draw two lines, each a ½” wide one below the other at the top and bottom. Remember that the first pillow box holds a gift card so it doesn’t need too much space inside. This pillow box will take something quite a lot bigger and bulkier than a gift card.
For the next steps follow the above instructions but don’t close the pillow box yet.
To decorate
Secure the Stencil-Art A6 stars stencil onto the pillow box using masking tape. Squeeze a little Dina Wakely lime acrylic paint onto your craft mat Pick up the paint using a sponge. Pounce it few times on the craft mat to make sure there isn’t too much paint on the sponge and then pounce the sponge over the stencil until all the stars have been stencilled. Carefully lift the stencil and leave the paint to dry. When the paint is dry replace the stencil matching the stars as best as you can and trace around all the stars using a white gel pen.
Open your pillow box out and apply a strip of double-sided tape to the flap. Stick the flap down to make a tube.
Supplies I used:
Kraft cardstock Glue and double sided tape
Scissors / craft knife
Pencil, Ruler and Bone folder
Tim Holtz Bird Crazy and Crazy Things Cling Rubber Stamps and Sizzix Thinlits Dies
Black Archival Ink, Ground Espresso Distress ink and a blender tool
Distress Markers
Water brush
A little trim
Candied Apple, card pumpkin and Hickory Smoke Distress Markers
Stencil-Art Stars stencil
White Gel pen
Dina Wakely Lime Acrylic paint
Dylusions Cherry Pie and Bubblgum sprays
Sponge
Scrap of left over background paper
Scrap of left over music paper
Experiment with two A4 pieces of cardstock to make quite a large pillow box.
This is really beautiful
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