SWEET TREATS FAVOR BOX

This is a fun cartridge, I can see using it for many occasions.

I used my Gypsy again for this project. I am slowly falling in love with it, lol.

What I did:

I took a 12 x 12 piece of American Crafts cardstock and

cut the box base from page 47 of the Sweet Treats booklet at 4.68"H x 11.23"W.

Then, I cut the same box on designer paper from Die Cuts with a View: Peppermint Twist Collection (from last year) and cut on the scored lines to separate them. I inked the base and the designer paper.

I love inking; I love the definition that it gives to a project.

Then, I glued those pieces of the designer paper onto the box base.

I cut a strip of the same designer paper, at 12"L x 1/2", inked it and used it for the handle. I attached the handle with two small brads.

I cut 2 strips of the same red AC cardstock I used for the box base at 3"L x 3/4"W and,

2 two more at 2-1/4"L x 3/4"W. Then

took my "Sunburst" Fiskars punch and punched and inked those strips. I glued them at the bottom of the box.

I cut a piece of the same red cardstock at 3" x 2-1/4' to give the box bottom a bit more of stability. I used glue to attach it.

I punched two buttons with a Martha Stewart punch and threaded some red twine on the button holes and attached the buttons to the box bow with Glue Dots.

I used two Fiskars punches: a scallop one and a circle one to  make the front embellishment, paper pieced it, inked it and stamped it with a G Studio clear stamp. I did that for the front and the back. The size of the scallop is 2" and the circle is 1-1/2".

Then, I decided it needed a tag, so I cut the tag from the same page 47, at 2.16"H x 1.29" W.  I cut two sets because I wanted to glue the backs together so I would have the texture of the red cardstock on both sides and then I hand-wrote a "To and From" with black ink.

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