Mother's Day Gift Box

Do you like creating altered items?  We hope to inspire you to create a wonderful giftbox with this photo tutorial from design team member Jacqueline Yeo.

This is a quick and easy way of creating a giftbox that is full of personalized touches. All you need is a raw cardboard box (or a recycled giftbox) to start. October Afternoon diecut tags are a great and easy way to start of embellishing any altered art. The diecuts are also the perfect size for a little minibook that can be attached to the top of the box, with journalling possible for the gift receipient. A perfect present for Birthdays, Mother's Day or Father's Day!

1. Start with a raw box.

2. Place your papers (October Afternoon papers are all color coordinated, so you can use the front or back of any OA paper for this project!) right side down, position the lid of the box such that there is a 1" allowance on all sides. Mark and cut out the paper. After that, place some tape or glue at the top of the lid and press down into position. Using a craft knife, cut a diagonal from the corner of the lid to the corner of the paper. This makes 4 separate "tabs" to be folded up to cover up the sides of the lid. Glue in place.

3. Cut a strip of ribbon the height of the lid, and adhere around the side.

4. For the box, take the dimensions of the height and cut up 2 strips from the same patterned paper (this time using the other side of the chosen patterned paper). Adhere to the box.

5. Cut up a length of ribbon. Shown here is a plain coordinating coloured ribbon, but you could use patterned ribbons too. Note - use a similar color scheme or pattern (ie, polka dots / stripes etc) Tie across the box and fix the ribbon at the top. Position the ribbon assymetrical to the box to allow more space for the embellishments. Add flowers and pins in the middle of the bow.

6. Now we start to embellish the box. The October Afternoon diecut tags are great as a base for the rest of the embellishments. Using 2 similar range tags - adhere one to the side of the box, and one to lid of the box.

7. Build up the embellishments by adding rubons, diecut shapes (i used the diecut monsters from the "night light" collection)

8. Write your note (Happy Mother's Day!) and remember to stick ONLY to the ribbon.

Comments

[separate box to the philippines]

This is perfect box for my love one.

-Stephanie

[Sandi Counceller]

Wow! Love this!

[philippines gift]

Great gift box, very artistic. Sure that any one you'll give that will really appreciate your effort

-krisha-

[Mabel M]

Great mother's gift! TFS

[slammie]

awesome!

[Angie]

Love this, Jacq!! So beautiful!

[NanaBeth]

I am all over this one.