Tutorial - Lantern Gift Box

There are lots and lots and lots of pictures here, so this is a very long posting.

Supplies required (beside your basic tools e.g. glue/scor-tape, etc.):

2 3-1/2"-square chipboards,

1 12"x12" cardstock,

2 clear acetate 2 7/8" x 5" (or 5 1/16" is better),

designer paper to decorate

These are the 3 templates. You can probably figure them out yourself as I've put details on them, but the following pictures and explanations might make it easier. I'm breaking this down into 3 parts.

PART 1 - THE BOX

Cut out two 3-1/2" square chipboards. You only need one for the box, the other one is for the lid.

Round the corners.

Cut out 4 designer-paper squares of the same size.

Glue to the top and bottom of each chipboard square.

Now for the walls of the box. Cut out 6" x 12" cardstock. The side of paper that's going to be the inside of the box should be face up now.

Score lines as indicated. DON'T draw the broken lines like I have. I've only done them so you can see where the score lines should go.
Horizontally at 2 15/16", 5 7/8", 8 13/16" and 11 3/4".

Vertically at 3/8" from the top and at 1/2" from the bottom.

Now to make the windows on 2 alternating sides of the box, draw a frame 3/8" from the score lines.

Draw diagonal lines from the corners of the frame.

Draw lines 1/8" away on both sides of each diagonal lines.

I've drawn heavy lines where now you should cut away with your craft knife.

Apply 1/4" scor-tape on the frame of the window.

Peel off the protective paper (or whatever you call it) and place the clear-acetate rectangles in place.

Apply 1/4" scor-tape along the top, peel off the paper and fold the top of the box toward you. This will double the strength of the top rim of the box.

Flip over so now the outside of the box is facing you. Apply 1/2" scor-tape along the bottom of the box. Apply 1/4" score-tape along the vertical edge of the box. Peel the protective paper off this and close the box by bringing the open edges together.

Cut the corners of the box to the score lines as shown.

Fold along the score lines.

Peel off the protective paper.

And center the box on top one of the chipboards. I actually prefer to use glue here as with the scor-tape you have to get it right the the first time. With glue, you have several seconds to reposition it if you're off centre.

I cut out a square piece of designer paper ( 2 7/8" square) to line the bottom of the box so it looks nicer.

PART 2 - THE LID

Score along the broken lines. And then cut along the lines that have been darken below. Discard the pieces that are marked with and 'x'.

Fold along score lines.

Apply 1/4" scor-tape along the outer edges.

Peel off the protective paper and form the little box for underneath the lid.

Center it on top of the second decorated chipboard.

This lid should fit snugly into the rim of the top of the box.

PART 3 - THE ROOF

This part took me the longest to do. I went through several revisions before I ended up with this one.

Cut out a 6"x6" piece of cardstock.

Score 1/2" from each of the 4 sides and score a one-inch square in the centre of the paper.

At each of the 4 corners, cut off a 1 1/2-inch square as shown below.

You should end up with this right now.

From the corner of the 1-inch square in the middle, score 3 diagonal lines to the points at the corner of the paper as shown above.

Then make the folds along the score lines. Look at the template for this one. As I indicated there, the middle diagonal line at each corner should be a valley fold. The rest of the lines are mountain folds. I should look like this now.

Flip over.

Apply glue as shown here and glue the corners together.

So, this is your roof. You just have to glue it on top of your lid now.

Apply glue.

And centre it on top of your lid.

Voila! Now you can decorate it anyway you want.

And this is how I ended up decorating my lantern gift box.

I am putting a pillar candle as a gift in the box, thus the sentiment to match.

See, this doesn't look so hard, does it? Now go and make your own gift box!!!

Lantern Gift Box #2 and Candle

Happy Saturday!!!

I've got 2 different non-card projects this time.

I saw Beate Johns' video toturial on how to stamp on a candle and she made it look sooo... easy, that I just had to give it a try. The link was provided by WinterWonderland because that's their challenge: stamp a candle or decorate a candle holder. So this is my entry to their challenge.

This is my second lantern gift box. A lantern needs a candle, so what better gift box to place this candle in, hee hee. (The candle is just the right size too to fit into the box. Bought them at Canadian Tire--comes in a package of 2 for $4.99 CAN.)

I can use this project as my entry to the challenge at Passion for Promarkers. This is their Mega Christmas Challenge: ‘anything but a card - with a Christmas and New Year theme’.

A third challenge I can enter both these items into is the one at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge. Their theme is matching set.

I have no idea why I chose these non-traditional Christmas colours. I think I just wanted to get away from all the reds and greens for awhile and try something else--before going back to them, hee hee.

Actually my good friend Cami and Linda asked me for the measurements/templates to the earlier lantern box I made. I didn't jot them down the first time. So in order to do the templates, I have to recreate the lantern gift box--only too happy to do so. So now I have another gift box and the templates done. While I was doing that, I took lots of pictures. Just in case anybody else is interested, I'm working on a tutorial to go along with the templates so they're easier to understand.

Edited. I've just posted the tutorial for the lantern gift box. If you're interested, you can find it HERE.

Enjoy your weekend.

Stamps: Magnolia Silent Night Tilda

DP's: from Making Memories Autumn Splendor collection.

Tilda, what ya doing?

Happy first day of December! Can't believe we're into December already. Where did the rest of the months go?

So, lots and lots of Christmas cards from now on. Here's one more. Another story to go with this card... hee, hee. This is Big Sis looking for Little Sis Tilda, who just can't wait to see what Santa has brought her.

So, this card is for all the challenges with a Christmas-theme challenges:

Magnolia-licious Yahoo Group December home page challenge.

Stamp With Fun Challenge 35 - X-mas.

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge 80 - Non Tradional Christmas Colours.

This simple sketch from Mojo Monday Week 115 challenge is just perfect.


This is a shadow box card. Suzanne gave me the link to the tutorial for it. And as I usually ended up doing, I altered the measurements to suit my card. Here’s the link: shadow-box-card tutorial. This is just one of them--I’m sure there are many others out there.

The 2 images of Tilda I used here are from Magnolia’s So Jolly& Under the Mistletoe 2009 Collection: Christmas Morning Tilda and Unwrapped Tilda.

The clock is actually from a clear-stamp image of a stopwatch. Sorry, I don’t know who makes the stamp as I threw away the package it came in. I bought the stamp set a long time ago before I started blogging and knew that I’m supposed to be keeping those kind of details.

The mini calendar I made with the help of my laptop and printer. I printed the “DEC” and the numbers 25 to 31, inclusive. I cut them out in little rectangles and distressed the edges of each a bit. I glued the numbers together at the top to bind them into a booklet. Then glued that on black cardstock and arrange the month on top.

I wanted to see Tilda sitting in front of a Christmas tree, but I wanted a more 3-dimensional tree, rather than just a stamped image. This is how I did my tree—very easy.

The shape of my tree is weird because it’s not the entire tree, but only the bottom left corner of the tree, I punched out lots and lots of twigs—more than pictured here—and I just glued them onto the tree shape. Added blings and pearls for the tree ornaments.

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day!

DP's: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Village, Provo Craft Soft Serenity Mauve Stripe.
Tools: Martha Stewart twig punch, McGill twig punch, Coluzzle ovall template.
Misc.: Me&MY BIG Ideas Icon Stickers Rhinestone Singles Multi, Mark Richards pearls

Winter wedding

Hello! Happy Wednesday! We're halfway through the week, yeah!

This is my second and last week at the Designer Spotlight at Simons Says Challenge. I've enjoyed my time with them. Thanks to Chris and the other DT members at Simon Says for giving me the opportunity.

Their theme for their challenge is Winter Love. Well, the theme that I was given was more specific and it was winter wedding, so I was trying to make a wedding card, hee hee. When I was first informed of the theme, my first reaction was...oh oh, am I in trouble!!! I don't have any bride-and-groom images. What should I do, what should I do?... Anyway, this was a real challenge--strained my brain, LOL--and this is what I finally came up with.

Now, since I still don't have a bride and groom, what I've done is made a card featuring Tilda as a flower girl. I don't know if that's appropriate or not for a wedding card, but hey, I have to make do with what I've got, hee hee. This is sort of a short story of Flower Girl Tilda on the wedding day/morning. At the front of the card, she is helping out by placing the bride-and-groom caketop on the wedding cake (aha..I do have a bride and groom!!! hee hee!) .

And in the inside of the card, Tilda is sitting by the church window waiting for the bride to come out, so she can start walking down the aisle.

To make these flower girls, I've done a bit of masking with 2 Tilda images and used the image of a flower garland from another Tilda.

I was supposed to make this a winter wedding. The only thing I could think of was using winter colours. That what I did here and went with blue, white and silver.

Okay, not a traditional wedding card, but I'm quite pleased with how this turned out anyway. Hope you like it too.

Now I must get back to those Christmas cards!!! Yikes, exactly one month before Christmas!!! Full steam ahead now.

Have a wonderful day everybody. Thanks for visiting.

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda Decorate Christmas Tree, Jam Tilda, Church Window and flower garland cut out from Tilda with Flower Garland in Hair; wedding cake and bride-&-groom cake top from American Crafts Brand clear stamp set Wedding.

DP's: Chatterbox Scrapbook Walls Courtyard Blossoms, Chatterbox decorative cardstock Lake Stripe, American Crafts Brand Elegant Gown.

Tools: Martha Stewart heart border punch, MS lace scallop heart punch.

The sentiment is computer generated.

for someone special

Happy Tuesday!!

This is going to be a quick and short posting, as I want to post this before leaving for work this morning. Am running late already—woke up too late. Well, I actually fell back to sleep after my alarm clock woke me up the first time. I am always doing that!!! I’m such a night owl. Love working into the night, but have to force myself to get up the morning after.

I have this Christmas song buzzing in my head. I think it’s sung by WHAM. It goes like this:

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special …...

Do you know that one? Well, this card was inspired by that song. Week 28 challenge at Allsorts Challeng Blog is to take inspiration from a Christmas carol or song title… I’m stretching the title part a bit to the entire first verse of the song, so I hope that’s okay.

I’m using Jeanette’s wonderful sketch that she has provided for Friday Sketchers Challenge 79.

In stamping the images, I’ve done some MASKING, which is the challenge for Week 32 at Just Magnolia Challenge Blog.

What I usually do with my Tildas or Edwins is cut them out with my craft knife and/or my small pointed sciccor and then prop them on pieces of foam tape/dimensionals to give the cards the 3-D look. I think I can count the number of cards on one hand that I haven't done this with. But if I do that with this card, that beats the purpose of masking, doesn't it? So I have left this card in its 2-dimensional state.

Challenge 32 at Colour Create Challenge is to use green, red and white, so that's the colour scheme for this card.

I went for a clean look for this card. Not too much fuss.

On another note, In2stamps has just reveal their 2nd release, the “Birthday Collection”. Ooooh, the images are sooo… cute. You just have to take a quick peek HERE.

Before I sign off, I want to thank everyone who comes to visit me and especially those who leaves me a comment. You have been so encouraging and supportive in your comments. They are very uplifting and mean more to me than you will ever know.

Thanks for dropping by and enjoy your day!

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with Heart and Christmas Bench.

DP's: DCWV Holiday stack.

Misc: Kaiser Craft red pearls, So Charming heart charm.

Lantern Gift Box

Hello! Happy weekend!

It's time for a new challenge at Magnolia Down Under Challenge blog. For the next fortnight (two weeks) the theme for our Challenge #27 is... Christmas decoration/card. The DT members have been creative with this theme, so make sure you hop over to MDUC and check out the other cards and projects. For an added incentive to enter our challenge, there is a price of one of the adorable images from the 2009 So Jolly, So Snowy collection from the Magnolia Down Under *STORE*. So here's what I created:

What I wanted to make was a gift box to go along with the card that I made for the last MDUC Challenge #26. I was trying to make it look similar to the lantern that Edwin is carrying. What do you think? Hmm... Probably would look more like a lantern if I put a handle on it. Ah well, it's a a gift box. The most important thing is......the chocolate inside!!! LOL.

The see-through windows are on two opposite sides and the other 2 sides I've decorated with Edwin on one side and Tilda on the other. They're the same images I used on the card.

I've put another Tilda image under the lid--just for a bit of a surprise for when you open the box, hee hee.

I used the same designer papers here as the ones I used on the card.

Hope the weather improves later on. Saturday here has been nothing but rain, rain, rain. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with Lantern and Edwin with Lantern, Lazy summer day Tilda.

DP's: Basic Grey Wassail Mantle, Provo Craft Holly Argyle.
Tools: Fiskars border punch, Spellbinders oval Nestabilities and Big Shot, Marvy Uchida scallop circle punch.

New DT spot!

Exciting news for me!!! I haven't posted a formal announcement, but you might have noticed the changes in my side panel already, as I've made them a few days ago, LOL.

Woo hoo...! I've been given the opportunity to join the DT members of In2stamps.

I was so excited when I got the e-mail from Wendy and Bruno. In2Stamps is a new stamp company based in Belgium. They have the most wonderful images. I feel very privileged to be joining their team and am looking forward to working with the the In2stamps images--can't wait.....

Tilda and Ginger

Hello everyone. And a happy Wednesday!

Woohoo!!!! I've been given the opportunity to be a Guest DT at Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog, for a couple of weeks. Thank you so much ladies. This is by Guest DT card for their Nov. 18/09 challenge. The theme is... Animal Antics.

The image I used here is Magnolia's Tilda with Cat. The cat's name is Ginger, so I coloured her thus appropriately (or did I use that colour first and then call her Ginger?...LOL).

I couldn't think of what embelishment to put at first--I really didn't want to use flowers on this card. I didn't have anything in my stash that's related to a cat. So I had to make something and I hit upon this ball of wool idea. I just punched a circle out of thick cardstock, wrapped some wool/yarn around it and glued it in place.

To decorate the inside of my card, I found the perfect image. This is one of Mo's Digital Stamps.
Aww, doesn't Mo Manning just create such adorable images?

That's it. Thanks for visiting my blog. Would very much appreciate a comment if you have the time.

And don't forget to visit Simon Says Challenge and check out the fabulous creations from their DT members. You may also want to enter their challenge--a $25 Simon Says credit voucher may be yours!

Have a wonderful day!

DP's: Chatterbox Scrapbook Walls Collection Cabana Dots, Cabana Stripes, Sunny Pinwheels.

Misc.: Reflections pearls, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad tea dye.

Tools: EK Success paw print punch, EK Success border punch wave with dots.

Thinking of you...across the miles

Hello!

This is going to be a short posting. I haven't posted for a while. Finally have a card for you now. (I have been busy with other cards, but not too be posted yet...hee hee.)

I made this card for a few challenges and also to cross off one more name on my Christmas card list--gosh, it's approaching fast, isn't it?

These are the challenges: A Spoon Full of Sugar. The theme for their Challenge 77 is Create a Scene.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge. The theme for their current challenge is Thinking of You.

Colour Create Challenge. Challenge 31 - BLUE, SILVER and WHITE...with the optional extra, the theme is WINTER and GLITTER.

Cute Card Thursday. Challenge 86 - Glitter me Silly! Here's a close-up to show off the glitters.

I didn't use any DP on this. The background paper was from when I was experimenting with sprinkling salt on a watercolour wash. The trees are done as per my tutorial--click here if you're interested. The sentiment is computer generated.

Don't forget to hop over to MDUC and check out the other DT's fabulous creations. It'll be worth it!!

That's it for now! Didn't I say this was going to be short!!! LOL. Have a wonderful day!


Stamps: Mangnolia Chilly Tilda and Log.
Tools: Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Fiskars snowflake border punch. Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder and Big Shot (I finally got one, woo hoo!!!).

A lantern to light the way

Happy weekend!

A new challenge for Magnolia Down Under Challenge!

It is our Challenge #26 and the challenge is the following sketch from Shell Barnard:

And this is sponsored by Kellie herself. She is offering a $10 Gift Voucher to spend in her very own newly-opened Magnolia Only store. That's Aussie dollars, guys--go for it!!! And you have 2 weeks to create something.

The sketch wasn't really meant for it, hee hee, but I used it to make a joy fold card--artistic licence!! I had the hardest time trying to finish this card. I kept fiddling with it even after I thought I was finished. It just wasn't looking right... But I think I'm done playing with it now.

I also made this card for Stamp With Fun. Their Challenge #31 is to make a card with a scene. I have created two scenes here. The stamps for the background sceneries, Alota Side Wall with Window and the Magnolia Brick Wall, I purchased from Diana's store Magnolia-licious.

For Week 7 at Basic Grey Challenges, it is a photo-inspiration challenge. The picture is over to the right, here.
It was so obvious to me what Basic Grey DP I was going to use. Any guesses, LOL?

It's a "Bring out your bling" challenge at All Sorts Challenge--they want to see lots of sparkles. I didn't use any rhinestone, but I have lots of sparkles on the card. The ribbon on the front of the card is a sparkly red and gold ribbon. I've put glitters on the angel wings of both Tilda and Edwin. And also on the the white-fur trims of all the hats for Tilda, the critter and the pooch.

Hmm... not sure if you can see that in the pictures. You might have to blow the pictures up to really see.

The final challenge is from Roses on Paper. Their Challenge # 24 is for a Christmas card.

I've put a blank space on the left panel for personal messages to be written on.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog. And for those of you who leave me a comment, a double thank you. I really do appreciate it. Enjoy your weekend!


Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with Lantern and Edwin with Lantern, Penny Black 'T for Transparent' Holly Jolly and Christmas Critters, Magnolia Brick Wall, Alota Side Wall with Window, Hero Arts Clear Design Classic Christmas Borders.
DP's: Basic Grey Wassail Mantle, Provo Craft Holly Argyle.
Misc.: Kaiser Craft Pearls.

Tools: Fiskars border punch, EK Success candle punch, Marvy Uchida scallop oval punch.