I've been away all week, house/cat sitting again, so have been trying to catch up on a bit of crafting in the evenings!
Rather than cards I've been working on some little gift boxes and a variety of gifts to go inside them...
These boxes are so easy to make. I designed them to fit 3 tea lights initially, but have been using them for other things too. Each of the boxes in the photo has been decorated using the Clearly for You stampset 'flower' image in 2 different colours, simply stamped all over the sleeve before assembling it round the drawer.The drawer dimensions are 3 x 6 1/16 inches for the insert. Scored at 3/4 inch on all 4 sides. You then need to snip to create the tabs on 2 opposite sides and fix with red tape. I find that normal double sided tape or glue just isn't strong enough so make sure you use the red tape.
For the sleeve the dimensions are 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 scored at 3/4, 2 3/8, 3 1/8 and 4 3/4. Make sure you stamp the sleeve before assembling this and place it around the drawer to ensure it fits before sticking with red tape.
Here is one with a gift inside, although the stamping on the sleeve hasn't come out very well in the photo... but you can see how it works :).
Check back over the next few days as I will be sharing with you some of the ideas for gifts to make to go inside.
these are lovely
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