Samantha Walker Creative Team December Blog Hop

Welcome to Samantha Walker Creative Team Blog Hop! This month's theme is Holiday Gifts!

You should have arrived here from Aimee's blog. This month's giveaway is the Holiday Magic Clear Stamp Set!

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The winner will be announced on Monday, 12/16 on Samantha's Facebook Page.

Now to my project. One of my favorite gifts is handmade cards. I am always on a lookout for creative packaging ideas as we all know that cute package sometimes is not less important than the gift itself.
That's why I got excited when I saw Samantha Walker A2 3D Stationary Box.

I chose pretty pink paper from Samantha Walker Giddy Up! Girl for Carta Bella.

You can make the whole box using only two sheets of 12x12 paper but I wanted to make the contrast panels from another pattern paper and added the third one. Here is the great tutorial by Samantha how to assembly the box. I will show you the modifications I made.

First I cut the box body and the cover flap from pink stripped paper.

The side of the box is cut from the second sheet of the same paper.

Next I wanted to decorate my box with lace edge. I opened Eyelet Scalloped Edge Card and used the knife tool to cut the lace edge off. I adjusted the width of the lace to 5.605" to be the same as the box.

I closed the shape by drawing the line on the top and grouping everything together.

I cut three copies of the laced edge and two more in smaller size to fit the sides of the box. I also cut the contrasting panels for the cover flap.

 

After the box was done I decided to make a tag using the free file that you can get by commenting on the posts in this blog hop.  

I resized the tree to be 4" high (don't forget to lock the aspect ratio), made a duplicate and deleted the circles from the second copy. I cut the top layer from patterned paper and the bottom from glitter cardstock. This little tag is enough to write a holiday wish on the back. 

All ready to be filled with handmade cards.

Thanks for stopping by today and during this year. I can hardly believe that 2013 is coming to an end. This is my last blog hop with Samantha Walker 2013 Creative Team. Looking back, it was a great year of learning and trying new things. Some of my most favorite projects were made for the blog hops. Here they are, all twelve of them.

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