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I made this lovely birthday card for my Mother using a 3D matchbox card technique with inspiration from Youtube, Pinterest and my own wonderful creative imagination. I spent over 2 days creating it.
Everything was cut with my Silhouette Cameo machine; with the exception of the butterflies which were made using a Marta Stewart punch (Garden_Butterfly_Layering_Punch), the box bottom, which I used the Envelope Punch Board to create it with, and the intricate green glitter flourish on the box cover, which is an Anna Griffin Cuttlebug metal die "Flourish Emblem", cut out using my Cuttlebug machine.
I made the box bottom starting with a 9" x 9" square piece of cardstock.
The first punch and score is set at the 3 ½" mark, and the second
punch and score is at the 4 ½" mark. Next you rotate your paper 90º (degrees)
to opposite side and repeat the first and second punch and score as noted above.
You can now complete the two remaining sides following your score lines.
Once you fold it and glue the flaps down, it will look like a tray. I used another
piece of cardstock to line the bottom cut at 4¼" wide by 5 5/8" long.
This is the video I watched to learn how to make the box bottom.
I cut a piece of gold polka-dotted glitter cardstock 11" long x 4 ¼" wide
which will create by cover. I scored the cover with my Martha Stewart
scoreboard using centimeters for a more accurate measurement.
Here you can see the score line measurements in centimeters.
From left to right; first score is at 11 cm; second is at 13 cm;
third is at 24 cm; and last score (on the right) is at 26 cm.
Once you have burnished your folds, you can seal your cover with adhesive,
then, you can audition the box bottom by sliding it inside to make sure the fit is not too tight.
Here, I'm auditioning 3 small panels (inside the box bottom)
which I cut at 4 3/8" long x 1 5/8" wide, and folded in half which
will serve to hold the fence, flowers and butterflies I have cut out.
I cut out 2 fences (from my Silhouette cut files) and adhered
them to the back of the panel inserts. I attached the vine
(from another Silhouette cut file) to the front.
Here is a view of one of the fences with vines, a flower and butterfly.
I went back and added glitter to the butterflies and flowers before adding them on.
I later decorated the other fence with flowers, vines and butterflies.
I attached two thin acrylic strips to the back of Action Wobble only
using a thin margin of the outer two sides. I used an exacto knife
to only cut off a thin strip of the protective paper liner to expose
enough to attach my acrylic strips.
I cut out two butterflies for the cover; one on green glitter cardstock
for the bottom, and the other for the top using a metallic sheen vellum.
I decorated the vellum butterfly with blue and green gemstones
and put pearls on the body and mini pearls on the tails.
Everything was cut with my Silhouette Cameo machine; with the exception of the butterflies which were made using a Marta Stewart punch (Garden_Butterfly_Layering_Punch), the box bottom, which I used the Envelope Punch Board to create it with, and the intricate green glitter flourish on the box cover, which is an Anna Griffin Cuttlebug metal die "Flourish Emblem", cut out using my Cuttlebug machine.
First I punch out some Martha Stewart butterflies and cut out some flowers and leaves.
I ran the flower petals through the Cuttlebug using an embossing folder for more texture.
I later added holographic glitter to the butterflies and the inside the center of the flower petals.
The first punch and score is set at the 3 ½" mark, and the second
punch and score is at the 4 ½" mark. Next you rotate your paper 90º (degrees)
to opposite side and repeat the first and second punch and score as noted above.
You can now complete the two remaining sides following your score lines.
Once you fold it and glue the flaps down, it will look like a tray. I used another
piece of cardstock to line the bottom cut at 4¼" wide by 5 5/8" long.
This is the video I watched to learn how to make the box bottom.
which will create by cover. I scored the cover with my Martha Stewart
scoreboard using centimeters for a more accurate measurement.
Here you can see the score line measurements in centimeters.
From left to right; first score is at 11 cm; second is at 13 cm;
third is at 24 cm; and last score (on the right) is at 26 cm.
then, you can audition the box bottom by sliding it inside to make sure the fit is not too tight.
which I cut at 4 3/8" long x 1 5/8" wide, and folded in half which
will serve to hold the fence, flowers and butterflies I have cut out.
I cut out 2 fences (from my Silhouette cut files) and adhered
them to the back of the panel inserts. I attached the vine
(from another Silhouette cut file) to the front.
I went back and added glitter to the butterflies and flowers before adding them on.
I later decorated the other fence with flowers, vines and butterflies.
This is an Action Wobble which is used to make your die cut
jiggle from side to side. I attached it to the third panel insert
only exposing half of the bottom part; leaving the protective paper
covering on the top half. I used this for the birthday phrase I cut out.
using a thin margin of the outer two sides. I used an exacto knife
to only cut off a thin strip of the protective paper liner to expose
enough to attach my acrylic strips.
This is the two-part phrase I cut using another Silhouette cut file.
I adhered this part to the center of my box bottom in between
the other two panels.
I only used part of the the Anna Griffin Cuttlebug die cut "Flourish Emblem" to fit
which I adhered to the cover of my box cut out from green glitter paper from Colorbök.
for the bottom, and the other for the top using a metallic sheen vellum.
I decorated the vellum butterfly with blue and green gemstones
and put pearls on the body and mini pearls on the tails.
I stamped the back of the box, as there is a space left.
This space is usually used for a gift card.
I chose to insert a small mini journal book in the back that I found at the craft store.
I stamped some cardstock with a Hero Arts "Coupon" stamp
and backed it with some blue and green cardstock then slipped it
into the journal. The corners where punched with a
Fiskars 4-in-One embossing corner punch and I put
some dimensional foam squares in between the blue and the green.
Here is the finished card box. I later added a flourish cut out of vellum
and placed it under the butterfly. On the right is the completed box bottom with all the inserts.
Here is a quick video I made of how it works...
I hope my instructions weren't too complicated. It was for me at first,
but once I got going, the creative juices were flowing!
Thank you for visiting my blog
and I hope it inspires you to create your own wonderful projects.
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