Hey everyone,

Sorry to be late with this post! i am in total la-de-dah land and was thinking to myself I had to get this post up this afternoon, and whilst we were just driving now from Saskatoon to Winnipeg it dawned on me that it has already been Friday in Australia……DOH! So I am sorry for the delay. I am really lucky as we just pulled up into a petrol station and there was a sign that said free Wi-Fi, and so I had to whip out the lappie to do this post! LOL! So enjoy peeps, even if it is late! LOL!

I hope you have all have a fabulous weekend! Time sure is flying by fast on this holiday! This week we have a Colour challenge for you….nice and pretty too!

Here is your colour to work with:

I have made a fun 3-D item for this colour challenge…..a cute and super easy gift box! I hope you likes.

Here is a piccie of my sample:

The front view…

Side view…..

Open box view…..

Here is our fabulous Guest Designer for this week, the lovely Chantal Randall from my home town of Perth!…..

And here is my video on how to make this cute little gift box…..enjoy!

Here is the inspiration from the Design Team! Be sure to give them some comment LOVE too!

Teneale ~ is having a break this week

Cindy

Kirsty

Renee

Chantelle

Sarah-Jane

Want to play along? - here are some guidelines.

If you would like to play along, all you need to do is follow the directions:

1. Make your creation following the challenge ie, sketch, colour, or inspiration image.

2. Load your creation up onto your blog or a public viewing forum like Splitcoast Stampers, with a direct link back to the post on this website, so that others viewing the post will know where the challenge has come from, and it is courtesy to do so.

3. Then come back to this post so that you can add your name and link in the InLinkz below.

You have until the Thursday the 8th July midnight to get your entries linked.

Kirsty Brown will be announcing the winner and honourable mention on Friday the 9th July in the afternoon.

 Hey there!

Well sorry to be late with the Make it Monday……..I did have it all planned! I put the whole tutorial together, only to run out of time at the last second to upload!

Yesterday we celebrated Australia Day here……… Which is always an exciting event! This year we decided to take all 4 kids into the city for the big Fireworks display. The thing is tho…..is that you have to get in there early to get a half decent spot. So we had planned to leave by 2pm. I was busy fluffing around all morning getting the house cleaned, washing done, and of course the tutorial, but I had promised Rod to leave on time, and so that is what we did. I had thought, “oh well I will put it up when we get home, But I was exhausted from speding 8 hours outdoors! I will share with you some details about that later, as well as some very exciting news too!

So for now though here it is

Rectangle Gift Boxes          

Materials Required:

• Paper trimmer
• Bone folder
• A4 cardstock
• DS paper
• Adhesive
• Stamps
• Stamp pad
• Scissors

Step 1:

 

 

Cut your A4 sheet of cardstock across the at 21cm’s You should end up with a square that is 21 x 21 cm’s square.

Step 2:

 

 

Score your cardstock first at 3cm’s ,then at 6cm’s from the scored line, then another 3cm’s, then another 6cm’s. It will have 3cm’s at the end.  Then you will want to score on the alternate side of the cardstock at 3cm’s in from the edge.

Once it is all scored it should look like this:

 

Step 3:

 

 

Cut all the little score lines the go up to the scored line across, as seen in the photo.

Step 4:

 

 

Turn your cardstock over and on the little 3cm tabs, add some double sided tape so that you can put the box together.

Step 5:

 

 

Put the bottom of the box together. This will use 2 of the tabs.

Step 6:

 

Then add a strip of DS paper in the inside to decorate:

Step 7:

 

 

Put the top lid together. This fits perfectly over the base and will look like this.

Step 8:

 

 

Cut a 21 cm x 5.5cm strip of cardstock, AND a 21cm x 5cm strip of coordinating DS paper. Score them to the same measurements as the box….ie 3cm, then 6cm, then 3 etc….

Step 9:

 

 

Tape them together and fold up to make a belly band to go around your box.

Step 10:
 

Place the belly band around the centre of you box.

Step 11:

 

 

Decorate the top. I have used the Embrace life stamp set, and Ginger blossoms DS paper.

Finished product:

 

 

Another sample: