Manipulating paper into fun shapes is one of the best parts of paper crafting. That's why I love this paper posie that decorates this cute little box. They are so much easier to make then you think -- and wouldn't this be cute done up in some red, white and blue paper for the Fourth of July? They remind me of the little things on the top of an award ribbon.
For the flower embellishment, I started with a strip of Designer Series Paper that's 1.5" wide by 12" long. Use the Stampin' Up Scallop Edge Punch along one of the long edges. For the flower tutorial I want to send you to my friend Canadian demonstrator Marlayne Hardy's website as that's where I got the idea. Click here to see her step by step how-to's for turning your punched strip into the flower. Then come back here for some more tips and how to make the box.
A few more tips on the flower:
- Marlayne used a stylus in the groove of her Fiskars cutter to score gently between each scallop. I just used the black scoring blade that you can get for the cutter. Score gently as you don't want to tear your paper.
- You need to be sure that when you connect the two ends of your accordion folded strip with Sticky Strip, you will have an EVEN number of scallops on the circle that it makes. Then it will flatten out.
- I used two pop-up glue dots for each flower -- one on the back that holds it to the box and one on the back of the punched out 1" embellishment center. Pressing the two together really holds your flower's shape and holds it in place on your 3-D item or card. Edited to add: The little punched circle in the middle of my flower is made from a now retired rub-on from the Hidden Garden set -- I rubbed it on Pink Pirouette card stock and then punched it out. Any shape that lends itself to being punched out with the 1" circle punch is perfect. The pattern on the box was made using the Forever Flowers Stampin' Around wheel and a Versamark ink cartridge for a tone-on-tone look.
Now for the box:
- Start with a 5.5" by 8.5" piece of card stock (mine is the retiring-today Riding Hood Red color)
- Score 1" from both long sides.
- Score at 3.5" and 5" from ONE short side.
- Cut in on those last two score lines just until you reach the score line that's 1" from the long sides -- that makes your bottom and side flaps for your box.
- Fold and secure -- I like using the liquid Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive.
Here's a visual for those box directions that should help: I love that you get two boxes from each piece of 8.5" by 11" card stock -- no waste! These are perfect for holding a small or medium size cello bag of treats, small notecards or anything you can fit inside.
I added a strip of 1.5" wide Designer paper around the top that was also dressed up with the Scallop Edge Punch -- if you don't own one of those great punches, SU just announced that it will be the "special of the week" starting July 1 through July 5 -- on sale for 10.99 instead of 15.95 -- and each Monday in July there will be a new special of the week announced. How fun is that??!! Enjoy.
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