Tag: MFT January Haul 2022

With easter coming closer and closer I thought I would show you how to make a mini easter matchbox. This matchbox is sized to fit 8 Lindth Chocolate Mini Eggs, and could be perfect for small table gifts on your easter lunch, or just to give as a little easter gift.

I started by coloring up a bunch of images from the Spring Gnome stamp set with my polychromos colored pencils. I think coloring is very soothing so I sat in front of the tv coloring away. I then cut the images out. For the box I use Lemon Drop Cardstock for the outer part and Limelight Cardstock for the drawer. To give the outside a little more interest I used the matching Lemon Drop Ink and stamped the cute little carrot all over it. After putting the box together I decorated it with my colored images and some diecuts from the Fab Foliage Die-namics.

You can find the templates, cutfiles and pdf for this box HERE.

Polychromos Colored Pencils

Cold Grey I, II, III, IV, VI, Light Flesh, Dark Flesh, Sanguine, Light Phtalo Blue, Light Green, Cobalt Blue-Greenish, Cinnamon, Light Chrome Yellow, Black, Terracotta, Light Yellow Ochre, Rose Carmine, Dark Chrome Yellow, Hookers Green, Ivory, Orange Glaze

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I love cute little boxes, and this Mini Triangle Box is just up my alley! I wanted to make a box that would use my 6″x6″ paper, however I also wanted to use the fun color scheme that I’ve been using all trough this week. And after deep diving into my pile of pattern papers I just couldn’t find one that was perfect for this project.

Instead of using something that wasn’t perfect, I made my own. I used Montval 100% Cotton watercolor cardstock, 200gsm. And created the background with a real fun smooching technique, which you can see in the video below. And below you can also find a schema and you can find it as a PDF HERE, and if you want cutting files you can find them HERE. If you want to know what papers and products to use for smooching you can find a video HERE that explains it.

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When making my accordion album last week I got loads of little pieces of pattern paper. In todays tutorial the box is sized so the main layers of pattern paper uses up a full sheet of pattern paper. The small one uses up half a sheet. The little leaf decorations uses another two sheets. However out of those sheets you can get decorations for two big boxes or four small ones. The card stock decorations was made of some offcuts I had laying around from previous projects. The box also is perfectly sized for tea lights!

For the tutorial today I’m going back to old school, just using a trimmer, a score board and scissors. But I do have cut-files and templates for you if you want to go that route. The cut-files and template, both PNG and SVG can be found –HERE–. You can also find the schema as a PDF HERE.

Cut and score instructions:

Big box: Cut card stock to 10 1/4″ x 7 3/8″. Score on short side at, 1 3/4″, 8″, 9 3/4″. Score on long side at 1 3/4″ all the way down, 2 5/8″ only on the 1/2″ part, 3 1/2″ all the way down, 5 1/4″ all the way down, 6 1/8″ only on the 1/2″ part and 7″ all the way down. Line up the short score lines with the corner in the box below and make two diagonal score lines creating a triangle, this is the milk box corners. Cut out the bottom tabs, miter all except the middle one that doesn’t have a triangle above, this will be your front tab should just be cut straight, that should also be folded in last. Cut away the side tab from the bottom tabs and miter the corners.

Short box: Cut card stock to 7 1/4″ x 7 3/8″. Score on 7 1/4″ side at, 1 3/4″, 5, 6 3/4″. Then follow the instructions for the big box.

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