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Project of the Day and Giveaway: Cardstock Gift Box

March 8, 2012 by FaveCrafts 172 Comments

National Craft Month is still going strong and today we’re bring you one of our favorite projects from PurpleCows. This Handmade Gift Box is perfect for storing little treasures or giving a personal touch to gifts for your friends. You can choose your favorite scrapbook paper or make a different box for every gift-giving season!  Add your own special touches to each box for creative and personalized wrapping. Dawn for Purple Cows brings us today’s crafty tutorial.

Cardstock Gift Box

If you’re buying a gift to give for a family member or a friend, a handmade gift box is a great way to add just a touch of personalization to that gift. This way the person the gift is intended for will know you took that little bit of extra time and effort to make something just for them! How special is that?

 Gift Box

Supplies:

The Purple Cows CraftGeek Stamp It
The Purple Cows Smart Trimmer
Brown, pink, and purple cardstock
Ribbon
Scissors
Distressing tool
Eyelets (optional)

Instructions

1. Trim Core’dination cardstock to 7 1/2″ x 7 1/2″

2. Score at 2 1/2″ and 5″ both ways. Fold all score marks

Gift Box Tutorial
3. Fold the corner in to make a triangle, then cut off the bottom of those pieces.

Gift Box Tutorial

4. Trim Purple and Pink cardstock to 2 1/4″x 2 1/4″.

5. Cut each pink square in half.

Gift Box Tutorial

6. Distress each piece with your Distressing tool.

7. Stamp each piece using the Purple Cows CraftGeek Stamp It

Gift Box TutorialGift Box Tutorial

8. Adhere each stamped piece of pink cardstock to the purple cardstock.

Gift Box Tutorial
9. Adhere each square to the box sides as shown below.

Gift Box Tutorial

10. Trim cardstock to 4 1/4″x 4 1/4″ for the box lid.

11. Score all 4 sides at 3/4″. Fold each score and snip only one side of each corner.

Gift Box Tutorial
12. To add eyelets to the corners use the crop o dile. I really recommend adding eyelets you could make holes but the eyelets keep them from tearing.

Gift Box Tutorial13. Run ribbon through the holes as shown below.

Gift Box Tutorial
Here is my finished box and ready to be filled with a treat. I sure hope I shared all the steps clearly.

Gift Box Tutorial

 

We are giving away a prize a day every day here on our FaveCrafts blog for National Craft Month. It is so easy to enter and be sure to check back each day for our Project of the Day post like this one to comment to enter! You have 31 chances to win and a new special prize each day.

Today’s Prize is…. the Purple Cows Stamp it and Spring Stamps set!

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Answer this question below in the Comments Section of this post for a chance to be today’s winner:

What’s one craft you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t yet?

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  1. heather says

    March 8, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    As a child, I started putting some quilt blocks together by hand with Grandma, but never got to try anything beyond that. I would love to try quilting and have watched the techniques for quilting shapes like hearts and leaves on tv.

  2. Dolores Quigley says

    March 8, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    I would love to try to knit.

  3. diane legendre says

    March 8, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    i once saw a woman on an air plain tatting. thought it would be fun to learn to tat. never knew any one that did it. could have been fun to have some one teach me how to tat.

  4. Maria says

    March 8, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    weaving i’d like to try

  5. Joyce Gokey says

    March 9, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Jewelry making would be fun to try.

  6. Doris says

    March 9, 2012 at 1:12 am

    Awesome!

  7. Melody Bearskin says

    March 9, 2012 at 1:31 am

    I love upcycling but haven’t tried pallet crafts. Would love to learn so great ways to use pallets in wood crafting.

  8. Denise DiFalco says

    March 9, 2012 at 2:38 am

    Wow, been thinking about decopage all week. Thanks so much

  9. Heather says

    March 9, 2012 at 4:36 am

    I love this box! I have a hard time finding crafts for tweens and teens. Either for them to do or as a gift. Please help!

  10. becky winters says

    March 9, 2012 at 5:19 am

    Iwould love to learn to weave on a loom, baskets. Etc.

  11. nora says

    March 9, 2012 at 9:54 am

    I have turned into a crafting monster, I craft day and night…mom wants me to slow down but I enjoy it so much..It calms me down when I am stressed..I call crafting my chill pill…

  12. julia ann cook says

    March 9, 2012 at 9:57 am

    i have always wanted to make jewelry components out of metal clay

  13. Marta says

    March 9, 2012 at 10:34 am

    Feel like re-painting old furniture but not sure how to, although I’ve been told “it’s so easy”

  14. Ruth says

    March 9, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Tatting

  15. Nancy Litman says

    March 9, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Polyclay and I plan on doing it when I use up some of my millions of beads lol

  16. Cindy says

    March 9, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    My Mom gave me some fabric pieces that she had started for two quilts. Our family is expecting a precious baby girl. I’m going to do my best to make her a quilt.

  17. Cheryl Hynes says

    March 9, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    I have always wanted to try pottery.

  18. Joan T says

    March 9, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    I want to try stained glass someday, maybe

  19. Kimberly Elliott says

    March 10, 2012 at 6:49 am

    I’ve always wanted to do Scrapebooking. Yes, it’s true, I’ve never tried to scrapebook. Would like to try though.

  20. Lillian Tremblay says

    March 11, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Since retiring 2 years ago, I have relearned to knit, crochet, embroider, sew, etc and learned to scrap, cardmaking and other paper crafts. I would love to learn to tat but stores don’t carry the tating instrument? thingy….but will have to try out knooking at least once! 🙂

  21. Sandra Swanner says

    March 11, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    Quilling and tatting are next on my “To Learn” list.

  22. Laurel Castelot says

    March 9, 2013 at 6:48 pm

    Love the box! I have been crocheting, but I want to learn how to use a knook.

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