Mixed Up Crafts Milk Carton Gift Box

Milk Carton Gift Box, - Seahorse -

Today's project, another Mixed Up Craft project (mixedupcraft.com), was a fun but quite time consuming one. The milk carton itself is very quick to make, the style of decorating, however, took me a long time.

Front and right side of the Milk Carton.

Left hand side and front of the Milk Carton.

Back of the Milk Carton

Back and right hand side of the Milk Carton

 The process with pictures. 

1. You will need a piece of card stock measuring 8 1/4"x11".
On the 8 1/4" side score at 2 1/4", 6 1/4" and at 7 3/4"
On the 11" side score at 2 1/4", 5 1/4", 7 1/2" and at 10 1/2"
DO NOT BURNISH THE SCORE LINES YET!!

2. Choose the motif you want to have on your carton, and stamp it on the card stock. Use a stamping platform if you are uncertain if you will be able to get a clear and crisp result in one go.

The flat milk carton scored and stamped.

Close-up of the masked images.

The stamped images with the masking pieces adhered over them.

3. Since I have chosen to ink blend my background I am going to need to mask the stamping that I have done. Stamp the same images on low tack adhesive paper, like masking paper or post-it paper.

4. Then fussy cut the stamped images and adhere them over the original stamped images on the carton.

Original stamped image shown next to masking.

5. Start to ink-blend over the masked images. Use a light hand, but make sure to get ink into all the little nooks and crannies!

Inking up the carton with a mix of the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks (rangerink.com), Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean.

6. When you are happy with your ink-blending, you can remove the masking from the stamped images to reveal perfectly crisp and white images ready for you to color!

Masked and ink blended!

7. Color

8. Look at the template below and cut away the grey areas. This means that you need to cut the bottom vertical shorelines up to the first horizontal score lines. Wedge the smaller "tabs". These will be folded in together with the larger tabs to form the bottom of the carton.

Solid lines are score lines, cut away colored-in grey areas, fold in along stippled lines to create the top of the milk carton.

9. Put glue along the long skinny side tab, and fold the carton in at the next score line in (the second score line fro the right), fold the other side of the carton over (at the second score line from the left) to meet and glue the two edges together. 

10. Cut two small hole at the top of the milk carton, put some ribbon through the holes and tie a bow to hold the top of the lid together.  

11. Fill the box with whatever you you want to give away!!

The box measures 3"x4"x2 1/4" (ca. 7,7cm x10,2cm x 5,5cm)

Enjoy!!😁