Birthday Surprise

The card closes with ribbon.

This Six Panel Folio Book Card inspired by Mixed Up Craft, is a birthday card commission I did for a neighbor. 

I used silver metallic card stock as the base, and alternately added red and white card stock on top. To make this card as simple as possible, I decorated the card base with small panels of silver, and topped these, again alternately, with red and white card stock to be written on. I then made tiny "bouquets" of small red and white roses and glued them on with hot-glue.

The front of the card was decorated with a small post card from the "Miss Margit - In the Garden Collection" from REPRINT, as well as another small bouquet of roses. Silver Nuvo Drops add the final touch.

The inside of the card with the box lying in front.

The only thing that shows that this is a birthday card is a small panel with a silver heat embossed "Happy Birthday" in Norwegian.

The same silver metallic card stock is used as the connection between the individual panels.

The card is rather thick when it is rolled together, and I had to make a fairly deep box to hold it. It is decorated in the same style as the card, with silver and red, and I have used the same postcard from REPRINT to decorate the closure flap of the box, as on the first panel of the card. The roses that I have added on the front, are a little bit bigger than the ones inside the card.

Folio Book Card 

Kit in a Box

Collection of Kit in Box boxes

Once again inspired by the Paper Pixie´s creativity, I have made yet another box, this time the box  she calls the Essential Kit in a Box on her blog, thepaperpixie.com.

The box measures about 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 1" (11x6x2,5cm), and is made to hold an "essential" kit. The box is made with three compartments, in which you can put whatever fits. However, the Paper Pixie designed it to hold an anti-bacterial hand gel from the Bath and Body Works (a store I SOOO wish we had here in Norway!!), a lip-balm and a box of Altoids. Luckily I have some Bath and Body Works anti-bac´s lying around since my last few trips to the US, however some of them have a different design than the ones she made the box for, and they won't fit into the inserts that she gives the description on how to make. Therefore I had to tweak the compartments a bit on some of the boxes. 

The Box, and the inserts for the compartments are all made from a piece of card stock measuring 

8 1/2 " x 11". If you decide to adjust the compartments to fit something else, though, you are going to need more card stock. In addition to the base of the box and the compartments you are also going to need some decorative paper to make the box-topper from. 

I have varied my decoration greatly, but essentially I have used die-cuts and layered them, embellished with some pearls/gems, and finished it off with a small bow.

You can check out my youtube tutorial here:  https://youtu.be/GAu7BhfAqlk

Kit in a Box, Apricot                                                 

Kit in a Box, Guava

Kit in a Box, Mermaid

Kit in a Box, Mermaid - open, tweaked to fit a different type of anti-bac bottle.

Kit in a Box, Sugarplum

Kit in a Box, Sunflower

Kit in a Box, Sunflower - open