New addition to the Love Box Series

The other day I decided that I needed to expand my Love Box Series. I have several Bolsius products that I need to design gift boxes for, but I decided that it was time for the Bosius Wax Melts to get a gift box.

Normally when I make a box for my Love Box Series, I start from scratch and take all the measurements of the item that is going into the box, and design the box from those. This time, because the Wax Melts packaging has quite the odd shape, I decided that I would use a gift box/bag that I have already made, and just tweak the measurements to fit the Wax Melts. A while back, Mixed Up Craft had a Facebook Craft-a-long, where she showed how she had taken apart a box and tweaked it to her own needs. I decided to do the same. I took apart the bag in question and tweaked it to my own needs.😉

I started out making a box that had the right dimensions, but I wasn't happy with the papers that I had used, so therefore I started over. The result was the pink box below, that holds the Magnolia Wax Melts. The decorations on that box, set the standards of how I was going to decorate the other boxes, and I am quite happy with the way the boxes show the "trademark" style that I have set for the Love Box Series.

One thing I have changed up from the other boxes is that on these boxes you can actually see which fragrance you can expect on the inside of the box. On all three Wax Melts boxes I have diet out what fragrance is on the inside. Quite fiddly work, if I might say so, as the letters are quite small, and you need to stack and glue three of each together to create some dimension. I guess it is needless to say that I had glue all over my fingers by the time I was done. However, that doesn't matter, as I love the effect it has on the boxes. 

The more products I make boxes for, the more I see the look of the Love Box Series evolve. Hopefully soon I will have landed on a look that is approximately the same for all the products.

I even shot a video of how I made one of the boxes, https://youtu.be/v1PIzl0A-Kw, it is made as a tutorial, I am, however, more aiming to show how I made these boxes. 

I am not happy that it shows the image of a box for another Love Box Series box as a thumb nail, though, the Magnolia Fragrance Sticks Box. However, because I finished the video by showing some of the other Love Boxes, the last picture of the video is what is set as the video image. I am sure that there is a way to change it, but I am not YouTube sassy enough, to figure out how. 

                                             

This is the discarded box, that I made first, and then partly because of the papers decided that I wouldn't use. I am sure I will find another use for it.

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

Twist and Pop Card

Twist and Pop Card, Friendship, front

Today I thought I needed to do something other than making boxes, so I went back to making cards. This card was loads of fun to make and I find it to have somewhat of a wow-factor. It is a so-called Twist and Pop Card and there are loads of tutorials on how to make it online. Since I am following Sam Calcott´s blog mixedupcrafts.com, I used a tutorial that she has on her blog to learn how to make this type of card. I have linked the tutorial below. It is well worth having a look at both😊.

Twist and Pop Card, Friendship, inside

On the inside of the card I have stamped several friendship-themed sentiments and I have also put in panels to write messages on.