Here’s another faceted gift box (see the first one I made here.) For this one I used the Balloon Celebration and the Thoughtful Banners stamp sets, as well as the Stitched Shapes Thinlits and the Layering Squares Framelits.  These boxes are are so easy to make, but they’re a real show stopper.

Here’s what I made:

I used a White Cigno Gel Pen to draw the stitch lines, forgetting that it was a retired item. You can certainly use the White Chalk Marker that is still available. The scrap of paper below has the White Chalk Marker on the left and the Gel Pen on the right.

Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• Rich Razzleberry card stock (CS) cut to 7-7/8″ x 11-1/2″
• measuring along the short side, scored at 2-1/2″, 4-5/8″, 7-1/8″
• rotated 90° counterclockwise, so the skinniest section was at the top, then scored only down to the second score line (crossed one score line and stopped at the second) at  2-1/2″, 5″, 7-1/2″, 10″
• rotated 180° and scored only down to the first score line at 1/4″, 2-3/4″, 5-1/4″, 7-3/4″, 10-1/4″

Scored using Stylus and a ruler:

• diagonal lines as shown in the first diagram

All lines in this 1st diagram were scored, then the solid lines were cut and the dotted lines were left intact.

Cut with my Paper Snips (see diagram below):

• all grey areas cut away
• cut through all solid score lines, and left dotted score lines intact
• folded all score lines and burnished with a Bone Folder

This 2nd diagram shows where to cut, and where to adhere sides of box together.

Made triangles for sides:

• traced around one of the triangular box sides to create a template
• trimmed 1/8″ off each side of the new triangle template
• used template to cut 8 triangles from Sweet Sugarplum CS

Use White Chalk Marker:

• to draw stitched lines around the 8 Sweet Sugarplum CS triangles

Stamped using the Balloon Celebration stamp set:

• balloon in Sweet Sugarplum ink onto Whisper White CS

Stamped using the Thoughtful Banners stamp set:

• sentiment in Rich Razzleberry ink over the stamped balloon

Die cut using the Stitched Shapes Framelits:

• stamped image

Die cut using the Layering Squares Framelits:

• Rich Razzleberry CS to go under the sentiment

Assembled the faceted box:

• 8 Sweet Sugarplum triangles glued to the triangular sides of the box
• stamped square glued to Rich Razzleberry square
• Rich Razzleberry square glued to box top
• applied adhesive to the triangle in yellow and stuck it to the inside of the green area (see diagram  above)
• folded in all four bottom flaps of the box and glued them together
• folded in the 3 top pieces of the box, tucking in the tab.
• Note 1: the two side flaps were trimmed down just a bit, to help it close, but left long enough to overlap each other.
• Note 2: I snipped the small tab at an angle on each side ever so slightly so it would tuck into the angled box

Here’s what I used:

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Stamp Camp!!!

Saturday, June 3, 2017, 9am-5pm

Candy’s Stampin’ Studio in Atlanta, GA

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Register here by May 20. Prepayment is necessary to make sure I have enough of everything on hand. Space is limited so register soon. Also, the earlier you register, the more prize drawing tickets you will receive at the door!

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