Thinking Outside the Box - Folded Box

Welcome back to another Thinking Outside the Box Design Team blog hop1 I hope you are well and not too busy. . .

This month we are featuring Folded Boxes!

You have probably hopped over from my friend Fiona Carson's amazing blog -I am always blown away by her Fee Fee Stamps creations!

This is my project:

This is a very simple "Box Card" one of the famously collapsable cards that has a box structure in it. I am sure that others have taken a different path on this project but this was the style that I liked most.

I followed May-May's YouTube tutorial which is very simple, but you may also like to follow my step by step instructions.

I used the following stamps and materials:

Everything is Rosy

Country Home

High Tide

Well Said

Thick Whisper White card stock

Night of Navy card stock

Rose Gold Glimmer Paper (Everything is Rosy Suite)

Everything is Rosy 6" x 6" DSP Stack

Pre printed flowers Everything is Rosy

Everything is Rosy Framelits

Layering Ovals Framelits

Pearl Jewels

Rose Gold Shimmer Paint

Wink of Stella

Night of Navy Classic Ink Pad

Smokey Slate Classic Ink Pad

Melon Mambo Classic Ink Pad

The card requires one sheet of A4 card, I have used both metric and Imperial measurements for your ease.

First score your piece on the landscape position at:

Metric: 7.4cm, 14.9cm and 22.4cm
Imperial: 23/4", 51/2" and 81/4"

Next flip it to the portrait position and score at:

Metric: 10.5cm
Imperial: 41/4"

Finally in the portrait position cut the centre of the card from the score line at 7.4cm (23/4") to the 22.4cm (81/4") as per the green line on the diagram.

Using a framelit of your choice cut the shape out of the two middle rectangles. Fold the card portrait to do this step, the rest of the tie the card is folded landscape. I like the Layering Ovals Framelits because they complimented the Everything is Rosy Suite. I cut through both the layers at once. Make sure that you fold your card to ensure that only the two rectangle areas are cut out.

This is what the voice look like. I placed a piece of DSP behind the space so you could see it clearly.

Next step is the brackets for the floating inserts.  This is is a piece of Whisper White scrap that measures - 9.4cm (33/4") x 4 cm (11/2"). With the card in landscape position score in from each side 1cm (1/4") and then in the portrait position cut the piece into 4 equal lengths (1cm or 1/4"). Burnish the score marks squarely. the more precise you are the better the project will come together.

Fold the car in halves so that the cut out voids are both situated like they are above in step 3.  Flip the back over so that the voids are flush on your healing mat and the surface you are working on is the inside of the back cover. With the side of the card facing left and the fold of the strip facing the centre fold of the base card adhere the strips consecutively butting up against each other.

This is what the adhered pieces look like from above all lined up precisely. place glue on each of the folded tabs being careful not to use too much. You may prefer to use glue dots the first time.

Flip the front of the card back over and press the prepared strips to the base of the card with the voids already cut. Sounds crazy but it is really simple and means that your brackets line up every time.

This is what the brackets look like and from a different angle once the flower embellishments are stuck in using glue dots. I chose to use the Everything is Rosy suite because it is available this month only.

This is the view looking into the box from the side with everything lined up as you would expect it to sit on a shelf. I stamped the sentiment from High Tide in Night of Navy on one of the pre-cut sentiment shapes from the Everything is Rosy suite.

The DSP rectangles are cut from the Everything is Rosy 6" x 6" DSP Stack. I also cut the scalloped edged oval from the Layering Ovals Framelits and the Whisper White Oval is cut from the layered oval. The sentiment on this facet is stamped in Night of Navy using a sentiment from the Well Said set.

I love the contrast in the stark white agains the bokd pink and blue background and the splash of rose gold for contrast.

For the void on the side of the box that is at right angles to the brackets and flower inserts. I cut the oval (the same size as the void) from another piece of DSP from the Everything is Rosy Pack. I wanted to break up the pinks so opted for the marbled Night of Navy and Rose Gold piece.

Another piece of the DSP for the base and contrasting with a strip of the Night of Navy and Rose Gold DSP and then a piece of each of the ribbons that come with the suite - these are stunning, add interest and also texture!

Laying Ovals again with Rose Gold, Night of Navy and Whisper White - I stamped the sentiment from Country Home in Night of navy. I cut the fine leaves with the framelit in the Everything is Rosy Framelits.

The flowers are actually stamped using the Rose Gold Shimmer Paint and a dauber on the larger stamp in the Everything is Rosy stamp set. I stamped the smaller flowers in Melon Mambo and then went over them with Wink of Stella. You can't see the shimmer in the photographs but they look incredible in real life. I also painted some pearl jewels using the Rose Gold Shimmer Paint. They were all cut out using the matching framelits.

The leaves were stamped in Night of Navy and Smokey Slate and cut out with the matching framelits. I adhered the flowers and leaves with glue dots and dimensionals.

This is the full inside of the card - I love that the sentiment lines up through both ovals so it doesn't matter which way you look. And when you look through the oval void towards the last aspect of the card it looks like it is framed by the void as well.

 Final card view!

I hope you are feeling inspired to try this truly simple but dramatic pattern/fold.

Don't leave us just yet, as we have a heap of other awesome projects. Next cab off the rank is my beautiful friend Tanja Kolar! Tanja has a gorgeous project for you.

Until next time, stay sparkly!

Shanni xx

May Blog Hop Order

Shannean Moncrieff (Australia) - that's me!

Tanja Kolar (Germany)

Zoe Tant (United Kingdom)

Annette Elias (Netherlands)

Dena Rekow (United States)

Beate Wacker (Austria)

Aude Barbara (France)

Barb Stewart (Canada)

Fiona Carson (New Zealand)