One Piece Box

You have probably seen these boxes at Dollar Tree. They are sold in the "wedding section".

 If they suit your purposes, I would just buy a set there. Unfortunately they only coome in a beige and white color, and are quite small(2" by 2.25"). I thought it might be fun to make our own, so I made my own pattern.

If you cut them out of two sided paper, they are almost decorated when you are done. Just add a few butterflies or hearts, and cut them out at the same time..

Top view of box when open..can stick a gift card in there!

Download svg file for one piece box

Download scut 2 file for one piece box


Here is a great tutorial from split coast stampers which shows assembly.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/allinonebox

I did put in some of the score lines, but not all, as it really slows down the cutting. I tried to do the ones which folded in, instead of out. You can see from my picture where most of the score lines go. If you are cutting a lot of these, I'd just remove the score lines, after I cut one and see how it goes together.

The embellishments were just from the scal library.

Cards Quilted by the Cricut

Download Flag Quilt

We were trying to think of something new for our cards we were making yesterday and decided to try some quilt patterns. At first I copied the patterns exactly, cutting all the various triangles and placing them on the paper. This drove me crazy! I decided we didn't need all the tiny triangles, just the larger shapes they made. We(or my friend Karen) added the "stitching" with a white gel pen.

Download Quilted Card Star

Download Quilt Card two diamond squares

Download Quilt Card Trick

Exploding Clown Box

I had fun making this box today. Files coming soon. You could put photos on al the flaps and make it as a gift. Or deliver a gift card in style, by putting it in this cute box.

This box takes 4 cuts. I used two pairs of two-sided card stock. Then by switching the colors you can have lots of contrasting pieces, that you can use to embellish your box. 

The svg file for this clown box will be for sale on my blog for $3.00. You need to buy a 1 inch wooden bead for the head and a pompom for the nose(or cut one out of paper). I drew on the face with some sharpie markers.

Outer layer: fold 4 flaps towards the middle. Add Party cut to the rectangle background and put on front of box. Add clown shoes.  Use raised dots to attach various trims to side of box as desired.

Lid: fold to make lid and glue. Make present by glueing bow onto front. FOr 3-d effect, use raised dot to attach to second present layer. Glue arms on the side of the box lid, so that the hands can hold the present. Attach present to the clowns arms. Fan fold the neck "ruffle" , glue ends together and flatten. I glued it to a scrap of paper to keep it flat.

 Attach "rosette" or ruffle to top of box lid. Attach clown head. Attach nose to clown head. Make hat by folding circle into a cone shape. Attach hat to bead clown head.

Middle layer: fold 4 flaps towards middle. Attach with glue to outer layer middle square.

Inner Layer: fold 4 flaps towards middle. Attach with glue to middle layer.

Trim with various hearts, stars and squares.

Wishing Well Svg

Download Wishing Well svg

I tried to minimize the number of pieces by connecting all the bricks together. It doesn't look too hard to piece.

Princess Crown Card

Princess crown cards for the princess in all of us.

Download Princess Cards

There's a Monster in my Toilet!

Download Toilet Monster

Just for fun, make a monster peeking out of your toilet.  I cut mine from black contact paper.