I finally decided to explore my Sweet treats cartridge. Wow, this cart is full of party favors, cupcake boxes, and so much more. I love that I can alter the favors and boxes on my Gypsy to create new designs. I did this one for the Gypsy Spot challenge. We are giving away a new Martha Stewart Cupcake border punch. Very cute.

For this creation I cut chose the heart favor box, but I wanted 2 hearts at the top. I place a single heart found on the same cart and placed it on top of the existing cut. Welded and grooup. When you group the box and hearts, you will lose the slits for scoring so keep that in mind when you get ready to fold.  I decided to make my own border with another MS punch instead of the one on the cart.  I then punch 2 holes just below the hearts to insert cord and tie the two sides.   Hope you like it.

The cut below is the regular cut... you can see it only cuts one heart. and is open at the top.

Love Struck

I received my new seasonal mini cartridges and cant seem to put this one down. I love the detailed hearts ... although one cut gave me a hard time when lifting off my mat, I absolutely love this cart. Here are some projects. I hope you enjoy them.

This one is one of my favorite cuts.. simple and elegant for my husband 

This one is very fragile to lift off the mat.. be careful 

I love this box. I embossed acetate to cover the heart opening and then framed it with a nestabilities heart die cut. . The finished box measure  6-1/2 by 4 and 1 inch deep. 

This is the mail box... just plain cut and embossed the paper so you can see what the box looks like.. I think this is a wondeful box and need to be cut on sturdy cardstock so it stands up nicely.

My first Gypsy Box

I have been working on making my first box on my Cricut Gypsy. I found it very challenging but worth the work.  I have never done anything like this so the measurements were tricky.  I really like how it turned out. Once I had the box file done I opened it as a template and created the scroll frames from Storybook to go over the box.  I then finished it off with my Martha Stewart trellis border punch and some small flowers.  The word mom is welded from Lyrical Letters font Cricut Cartridge.  Thank you so much for visiting.

front

side

inside

back

Another Martha Stewart punch.. I just love

I purchased the branch punch and I must say that its one of my favorites... next to drippy goo of course. I have made a few things with it so I am posting them all here..Enjoy and go buy this punch.

This is the tree box from TBBM cut at 6 1/2 inches. The star is from the new Christmas Solution cut at 3 inches and glittered.

Stampin Up Feather Friends set

Cuttlebug embossed with Hope and Cheer folder

Cake box and card set

I made this for an upcoming birthday.. The cakebox is cut from TBBM at 9 inches. This was also the weekly challenge at BBTB. The designers there did a fabulous job with this cut. Hope you like mine also. The card is from Celebrations cut at 10 inches.

Slider present gift card holdr

I saw some gift card holders at vons that had a slider so I decided to try my hand at them. This is what I came up with. Here are the instructions

The box : cut from TBBM at 8 3/4 then trim straight to 3 inches by 4.

The Slider is made by taking a paper 12 x 4 and scoring at 6 inches. You then make 2 slits.. see pics . The slider is a butterfly shape. You then wrap it around the slits..You can now attach anything that you want to slide in and out of the box.

I chose the present from Celebrations. Cut at 6 inches 2 times glued together at the top only and score.. this creates the fold to lift up and insert your gift card. Glue present to the butterfly slide
Glue the entire slider piece to the back inside of the box so that when you pull the present it is steady.

The scalloped edge is made with Fiskars threading water punch and attached on the inner part of the box. Decorate your box to your desire. I hope the instructions are clear. This is my first so I tried to remember all the steps. Email me if you have any further questions or I missed a step.




























Sliding pieces.














Glue your present on the butterfly