PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Candy Favors and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

I saw a terrific card box on Pinterest:

Original Pin HERE

...and I thought it would make a nice candy favor...so I modified it and made these mini boxes that hold one Ghirardelli chocolate square and some M&Ms:

Candy Favor Measurements

Base: 

3" x 7.5" scored at 3 1/4" and 4 1/4"

Inside Box: 

3" x 4" scored 1" from all four sides

...then my talented neighbor and paper crafter, Ava, came over to  make some projects with me:

She has innate creativity that never ceases to amaze me! She took the idea of these candy favors and then designed her own candy favors as a thank you for me and a friend of mine who gave her some craft supplies! Thank you, Ava, for making me smile from ear-to-ear!

...and here's one of my most favorite cards to make for birthdays:

SENTIMENT:

Oval All by SU

DIE:

Kensington Border by Memory Box

EMBOSSING FOLDER:

Butterfly Swirls

Purchase HERE

I bought this folder after my friend, Mel, showed me a most beautiful card she made with this folder. It works particularly well with shimmery card stock. I LOVE this folder and use it often in combination with all sorts of butterfly dies.

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: The Very Best of Recent Pins on Pinterest

BOX CARDS

I saw a wonderful new way to make a clever box card and I knew it could be modified to fit any occasion:

Original Pin HERE

At Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds blog, she provided a nice how-to video HERE. (I've listed the measurements further in this post.)

I used SU's new Butterfly Basics set and the butterfly thinlet called Rhone Butterfly Wings from Memory Box to create my box that held a tea bag inside:

Measurements to make a 5" x 9" card:

11" x 12" medium weight DSP

Along the  11" side score at:

2.5", 4", 7" and 8.5"

Plus...use your bone folder to mark

a point at the top and bottom

at 5.5"

Along the 12" side score at:

1.5" on the left and right sides

I also used the same stamp set and thinlet to create this card:

Be sure to put the sentiment low enough so that it can be seen below the box folds. Click HERE and HERE for a few more card box design ideas.

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Two Mini Treat Box Holders

These boxes by Sam Donald are PERFECT projects to hold some Jelly Bellies this Easter!

For the original pin and video for this project, CLICK HERE. Here are Sam Donald/Pootles' measurements and starting directions using the Envelope Punch Board. Along one side of a 6" square piece of DSP, punch and score at 1" and 4". Turn paper 180 degrees, score and punch at 1" and 4". Align remaining score lines, punch and score. Continue with directions in the video.

Here's my version:

FYI: This box will hold three Ghirardelli individually wrapped chocolate squares, too!...and here's the video:

Box #2 from Sam is a triangular-shaped box and so darn clever:


The original post can be found on her blog HERE.

She says to start as follows:

Cardstock – 8 x 11″

Score on the LONG side at 2, 9″

Score on the SHORT side at 1, 3, 5, 7″

Designer Series Paper – 4.5 x 7″

Then follow along the video HERE or below:

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Envelope Punch Board Boxes

I'm still having the time of my life making envelope punch board boxes.....first up...

Need a beautiful box like this?!

This is paper crafting at its best!

I saw this project and tutorial
HERE
from the

Stamping with Pennie blog:

...and for one of my favorite Valentine's Day projects using the envelope punch board, I used the measurements given right on the punch board for a 3"x5" envelope to make these candy boxes and added a belly band and punch board bow:

For the bow video,

CLICK HERE 

Here's another version with different DSP: