JD Papercrafts: Mini Easter Eggs Box

Some days, you see someone else’s project & immediately think ‘I’ve got to try that!’. Today, was one of those days!

This project was inspired by a video I watched this morning, from Sally's Stampers. Although, I think she said hers had been inspired by another crafter (Crafty Caroline). In her video, Sally apologised for only having imperial measurements. I love a challenge, so I challenged myself to come up with a metric version!

This isn’t actually a metric version of Sally’s box, I think hers was larger than mine, but it’s a metric version of a similar box!

Although I’ve used a piece of cardstock measuring 15cm x 21cm, you could get away with using a piece of A5 cardstock, you’d just have a slightly smaller flap on the lid for tucking in. The instructions for A5 would be exactly the same as below, so you could easily get 2 of these from 1 sheet of A4.

I've filled my boxes for M&S Choccy Eggs. Each box holds just under half a pack, leaving 2 for me!! Yum!

Thanks for popping by

Jane

Instructions:

Cardstock 15 x 21 cm

Score on the short side at 3cm, 9cm, 14cm

Turn your cardstock through 90 degrees clockwise, so that the narrow section is now at the bottom.

Score to the first score line only at 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19 cm

Now flip your card over, top to bottom, so that the narrow section is at the top & you are scoring on the reverse side of your cardstock.

Now score at 5, 10, 15, 20 cm

Turn your cardstock to the right side, and with the narrow section at the top.

Using a ruler & your scoring tool, score diagonal lines from the intersection of the vertical score lines with the middle horizontal score lines, to the intersection of the bottom horizontal score line with the score lines that are in the bottom section only. As this is probably quite difficult to understand what I mean, I’ve drawn a template.

Now you need to remove all of the areas that are shaded in the diagram. The tabs in the section on the right and the middle section are just, very roughly, cut in half. The middle section also needs to be separated from the complete section next to it.

Round all the top corners, or wedge into them if you prefer. Your project should now look something like this.

You should now fold & burnish all the score lines, making sure to fold them all as mountain folds, EXCEPT the vertical score lines which are in between the diagonal folds - these should be valley folds. Make sure that you burnish really well, you need crisp folds for this box.

Apply tear tape (or strong adhesive of your choice) to the tab on the left hand side. Your project should now look something like this

You can now assemble the box. attach the tear tape tab to the other side of the box as you would with many other types of box. then assemble the base, folding in the back, then the sides & finally the front. Use wet glue, such as Tombow, in between the layers of the base, ensuring they all line up well, and that the diagonal score line sections are still folded as above.

To decorate the top, you need a piece of DSP (I used paper from the 'How Sweet it is' pack, which is on p.15 of the spring/summer catalogue) measuring 4.5cm x 4.5cm.

To decorate the sides, cut a piece of DSP to 14.9 cm x 5.5cm.

On the reverse side, mark across the top at 0, 4.4, 7, 11.4, 14 cm in pencil.

Turn the DSP through 180 degrees, and repeat.

Now cut from the top left hand corner (1st mark) to the first mark on the bottom. then, from the 2nd mark on the top to the second on the bottom etc. When you turn the pieces over they'll look like this

Adhere the panels to the box & fill with mini Easter eggs

I finished the decoration, in a very similar way to Sally's version. I used the Coastal Cabana/Granny Apple Green reversible ribbon on one, and the Gorgeous Grape mini striped ribbon on the other. The sentiment comes from the Sweetest Thing stamp set, stamped in Coastal Cabana/ Gorgeous Grape, punched out using the 1 1/4" circle punch & mounted on a 1 1/2" circle punched from the off cuts of the cardstock.

A few of the Glitter Enamel Dots (item no. 146934 p.197 Annual Catalogue) completed my project

Hope you like it!

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