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Welcome to CASE-ing the Catty for this week.
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This week we are taking inspiration from the Reindeer Days Suite. Oops, I should have looked ahead (I chose this bundle last week), but I love this suite and I'm very happy to show you another project using it. The suite includes the Reindeer Fun Bundle, Reindeer Days DSP, sweet Red & white Adhesive-Backed Peppermints, Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder and other coordinating products and I've used quite a few of them in my project today.
This week, I've chosen the project above for my inspiration. It uses the Book Treat Boxes that are also in this suite and as they arrived in my craft room this week, it was the perfect time to try them out. I love giving little Christmas treat packages to friends, neighbours and other people who provide great service to me throughout the year.
The Book Treat Boxes come in 2 pieces - the cover and the flat box in a pack of 10. This makes it very easy to embellish the book box in a number of different ways using ink blending, patterned paper, die cuts, stencils or a combination of these. I have mostly used patterned paper to give my box a very Christmassy look. I chose the cute holly design from the Reindeer Days Designer Paper and the red and white dot design from the Take A Bow DSP. I started by covering the spine of the cover in the red and white dot design and the front and back cover in the holly design.
Before adhering the back piece in place, I covered the closing in the red and white stripe design from the Take A Bow pack so it would go neatly under the larger piece. You could leave it white, or use the other 2 designs, but I wanted a contrast under the focus label.
The box is very easy to put together and there is adhesive already in place to peel off to make it super quick. Both the cover and box are super sturdy without embellishment and food safe as well. I decided to cover the sides of the box with the red and white dot design and as the Take A Bow paper is 6" x 6", you will need to use 2 x 1" (2.5cm) strips. I actually did mine in 4 pieces as I had some strips left from a previous project.
There is adhesive on the inside right of the cover ready to adhere the box. You need to make sure the box sits inside the score line of the spine so that the cover can fold over neatly. There is adhesive under the closing flap as well, as it is intended that it be adhered shut after you have put your gift inside. I don't like the idea of having to destroy the front of the box to get it open, so I have added the striped paper to the other side of the closing as well (see the photo below). Depending on the occasion and type of embellishment, you could use velcro dots or tiny neodymium magnets under the papers to provide a firm closure that can still be opened easily by the recipient.
For the embellishment on the front, I adhered the red and white dot design to Real Red cardstock and then cropped it with one of the dies from the Spotlight on Nature Dies. I adhered the circle to the box with Foam Adhesive Strip, leaving an opening for the closure tab to pass through as I decided to use Neodymium magnets to keep the box closed. In hindsight, I probably didn't need the magnets as the embellishment covers most of it and makes it very secure. I fussy cut the sweet reindeer and popped it up on Dimensionals. The greeting from the Decorative Trees stamp set was stamped in Real Red ink and I used the (retired) 1" circle punch to crop it. It sits on the edge of the circle with a double bow of white Baker's Twine. I finished with a trio of cute Real Red & White Adhesive-Backed Peppermints.
On the inside of the box I added the holly design paper for a finishing touch. I have popped in a Loco Love chocolate, very appropriately flavoured Zingy Gingerbread Caramel. All the flavours are amazing and as they are organic, vegan and gluten free you also cover a lot of bases. However, you can put smaller Christmas candy or chocolates, a gift card in a pop-up holder, cash of course, jewelry, gift certificate, lottery tickets - so many options for using this sweet little box.
Finally, I added the greeting from the Reindeer Fun stamp set stamped in Garden Green and I used the label die from the (retired) Labels Aglow Dies to crop it with a cute red & white peppermint at each end. I hope you will add the Book Treat Boxes to your holiday craft list.
| Project Details |
| Stamps |
Reindeer Fun, Decorative Trees |
| Card stock & Papers |
Basic White, Real Red, Reindeer Days DSP, Take A Bow DSP, Book Treat Boxes |
| Ink |
Real Red, Garden Green |
| Accessories |
Red & white Adhesive-Backed Peppermints, Baker's Twine Essentials Pack |
| Tools |
Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stampin' Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Foam Adhesive Strip, 1" Circle Punch (retired) |
We would love to see your CASE of a project from the Reindeer Days Suite in the 2024 Sep - Dec Mini Catalogue this week. Click on this link or the image below to go there. The first time you will need to click on the 'Join Group' button at the top. Once you have been added to the group, you can go ahead and post your creation and you do not need to have a blog.
You can head over to Julia to see her lovely project and follow the hop to see the inspiration from the rest of the CTC Crew.
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