Friday 6 April 2012

Gift Box Cards [Tealights and Mini Eggs]

Working full time, having to see people, having to go places, hasn't left me with a lot of time to craft lately. So on Saturday 31st March, I saw an opportunity and took it!
But guess what? Yep you guessed it!
3am I looked at the clock and thought maybe it was time to head to bed, that was after 11.30pm when I told my partner I would just be a moment. Whoops! Tehehe!


My neighbour was moving out and wanted to create a gift along with the card but didn't want to give a gift separately. So I decided to give a tealight card ago, as I bought some A3 Card earlier in the week. This was perfect, cut it down to size, scored, folded, cut out the window, added acetate and stuck it all together. Now after the hard part, was the fun part!
I wanted something that would be nice and simple on it's own and not a traditional moving home card, so I went with butterflies, heat embossed them with clear ink and black embossing powder and added a light 'old paper' layer of Distress Inks. Adding some dimension I stamped out some more butterflies but this time on acetate, with Stazon Ink and added a thin layer of extra strong double sided tape down the middle onto the heat embossed butterfiles, bending the wings upwards to form the wings. Finishing off the front with a few gems.
Inside was the same mattered and layered background created with the Old Paper distress inks again, but without the butterflies.



I created a matching box with the DCVW Blackcurrent Cardstock Pack, which I adore!



For my Easter cards I created the same base idea with the gift box attached, but chose different colours to make a set [Inspiration of the colours came from the Cadbury Mini Eggs.]
From the Scraps of paper left over from the cut off A3 Sheets, I thought I would weave them together [Inspiration of the woven idea was from Easter baskets.] Added a Digi stamp from A Passion For Stamps [Far right picture below] that I bought and coloured using Promarkers in the appropriate colours. The sentiment I thought went quite well as it was a Rabbit so Hoppy Easter, another good one could have been have a Chirpy easter because of the Chick.


Two other Easter cards were created using the same colours, papers, card candi and Promarkers but using Digi stamps from Meljen's Designs. All three cards Paper Pack - Sugar and Spice by Dovecraft.


Thank you for reading - Enjoy - Keep Crafting and A Happy Easter to you all!





Happy Easter Bunny First in Photo
Entered for:

Penny's Paper Crafty - Easter
ATCs & Cards with Attitude Challenge - Anything Goes
Card Crafter's Circle - Chocolate Bunny
Edible Chocolate in the Card, Bunny on outside
C.R.A.F.TChallenge - Easter / Spring
I lovePromarkers - Spring Time
Top TipTuesday - Easter / Animals
Cute Card Thursday - I want Candy!
Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Four Legged Friends
Incy Wincy Designs - Easter/Pastel Colours
Stamptacular Sunday - Playin With Pastels
The Crazy Challenge - Spring

31 comments:

  1. What a great gift idea, they look gorgeous. Thanks for joining us at Cute Card Thursday. x

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  2. You really did a great job by these boxes, they all look so nice! Thanks for joining us this week at The Crazy Challenge.

    groetjes, Ellen

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  3. these are fab great idea tracy xx

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  4. These are stunning....what a fantastic idea. Happy Easter. Sharon xxxx

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  5. These look great, fab idea.

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  6. what lovely gifts you made I bet the recipients were thrilled with them who wouldn't be, the butterfly one is stunning and the Easter ones soooo sweet xx

    Thank you so much for the lovely comment you left on my blog x

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  7. These are fab gifts. I bet they are all proving to be very popular with the recipients.
    Happy Easter, Heike xx

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  8. What a great idea. I've done tea light cards but never really thought about changing them to another gift. You've done a brilliant job of these xx

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  9. Fantastic idea..they are brilliant...Happy Easter x

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  10. Super yummy idea! Love your colour combo! Thanks for sharing with us at Card Crafter's Circle!

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  11. Beautiful card boxes. Those acetate butterflies are gorgeous and make for a really elegant project.

    Hugs, Dawn

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  12. Your cards are loveoy, I just love the tealight box card though - love butterflies. xxx

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  13. These are brilliant, I do like the egg ones especially xx Blog Hopping

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  14. great cards hun love the little gift box added xxx

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  15. Stunning gifts, just brilliant. Happy Easter xx

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  16. wow super card ... well done ... love the design ... just doing a bit of blog hopping thank you for visiting me ... very kind of you to pop by ... happy easter ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  17. They're fabulous. Great job. Thanks for taking part at I ♥ Promarkers this week.

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  18. These cards with the Easter candy are just fabulous!!! Love them...
    Thank you soo much for taking part in our "Easter" challenge & good luck in the draw..

    Melanie
    (DT Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges)

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  19. Wow they are all Fabulous. Chris xx

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  20. Such gorgeous gift ideas, love them. x

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  21. Wow these are such gorgeous gifts, Happy Easter, karen

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  22. What super cards. I've never seen those before, well done and thanks for joining us at ATCs/Cards with Attitude.

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  23. Gorgeous gift box cards ,came from docrafts forum to check your blog out after seeing them ,I have become a follower x

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  24. Wonderful candy boxes. Your little bunnny image is darling. Thank you for sharing in this week's bunny challenge at Card Crafter's Circle.

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  25. Love your gift cards tehhehee those mini egg ones look mega yummi too! Thanks for joining in with us at Top Tip Tuesday Challenge this time, Hope you can come play again soon, hugs Samantha :0)

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  26. Just popping back to thank you for joining us on the Incy Wincy Challenge too! hugs me x

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  27. Beautiful cute creations, thanks for sharing them at I ♥ Promarkers and good luck in the draw!!
    Hugs
    Hazel xx

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  28. Love your gift boxes - will have to remember that for next year they are ideal for the little eggs (which is all I give my teens these days). Thanks for joining in with my giveaway and for linking from your blog. Cindy

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  29. what clever creations...
    Thanks for joining us over @ Crafters companion for the 4 legged friends challenge . Good luck!
    Hugs x

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  30. These are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Ruth x

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  31. oh my gosh! all totally gorgeous danni!! love the little eggy's!!!
    hugs Lou xxx

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