Lots to Love Valentine Box and Cards Project

This is the last post from my January "Celebrate the New Year" Come Stamp With Me Class.  I try to have a small project for people to make and take home at the end of each class.  This time it was a cute Valentine's box to hold candy or cards for your loved ones, whoever they may be.  I did make alternative boxes and filled them with 4 Narrow Notecards/Envelopes for each person attending the class.

This is one of the option of the "Lots to Love" box

people in the class could make.  You can use

any Designer Series Paper (DSP) you like.

The tag in the front is from the 

Cake Soiree stamp set from the

2018 Occasions Catalog. You can

leave out the cutout heart window on the front

and have it be a closed box with a 

surprise inside.

This is the back of the "Lots to Love" box.  

You can leave plain or decorate however you like.

This was another "Lots to Love" box option 

filled with candy.  Yum...

This is the back of the box.

This shows 4 different "Lots to Love" box.

The 2 pink boxes are filled with the 

cards in the photo below.

These cards are made with the Narrow Note Cards

and Envelopes.  These are fun to make and are

great little note cards to put in your child's 

lunchbox, for your special sweetie, a

thank you for a friend, a co-worker, or 

employee, or whoever else you

want to know you care.

How to make the "Lots to Love" Box:

Supplies:

Lots to Love Box Framelits

Real Red or whatever color cardstock you want:  (2) 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 pieces to die cut box and cut-out heart

Clear Window Sheet: 2 ½ x 3 ¼ piece

Sealed With a Kiss DSP (retired) or whatever paper you have:  2 pieces of 4 7/8 x 3 and cut-out heart; 

Variety of different die-cuts or punched pieces, small circle punch plain or embossed, and clear & glitter epoxy dots, all to use for decorating your box.

Brief Instructions:

Steps to put the box together:

a.      Using bone folder, fold on the lines and burnish the folds;

b.      Using tear & tape, adhere the window sheet to the inside of the box over the cut-out heart;

c.       Adhere the DSP to the front panel first, then the back panel; remember the back panel is upside down, so the top of the DSP is the straight side, not the rounded side;

d.      Decorate the back panel;

e.       Put tear & tape on the back panels sides, then carefully put the front panel over one side at a time, remember the front panel sides go towards the back so no seam shows on the front;

f.        Fold in the bottom flap;

g.       Stamp and decorate your small circle, you choose whether you want the plain or embossed, and finish decorating your box;

h.       Now fill the box with candy and fold in the top flap, yum!

Steps to put the note cards together:

a.   Fold narrow note cards and burnish with bone folder;

     

b.   Cut front panel 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 out of DSP or cardstock that you want to use;

c.   Using the 2 1/2 circle punch, cut from DSP for the inside envelope flap;

d.   Decorate the front of the card however you choose; I used heart DSP and a popped up Love sentiment; watercolor with Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, & Rich Razzleberry, love and hearts die cuts; Berry Burst DSP embossed with hearts; and Powder Pink cardstock with die cut hearts the right side and Glimmer paper for the front panel, sentiment and hearts stamped in Sweet Sugarplum.  Most of the supplies used for these cards are retired products from the 2017 Occasions Catalog.

Be creative and make you own beautiful cards.