Quick and Easy Teacher gifts for Thinking Outside the Box

Welcome everyone to our monthly Thinking Outside the Box blog hop. Hello if you've just arrived from Yoshiko and her super cute gift box.  You can see several different varieties of gift box tutorials under the theme of

This month's theme for Thinking Outside the Box Blog Hop

We've all created a different box and are sharing free tutorials that you are welcome to use.  I usually do a video too, but am still working on getting my Achilles tendon sorted so hopefully I'll have a video soon and will link back.  In the meantime I've got some simple instructions and a template for you to copy of my pretty teacher gift.  I've filled mine with fragrant tea lights, but you could fill with chocolates, pencils or something else. Once you know how to make the box you can adapt for different contents.  

Ok so here's what to do

1. start with a piece of card or thick DSP like the Share What You Love papers that I have used from Stampin' Up!.  It needs to be cut at 24 x 30.5 cm (9"  x 12")
2. In the landscape position score at 9cm, 18cm, 22cm, 24cm, 28cm and 30cm.  (31/2",7",81/2", 91/4", 103/4" and 111/2")
3. In portrait score at 2cm or 3/4" in from both sides.  
4. Cut an aperture of your choice in the panel shown as 'cut window' . Mine is 2cm x 16cm.  You can use your Stampin' trimmer to cut the aperture or a craft knife.   I've cut it 2cm away from the side score lines and left a 1cm border along the long sides of the window. 
5. cut away the shaded areas and cut the lines that are solid on the template ie those that will form the flaps on the box ends.  
6. adhere a piece of window sheet on the inside of the box to cover the aperture. Mine is 3cm x 18cm
7. Fold all the score lines which are marked with a dotted line.  
8. Add tear and tape to the very thin strip at the top of the template this will fold over to form the box when you bring that end so that the tape sits along the 18cm/7" score line.  
9. Add your contents and secure one end of the box with tear and tape, tombow or other adhesive.  
10. Use ribbon or twine to secure the other end and allow for easy opening by tying it around the length of the box a couple of times.  
11. Decorate your box and you'll see it has a card already attached.  I added a inside piece of coordinating patterned paper which you can do also or you can leave it as the reverse of the original piece. 

Blog List

1. Shannean Moncrieff
2. Tanja Kolar
3. Yoshiko Endo
4. Zoe Tant - You are here 
5. Annette Elias
6. Dena Rekow
7. Beate Wacker
8. Aude Barbara

Party Pandas from Stampin' Up! Saleabration

Stampin' Up! designers hit the cute button big time with this fabulous stamp set, Party Pandas.  They are uber cute little creatures and fit the bill for birthdays, valentine's, Christmas and any other event as well as fitting in well into trees or the woodland embossing folder for fun cards for men and boys.

It's also my card for the Moving Along with the Times Challenge for my DT slot.  Pop over HERE and join us for this Clean and Simple challenge.

This is a card we made at my card club last week.  It features one of the pandas and is really simple to make. It's also perfect for last minute.com birthdays.

1. Stamp the confetti stamp diagonally across the card using lemon lime twist ink on lemon lime twist card for tone on tone effect.
2. Stamp the Happy Birthday in the same ink onto white card and punch out with the classic label punch and adhere with mini stampin dimensionals on the card base.
3. Use the starburst punch to punch a real red matting layer and adhere over a folded strip of white organza ribbon onto the card base.
4. Stamp with archival black ink the panda onto white card and fussy cut it out.
5. Colour the balloon with a real red marker and add some shading with the chalk marker
6. Using stampin dimensionals adhere the panda to the card.
7. Add some self adhesive lemon lime twist sequins randomly on the design.

Here's some of the ideas from the Saleabration brochure of more Party Panda antics.

So cute and adorable hard to believe they can be added free to your order when you spend £45 in my Stampin' Up! shop.  

More to come Zoe xx