Nigezza Creates: 18th Birthday Gift Box With Stampin' Up!® Tranquil Textures

Nigezza Creates aka Gez, Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator

Hi and welcome back, today I am showing you how I made a matching gift box for the exploding box card I shared the other day. As it was a social birthday I wanted the gift to look special as well. So here is what I cam up with. The present was in a tin so I want a non lidded box for it, I just wanted it to slip in but wanted the bottom of the box secured.

Video tutorial

Click below to see how I made it and thenI will share with you how I went about designing and sizing the box.

Measurements and Materials

Tranquil Tide A4 Cardstock - for the box
Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper - for the mats
Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock - for the mats
Whisper White A4 Card Stock - scraps for the decorative elements
Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad - to stamp the decorative elements and the sentiment
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad - for the bubbles
Bubble Over Photopolymer Stamp Set - for the beer bottles and bubbles
Bottles & Bubbles Framelits Dies - for the bottles and labels
Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set - sentiment and balloon
Pick A Pennant Photopolymer Stamp Set - number 18!
Balloon Bouquet Punch - punching out the ballon
Everyday Label Punch - punching gout sentiment and mat
3/4" Circle Punch - punching the thumb hole in box and 18
Simply Scored - to make the box

Working out the box size

I measure the 3 dimensions of the box width, length and depth
I decided I wanted a closed bottom and a flap to tuck in at the top
Now I needed to draw a grid

Mats for the box

Back of box
Mint Macaron - 4 3/8" x 3 1/4"
Tranquil Textures DSP - 4 1/8" x 3"
Front of box
Mint Macaron - 4 3/8" x 3 1/4"
Tranquil Tide - 4 1/8" x 3"
Tranquil Textures DSP - 3 1/2" x 2 3/4"
Sides of box
Mint Macaron - 4 1/2" x 5/8"
Tranquil Textures DSP - 4 3/8" x 1/2"
Top of box
Mint Macaron - 3 3/4" x 5/8"
Tranquil Textures DSP - 3 1/4" x 1/2"

Decorating box front

Used same elements as I used for the card
Beer bottle
Ballon
Sentiment punched out and matted onto second punch out to make it pop

Time for some close ups

18th Birthday Gift Box With Stampin' Up!® Tranquil Textures

I think you can see that the box matches the card really well.

I hope you will have a go at making a box for an item using my template, let me know if it works!

See you soon with another tutorial

Gez xxx

Product List

Tranquil Tide A4 Cardstock [144252] £8.00	Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper [146331] £10.25	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £8.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £9.00	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146] £7.00	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [138326] £6.00
Bubble Over Photopolymer Stamp Set [145868] £16.00	Bottles & Bubbles Framelits Dies [145663] £26.00	Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set [143662] £20.00	Pick A Pennant Photopolymer Stamp Set [146499] £20.00	Balloon Bouquet Punch [140609] £17.00	Everyday Label Punch [144668] £17.00
3/4" Circle Punch [119873] £11.50	Simply Scored [122334] £27.00