Box Card

Here is what you will need to make this type of a card.  At the end of this page you can find a link to my YouTube video with more details.

Heavy Cardstock - for the first pictures I used a 120lb cardstock and in the video tutorial I used Distress Mixed Media Heavy Cardstock. 

Cut two pieces 4 inches by 6 inches, those will be your box.  Score on the 6 inch side at 1/2 inch and 3 1/4 inches on both. Miter the corners on the 1/2 inch side.

Place tape along the inside of the 1/2 inch score line. You can use glue, but if you do, wait for each section to dry fully before you move on.

Secure one of the 4x6 pieces on to the other at the 1/2 line, make sure you attach a bit below the score line so your box will fold.

Now you will have one long card with 4 score lines.  Next you will need to decorate inside and out in any way you choose.  You can use double-sided paper, plain paper, or in my case I stenciled mine front and back with my Tim Holtz Stencil and Distress Oxides as well as some extra distressing with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a flat foam blender.

You will make your aperture in the third box from the left as shown below.

That is your basic box construction and now it's time to work on the meat of the card!  This part will be extremely eclectic.  The main point to remember is that each layer needs to be 3 and 3/4 wide and cannot be more than 4 inches tall.

For my card I chose to mount a sort of gate at the back layer and then 3 "hills" to mount my die cut flowers with a total of 4 layers inside the card.  You could use acetate and stick flying or floating things to the acetate, you can use full panel die cuts, you could just make the basic stadium and glue animal, eggs, flowers, paper dolls, buses, whatever! LOL...kinda got carried away there.

Now we have our basic construction.  The parts above are what we attach our busses or other pretties to. Just remember to not make anything go above the 4 inch mark or our card won't fit into a standard 4 3/4 by 5 3/4 envelope.

Putting it all together.

You will apply each of the inserts one at a time as shown.

 

From here you will fold the box basically in half minus the 1/2 inch flap on the left and when you do, the other side will stick to the inserts because of the tape. What I did not illustrate here were all of the flowers and foliage I had glued to the inside flaps before assembly. I knows yours will be done!

All you have left to do is to tape the flap to the inside edge on the right to complete your box!

Tim Holtz Products Used

Distress Archival Ink in Ground Espresso

Distress Inks - Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo

Distress Oxides

Aged Mahogany

Picked Raspberry

Fossilized Amber

Mowed Lawn

Peeled Paint

Wild Honey

Forest Moss

Brushed Corduroy

Seedless Preserves

Rusty Hinge

Rustic Wilderness

Distress Paint in Tarnished Brass

Stencil THS077

Dies

Funky Nature 665215

Flower Garden and Mini Bouquet 661613

Mixed Media #5- 662688

Distress Crackle Paste

 Today's live with Tim Holtz was magical and I was inspired to watch from my iPad and create with him.  Here is my process in case you wondered.

I grabbed a piece of Distress Specialty Stamping Paper and stamped the design from Rockstar CMS073 on the top and bottom with Peeled Paint Distress Archival Ink, then I stamped the words from  Papillon CMS106 right in the center with Vintage Photo Distress Archival ink.  I let them dry then applied Speckled Egg Distress ink with a brayer and gave it a spray with water.  

I grabbed the stencil and stenciled the flourish design with some Distress Texture Paste in clear matte then sprinkled on some Walnut Stain Distress Embossing Glaze and let it dry...mostly. I then heat embossed it to get both a translucent and bit of a bubbly texture.  I then distressed the edges with some Ground Espresso Distress Archival ink.  

I cut out the parts of the bird in a heavy white cardstock then colored the parts with Prize Ribbon, Speckled Egg, and Weathered Wood Oxides along with some Black Soot and put him all together. I distressed all of the edges with Walnut Stain Distress ink and added some depth with Peeled Paint Distress Archival ink then glued him down to the background.  

I used one of the star strips and I don't know the name of the Impresslit because I tossed the wrapper!

I grabbed an old book page and tore a piece for an accent then glued his feet to the strip.  

I used some Distress Collage Paste to collage the old book page to another 4 1/8 x 5 1/8 piece of card stock then distressed the edges here and there with some Walnut Stain Distress ink then glued it all down to a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 green card base.

Products Used

Distress Embossing Glaze in Speckled Egg, Weathered Wood, and Walnut Stain

Distress Archival Ink in Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso, and Black Soot

Distress Ink in Speckled Egg and Weathered Wood

Bird and Egg Colorize 665857

Distress Oxides in Speckled Egg, Prize Ribbon, Vintage Photo

Flourish Stencil THS032

Rockstar CMS073

Papillon CMS106

This card is created for the #ModSquadChallenge with the theme of hearts and flowers.

I started with a plain piece of muslin fabric and secured it around my mini MISTI mouse pad.  I grabbed my Kitchen Sink Stamps set "Angel's Wings" and stamped the first two layers with Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink in Faded Jeans.  The next two layers were stamped Ranger Archival Ink in the color Cobalt. the final layer was stamped with Versafine Clair in Twilight.  

I grabbed another piece of plain muslin fabric and sprayed it with Dylusions Ink Spray in the color Cherry Pie followed by Dylusions Mica Spray. also in Cherry Pie.

Next, I frayed the edges of the main fabric and distressed it and the heart with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.

I glued down the heart over the top of some of the leftover frayed strings.

Next, I grabbed my cloud edger stencil, also from Kitchen Sink Stamps and created clouds with the Twilight ink and a soft stencil brush.

I stamped the word LOVE from my Colorado Craft Company stamp set called "Shamrock Trinity" with the Twilight Ink.  

I stitched the whole thing onto some Distress Kraft Cardstock then distressed the edges further with the Twilight Ink.

I coated a piece of green embroidery floss to form stems and leaves and glued it down with Distress Collage Medium and then glued the little flowers on from my stash.  I added some gold confetti from Honey Bee Stamps to balance the whole thing out.

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