Gifts for my Gnomies

During the holidays, it’s always good to have a few items on hand to use as last minute hostess or thank you gifts.  They always come in handy! Lori has so many little favor bags, you’re sure to find one that fits your needs!  This year I’m making a couple of these little bags…take a peek…

The bag is Lori’s Tuck Flap Favor Box (SVG, Silhouette).  The finished bag is about 4.5 x 3 x 1.75.  It’s sized perfectly to hold some chocolate kisses, or other little candies.  I pieced it together with some papers from Echo Park Paper’s My Favorite Christmas and Little Lumberjack collections.  To complete the bag I added stickers from the Christmas Gnome Stickers (SVG, Silhouette). The little gnome sticker was the perfect decoration and it keeps the bag closed!  This would also make a great teacher or coach gift too!

Have you used any of Lori’s files for you holiday gift giving?  Be sure to post them and tag Lori on Facebook and Instagram!  We love to see your creations!  That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by to peek!

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Christmas Countdown Book Tutorial

The Christmas Holidays will be here before we know it!  It’s the perfect time to create a fun countdown calendar! I first saw this type of Calendar on the Doodlebug Blog… it was created by their designer Nathalie Ounce who found the idea on YouTube here.   I thought it was the most fabulous idea and decided to create a cut file for it!  This Christmas Countdown Book (SVG, Silhouette) book holds 24 boxes which can hold a couple of Kiss size candies or small cookies.  Take a peek….

The book is fairly simple to assemble.  Besides paper, you will need some chipboard, I used Silhouette’s Chipboard,   You will also need a good liquid glue.  I used Scotch Quick Dry.

Start by cutting your pieces.  We are first going to assemble the book “binding”.  There are two pieces that will be used to cover the outside of the book cover.  These need to be glued together to form one sheet.  There are notches on each sheet that show wheret the overlap should be.  I drew a line on one of the papers on the “inside” (it won’t show when done) and glued them together using the line as a guide.

Next, you want to add the chipboard pieces to the inside of the book cover.  The corners of the larger chipboard pieces should be placed at the indented corners of the cover pieces.  I used a ruler to help make sure things were straight.  Glue these pieces down to the cover piece.  I then glued down the “spine” piece, centering it between the 2 cover pieces.

Next fold down the top and bottom flaps.  Make sure they are flush with the edge of the chipboard.  I used a bone folder to make sure the creases were crisp.  Glue the flaps to the chipboard.   Make sure the edges are completely glued and there are no gaps.  It does not matter if you get a little glue on the chipboard or the edge of the paper, it will be covered.  After you’ve done the top and bottom, repeat with the side flaps.  Allow this to dry.

When adding the inside center piece, I found it easiest to glue the “center section” first.  To make sure it is lined up properly, you can fold up the side of the book and position it so that the score line is flush with the fold in the book.  Allow the center to dry, then glue the side flaps.  As you did with the cover, you want to make sure the edges of the paper are completely glued down.  This prevents any gapping or lifting.  Allow this to dry then add the inside covers.

 

If you are going to add ribbon to tie the book shut you would do this at this point.  (You could also tie a ribbon around the whole book as well if you prefer or skip this step entirely)  If you are adding ribbon to the book itself, you want to use a very thin ribbon.  I used some seam tape I had in my stash.  There isn’t much thickness to it so it was perfect.  I used a long ruler, placing it across the whole book to make sure my ribbon was straight.  I glued each piece about 3″ in.  Each of my ribbon pieces was about 9″ long.  Once the ribbon is dry you can add the outside covering panels, and the book binding is done!

Next you want to assemble the boxes.  You will cut 24 each of the box tops and bottoms.  For both the bottom and cover, fold all the score lines in the same direction, and fold into box shape.  The tabs get glued on the inside.

I’ve created a guide that will help you place all of the boxes into the book so they are all perfectly aligned.  Start by placing this guide on one side of the book.  I held mine in place with some Score Tape.  You can use a low tack tape or even a light washi tape.  You just want to be able to pull it off when done without ripping the paper.  Next glue the box bottoms into the book.  Make sure the glue does not seep out onto the frame, it will make it difficult to remove.  When you’ve completed one side, carefully lift the guide out.  I used a pencil to help lift it.  Then repeat with the other side until all the boxes are glued.  Add the covers and you’re done!

To finish my book I decorated it using a couple of files from my shop and some embellishments from the My Favorite Christmas Collection by Echo Park Paper. (Christmas Ornaments (SVG, Silhouette) and the greenery from the Shadow Box Card Holly Card (SVG, Silhouette)

If you use this file, we would love to see your creations! Make sure to tag Lori Whitlock on Facebook and Instagram so we can see!  Have a great day!

Santa Divided Candy Box

Hello crafty friends! Aimee here and I say it’s never too early to get a jump start on Christmas gifts so today I have a tutorial for a small gift box that’s filled with Christmas yummies that is perfect to give to a teacher, neighbor, or co-worker.  I’ve used one of Lori’s new Divided Candy Boxes that has this adorable little Santa Claus face on the top of the box (Lori’s SVG ShopSilhouete Store). Lori also has a bundled set of these fun little candy boxes found here if you want all 4 because you have a hard time choosing just 1.

To get started, cut out all of your pieces from your chosen card stocks and patterned paper. You will need to cut out 9 of the little boxes that go inside the big box.

To get started, I glued all 9 boxes so they could dry while I was putting the main box together. A little tip to help you speed things up…use mini clothing pins to hold the sides together while the glue is drying.

For the main box, I folded on the score lines for both the top and the bottom pieces and then adhered the panel pieces to the top lid. Next I glued the sides together on both pieces.

For the Santa piece, I flipped the beard and face pieces over so I could line up the dark brown/black piece so the hole doesn’t cover the nose. The red from the bottom piece of Santa will show through for his nose.

To add some dimension, I took the mustache, lining of the hat and the pom pom of his hat and used pop dots. I also added some glitter to those pieces to make him a fun and glitzy Santa.

Lastly, I attached Santa to the top of the box, added the little boxes inside, and filled with some Christmas Rolos. The bite-sized pieces fit perfectly with 2 to each box.

These would be great to have on hand in case that unexpected Christmas guest stops by!

So why not get an early start on those Christmas gifts and make a few of these? They are so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Aimee

Box Card Christmas Truck Tutorial with Brigit

Here’s a tutorial of putting together this adorable Box Card Christmas Truck from Lori’s shop. I used Cricut Design Space and my Cricut Maker to cut this out but you can also get this file here at the  Silhouette Design Store.

Here’s my finished truck, I added some snow to the tree and a Santa from Doodlebug’s Christmas Town mini icon sticker sheet. The patterned paper is Doodlebug’s ladybug and limeade dot-stripe petite prints.

I uploaded the truck into Design Space and ungrouped.

Selecting the truck piece with score lines I clicked the Attach button on the bottom right, this keeps the score lines and cut piece together when you cut. I did the same to the other piece with the score lines.

Select the JOY and Flatten, do the same to the Farm Fresh Christmas Trees sign, this is so you can print and then cut.

This is how the print and cut will look, you print this page out, place it on your mat and the machine will scan the black box and cut around each one.

Here are all the pieces cut out, I folded the scoreline pieces and inked the edges of the patterned pieces.

I put together the tree on the middle section first then glued and assembled the main truck piece. Then glued the middle piece flaps to the inside of the main truck. If you want you can use solid cardstock for these pieces to save on patterned paper since the pieces in the next steps below will cover both sides.

I glued down the door first, then the silver running board, the tires on top of that and last pop dotted the fenders. Next, I glued each finished side to the truck base. Last I added the Joy to the back and the lights to the front.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Christmas with my Gnomies Set by Anita

 

Anita here today to share an adorable gift set that I made for a dear friend who happens to love gnomes.  Lori Whitlock has several different cards which you can customize to make adorable cards and gifts.  This card is a box card ( you can find a tutorial here ) and the cut file is called 5X7 Box Card Gnome and you can find it here in Lori’s shop and here in the Silhouette store.  I used one of Lori’s wonderful new Echo Park collections called Celebrate Christmas.  The Notebook is from her Celebrate Christmas line also, and is called Lined Inserts.  My friend was thrilled to receive this gift.

Here is the card open and standing up.

Here is a close up of the notebook.

Lastly this is a photo of the card folded flat and ready for mailing.  That’s it for me today.  Happy Holidays everyone.

Hugs,

Anita