Sweet 16 Explosion Box - Gift Card Holder

I made this gift card holder explosion box for my daughter’s friend:

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I cut the “16” four times - twice with a rectangle welded to the bottom of it using Cricut CraftRoom and twice without the rectangle.  I was able to fold out the rectangle to create a stand to hold up the number.

Supplies Used:

Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application

Cricut Out of Character Cartridge (Happy Birthday)

Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge (tag)

Cricut Paper Trimmings Cartridge (scallop box)

Cricut Cupcake Wrappers Cartridge (scallop circle)

Cricut Celebrations Cartridge (retangle welded to 16)

Cricut Sanrio – Hello Kitty Font Cartridge (Sweet 16)

Martha Stewart Scoring Pad

Craftsmart Embossing Pad

Zing Embossing Powder (Blush)

Hero Arts “Special Birthday” Stamp

Ribbon from my stash 

Studio G Chalk Ink, Inkadinkado Blending Chalks and Copic Markers (to outline card stock)

Self-adhesive foam mounts

Self-adhesive rhinestones

Flower from the Dollar Store

Making Memories Packaging Tape (Cheeky)

Brads

Solid and sparkle card stock are Recollections brand

Patterned card stock is GDC studios – material girls paper stack

Leftover plastic packaging

Chunky Glitter

Embroidery Floss

Thanks so much for looking.

Snowman Explosion Box - Gift Card Holder

This months Circle Magazine Challenge is to use the Circle exclusive cart Sophie for at least three cuts to create a holiday project.  I decided to make a Christmas gift card holder explosion box:

The large snowflake, the frame around "Merry Christmas" and the border on the front of the gift card pocket are all cuts from Sophie.  For the border, I welded several of the same snowflake cuts using Cricut CraftRoom and cut it out of scrap piece of sparkly silver vinyl.

The snowman in the centre is made with three pompom glued together. 

I used black half-beads for the eyes and a piece of a red rubber band for the mouth.  To make the "carrot" nose, I used  a piece of orange tissue paper with white glue rolled and shaped by hand.  The arms are toothpicks (with the point cut off), ends split into three and coloured brown.The top hat is back duct tape over black card stock cut freehand (to give it a more organic look) and glued together .

The stamped snowman image is the same one I used in a card I had posted in November. This time I embossed a cut portion of aluminium food tray which is sturdier than the aluminium foil I used with the card.







I intentionally made the outside of the box simple to contrast with the overkill of elements on the inside.

Supplies Used:
Cricut Expression & Cricut CraftRoom Application
Cricut Sophie Cartridge
Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet Cartridge

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders from the Winter Wonderland embossing folders set

Inkadinkadoo Clear Stamp

Embossing Pad and Stampendous Embossing Powder

Ribbon from my stash
Studio G chalk ink and Copic Markers (to outline card stock)

Self-adhesive foam mounts

Self-adhesive rhinestones, confetti, plastic "mirror" snowflakes from the Dollar Store

Aluminium food tray

Solid and sparkle card stock are Recollections brand

Patterned card stock is Anna Griffin Georgette Christmas Collection

Martha Stewart Glitter

Orange Tissue Paper

White pompom - (three sizes), Cotton batting and Felt

Duct tape

Black half pearls

red rubber band

Toothpicks

Ribbon Flower from my stash

White pearls, black pearl, black pin and a thin piece of black plastic punch with a circle to make the snowman stick pin.

Thanks so much for looking. 

Butterfly Birthday Explosion Box

This week's Cricut Circle challenge is to shop your stash and incorporate purchased flowers into a project with at least 2 Cricut Image Cuts.  I decided make an explosion box gift card holder. 

The flower was bought ages ago from the Dollar Store and I used Copics to colour it to coordinate with the colours in the rest of the box. 

I used six cuts from Accent Essentials on the cake plus a scalloped circle (also from Accent Essentials) the under the "celebrate" metal tag.  The metal ribbon with beads is from Pier 1 (I got it on clearance after Christmas a couple of years back and this is my first time using it in a project). 

Sorry for the lack of a detailed supplies used list, but it is December and I'm a little swamped with the stuff that interferes with crafting.  I will be posting another explosion box later this week and I promise a supplies list will be provided for that one.