Hello Creative Friends,
I’ve received a lot of email about spring and Mother-Daughter banquets and I know many of you are doing garden themes. 

I saw these seed boxes in the Dollar Tree the other day and I thought these would make cute door prizes and giveaways so I decided to try dressing one up.  These measure approximately 4 by 6 by 1 1/2 inches.

I measured card stock to a 1/4 inch wider than the measurements for the box width and about 2 inches longer than the height of the box. This gave me a little to work with for adding the handle at the top and plenty to go on the bottom.   I measured an inch in on the height side and scored  (Click to seee photo of this step).  Then I added Sticky Strip to piece the bottom together.   (Click to see photo of this step).  Sorry, the color in the side view photo  below didn’t turn out too good.

I used some of the Sale-A-Bration items to decorate the box holder.  Delicate Dots Designer Paper,  Botanical Blooms stamp set, and the So Saffron Ribbon is from the Ribbon Bundle.  All of these items are some of the choices of free products you can select during Sale-A-Bration for each $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! Products.  Sale-A-Bration ends March 31.

The technique I used around the stamped image is an old craft painting technique.  You take Saran Wrap (plastic food wrap), wad it up and dip it into paint, then daub.  I thought I’d try it out with dabbing it on my ink pad and it worked.  It’s not so detailed as you get with using paint but I still like how it turned out.  I held down a Wide Oval Punch cut-out over the stamped image while I added the ink.

To finish it off, I added a handle with a Filigree Designer Brad.  I placed the ribbon around the entire holder to keep the box inside.

You’ll find Seeds of Kindness theme-related items on the main website.

Seeds of Kindness Devotional
Seeds of Kindness Women’s Ministry Theme

This box holder cover idea can be used with any boxed products such as cake and brownie mixes, etc.  Just measure accordingly.    Be sure to leave me a comment if you enjoyed this project.  I love hearing from you!

Have a creative day,
Julia

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