Floral Valentine Stationery Box Part 2

Good Morning!

Hope everyone is having a great morning.  The new products everyone is reporting on from CHA are very exciting.  I know I can't wait to get my hands on quite a few.  Thank you all for posting the new goodies...

Ok, Back to the box.  The Finishing touches...

Just as the bottom of the box I cut my patterned paper 1/8-inch narrower to show the painted black border.  I just measured, cut and matted.

Next, I added a little Tim Holtz keyplate and hitch post to the front of the box.

 

 

I cut a 1 1/2-inch piece of card stock and used a Martha Stewart border punch to make a hinge for the back side of the box.  I scored it down the middle and used 1/8-inch Scor-Tape on each side of the score line.

 

 

I then applied the hinge piece to the back of the box.  Starting with just one side first and then moving to the other side to finish it off.

 

 

 

I then cut all my flower pieces from the Monster cans.  See my post under Monster Flowers.  I hot glued these to the top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, I used the Tim Holtz Lock and Key die and cut out a lock from chip and another from the aluminum  can. 

 

 

I layered the metal piece on top of the chipboard piece and glued with Glossy Accents.

 

 

Ink the lock with a little Ginger and Raisin alcohol ink.

 

 

Tie a bow around your notecards and envelopes.  I designed this to fit A6 cards and envelopes.

 

 

Place the cards into the box and you are done!!!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for following this project!

Have an excellent day!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Comments

[JudithC]

Gee do you ever sleep? Thanks for the post, will have to try this it is beautiful

[Cait]

Absolutely gorgeous...I'd love to try it, but I have this fear of slicing myself to death on the aluminum cans...lol. Great job on this!

[The Gentleman Crafter]

Judith-

Thank You!  Sleep?  Whats Sleep?  LOL!

Jim

[The Gentleman Crafter]

Thanks Cait!  How about paper flowers?  LOL!  Also, I had commented last night about doing Tims technique on day 6 of the 12 Tags of Christmas and use the foil tape and glossy paper to cut the flowers.  Might look pretty cool! 

Jim

[debb]

The box is AWESOME! Thank you so much for sharing! I have download the pdf part 1- thank you!!!!!!

[Di]

Oh its so nice all done...Love it...Di

[Carol]

Wow !! And that box will be waiting for me when I get home from CHA? LOL

[Sarah]

This box is so nice for any occasion. Thank you for your easy to follow instructions. PDF files are wonderful because you can work your way through the project page by page and save it for future reference, too. Never hesitate to post a PDF...hopefully Blogger can't mess that up!!

[Barbara Albrecht]

Simply lovely!!! Thanks for taking the TIME to make sure we got all your instructions.

Like Sarah said...PDF's are great for those of us who want to try our hand at making one of your projects.

[Zelda]

OMG, pink!

[steven]

someone is going to get a lovely surprise!

[The Gentleman Crafter]

Thanks Steven! 

[Christina]

AMAZING!! I love how this project came together and those flowers are GORGEOUS! Thank you for sharing the "how to"! Whoever is getting this box is going to LOOOOOVE it!

[The Gentleman Crafter]

Thanks Tons Christina!  I appreciate you looking!  It is my pleasure!

Jim

[Zandra]

Fabulous!!! The flowers are gorgeous..thanks for sharing.
Hugz, Z

[Gail E]

Thanks so much for sharing another amazing project! --and many thanks for the PDF! I'm looking forward at making one (or several)!

[Wendy H]

This is beautiful. I saw a Monster van go by the other day and thought it would make a lot of flowers. Thanks for the great projects.