Butterfly Box

I found blank folding kraft boxes a while ago and have been waiting for an opportunity to use them. Yesterday after baking cookies for a friend, I needed a little storage box to present the sweets in and came across these boxes.

I did not have a lot of time so I decided to limit the decorating to two colours and black and started stamping. Before I folded the box, I stamped butterflies from the “Colourful Companions” set all over the box (left out the underside), then folded it up and placed wax paper inside so that the cookies would not leave grease marks on the cardboard.

For the decoration I stamped butterflies with blue ink on blue paper and with pink ink on pink paper and cut the butterflies out. They were fastened to the box with pop dots. A small tag with ribbon and butterfly was added and finally I closed the box with a gingham ribbon and added two other gingham bits to add more colour around the knot.

One of the butterflies was stamped twice and the top butterfly was folded and glued onto the lower one to make it look like it was about to take off.

A simple and easy gift box that can hold a multitude of different gifts including food, or even your cards or ATCs! I hope you enjoyed this little idea. If you make one yourself, remember to share your box creations with us!

Happy Stamping,

Bettina