Round-Topped Butterfly Box

This is for Cathy's Blog Bash Challenge: to use a flower somewhere in your project. I love the big bursting flower buds in this stamp & it's never seen ink, so here it is. Ta da, LOL. You can play along here & win a sweet prize. (You can still join in the other challenges too!)

This project may look familiar: it's a round topped box template that's super hot right now. Thanks to "hawk" on SCS who was looking for it originally, this ol' SU template saw the light of day & there was an SCS challenge using it too, so now there are a million great ideas for it. This is my better-late-than-never?-springy-jelly-beanie take on it.

Turquoise jelly-bellies. How could I say no!?!

Snookum Stamp Image:

This stamp is the perfect size for this sweet box template. I adore the stamp designs of Leigh Hannan passionately. This Butterfly stamp is one of my very very favourites. It measures 3.2 inches in diameter. You'd think it was was made for this box!

You can find this Butterfly Round Cling Stamp
at Paper Garden Projects here.

The Template:

Click here to go download Template PDFs

This is a Stampin' Up template! & a second one where I took the score lines out, so you can print it directly on cardstock & cut away the ink lines. (Love doin' that!)

The Template Deets:

Measurements: 6 inches tall, 3 1/2 inches wide, 1 6/8 inches deep. (The front basket part is 1 6/8 inches high)

Please Note (for Printing!): This box prints prints the best on borderless printing; otherwise you may lose bits!

Click the pictures above for the JPGs of the templates
(if you have any trouble with sizing, just let me know and I can email you JPGs (melstampz@gmail.com)

Step 1) Print the template, cut, & score the box.

Lil' Tip: I like to cut roughly & score before I cut the box out all the way. It makes seeing where to score easy. I used watercolour paper for the box. I madly lurve the texture of it. :O)



Step 2) Make scallop frame or ring (layer two nesties one inside the other & tape it on so it stays in place.)



Step 3) Stamp & Cut black shadow layer (cut larger than the coloured leaves image so it'll create a shadow when it's all stuck together.)



Step 4) Adhere strips of patterned papers to the box---These are all from the Urban Prairie Basic Grey 6x6 collection. (More of my blahblahblah about those cuties later.) :O)



Step 5) Pierce along patterned paper strips (through the box)

Step 6) Stitch it up (I used a straight stitch, zig zag, & a row of knots for fun) ;o)



Step 7) Adhere the scallop frame/ring to the round section.


Step 8) Stick on the black shadow layer



Step 9) Adhere the leaves onto shadow layer with Black Foam Tape or Dimensionals



Step 10) Pierce a butterfly trail (I temporarily placed the butterfly so it wouldn't get much wear.)


Step 11) Stitch the butterfly trail. These are just knots of varying sizes:

The Patterned Papers:

These papers are all from the Urban Prairie Basic Grey 6x6 collection. (I had a question from JB about it when I used some of the urban prairie on this LPS mushroom bookmark card, but she was "no reply" so I'm answering you here JB.) :O)

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6 x 6 Basic Grey Paper Packs

I can't get enough of these 6x6 Basic Grey packs. They're insanely economical (6 bucks for so many pieces!) so I thought I'd blab about 'em in case you were curious.

Selection: Love that these let you have loads of patterned papers that are all the rage--without breaking the bank. Having all those options helps you out of colour ruts too (something that happens to me often.)

Scale: One really neat thing for cardmaking--or other small scale work--is that the graphics on Basic Grey's 6x6 papers are smaller than the graphics on their larger ones. (That's a "no duh!" for some of you, but it took me a while to figure it out, since I had never had both the 12x12 & 6x6 of one pattern before.)



P.S. Tomorrow, a tutorial on how this butterfly medallion was done (aka. taking an image from sm'ugly to snifty, LOL.)