Chinese Take out carton ideas...

I had to make party favours for my niece's 1st birthday party this year... So I decided to use a chinese take out carton boxes as the base and spruce it up...

After many many hours of effort, I finally have 20 boxes.

 Went with a yellow and orange theme to match the birthday cake...

 Top it off with a personalised tag...

 All these goodies in one little box..

 There is so many options of how you can spruce a plain white take out carton...  You could add stripes or just about anything else the mind can think of...

 It opens exactly like a take out carton...

 Lid is slightly different just to let it have a neater look.

Weave anyone?

Was cutting coloured strips of paper for a different project but an idea popped into my mind...

Why not weave a box? and this was what I came up with... Didn't want to overdo it so I made a plain top...

 Surprisingly sturdy although it's just strips of paper.. :)

Stripe-y Box

Again my sister had some baby goodies which needs wrapping... another new-born announcement... so another box it is... gotta mix it up a bit right? So I tinkled with the idea of a box which has a lift-up lid and this was what I came up with.. =)

How it opens?

 

Take a look inside... It's also lined with the same striped inside....

Fits 5 little onesies nicely... SO cute..... :D

Now I am wishing I didn't have to give it away.... Can I have it back please??!!

Sticks in a box....

Bought a pair of learning chopsticks for my colleague's daughter.. forgot to snap a photo before I popped it into the box but it is pretty cute..it has a silicone man with chopsticks as legs...so I just made a simple box with bright colours since it's for a 4 year old... and for detailing I just wrapped a thin ribbon across the box and ended them with flower stickers...

Cake box...

New project... made some tiramisu over the weekend and needed something to give them away in... so obviously I needed a box right? So how would I construct a box to fit 2 cups of tiramisu...? This is what I came up with...

As it is opened up....
Partial folded view...

Fully folded up... not too bad considering it was my first attempt...

Top view... Side view...

Then I thought it looked kinda plain... so I needed to jazz it up a bit.. found a piece of lime green paper and decided to put some stripe details at the bottom of the box...

Turned out quite well I think... :)

Baby's Full Moon Gift

My sis's friend just had a baby boy and for his full moon my sis got these really cute onesies... :) So she asked me to make a box for the gift...

I kept having this idea of balloons that ran through my mind so I decided to go ahead with the idea.. I didnt want a standard square box and started to explore a hexagon shaped one..

Am quite pleased with the results actually...

I made the bottom box with turquoise blue.. Two little onesies in a little box... :D

I then made the lid white so that the balloons would pop.... I had cut out little ballons of various colours and attached a string to each to make them look realistic... Then tied them all up with another bow...



I also wanted to make the balloons more three dimensional so I used some pop dots to get more texture and depth....

Then my sis asked whether I was planning to tie a ribbon around the whole box to hold them together.. that wasnt exactly the plan since that was come in they way of my balloon designs but my sis didnt want ppl simply lifting the lid and seeing the contents so I had a bit of thinking...

I decided to attach ribbons to the lid which would then go around the box from the bottom to hold it together and the ribbon would tie at the side of the box... I must say I quite like the outcome of this idea since it gave the box a twist.. Made it not so conventional...
And then my sis asked me.. "Is there a card? " Jeez... for a free job she sure is asking for a lot... Oh well, I had some spare balloons left so I made her a simple card...
All in all this was a fun project.. :) I had a chance to try out something new and made something cute...

A Drawer-ful of surprise....

Me was testing something out recently... Wanted to make a drawer box since I have never attempted one before... the mechanics of it would be similar to an ordinary box except for which sides are being folded up... My initial plan was to make a pink drawer in a gray casing however as I was confidently measuring and cutting the template of the gray casing, I realised out of familiarity, I made an ordinary box with a upward opening instead of a side opening... Hmmm.... oh well... I just have to make do since that was my only piece of gray paper... So now my idea has reverse... gray drawer in pink casing... ;)

This time I used a corrugated plastic board to wall the box so that I got a nice and thick finishing.... Finally managed to get the template right for a side opening box... Was so worried they might not fit nicely as a casing and drawer piece but lo behold!! It was quite successful... :) With a small excess gap... shall correct that the next time I make another...

Finished it up with some cute buttons... stuck 2 together for a better grip and nicer colour combi...

It's a great way to store photos or other memorabilia which you want to excess at anytime... Plus stacking would still be okay since it opens to the side... :)

All decked up....

Had enough time this year to make one special project.... A matching box and card set...
Took many hours of sweat and toil to successfully pull this one off... but I think the results were pretty darn good... :) I deserve some cookies and milk for this...

The box...

It is constructed similarly to the hard box in a previous post but this one had a cut-out element of a christmas tree to enhance its plain appearance....

As for the card.... This is definitely a multi element card .....

The front has an embossed stylised snowflake design with hand written greetings....

I used opaque white emboss to bring out the details of the stamped design....

Inside was a pop-up christmas tree which was really a pain to construct.... It took make tedious hours of cutting, assembly and attachments to get it to look like that... there is also a cut-out detailing on the based for the added dimension....

How it works...

In full view...

Many sleepless nites went into this.... Good? What's your thots?

A White and Green Affair....

Birthday season is here... Somehow or rather loads of people are celebrating their birthdays between October and December.... My fren's gf is also one of them.... Was initially asked to just demonstrate a few ribbon tying methods so that he can wrap all the pressies up but then since our schedules kept clashing I self volunteered to make him a couple of boxes after being appalled by the selection of boxes in which he planned to purchase....yucks....

The decided theme was white boxes with green ribbons so I went along and made these 2 boxes... both were my virgin attempt... :) But I must say they came out looking quite good... a couple of not so well finished corners which can be improved with practice but all in all a good outcome....

First up is a pyramidal box which is held together with 2 ribbons... the pyramid will unfold itself once the ribbon is loosen... so there is absolutely no glue or tape or anything else holding the box up... quite a nifty design aside from the fact that it can only contain a small gift....

Next up is a hard box .... Usually I just make rigid boxes with thick card-like paper however special request was for it to be a hard board box... something I have never done but have an inkling of how to do... so I got home last nite and plonked myself in front of my work table and started construction... lo behold!! It was a nice success... except for some not so neat corners as I mentioned... Request was also for the ribbon to not required re-tying so I had to have it only attached to the cover... to snaz it up a bit I added some pale pink paper flower to accentuate the green ribbon... outcome turned out to be kinda wedding favour-ish but very sweet looking... am quite pleased... the diagonal ribbon also made it look less standard.... :)

Well I hope the gf likes the boxes and keeps them.... I always preferred to place my presents into a box (unless they come is a box itself) so that the wrapping doesnt go to waste... the boxes and ribbons can be reused....