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 simple christmas package....

My favourite season is here again....

Unfortunately this year I didnt have much time to do a lot of stuff...

But I did manage a few things... one of it is this christmas package which my sis requested me to make for a gift to her fren.... was in a rush so did this in 15 mins or so.... a normal pocket package made different with a huge christmas tree cutout which I recycled form a different project...

Came out pretty decent for a rush job I must say... but mum didnt quite fancy it.... :(

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....

Paper Wraping

This is just a simple wrapping of a box... What I am trying to show is how with just a plain paper and ribbon you can still create something unique...

I decided to add some folding details on the wrapper to give it my own personal touch.... The folding details run all along all sides of the box as you can see from the side profile picture...

The ribbon was tied into a butterfly to snaz it up a bit instead of a normal bow...

Cylinders are so not easy....

Made this quite some time back... It is definitely not easy to make a cylindrical box especially when you are using corrugated paper... It took a lot of repetitive measuring to make sure it would fit right and look good plus it a lot of super glue to hold it all together...

It was a nice combination of pink and blue with silver ribbons... a nice combination for a naked forever friends sitting in it...

I think it turned out quite well...