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...

Christmas card 2010 edition

Every year as usual, I will make a batch of mini christmas greeting cards along with a small gift for my colleagues... since I changed jobs this year my new team is pretty small so I could do what I did...

I individually cut out sillouettes of a christmas tree and stacked them on a green card and then onto a cream colours card as the base... I felt it looked simple and a tad rustic which I liked... :)

For the gift, I baked chocolate fudge brownies and wrapped them in coloured cello paper and tied them up with a ribbon...

Simple and sweet... hope everyone liked it... :D

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 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.... :(