Cricut Holiday Gift Boxes

Good morning, I hope you are all at home enjoying time with your families.  I have a few more last minute projects to inspire you until the current Bitten By the Bug 2 Challenge closes January 4.  I created several boxes to hold my thin mint cookies.  I gave them to my coworkers for the holidays.  

I am just in love with the pie box despite the issues I had.  The glitter paper did not cut and score as well as I would have liked.  It was very thick.  I did manage to clean up the cuts but there are some random creases in the lid. I thought putting a fancy flower on top would distract.  

Then I went crazy.  I used the negatives snowflakes from the box below since they were from the same paper stack.  I layered them on top of some sheer blue flowers.  I added a few floral picks from my stash, icy berries and wispy tiny tan leaves.

Pie Box-

Close to my Heart Artiste

My Mind's Eye Festive & Frost papers

K&Co Smitten White glitter paper

Petaloo flower

assorted floral picks

metallic blue brads

sheer blue flowers

paper snowflakes

Tall Snowflake box-

Cricut Box it Up

My Mind's Eye Festive & Frost papers

K&Co Smitten White glitter paper

Recollections felt ribbon

Cookies box-

Cricut Box it Up

K&Co BW Peppermint Twist

K&Co Smitten White glitter paper pack

eyelash fiber

The top of the box with the glitter paper layered underneath.

Merry and Bright box-

Cricut Merry and Bright 

K&Co BW Peppermint Twist

K&Co Smitten White glitter paper

eyelash fiber

Another view, this snowflake was an intricate cut for a glitter embossed thick card stock.  It ripped in a couple of places but with the help of glue and a the backing layer, I think I managed to put it back together without notice.

The backside.

Snowflake box-

Cricut Box it Up

K&Co BW Peppermint Twist paper pack

K&Co Smitten White glitter paper

lace ribbon

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/12/challenge-194.html until 12.26x

http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2020/12/cic509.html until 12.26

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/12/classic-design-challenge-december-12.html until 12.31x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2020/12/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper.html until 12.31x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2020/12/december-2020-challenge-anything-vintage.html until 1.2

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2020/12/challenge-6-o-christmas-tree-tentative.html until 1.3 (#4)

Thanks for stopping by

Alicia

Cricut Die-lirious Holiday Season Boxes

 Welcome to my inspiration for the last Bitten By the Bug 2's challenge for 2020.  We are partnering with Double Trouble for a year end challenge  Any holiday project with a die cut qualifies but you get extra entries for using patterned papers and ribbons or bows. I created some holiday boxes to wrap up the giving season.

My first box is cut with my Cricut uses patterned paper and extra embellishments.  I dressed up the cut with a felt ribbon around the edge of the lid.  I backed the intricate tree cut with some fancy white paper and added pearls to the tree limbs. 

 

I used Anna's Holiday Home Decor for this one.  Check out my pearly additions.

My second box wasn't from a holiday image set but with the assist of a Christmas patterned paper stack it is magically a holiday gift box. I used the Cricut Box it Up cartridge. I edged the finish box with chalking ink.  I finished off the box with a manually die cut bow.  The red layer is a Cricut layer unlike the box above where I simply cut a square to add behind the cut.

My final box is shaped.  It did take a little more finesse to adhere but wasn't really hard.  I did have to think about the direction of the pattern with this one.  There were several papers that wouldn't work with this one.  Next time will be even better as this choice wasn't perfect but I was limited myself to the same paper stack.

I used the image set Holiday Gift Boxes.  I added the same felt ribbon but still wanted a little bit "more".  The winter white shiny eyelash fiber was the perfect final touch.

Ingredients:

Cricut carts: Anna's Holiday Home Decor, Box it Up and Holiday Gift Boxes

Me & My Big Idea Noel Specialty paper stack

Tim Holtz Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die Bow-Tied

white textured, red and white specialty card stock

Recollection felt ribbon and fibers

Quick Quotes Midnight Confessions Powderpuff chalking ink

pearl gems

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/11/challenge-214-christmas.html until 12.9x

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/12/week-601-anything-but-card.html until 12.10x

http://stinkininkers.blogspot.com/2020/12/all-boxed-up.html until 12.27x

http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com/2020/12/december-challenge-gifts-or-something.html until 12.31x

https://crafterscastle.blogspot.com/2020/12/december-challenge-36-november-winner.html until 12.31x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2020/12/kat-scrappiness-and-anything-goes.html until 12.31

https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/12/anything-christmas-goes-our-end-of-year.html until 12.31

http://intaas.blogspot.com/2020/12/ch98-anything-goes-with-bow.html until 1.2x

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2020/12/challenge-6-o-christmas-tree-tentative.html until 1.3

Don't forget to play along with both Bitten By the Bug 2 and Double Trouble until January 4.  Thank you for stopping by

Alicia

Spring Equinox with Bitten By the Bug 2 and Double Trouble challenge

Hello and welcome to our latest challenge at Bitten by the Bug 2 Spring Equinox.  The planet marks a seasonal change in the coming week depending on where you live on this planet you may or may not be seeing the signs of Spring bud.  This time around create a spring inspired project.  And for a twist...BBTB2 has collaborated with Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge Blog for this challenge. They have several layers to their challenge and I have shared their post below and encourage you to play along with one, two or all three of the layers of this challenge.  I personally played with all 3!

Here is the Double Trouble post:

WELCOME to Challenge #52
Let the Troubles Begin 

"Die-lirious and Punchy"

THING 1:  Trouble Maker

says, "I'm feeling Die-lirious and Punchy!  Include at least one Spring item on your project made with  punches, dies, cutting machines and even fussy-cutting (i.e. hand punches, die cutting machines, Cricut, Silhouette, Scan & Cut, scissors, etc).    

You can stop here...

OR, you can choose to use Twisted Sister's Optional Twist below. 
THING 3:  Twisted Sister
says, "Winter is behind us and Spring is just around the corner what many believe to be the best season of them all!  Hope I'm not bugging you; but it's time to put some sweetness in our projects and why not include a bee, the makers of honey, or their honeycombs.    

This is an OPTIONAL TWIST but you will be awarded an additional chance in Double Trouble's random draw if you include this twist in your project.

 THING 2:  Double Dare

says, "Bitten By the Bug is a challenge that usually requires cuts from your Cricut machine, however, we were able to CUT a Die'al." 
For this challenge Bitten By the Bug is accepting the use of hand punches, die cutting machines, but NO fussy-cutting! Besides using a Cricut you are free to use Silhouette, Brother Scan and Cut or other similar devices. Be sure to tell us in your blog post what you used.  

So, if you have used a Spring theme and at least one cut from any of these machines, you can click on Bitten By the Bug "Spring Equinox" Challenge and enter your project.  You don't need to use Twisted Sister's optional twist to enter and you will still earn an additional chance at the Double Trouble Random Draw.

Now for more of my project.  I ended up cutting the box twice hence two completed.  I decorated each one with bees from the Sentimentals cartridge and Tim Holtz Tattered flowers shaped and attached with a brad.  This particular box also has a beehive from Sentimentals.

The box open.

The second box doesn't use the beehive cut.  Instead I added more flowers.

The second box in the open position.

Shaping the bees and flowers really add a lot of "life" to the box.

 

Products used:

Cricut cartridges Box it Up and Sentimentals (bee and hive)

Tim Holtz Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Tattered Flower Garland

Quick Quotes Secret Garden papers

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking ink Midnight Confessions

American Craft yellow and gold textured card stock

black card stock

gold

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-154.html until 3/23x

http://daisychainchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-39-use-dies.html until 3/26

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-68-flowers.html until 3/26x

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-52-die-lirious-and-punchy.html until 3/28x

http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2020/03/394-spring.html until 3/28

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to play along with Bitten By the Bug 2 Spring Equinox challenge and I dare you to play along with all the elements of Double Trouble.

Alicia