I have finally got around to making some Christmas goodies and I couldn't have done it without the brilliantly creative minds of Bird from www.birdscards.com and Ilda Dias from www.ilovedoingallthingscrafy.com. I will post links to the files I used and the bonus is they were all free! Also a BIG thank you to Ilda for being so kind and helpful when I emailed her. You are a truly generous soul.
I am in love with boxes. I just love making and decorating them so these Christmas inspired boxes were just a delight to make. I also recently bought a Sizzix Texture Boutique and was super excited to find a tutorial on how to make your own emboss files. Bird has a lovely tutorial here. I don't have a rubber mat like she uses in the tutorial so I improvised and made a negative and positive cutout which works really well but is quite time consuming to do. But on the bright side I now have an emboss file that cost nothing!
I used this folder to emboss the Stuck Santa chimney made from Bird's Background 13 and then wiped a copper stamp pad over the "bricks" to get a really defined look.
The Christmas tree made of words was a free file from http://freesvgs.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-word-tree.html but their link was broken so I created my own tree using a different font and left some of the words out.
The coffee cup is from Bird's Cards as is the Stuck Santa ( the original is a card but I just cut the back of the card off). I used puff paint on the snow, Santa's trimmings and his boots
The Milk and Cookies wording I made on my Silhouette Portrait and the Cookies are a file I designed. I haven't figured out how to upload files so until then if you want it I can email it to you.
This stacked snowman box is my favourite though. Each bock is a box on its own and I intend to fill it with sweets!
I used this box file from Bird's Cards and made four boxes that were slightly smaller than each other. I used my Silhouette studio to make a circle a bit bigger than the smallest box and glued it to the bottom of that box. The embellishments like his nose, buttons and scarf etc I designed myself so if you want them you can email me and I will send them with pleasure! I used puff paint on the ledges of each box for a snowy look.
Hope you enjoyed my merry little boxes!
