Hi from a sunny Canada! It’s Els Schutte here and it is my turn to do a blogpost again. This time I made an Explosion box. Below you find the step by step instructions. Have fun creating this box, you can use it for any occasion!!
- Finished Product.
- Cut all your flowers and leaves and color them with Ink, in the color you like.
- Shap all the flowers and put them together, make a hole in the center and put the stamens in.
- Take a 12 x 12 Carstock and scor it at 4 and 8 inch, turn it and do the same, cut off the 4 corners, now you can cut 4 pieces of design paper of 3 7/8 x 3 7/8, distress the edges and make nice corners and glue them on the 4 parts. I cut out the mandala of white and put that in the center.
- Turn the box and cut 4 pieces of design paper at 3 7/8 x 3 7/8, Ink the edges do the corners and glue them on the 4 panels, if you have a paper with an direction, make sure to put the bottom of the paper on top, ( touching the middle black part), then take the stamp from the new stampset and stamp it on the 4 panels.
- for the lif you need a piece of cardstock of 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 scor this on all 4 sides at 1 inch now you cut on one side into the scorlines till the scorline, and do the same on the opposite side., glue the lid together by folding the tabs to the inside. Decorative paper for the top is 4 x 4 and the sides are 4x 7/8 x 4
- Stamp all these images with Versamark and emboss them with gold embossingpowder, The telephone is on Black Cardstock, then cut them out with the dies.
- Take some acetate strips and glue the images on that and fold over the edge and glue it down, then they will stand up.
- Close the box and decorate it with all the flowers you made.
- And you’re Explosion box is ready!
- I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial and that you will give it a try, we would like to see it if you make one!!!
- Materials Elizabeth Craft Design
- 1760 Mandala
- CS 268 Small the Flowers Stamp & Die set
- CS 282 Cream & Sugar Stamp & Die set
- CS 283 English Countryside 1 Stamp & Die set
- CS 281 Hello Darling Stamp & Die set
- Florals 11
- Florals 12
- Florals 16
- Other Materials
- Tule
- Water drops
- Stamens
- Inks
- Gold embossing powder
- Acetate
Absolutely beautiful!! I love those flowers with all the lovely layers! Wonderful idea for an interactive card for a loved one. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful! Such care and a beautiful example of your talent.
Is there a video on shaping the flowers? Beautiful card
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. You made creating an explosion box seem possible.