My hubby and I stayed up late yesterday evening to watch the results of the UK General Election come in. It was the perfect opportunity to set up a craft table in front of the television for some Christmas crafting. It also made sure I stayed awake! I found a few templates to make mini milk cartons, so adapted one to make them the size I wanted for little chocolate gift boxes for the table on Christmas Day. I was able to make two boxes from one A4 sheet of card.
I bought a pack of A4 kraft card several months ago, but realised when I got home that it was too thin for card blanks. However, it was perfect for these little milk cartons. I delved into my snippets box of patterned Christmas paper and cut out the 4cm squares and layered them on red squares, also cut from snippets. I bought the tiny silver bulldog clips ages ago in a sale and I knew they would be useful one day!
We stayed up until 4am, so I managed to make 15 little boxes. I won't need them all for Christmas Day, but will use the others when I go out with friends for a Christmas meal soon.
Scrappymo has an extra Rudolph Days Challenges this year for those crafters who have joined in with all her challenges this year, so I'll be sharing these boxes over on her blog.
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Very clever! And a great use of your time!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat makes Liz, make good gifts.x
ReplyDeleteWhat super little boxes Liz and a perfect size from a small chocolate dinner table gift. You lasted longer than we did, we only watched until about 2pm or so and by that time we thought we could guess which way it was going so gave up. x
ReplyDeleteI have just re-read my comment and I must have been half asleep I think..lol. I meant 'for' not from and also 2am in the morning and certainly not 2pm in the afternoon. x
DeleteI must have been half asleep when I read your first comment. I read it as 2 in the morning! LOL!
DeleteThese are great!
ReplyDeleteGreat use of your craft cardstock! Adorable little gifts!
ReplyDeleteMy hubby never went to bed at all and still kept going all day yesterday! These little cartons are really sweet amazing what you can do whilst watching the TV
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A wonderful idea Liz so nice to have boxes for little treats
ReplyDeleteThese are really cute. This will make for some happy faces. [Bunny]
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely Liz and will look great on your festive table! It was a good way to keep yourself awake too!
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Chocolate is always fantastic but if you receive it with a wonderful package is better, great idea. Thanks for joining us at the Try it on Tuesday's challenge. Hugs, María.
ReplyDeleteLovely milk cartons Liz and a great use of snippets too.
ReplyDeleteKath x
Those are the cutest little milk cartons and I bet they will look fantastic on your table. A great idea for giving some goodies.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, these are so creative and cute! I hope you were happy with the election results - we in the USA are watching something crazy! These are perfect little gifts and a great way to use up your paper! bravo!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Liz, we didn't even start to watch, well done you. I Love your little boxes, funny thing is I was watching Youtube with something like these on this morning and then you popped up with the fabulous selection in my emails. I'm sure they will be well received.
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They are just amazing!Thank you for joining Try it on Tuesday!
ReplyDeleteFabulous makes Liz, great gift idea
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These are super Liz and such a great way to use up your snippets xx
ReplyDeleteBrilliant little boxes Liz - and a super way to use up lots of snippets as well. Crumbs though, that was a long stint watching the election results - nice that you had your sweet little boxes to show for it though!
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Di xx
What a super way to keep yourself awake! They look fabulous! Thank you so much for joining us at Try It On Tuesday! Chrisx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful boxes you made :-))
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Brilliant boxes they all look lovely.
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Linby x
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Brilliant little boxes Liz!
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What a great idea! I will be showing this post to my youngest daughter and grandaughter. They are the ones who plan and decorate our festive tables all year. This year was a Nutcracker theme. IT would be so easy to add a Nutcracker stamp to the patterned paper if I chose a lightly patterned one.
ReplyDeleteI may just have to copy your idea or at least file it away for next year. We usually plan our theme for the next Christmas on Boxing day! That gives us a year to find the items...
Good luck at the Rudolph Days Extra!
I'm happy to repeat my admiration for these boxes, so cute. Thank you so much for joining us in our Box or Bag challenge at The Male Room this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
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Happy Christmas