Card and Pillow Box

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Rebecca Peck, Fiskateer #411 from Phoenixville, PA can’t imagine how she ever lived without her Stamp Press!  The grid lines on the press make lining up those long border stamps a cinch.  No more crooked stamping!

Difficulty rating

• Required supplies:
• Fiskars Stamp Press
• Fiskars "just between friends" acrylic stamps
• Fiskars fingertip craft knife
• Fiskars tape runner, Fiskars Adhesive foam dots
• Fiskars portable rotary trimmer
• Fiskars embossing stylus
• Fiskars 1/16" circle hole punch
• Heidi Grace "winnefred Street" paper and embellishments
• brown ink

Instructions (Print version)

Card Instructions:

1.       Cut a 5 ½” x 8 ½” piece of pale yellow cardstock, score vertically and fold to make the card base. 

2.      Cut a 1 ½” x 5 ½” strip of the brown patterned paper, and adhere along the left front edge of the card base.

3.      Cut a 2 ¾” x 5 ½” strip of the striped paper and adhere it to the right side of the card base.

4.      Use the Stamp Press to make a paper “ribbon” with the flower border stamp and the zigzag border stamp by stamping repeatedly along a 12” x 2 ½” piece of the pale yellow cardstock.  Trim along the wavy edges with the Fingertip Craft Knife.

5.      Cut a 5 ½” piece of the paper “ribbon” and adhere to the front of the card where the two patterned papers meet.

6.      Stamp the sentiment onto pale yellow cardstock and cut out using the craft knife.  Rub brown ink along the edges of the card, the sentiment and the raised areas of a blue flower.  Punch a hole at the right edge of the sentiment, and attach the flower with a brad.

7.      Mount the sentiment to the front of the card with two large adhesive foam dots.

Pillow Box Instructions:

1.       Trace the pillow box template onto a piece of the striped cardstock, and use the embossing stylus to score the fold lines.  Cut the box out using the craft knife.

2.      Stamp the sentiment onto pale yellow cardstock and cut out with the craft knife.  Cut a slightly larger oval out of the brown patterned paper.  Rub brown ink along the edges of the sentiment, the oval and the raised areas of one of the blue flowers.

3.      Assemble the pillow box without folding in the sides, then wrap the leftover paper “ribbon” from the card project around the left side of the box.  Trim to fit, then adhere it to the box.

4.      Use the tape runner to attach the brown oval, the sentiment, and the flower to the front, then fold the edges of the box.