DDCC challenge #41 - a small gift box

Its a great challenge this week as I love making little boxes for small gifts. My Gran and one of the girls' Auntie's have had birthdays recently so I made these lovely little bonbon boxes for the keyring charms that the girls have made for them. These are so quick and easy to make, depending on how much decoration you want of course, and I have put a tutorial at the bottom of the post for you for this box.

Here are the fab keyrings made by the girls, Beth's is on the left and Ellie's is on the right.

So here's how you make this fab little box:

Either print out (I scanned a template into the computer so I can print it out) or trace round the template onto the cardstock you want to use. You can use patterned cardstock if you don't want to decorate it yourself. To make the template it is a square and then the same length of the square sides out so it looks like a winmill, then draw a curved line to join the point to the corner (clear as mud!?)

Cut the template out and punch your ribbon slots (the ribbon slots are optional, but it does make for a prettier box).

Decorate your box - I used versamark ink and gold embossing powder for the flower and versacolour and clear embossing powder for the butterfly.

and some sparkly bits!

Put your little gift inside and thread the ribbon through the puched slots.

The finished box ... from above ...

and from the side ...

I'm looking forward to seeing all your little gift box ideas this week.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia butterfly (Spring stamp kit), wood anemone
Colouring Media: Versamark inkpad, Versacolor purple, embossing powders, Papermania ink pad
Papers: Card stock and from my stash
Embellishments: ribbon from stash