Heart of Christmas - Week 11

Hello everyone.

Welcome to Week 11 of the Heart of Christmas.

We hope you're finding lots of inspiration from the projects that the Art With Heart Stampin' Up! Team have been sharing with you all.

Here is my project for tonight - a decorated tissue box cover.

I seem to be featuring a lot of projects lately where I've used products from the Wrapped In Plaid Suite, so I hope you won't mind seeing a few more. This tissue box cover was actually one of the creations we made at my last card class. We also made two lovely cards that coordinate with it, and I'll share those with you all soon.

The tissue box cover is made in two separate pieces - the base and the lid.

For the base, you will need:

• 2 pieces of cardstock that measure 5" x 9 1/4" - Score along the 9 1/4" side @ 1/2" and 4 3/4" on both pieces. (You could stamp an all-over pattern, as I have done, or cover with DSP). 
• Angle trim the top and bottom of the 1/2" tab section on both pieces, join one tab edge to a straight edge and then the remaining tab and straight edge to form your box. 

For the lid, you will need:

• 1 piece of cardstock that measures 6 5/16" x 6 9/16" - Score @ 1" on all four sides and trim out the tabs as shown in the photo below.

• DSP for the top of the box measures 4 3/8" x 4 1/8" - (Glue in place before cutting the centre circle). You will need a circle die that measures 2 3/8" in diameter to cut the hole in the top. (You will need to fold under one side edge to run through a die-cutting machine). If you centre it precisely, you won't cut the edge with the die. 
• DSP for the sides of the lid measure 2 @ 4 3/8" x 7/8" and 2 @ 4 1/8" x 7/8".
• For the scalloped outer circle frame - use a piece of cardstock that measures at least 3 1/2" square. Using a 3" scalloped circle die and the 2 3/8" regular die, centre these on top of the 3 1/2" square of cardstock and die-cut. (You could use the left-over circle to decorate, as I did).

To make the 3D Christmas tree, I punched out three trees from the Wrapped In Plaid 6" x 6" Specialty Designer Series Paper with the Pine Tree Punch. (Because the tree is not symmetrical, I reversed the pattern on the middle tree so that it matched the edges). Fold the trees in half and glue a right hand underside to a left hand underside, repeat to create a 3D tree, then glue the two remaining right and left sides, flat to the circle. Hope this makes sense.

The all-over stamping is the outline tree in the Perfectly Plaid stamp set.

The rhinestones are from the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels pack.

A  piece of festive home decor from me tonight, for a little something different.

This tissue box cover was designed to fit the Kleenex brand, cube size tissues. The box measurements are about 4 1/2" x 4" x 5".

The lovely Tina Gillespie is hosting our Heart of Christmas blog hop tonight. You can see what she has created, and the list of the other team participants by clicking here.

Enjoy!

Thank you for stopping by tonight.

If you're leaving a comment below, thank you so much.

I read and appreciate them all. 💗

See you next time 😘

Product List

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

[121681]

$15.25

Gold Foil Sheets

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$8.75

Wrapped In Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[149596]

$25.00

Perfectly Plaid Bundle (En)

[151143]

$54.75

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

[147083]

$13.00

Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[150457]

$10.50

Layering Circles Dies

[141705]

$58.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00