Christmas Card Club Challenge #17 - Anything But A Card

Hi Everyone,

I'm sharing my CCC project a day early from now on so as not to clash with another DT post that I have tomorrow.
This time it was Lizzie's turn to choose a theme and I'm so glad she picked 'Anything but a card' because I have been wanting to make an exploding gift box for a very long time and this challenge gave me both the reason and the incentive to make time to create one. Now I'm going to warn you this post is VERY photo heavy, the box just wouldn't fit in my camera lens and show all the detail so I had to take separate pictures for each side of the box. So here goes...   ...I have tried to collage some of the pictures to save space...

The box base was cut from 12 x 12 thick, white cardstock, then layered up with Neenah Desert Storm and a patterned paper freebie from 'Papercrafter' magazine.

 

All the edges of the paper have been inked with DI 'Brushed Corduroy' and heat embossed with holographic EP.

The top decoration is made from two Memory Box Snowflake die cuts, Wild Orchid Craft roses dipped in iridescent glitter and a wooden snowflake ornament - also inked and embossed. The tag was cut using a Spellbinders die for the top shape, inked and embossed just the same and the stamps used were Crafters Companion 'Happy Holidays' and Hot off the Press 'Enchanted Christmas'. I coloured in the letters with my Promarkers.
Now for the inside...

Each face of the box has a Memory Box 'Catalina Wreath' die, cut twice, inked and embossed and then a centre element - Britannia Dies 'Christmas Flight', MB 'Snowflake Ornament', Marianne D. 'Fir Tree LR0136', and Quickutz 'Jingle Bell'. I added lots of pale blue gems too.

 

On the bottom of the gift box I made an envelope to house the 'gift'!

 

 

Well I hope you liked my Exploding Gift Box, I really enjoyed creating it and I'm sure that it won't be my last. The other members of the CCC all have great inspirational projects to share too so pop over to their blogs tomorrow and have a look  (links on the CCC page of my blog).

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Scribble & Scrap - #24 Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - Anything Goes For Christmas

CHNC Christmas Extra - August challenge

CHNC Patterned paper challenge - August challenge
Completely Christmas - #24 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - #45 Anything Goes
Suzy bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #41 Anything Goes

 

Well that's enough from me today I think, that was a long one, *phew*

Hope to see you again tomorrow for my first ever DT post for 613 Avenue Create.

 

 

Lorraine