Decorate Your Soul

Last Friday, I suggested to the girls that we get started on Valentine’s for their classes- I thought both girls would have parties on Friday before V-day, but as it turns out, one was today and two are tomorrow. Needless to say, we had a good amount of time to prep and I’m a little bit on Valentine overload today (we threw together something entirely different for Lo’s class). But, these boxes are too cute not to share and if you’re in a crunch at midnight tonight, you can check to see if you have the main ingredients on hand and make a few of your own for parties tomorrow!

Last fall, I went to a Stampin’ Up party at my friend Beverly’s and one of the projects we made  were these adorable little candy boxes. Someone (Sarah) didn’t forget about these and she grabbed the token one we had and presented it to me. She wanted to bring to her classmates. How could I not say yes- we had EVERYthing except the candy to make them:

I’m a little squeamy with the cute overload here- wait until we get to the pink ones…

When the boxes open,  they are just as darling as can be, holding four Hershey nugget candies:

You can even stamp on letter labels and wrap the chocolate up to personalize them- the girls had a fabulous time doing this part (actually, the stamping was ALL them):

Here is a quick shot of my little helpers all hard at work last weekend:

I know you want to make your own, so here’s how:

Valentine Candy Boxes Tutorial

Materials:

Ribbon

2 sheets of 4 X 5 cardstock (scored 1″ on all sides)

stamps!

letter labels

double sided tape

Ready, set, go!

1. Using two pieces of 4″ X 5″ cardstock, score all sides with a 1″ margin (picture left below). Fold on the lines.

2. Cut 1″ on the fold of the longer sides toward center four times to create the bottom of the box (picture left below). Set aside.

3. For the top of the box, you will cut off the back fold of the corners to create a square missing and cut 1″ into the crease on the fold on the long side (picture right below). This is a good time to stamp your image on the top of the box above the bottom fold line.

4. Wow. Typing tutorials are kind of tough.

5. Using double sided tape, place it on the inside of either end of the bottom part of the box (in between cuts) and fold corners in:

6. Lift the flap and it will adhere to the smaller corners already folded in. Repeat on other end of the box.

The bottom will look like this once you have both sides up:

7. What step am I on? Shoot.

8. Okay, back to the top of the box. Take the scored sides and fold them all down, the front corners will be tucked under the outside flaps. Place double sided tape there on the little corner.

9. Decorate top with ribbon, adhere  across and under the top lid if desired. I had used glue dots under the ribbon, but wound up reinforcing with regular tape under the lid.

10. Almost done, stick with me here

11. Flip the top of the box upside down and add a piece of double sided tape to the back flap. Then you will adhere it to one of the longer sides of the bottom part of the box to connect the two:

Once you close the box top, you’re complete with your Valentine Candy box. You can stamp the labels and wrap them around the nuggets later. Or eat them and stuff the box with an IOU. Don’t you deserve it? Good  job!