Exploding Chocolate Gift Box

This is a fun gift to make that I am sure will delight many

I am very excited about this make - goodness knows how the chocolate bars made it into the gift without me eating them all first! Valentines is now over so my attention is turning to Easter. I was browsing the internet and found an exploding chocolate gift box for sale - it was rather pricey so wondered if I could make my own - turns out I can. I found a few online instruction videos but struggled to find somewhere that gave me the sizes - not only that I wanted to make it with items I have in my crafting supplies, rather than purchasing larger sheets of card.

So here are my instructions for making an Exploding Chocolate Gift Box. It uses double sided 12 x 12 scrapbooking card so you can adjust it to suit any occasion. You could put wrapped biscuits and teabags or even slip a gift card into the gift. The chocolate bars can't be any bigger than about 9cm in length - the ones I have picked for this gift are the multi-pack bars such as Cadbury Dairy Milk 29.3g x 9 bars.

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Paper Cutting Happy Birthday

Use a very therapeutic paper cutting technique to create this Happy Birthday card

This week, following discussions with fellow crafters at a local craft fair, I bought a paper cutting book and have had enormous fun cutting out intricate images. It's not as difficult as I thought it was going to be but it will take me more practise before I can attempt the really big pieces. This is a wasp/bee that I cut out from the book - I've laid it on orange card so you can see it better. My first attempt - I am very proud. With patience, good light and a sharp scalpel, I really enjoyed cutting it. (The wasp was taken from the 'Paper Cutting Starter Kit' by Cut & Make that I purchased from The Range).

Anyway, back to this weeks project. I thought that paper cutting would make a lovely card, so I have designed a Happy Birthday card that you can cut from standard card with minimal equipment.

I have made a background using Brusho's (something else I learned from fellow crafters last weekend!) but you could easily layer it with any coloured card you have. I will however show you how to make this background as it is good fun and you never get the same effect twice.

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Little Ladybug Valentine Card

How to create a lovely 3d card with Stampin Up's Little Ladybug stamp set

I absolutely love this stamp set from Stampin Up. I thought I'd be able to use the little ladybirds to make a frame and then when I saw the flying Ladybird it was crying out to make it pop out of the card with some sort of spring.

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Hedgehugs xx

A valentine card made using Stampin' Up! Hedgehugs stamp set

So this week I've made a valentine card using a very cute hedgehog stamp. I've also used a large background stamp so I can show you the easiest way to use them to get the best results.

Finally ! - a way I can successfully use LARGE background stamps. The bonus with these background stamps is they are large enough to create backgrounds for the most commonly used C6 cards and you can ink them in any colour to match any project you are doing.

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