Anita here with a tutorial to make this fun Accordion Book Box Gift Card Holder from Lori's store and which you can also find in the Silhouette Store. I used Lori's brand new collection from Echo Park called Back to School. The colors are awesome and worked perfectly for this male gift card box. The sentiment I used is Lori's also and it is called Brush Happy Birthday to You. You can find it here in her store and here in the Silhouette Store.
Here are the pieces for the project. You have to cut two each of the long sheets which are scored horizontally so that you can make the accordion fold pieces.
My paper is two sided so I decided that I wanted the red to show on the outside so this is how I folded all four of the accordion pieces as well as the insert.
I glued the red side together and then held it down with my hands until it dried. Once it was dry I glued the blue sides to each other as well. These accordion pieces are going to make the base for creating a spot for the gift card holder to fit.
Here are all four pieces glued together and ready to be put into the box.
I laid them out here so that you could see how to put the box together.
All four pieces are glued down and I have now glued down the top as well.
Insert is glued in now also. Next I glued down all the accent pieces.
I cut an extra piece to put in the front left side of the card so that I could write a note. Here is the box open with the gift card in it.
Here is the front and side view. I will be making more of these, what an awesome way to present a gift card. That's it for me today.Hugs,
Here are the supplies that I used for this project. Terial Magic is a wonderful product that comes in a spray bottle and you can get it on Amazon or at your local quilt shop. I sprayed the fabric liberally and checked the back side to make sure that it was soaked on both sides. I hung them up on my shower rod as you have to let them drip to just damp. Put something under where you hang the fabric so that it doesn't make a mess. It's sticky, and rubber gloves might have been helpful to use as well.
Here is a photo of the fabric as I was in the process of ironing it. You can see the bottom left looks still darker and wet and the right part is done and the fabric feels like paper. I ironed my fabric on a towel to absorb any extra of the Terial Magic Fabric Stabilizer.
You can see how this fabric stands up once it is ironed.
I used the strong grip mat from Cricut and a brayer to make sure that the fabric didn't move. You will want to slow down your cutter in addition to choosing fabric as your material to be cut.
I laid out the blocks to see how they would look and switched around the banners and embellishments.
Earlier in the week on Tuesday we had our June blog hop and I have included a photo with the quilt block centerpiece and the banner that I made. I am going to put this out for the 4th of July.
Hi Everyone:
Here are the cut out card pieces and the embellishment that I used from her Wish Upon a Star collection for the bolts on the front of the tool box.
You are going to want to fold your score lines. Lori's file includes holes for the brads. I didn't punch them out because I wanted to use the enamel dots instead. You will have a nice pocket in the front to fit the tools when you are done.
I didn't want so much of the patterned paper design to show on the inside so I cut an extra insert and glued it down.
Here are all the pieces ready to be glued into the pocket. I popped three of them up to give the card some more dimension.
Hi Lori Whitlock Fans:
Here is a photo of the card folded flat. It folds into a 5 1/2" X 6 1.4" almost square.
Here are the box pieces.
Finally, here is the completed box.
