Valentine Treat Mailboxes

"Stamping With Amore" on Youtube has some great tutorials. This treat box is from her tutorial called "Valentine Mailbox Treatbox" Hers is a little smaller, I figured out the measurements to make a slightly larger box so I could put a few cookies in the box, her version is about an inch wide which could fit a few small candies. You really need 110 lb cardstock to make the legs sturdy enough to hold up or you will need to reinforce the legs. I only had white 110 lb, but decorating with pink paper brightened it up.

You will need:

1 piece of 5.5"x 7.5" white cardstock

2 pieces of 3"x 5" white 110 lb cardstock

3 1/4" circle die

1 5/8" x 2 7/8" rectangle (or whatever size you want to cut the legs or cut by hand

Assorted patterned paper and diecuts or stickers to decorate your box

Corner punch to cut the patterned paper if you want

On the 7.5" side, score at 3" and 4.5". Turn cardstock.

On the 5.5" side score at 1.5" and 4"

Using a bone folder fold all score lines. Cut tabs as shown, cutting a small triangle out of the middle tabs. Place glue on the right rectangle and on the back of the middle tabs. Pull up the middle tabs, attach to the left tabs, then place the right glued tabs on the outside to form a box.

Place the circle on the 2 rectangle pieces to form the curve of the mailbox, doing a partial diecut. The top cutting plate will only cut where it covers the circle die.

Using the rectangle die, cut the legs.

Place glue on one side of the box and attach the curved pieces on both sides, stand it up after attaching the first side to be sure the 2nd side is lined up properly so it doesn't tip.

Decorate as desired:

Celebrate!

Sometimes you make a background and things don't work out the way you imagined. But art supplies are expensive, especially when you are talking about Yupo paper and alcohol ink. I watched a video showing how to make wispy alcohol backgrounds with a hairdryer. It worked pretty well until I tried using the Pearl Alcohol inks, they don't seem to move on the paper as well as the regular alcohol inks.

Not a very pretty background, it looks like a pink and purple spider monster. LOL. So I decided the best thing to do with it was to die cut it, making the pieces smaller. I used Simon Says Stamp! "Curly Streamers" dies and cut several pieces.

I then used Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Inks and the Scrapbook.com Ink Blending Tool with Domed Foam Applicators. These blending tools are great, no hard edges and very smooth. I then decided I wanted the background to look like confetti was thrown in the air with the streamers, so I used a spray bottle and sprayed water drops on the paper, and dabbed it with a towel.

I cut the MFT "Celebrate" out of purple glitter fun foam which I bought on clearance at Target a few months ago. An easy way to get a popped up sparkly sentiment. I cut the streamer die cuts into different lengths and placed them on my card. That's it!