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Hi friends!

It’s no secret that I have on occasion (cough, cough) made chunky cards.   For today’s Technique Lover’s Challenge, we’re going to make slim line boxes for presentation.

A while back, while surfing some blogs, I came across this little box designed by Angie Kennedy Juda (Chic N Scratch Live~blog). I loved the mechanics of the box and started thinking it would be a great design for a slim line card box. I contacted Angie to see if she would let me use her idea and she was gracious in letting me. Here are the instructions for the altered concept box:

** Make sure you watch Angie’s video. It will help you understand my instructions! **

Supplies:

1 piece of cardstock cut 10 ¾ x 5 7/8” (we’ll call this piece A) ~ see visual in Post #2

1 piece of cardstock cut 6 ½” x 5 3/8” (piece B) ~ see visual in Post #2

1 – 8” piece of twine or string

1 – medium sized brad

Sticky tape

Small hole punch

Optional: acetate, nestabilities

Instructions:

Score piece A @ ½”, 5 1/8”, 5 5/8”, and 10 3/8” along the 10 ¾” side.

Score piece B @ 3/8” on all four sides

Fold all four sides of piece B to loosen the score lines. Cut along the 3/8” scoreline in each corner and apply strong adhesive. Fold the piece into a “tray”.

Fold all score lines on piece A to loosen score lines. At this point, you can die cut a window into the piece for a window, or leave it as is. NOTE: see diagram for which side is the top and which side is the bottom.

On the 3/8” flap of piece A, punch a small hole near the score line in the middle of your piece. Thread your twine through the hole leaving a 2-3” tail hanging out.

Using strong adhesive, attach the remaining twine to the inside (Area C). Now you can adhere your “tray” to Area C as well.

Punch a hole in the top ½” flap (middle centered) and insert brad.

Decorate as desired!

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Here are my deets:

Stamps:  Verve Plain Jane Hebrews 11:1 (Stamp Simply Store)

Colors: GP White, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler, Prima Madeleine dp (Stamp Simply Store), acetate

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic (RV000, RV00)

Accessories: rhinestones, rhinestone swirl, label 4 nestabilities, Prima fairytale rose, Essentials 10 – madeline prima flowers, lace border (burgandy red) , scoring blade, sticky tape, dimensionals, corner rounder, Fancy Label Two die,  cuttlebug embossing strip, twine, brad

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Thanks so much to Angie for letting me alter her design.   Make sure you drop by and check out her blog at the link above.

And please come play along with the challenge on the Splitcoaststamper site in the challenge forums!

Hugs!