Tara's Craft Studio

This box was made with much love for my dear mother.  It’s a wood box painted with acrylic ivory paint and then cov­ered with lovely Pion design papers “From My Heart II”

Pion Design is hav­ing a Spring Chal­lenge and entries are based on either a lay­out or a card sketch.  I chose the card sketch shown below by Mar­i­anne Skjel­stad, a true inspi­ra­tion of mine!  The top of the box has a remov­able card within a pocket and a remov­able tag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides being used for Father’s Day, this card can also be used as a mas­cu­line grad­u­a­tion or birth­day card.  I never learned how to tie a man’s tie, so I had my hus­band fix these ties for me with wide silk rib­bon.   Although not shown in the pic­tures, I ended up attach­ing small mag­nets on the insides of the suit jack­ets to hold the cards together bet­ter.  What a fun card to make!  Very sim­ple also.

Here is the WPC cut­ting file for this card.  Place mouse over link and right click to “Save File” on your com­puter.    Then open in your machine software.

 

 

 

 

 

Today I’ve made a Father’s Day book box and enclosed the WPC cut­ting file along with instruc­tions.  My April 16 post had this same book box except it was made for Mother’s Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WPC BOOK BOX CUTTING FILE   Place mouse over link and right click to “Save File” on your com­puter.    Then open in your machine software.

NOTE: the blue lines are “cut” lines and the red lines are “score” lines.  You will need to reduce your blade length and pres­sure enough to achieve just a light score for the red lines.

Your four cut and scored book pages should be folded like a fan as shown below.

Take two folded sec­tions of dif­fer­ing sizes and place the top of each indi­vid­ual sec­tion into the match­ing top slots of the other size at right angles as shown and then glue each outer flap to attach.  Do the same for the other 2 sections.

Now glue together and your project should look like this when finished.

 

 

This faux book page sec­tion can then be glued onto the right side of the book included in the cut­ting file.  You can then dec­o­rate with tags, pock­ets, etc.