Father's Day Cup Cake Box

This is the gift that Kelsey made for Father's day. She will be putting a cupcake in the box.

To make the cup cake box, you will need three 12" x 12" pieces of card stock and 1 piece of patterned paper. For Base of box cut card stock 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" score 3" on each side. Put adhesive on all four flaps and assemble.

Using pattern paper cut - 4 pieces at 4 1/4" x 2 3/4".

Adhere pieces to the inside of the box.

For the lid, use second piece of card stock and cut 8" x 8" and score at 1 11/16" (1-5/8" plus one line). From patterned paper cut four pieces at 4 1/2" x 1-9/16" (1-1/2" plus one line) adhere to the outer flaps of box.

Cut circle in the middle of the box. I didn't have any tools for this, so I just traced around a glass and cut it out. Cut acetate large enough to cover the hole, adhere acetate inside the lid.

For the insert use third piece of card stock and cut it 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" score at 1" on each side. Cut out the corners where you've scored. Cut out a circle, I used a bottle lid, traced and cut.

Slide insert into the base of the box. Add your cupcake and you have the perfect gift.

Kelsey is going to make a cupcake and put it in the box. It's a little early to make the cupcake, but I thought it was funny the day that we made this box we received our family fun magazine and saw this next picture, how awesome and perfect timing is that! Kelsey is going to try and do this for the cupcake to put in the box. How fun will that be?!!! We totally have a barbecue theme going, was not intentional, but I think we are going to make it a big barbecue day and incorporate the "new theme."

B-B-Q Apron Gift Bag

I am so excited about this post. I created this bag all by myself. It's so exciting when the idea that's mulling around in my head actually turned out. In yesterday's post I told you that I wanted my kids to make their gifts for Father's day. I made this gift bag for my youngest and I will take him to the store and he can pick out what he wants to put in it. I know I am kind of over loading with Father's day gifts, but there's not a lot of ideas out there son hopefully this will help, so hang in there for one more post tomorrow. My daughter has another great Father's day idea she will be posting. I like when I see a cute template and can get it for free, so I will share my creation with you for free, please don't sell, but feel free to share.
I started out with 2 pieces of pattern paper. Score all four sides at 2".

On the bottom of one of your pieces, cut on the score line to make a flap.

On the other piece cut the whole square out where the score lines come together. I then drew my apron design, I just free handed it. Make sure when cutting out this part to go all the way to the top of your paper passing the score line. This score line will be folded under to make a nice clean edge at the top of your apron.

This is how it will look after it has been cut out.
The top piece folded over to make a nice clean edge.
I used the cut out pattern and traced it onto the second piece and cut it out.

This is what it should look like to this point.

Now take the piece that has the tabs and glue them together.

Take your other piece, glue and slide it into the the piece already assembled.

Now it's embellishing time. I cut a pocket at 2 3/4" x 3 1/2" added brad (I made it so it was a true pocket and something can be put in the pocket) I added eyelets and ribbon. There you have it. I love this and can't believe it came together. So exciting! Enjoy!

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A Different Kind of Paper Craft - Money Shirt

Now that it's summer (doesn't feel like it here) we won't be having our paper craft class. But I will continue to do "Monday Paper Craft" posts. Today's paper craft is a different kind of paper, it's MONEY. Since this Sunday is Father's Day I thought this would be fun to show. This pattern has been in the family for several years and I LOVE it. It's a fun way to give a monetary gift. I like my kids to make their gifts, so my oldest son helped me make this for his dad for Father's day. He help fold the money and picked the colors. You will need six bills - it could be what ever amount, it could be all ones, all fives, all tens or a mixture of each, whatever you prefer. I used 2-fives and 4-ones.

I cut 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of card stock with a 1" x 2 1/8" addition for the collar, this will be the base to adhere the money to.
Take your first bill and fold it with the edges meeting in the middle. Fold the white ends in.Turn the bill over and adhere it to your base. I didn't use strong adhesive, so that it won't ruin the money when disassembling.

Do the same step for the other side.

Now take two more bills and fold them in half.

Place these in the middle of the shirt.

Now take another bill and fold it in half and then fold it to look like a collar.

Adhere it to the base. Take your last bill and fold it in half and wrap around the back and to the front, creating cuffs. (When I wrapped mine around, I did it inside of the base.)

Now add ribbon - which I just tied a bow towards the end of the ribbon and tucked the extra piece under the long piece of the tie, cut the other end to look like a tie. Added buttons to the collar and cuffs. You could put buttons down the shirt, But my son didn't want to do that part. There you have it, I think it's so fun and I know that my son is going to have fun giving this to his dad on Father's day.

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Tool Belt Pouch - Great for Father's day

How great would this be for that awesome dad for Father's day?! I saw this idea on split coast stampers and had to make one, or two, or three. I did find the instructions to be a little vague, so I will show you detailed instructions. I used 2- 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, a 12 x 12 would work as well. Cut the paper to 7 5/8" x 10 1/4"

With the 7 5/8" at the top use your scoring blade and score 1" from the edge, do this on both sides.

Flip the paper with the 10 1/4" side at the top, score 4 1/2" from each side, this will give you a 1" bottom.

Cut to the fold lines where your scoring meets, do this on both sides.

At this point, this is what it should look like.

Using your second piece of 8 1/2 x 11 or the scraps of your 12 x 12, cut:

1- 1" x 10 7/8 - this will be the top on the front of the box.

1- 1" x 5 5/8" - this is the top on the back of the box (it will cover the top as it comes around the back of the box)

2- 3/4" x 2 1/4" - these are the side loops.

1 -1/4" x 5 5/8" - this is for the bottom on the front of the box.
1- 1/4" x 10 7/8" - this is for the bottom on the back of the box (it will cover the bottom as it comes around the back of the box.

3 - 1 1/2" x 2" - pockets

Take the pocket pieces and using a circle punch punch half a circle, giving it a pocket effect.

I did two different texture techniques and will show how they both turned out at the end of the tutorial. The first one I sprayed water onto my paper or you could use put the paper under the faucet, just be careful not to over saturate.

Crumpled it into a ball (carefully) and then unwadded it (carefully).

Then I used my iron and ironed the paper. When I ironed the paper, I folded the tabs that I scored under and it gave it a crisp fold and was great when putting it together.

I used my ink pad and rubbed it all over the paper.

I did this technique to all my pieces. So the difference in the techniques are the first one as shown above and the second one I ink my paper after it's crinkled and unwadded and then then iron it.

I then used my sewing machine and sewed around all of the edges on my pieces (not the box part).

I then punched my holes for the brads or eyelets, I did both.

I then glued the front top piece, the pockets and the front bottom piece to the box.

Using my paper piercing tool I used the holes as my guide, since I don't have a hole punch that would fit across the box.

I then sewed on the belt loops, when I sewed them I moved over a little bit so that when the box was folded my sew line would not interfere with the fold. I then added my brads. When doing the eyelets, I decided to sew the pockets right onto the front so they wouldn't fall off.

This is what it looks like to this point.

Now glue everything together. I started with the side tabs, then wrapped the front top to the back and added the back piece and added the brads, then I wrapped the front bottom piece and added the back piece and added the brads. (I didn't take a picture of the back, but I put three brads on the top and the bottom pieces, to make it look uniform with the front).

There it is - all ready to fill with his favorite treats.

I wadded up newspaper and filled it with goodies. I LOVE the little pockets. I thought it would be fun to add a little cash in one of the pockets, then he can get what ever his little heart desires. (well for as far as the money goes . . . he, he). This picture is the first faux leather technique I used.

These next two pictures are using the second faux leather technique.

Have a great Memorial Weekend!

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