12 Days Of Christmas: Day 11 - The Better, Longer Stocking Stuffer

On the 11th day of Christmas my SU Demo taught me...

How to make a longer and better, longer stocking stuffer for someone lucky

Ok so, before I start this one, I have to say that when creating day 9 for you this was my intention in the first place, to make a pillow box full of crayons for someones stocking, not realizing that the pillow box is way shorter then crayons!! So short of braking the crayons off, or melting them down (which I dont think I have an old pot to do that in) to make christmas shaped crayons that would fit in the pillow box, this is what I came up with...

I hope you like it.

Supplies:

5 1/2"x8 1/2" Piece of Acetate
Big Shot Machine
Pillow Box Die
Ribbon
Rope Cord
DSP
Cardstock
Stazon White Ink
Stamp of your choice
Punch of your choice
Sticly Strip
1/8" Punch
Bone Folder

Directions:

1.  Fold the piece of acetate in half just as you would to make it a card, using your bone folder to easily crease it.

2.  Measure the object that you would like to wrap in the pillow box, the maximum length that can be put in the pillow box is approx. 5 1/2", for the crayons I needed about 4".  You will be halfing this number to decide where the pillow box will sit on the die.  If you want the pillowbox to be the maximum length, then you would line up the fold of your acetate to the rounded score lines on the pillow box die, in this case i have measured 2 inches from one of the rounded score lines across the pillow box 2" and that is where i lined up my score line. (Click on the photo to see more detail)

3.  Run this through your Big Shot machine

4.  Because you will be putting a belly band on the pillow box to disguise the fold in the middle you do not need to stamp all over the pillow box, so stamp the edges with your image and the stazon white ink.

5.  Use your bone folder to crease the pillow box lines just as we did on day 9.

   

6.  Run a length of sticky strip along the short pieces edge, and adhere to the other edge.

7.  Put a short piece of sticky strip on one end of the pillow box and use your bone folder to help adhere that edge together.

8.  Fill the box with the contents, in this case 8 crayons.

9.  Wrap a length of ribbon around the pillow box to secure the open end closed.  Trim the ends of your ribbon

10.  Cut a piece of cardstock to fit in the middle as a belly band, in this case i used a 2 1/2"x5" piece of cardstock. 

11.  Use some sticky strip to close the belly band around the pillow box.

12.  You can also do the same with a strip of DSP, in this case cut at 2"x5".  And again close it around the pillow box using a piece of sticky strip.

13.  Stamp your image or sentiment, and punch it out with your choice of punch.

14.  Punch a hole in the top of the tag using the 1/8" punch

15.  Cut a length of rope cord and split off 1 strand from the 3 strands.

16.  Feed it through the tag and then one end under the ribbon, tie it in a knot, and trim the ends.

17.  Adjust the tag so that it is under the ends of the ribbon and you are done.

Other things to wrap in the longer pillow boxes...

singles chocolate bars
those long after 8 sticks
Money
etc.

Comments

[Beth Jelec]

Fabulous idea thanks so much for sharing that!!

[2stampis2b]

Brilliant! TFS!

[Cheryl]

This is an awesome idea! I never would have figured out how to make the pillow boxes longer! Brilliant!

[Willa]

This is bloody brilliant!!! You have achieved genius status in my book and have now been added to me favorites list!!!!

[Brandi]

Oh, dude. You rock all that is Big Shot! Awesome.

[Jan Hoyt]

ok, now I can buy the pillowbox die, great tutorial. I expect it will make more sense when I have the actual die to look at, too! Thanks, this is great! Jan

[Lorie]

This is pretty ingenious and so cute...nice job!

[Anne Lawrie]

So clever!

[Chris]

Oh how clever you are! Now, I guess I'll get the pillow box.