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Valentine Book Treat Box

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Valentine Book Treat Box

Remember the Book Treat Boxes that were in the Holiday Mini Catalog last fall? I decided to make one into a Valentine Book Treat Box! You can still find these boxes in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store and they are handy to have on hand any time for a small gift or treat. Then just decorate for whatever occasion!

First step is to assemble the box. These Book Treat Boxes come ten in the package and are easy to assemble. They look like books! There are two pieces to each box. One is the box itself that fits inside the cover. They are all scored and even have adhesive strips to adhere everything together. You will easily see how to do it. The boxes are 3″ x 4″ with a 1″ side spine. You can decorate as little or as much of all the sides as you like. On this box, I decorated the front, the back, the spine, inside the front cover and inside the box. All you would have to do is decorate the front.

I used the Marbled Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper, cutting the paper at 3″ x 4″ for the front and back of the cover, also inside the cover. The spine measures 1″ x 4″. The measurement for inside the box is just a tad smaller that 3″ x 4″. You can measure yours with a ruler after you assemble it to see the exact size.

For the hearts on the front, I used the Hearts of Elegance Dies to cut out a large Gold Foil heart and the same size heart in Melon Mambo. Then I layered on a Petal Pink pierced heart on top of the Melon Mambo and a small Gold Foil heart on top. The background gold heart is adhered flat on the box, while the other three hearts are first glued together then popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The side tab that could be adhered to the top of the box is 1″ wide and I covered it with designer paper, then trimmed around the curved end. Since I wanted to be able to slip it underneath the hearts rather than adhere it, I popped up the hearts but didn’t put Dimensionals where I wanted that tab to go underneath.

The greeting is in the Hearts of Elegance Stamp Set. I stamped it in Melon Mambo ink on Basic White cardstock. To make it fit better on the box without taking away from the hearts, I decided to cut out around the word “Love”. I completely left off the “You” but it probably would have fit okay. This is a great way to save space with a greeting or you can cut the words apart and do your own spacing according to your project. You can decorate or not decorate the inside of the box before you add your treat! I did a little bit.

Valentine Book Treat Box Inside

I think these boxes are great to have on hand so be sure to add them to your next order for a little different gift wrap or treat box idea. Or create a little scene inside as I did at Christmas on a project for my 12 Weeks of Christmas email.

There are lots of fun things you can make with these Book Treat Boxes! Try one!

Valentine Book Treat Box side

Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine’s Day

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Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine's Day

Here’s another way to decorate one of the Square Pillow Boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog! Decorating this Square Pillow Treat Box For Valentine’s Day was the first time I tried this method of decorating the box. You can stamp on these boxes, leave them plain, color them with ink, or cover them with designer series paper! Just remember to put your treat inside! It’s a little bit of a different shape for a gift box or treat box so it will definitely grab someone’s attention when they see it!

I covered this Square Pillow Box with one of the bees-patterned papers in the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. How did I do that? I cut a full sheet in half at 6″. That leaves just a sliver of one of the sides not covered but no one will notice. I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere the paper to the box while it is flat, not assembled, of course. Be sure NOT to adhere it to the side of the box that has the adhesive already applied. You want to be able to use that adhesive on those sides, not have it covered up with designer paper. After you adhere the designer paper, trim around the edge of the box to cut off the excess designer paper.

Now you are ready to fold along the score lines to form the box. It is a little more difficult with the paper on it, but just keep working with it. I used my Bone Folder just to rub along the creases to help it all come together.

To decorate the box, I stamped the greeting in Sweet Sorbet ink on Basic White and cut out with one of the circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The Bee is stamped in Daffodil Delight ink on Basic White and then the stripes are stamped in Memento Black ink for his body. I used the Bee Builder Punch to cut his body and then added wings and antennae.

The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals as is the bee. I put the Dimensionals only at the top and bottom of the greeting so I could run the Sweet Sorbet ribbon around the box underneath the greeting. I added one of the tiny punched-out hearts and a few Iridescent Rhinestones Jewels.

If you have the box with the opening at the top, then the ribbon or bellyband doesn’t have to be removed to open the box and get out the treats inside. It holds together really well so you don’t have to use adhesive on the top flaps.

You might like having some of these Square Pillow Boxes on hand because you can decorate them for any occasion!

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Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

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Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat

Wondering what to do with the Square Pillow Boxes in the Spring Mini Catalog? You can do many things with them, including decorating one for specific holidays such as this Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat. It is a little bit differently shaped box but holds a fair amount of candy or a small gift. These are easy to put together and already come with the adhesive on the sides. All you have to do is crease on all the score lines, and then in more of a squeezing kind of way, push it into the pillow shape, and then remove the adhesive covers making sure the sides are lined up properly.

Before assembling this box, you may want to color it with ink using Blending Brushes or stamp on it, as I did on this box. You do want to make sure the ink is dry. I found that mine dried very quickly, but immediately you don’t want to smear it. I think this is applicable if your ink pad is very juicy and the layer of ink is wetter and thicker.

I used the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set to stamp various images over the front and sides of the box. I didn’t do the back side of the pillow box but you could. Also, if you wrap around a belly band, it will cover some of the stamping. I stamped the honeycomb in Daffodil Delight, the hearts in Sweet Sorbet, and the flowers in Pool Party, Petal Pink, and Fresh Freesia. You can see in the photo below how I chose to stamp so as not to stamp on the sides that would be hidden on the inside of the box or the back of the box which I did not want to stamp.

Bee Mine Square Pillow Box Valentine Treat Stamping

The strip of Bee Mine Designer Series Paper I chose for the belly band is 9 1/2″ long. Originally I cut the one in the photo at 2″ wide but later cut it narrower at 1 1/4″. You don’t even have to have a belly band to decorate the box.

When I watched a Facebook Live with Sara Douglass, CEO of Stampin’ Up! the other day when she made some Valentine pillow boxes, she placed her belly band around the box so that the opening was at the top of the box and not blocked by the belly band. This way the box can be opened without removing the belly band. However, you can run the belly band the other way if you feel you want the opening of the box to have that extra security to keep it closed.

For the belly band, I used this pattern with the tiny white flowers at 9 1/2″ x 1 1/4″. You can just cut the whole strip across the 12″ width of the designer paper and then shorten it after you see how much you want on your box. But 9 1/2″ seems to have plenty of overlap. Rather than scoring it ahead of time, just wrap it around the box and crease the band with your fingers at each edge. It won’t be a “perfect” fit since there are curves but it is very close.

To decorate my box and belly band, I stamped a greeting in the Bee My Valentine Stamp Set and die cut with a stitched circle in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I made the bee by using the Bee Builder Punch, punching out the bee body shape out of Daffodil Delight, and stamping the stripes and face with Memento ink. The wings were stamped on Petal Pink cardstock and with Petal Pink ink. The antennae are stamped in Memento black on Basic White. Then I used the Bee Builder Punch for the antennae (the heart shape), the wings, and some Sweet Sorbet and Petal Pink hearts.

There are lots of ways to decorate these boxes! Just play with them and see what you come up with. The boxes feel very sturdy. In my January stamping newsletter, I made a box that was embossed with the new Layered Florals 3D Embossing Folder first and then decorated with stamps and die cuts in the Painted Lavender Bundle in the Spring Mini.

Hopefully, you already own some of these Pillow Boxes so you can make some Valentine’s treat boxes, but you will have plenty of opportunities to use them in your papercrafting and gift-giving in the future if you order them now.

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