Howdy, Crafters and welcome to The Cherry On Top.
If you've been following me through the years, you may have seen this before. I used to work for Plus at Design Bundles where you can find another version of today's exploding card for dad. You'll find more coordinating goodies in Plus and I'm showing them off further in the blog.
Let's see just how easy this project is, take a look at other coordinating goodies and find out what you've missed the last few entries.
Exploding box cards are one of my favorite paper craft projects. They are crazy easy!! You hardly need any supplies and you can use exploding box cards in different ways. Let me walk ya through it.
You can choose to do it all digitally or you can print, cut out the template and add your photos to the paper template. I did mine digitally. You can get an up close look.
Here's the first, second and third page.
You could print your pages back to back.
Each page template is slightly smaller so it fits nicely in the box.
Consider the weight of paper you want to use. You can use cheap printer paper. No problemo! If you use a slightly heavier weight or one with a touch of shine or gloss, you'll project will look a lot better and it'll give the box a more rigid quality look. Don't use too thick a paper weight. Ya want it slightly flexible.
This project can be put together in well under an hour, depending on your skills. You don't need any skills and ya hardly need any supplies.- printer
- template
- scissors
- adhesive
- gift card/cash/something for inside
If ya wanna go digital, you'll need a program or online service to fill in your photos. You can totally use the free software in Plus. I've got a few tutorials on how to use DesignScape and my templates.
Once you've filled in the template with your photos, cut out the easy cross shape and fold as shown in my previews.
Cut out the lid and gently fold where indicated. Use a dot of glue to keep the corners in.
As you can see, the opposite side of your template will be blank. As I mentioned, you could print back to back to avoid the white pages. You could also fill each square with a large photo. That would be really easy. I do have coordinating papers that you can find in the shop. They are linked up a little further in the blog.
You can easily add a small gift or gift card in the box.
Here are some stickers I designed that coordinates with today's project.
Grab them from Plus.
Check out the papers in action on this quick and easy digital scrapbooking page.
Look closely. Do ya see the joke?
Here's another mega easy and super fun paper project you can find in Plus.
I got the idea from an old blog I did years ago. Here's the generic version with the free template. I've also got a manly, BBQ version with a tutorial. You can find it, here.
Here are a few freebies from the last couple of blogs.
Money Cards for the Graduate
This collection is FREE and it's HUGE!!! Scroll back and get all of the goodies.
A big thanks to those of you who designed something lovely with the free collection and shared it in our scrap-a-licious group. These 2 pages are so darn cute!
Thanks for checking out The Cherry.
Happy crafting!
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