Hello crafty friends! Davina here, with Mama Elephant, sharing my Designer Series project for February. I created a bursting pop up box of “Happy Mail” featuring a super cute new stamp set called Handle With Care. I always appreciate when a large block text stamp set has the coordinating dies and this set is not exception, and I especially love all the cute little panda bears that accompany the text. I combined a few other stamp sets to fill this card and love that the older Incoming Mail stamps are also mail themed and pandas! They were screaming for a fun collaboration.
I decided to make a pop up box card using the 3D Pop Up Box Card Die set, and to make it look like a cute cardboard shipping box. I began by cutting the main box twice using Kraft cardstock and then gently inkblending all of the edges and folds with Distress Oxide Inks. I cut the inserts, using the included hill, from bright patterned papers and assembled the box using hot glue (always my favorite way of making secure box cards)
I stamped the sentiments from Handle With Care with colorful matching ink and cut out using the coordinating Creative Cuts. Then after cutting some panels for the flaps, I adhered and decorated the “box”. I used some small stamps the stamp sets Essential Tag Sayings for even more decoration on the outer box by stamping directly on the box with a taupe colored dye ink.
I hope you enjoy this look at my “Happy Mail”, and pull out your older box card dies and make a bursting little box card for yourself. Thank you for stopping by, Davina
