♫Have yourself a Recycling little Christmas..♫

Yup! Recycle those old Christmas Cards into…

..some pretty little gift boxes!  It’s so easy to do and great for those little gifts like jewelry, soap, gift cards, money, tea, candy…or whatever!  Here’s how to do it…

Scribble out the writing and cut the cards in half right down the fold line… 

Using a ruler draw an X on both cards, corner to corner.  On the half with the pretty picture draw a small box about 1 cm or 1/4 inch big at the centre of the X..see the example.  YOU ONLY DO THIS ON THE TOP HALF OF THE CARD!

Let’s make the bottom of the box first…fold up one side to the middle of the X then fold down the other side…meeting in the middle of the X.

Do the same on the sides…see example…

Both sides are folded and meet the middle of the X…

   Now open up the card and  look at the crease marks…

I used a red pen so that you could see this better…on the inside crease marks draw a line and cut only on these red lines..See the example…

Mark and cut both ends.  See the example…

Tuck the sides up and tape or staple..

Fold the end up and fold it over and tape it down inside the box.

Bottom is done..I usually tape a pretty coloured piece of paper or tissue down to hide the message.

Now the top of the box is the card where you have marked the little 1 cm. square in the centre of the X.  (By drawing the little square you are making the top of the box a little bigger so it will easily slide over the bottom of the box.)

Now you are going to fold this exactly like the bottom except instead of folding to the middle of the X you are folding to the edge of the box…see example.

Fold the other side to the edge of the box…

    

Fold up the other ends…open and mark the red lines and cut on the red lines.

Tuck in the sides and tape. 

Fold up the ends and fold over and tape.

Done!!

Be warned..these are addictive!!  You start with one box and before you know it…you’ve made millions and billions of boxes…OK OK…just try ONE!

  I love the tulip box…it was a birthday card…so pretty!

On the Quilting Front~

I have a big Tupperware bin of Settler’s Pride!!  With Christmas music playing in the background, I spent most of yesterday cutting out the rest of the wool appliqué pieces and now she is done!!  (Happy Dance!)  Now I just need to go from…

..THIS~

…To THIS~

But that will be a job to for another time…hopefully while traveling!

Have a super Sunday and Happy FOLDING Quilting!~P