A fun new product in the Stampin’ Up! May-August Catalog are these Scalloped Window Boxes! As you can imagine, you can decorate them as simply or as fancy as you would like. Then just put your treat or gift inside because the front scalloped design is a window so your treat is protected. These are food safe and come eight in a package.
These come flat and unassembled like the photo above so storage is not an issue. You will easily see how to fold up the box. All the lines are scored and no adhesive is needed! If you wanted to when you are finished, you could apply some glue or Stampin’ Seal if you really wanted to, but it is not necessary. The assembled box measures 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ x 1″. It’s a nice size for some pieces of candy, a cookie or two, or any little gift you want to put inside.
To decorate this box, I used the Lovely & Beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper. You can just search for it in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store or look under Online Exclusives. It is not in the catalog, but it is still available as I write this. You can measure your own box before cutting the designer paper because exactly 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ might be a tiny bit too large. I trimmed off 1/8″, then went down to 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. You can diecut a circle or a scallop out of that piece of paper for the top. Be careful centering the die on the square paper evenly so it will fit around the scallop on the box. Just a plain circle might be easier, but you still would want to center it on that DSP. I used the Scalloped Bloom Dies. You will want these dies! I used the fourth die from the center.
If you want to decorate the sides of the box, you can use the same designer series paper or use cardstock, or even leave it plain. I accidentally cut one strip at 1″ wide and the others at 3/4″ wide, but it really doesn’t matter. My strips were 3 1/4″ long. I could have also just tied a ribbon around the sides.
For the flower decoration, you might not believe it, but it is from the other side of this pretty floral design I used for the box! The other side of this floral is a whole sheet of white with gold foil flowers of all sizes and kinds. I cut out one flower and some of its leaves and then colored them. The flower is colored with the Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers and the leaves with Old Olive. Petal Pink is pretty light, but adding the dark combo helped a little bit. Petal Pink is one of the coordinating colors with the paper.
Be a little careful with your adhesive in attaching the flower. I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up, but I didn’t want the Dimensionals showing from the inside through the window. I simply estimated where the Dimensionals would not show and put them under the flower and leaves. You can check from the inside of the box and make sure. I just wanted a small greeting, so I chose this one, on Basic White, stamped with Petal Pink ink, from the Banner Sayings Stamp Set. I kind of curled it a little to make it 3D. To avoid adhesive showing through the inside of the window, I put glue on the top of the end of the greeting so that it would be adhered underneath the flower petal, not to the box.
These Scalloped Window Boxes will be handy to have in your stash for that time when you need a cute little gift box!
