Welcome to this month’s blog hop where it’s all about designing an easel top matchbox. I’m guest designing with the lovely ladies below until Zoe is well enough to return after her operation. Here is a pic of all the ladies who are part of this creative design team.

What is an easel top matchbox?

Simply, it’s a matchbox with a little sliding top which looks like an easel when it’s up ! I’ve designed mine so that it perfectly fits in the whisper white narrow note cards and envelopes. Thank you to Susan Wong (who currently heads up the Stampin’ Up Artisan Design Team) for inspiring me with making a slightly larger easel top matchbox after one of her recent social media project posts. Are you ready to see my project?

Easel top matchbox aerial view - an orange matchbox covered with floral paper and showing an open drawer with spotty notecards. Free tutorial on how to make an easel top matchbox at end of post

The easel part simply folds down flat and I tied some of the Blackberry Bliss twine around the fold of the easel so that it stays secure.

Easel top matchbox close up of the purple twine double bow - an orange matchbox covered with floral paper and showing an open drawer with spotty notecards. Free tutorial on how to make an easel top matchbox at end of post

Narrow notecards and envelopes

To make the co-ordinating notecards you will need the Love What You Do stamp set to stamp the background and your chosen sentiment. Next fussy cut the sentiment out and glue the words onto a circle cut out from the co-ordinating designer series paper. I used the Stitched Shapes framelits to cut my circles but you could also use a small circle punch.

3 slimline notecards with matching envelopes - each card is covered with big spots in one colour. From left to right: purple, green and orange. Each card has the sentiment 'thank you' stamped in the same colour as the dots on that card and fussy cut out. The sentiment is mounted on a circle of designer series paper. Free tutorial on how to make an easel top matchbox at end of post

Finally pop them in the drawer and thats how you make an easel top matchbox !

Close up of the sentiment 'thank you' stamped in purple on a notecard stamped with purple big spots. Free tutorial on how to make an easel top matchbox at end of post

So until next time…..

If you would like to have a go at re-creating this adorable matchbox then please click the following tutorial link where I’ve created a tutorial for you to follow.

Easel top matchbox aerial view of the closed box - an orange matchbox covered with floral paper and wrapped up with a double bow of purple bakers twine. Free tutorial on how to make an easel top matchbox at end of post.

I would love you to comment below on what words you would include or what you thought of my project this month. Please hop around the other ladies and I know they would appreciate your comments as much as I will.

Inky hugs,

Blog list
1. Shannean Moncrieff (Australia)
2. Yoshiko Endo (Japan)
3. Carrie Bates ( UK)
4. Annette Elias (Netherlands)
5. Dena Rekow (USA)
6. Beate Wacker (Austria)
7. Aude Barbara (France)
8. Barb Stewart (Canada)

Product List

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set

£20.00

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

£25.00

Share What You Love A4 Cardstock Pack

£8.00

Whisper White Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes

£7.50

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

£7.25

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin’ Pad

£7.00

Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin’ Pad

£7.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

£7.00

Gold Faceted Gems

£4.75

Nature’s Twine

£8.25

Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals

£3.75

Glue Dots

£5.00

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

£3.75

8 Comments

Yoshiko Endo on 21st October 2018 at 4:49 am

Nice idea to put your lovely cute mini cards. I love it how they are matched with a box too. Thanks for sharing!
- cmbates2002 on 21st October 2018 at 11:22 am
  
  Thank you so much Yoshiko – it’s been a fun theme this month !
Shannean Moncrieff on 21st October 2018 at 10:08 am

Beautiful project Carrie! I love this stamp set and the DSP is so versatile – such a great choice for this project!
- cmbates2002 on 21st October 2018 at 11:23 am
  
  Thanks Shannean – I have to say this is one of my favourite stamp sets in the annual catalogue this year. Loved your projects too xx
Annette Elias on 25th October 2018 at 12:56 pm

Oh such a good idea to make a box with these cute minicards. It makes a beautiful smaal gift for a friend or a lovely thank you. Thanks for the inspiration!
- cmbates2002 on 25th October 2018 at 10:26 pm
  
  Thank you so much Annette – I love how we all interpreted this month’s theme xx
missscrap on 25th October 2018 at 2:16 pm

I love your idea to offer somme mini cards ! and the DSP it’s perfect for this project 🙂 XX
- cmbates2002 on 25th October 2018 at 10:27 pm
  
  Thank you so much – it was fun to design xx