Showing posts with label Free templates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free templates. Show all posts

Monday 26 July 2010

Gift box ideas

Yes I know ........ You're thinking I have gone mad. but this is a post for my lovely up and coming crafters. Some months ago now, I spent ages trawling the internet looking for a template for a box to fit a gift I had purchased.
I couldn't find one that was just right and I really wasn't in the mood to sit and design one.
So I started searching through my kitchen cupboards and found a range of boxes that could be used as templates for gift boxes.
Anyway, I did find the box that was absolutely perfect.... It contained Stan's bottle of liquid pain killer, prescribed by the vet after Stan had an encounter with a vicious squirrel . Well Stan didn't need the box .... but I did........ it is now the template I use for boxes for small bottles of bubble bath.
Another box or should I say tube, I have used for a gift box is the Pringles tube.......the Stampin round wheels fit in them perfectly. I had bought several for my sister for her birthday. The tube looked great once I had washed it out, decorated it and added a cord handle.
Small bottles of wine will fit into them too.

Monday 19 July 2010

Free Templates

This might be stating the obvious. but I have to say this as it may be something that will not occur to some people.

I have spent hours trawling the internet for free templates for boxes of different shapes and sizes. When it would have been quicker to look through my kitchen cupboards at the food packaging.

Oxo and Bovril boxes are a great templates for small boxes, I also found the box the vet gave us with Stan's medication in (after his encounter with a squirrel ) made a great template too. Now when I go shopping I find myself eyeing up the packaging to see if it has potential as a template .