Good morning friends. Today I am sharing a sweet little treat / gift basket designed using "Strawberrry Treat Box" by The Cutting Cafe. The choices for our DT assignment this week were the treat box above, "Strawberry Shaped Card", or the "Berry Sweet Greetings Printable Stamp Set". The only thing extra I added was the scalloped mat at the bottom of my box. Read more about how to create one below.
The Cutting Cafe DT blog post up will be up later this afternoon. Hop on over and check it out so you can get lots of inspiration using these files HERE.
All the files from The Cutting Cafe come in PDF, SVG and WPC. I don't have a cutting machine. I wanted to make sure the borders around the card matched. After printing the images on cards I cut around each shape leaving about 1/8" border. I lined the green leaves / stem over the strawberry and adhered it in the center with a piece of double sided adhesive tape. I wanted to go back later and pop it up, so that's why I didn't adhere all of it down. Next I created a folded card 5" x 7". I adhered the strawberry to the front of it allowing part of the strawberry to hang over the fold edge. I trimmed around the image, trimming off the part of the image that was hanging over the folded side. I pulled the leaves / stem up and then adhered it with pop dots. Of course if you have a cutter, then you let it do all the work, teehee.
Some of the files in the "Berry Sweet Greetings Printable Stamp Set" are already colored for you. I printed the bingo card twice. I trimmed around the bingo card with one of them and then layered it on black card stock. I trimmed around the scallop on the other copy and layered it on black card stock. I used pop dots to adhere the bingo card. I was going to use the pre-colored strawberry's as well. But my printer was acting up and you could see faint lines across the solid area's. So I printed the images on card stock instead trimmed the pieces and then layered them. Regina has great instructions on how to print just one image from a PDF page HERE. I print mine first on printer paper. The image is in the center of the page. I use a piece of light tack tape to adhere a piece of card stock or patterned paper over the image, then run it back through the printer. Make sure when you trim you paper you leave extra space at the top to run a piece of tape over it.
HOW TO CREATE A SCALLOPED BORDER MAT
The first thing you have to do is figure out what size to cut your rectangle mat before trimming the edges with the border punch. So I measured from where the edge of the paper would be to where I wanted the edge of the treat box to be. For this particular punch it ended up being 1 little line (1/16") short of 1/2". Which = 7/16". I guess you could just added a little more and made it 1/2". But that looked to wide to me.
You need to multiple that measurement x 2. 7/16" x 2 = 7/8". or if you prefer the 1/2" measurement .... 1/2" x 2 = 1".
The size of the bottom of the treat box is 2 " x 3 7/8". So you would cut your mat 2 7/8" x 4 3/4" (using the 7/8" + 2" and 7/8" + 3 7/8"). Now punch around all edges with your border punch and then adhere the box to it. Clear as mud?? I hope that made sense.
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
hugs, Melisa
this one measured over from the edge of a scrap piece of paper to the point I wanted the edge of the box. This is a scalloped border punch by EK Success
