National Best Friends Day: Friendship card and box project

You will need:

• Sara Signature Enchanted Ocean.

• Hidden Within The Sea Die Set
• Best Fishes Stamp Set
• Ocean Dreams Stamp Set
• Duet Inkpads (Bay Blue)
• Iridescent Luxury Foiled 8” x 8” Acetate
• 12” x 12” Paper Pad
• A4 Luxury Linen Cardstock

• Spectrum Noir TriBlend Pens:

• Green Turquoise Blend
• Gold Brown Blend (GB10 only)
• Muted Brown Blend

• Spectrum Noir Black Alcohol-Proof Inkpad
• Multi-Purpose Cardstock
• Neenah Cardstock
• Dew Drops
• Collall All-Purpose Glue
• Collall Tacky Glue
• Red-Liner Tape
• Foam Tape/Pads
• Low-Tack Tape
• Gemini II Die-Cutting Machine
• Large Guillotine
• ScoreMaster Scoreboard
• Magnetic Stamping Platform
• Scissors
• Pokey Tool

Step-by-step instructions:

To create the box

1. Cut a piece of patterned paper down to 8” x 8”. Score at 2 ¼” on all 4 sides using the box base side of your scoreboard. Trim into all 4 corners where the scorelines cross to remove a section to make the tabs smaller and easier to fold.
   
   
   
   
2. Score at 2 ¼” on the box lid side on all 4 sides of an 8” x 8” piece of acetate. Trim into all 4 corners where the scorelines cross to remove a section.
   
   
   
3. Apply red-liner tape to the tabs of both the box lid and box base and construct both pieces to create a box with an acetate lid.

To create the card

1. Score a 11 ½” x 7 ¼” piece of Multi-Purpose cardstock in half to create a 5 ¾” x 7 ¼” card base.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Mat a 5 ¼” x 6 ¾” piece of patterned paper onto a 5 ½” x 7” piece of blue linen cardstock. Glue to the card base.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Die-cut the Hidden Within The Sea die from Multi-Purpose and blue linen cardstock. ink the edges of the blue piece and then drop shadow the white piece underneath. Mat onto a 3 ¾” x 5 ¼” piece of patterned paper and then onto a 4” x 5 ½” blue linen cardstock. Use foam tape to adhere to the centre of the card base.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Stamp your chosen sentiment onto Multi-Purpose cardstock. Ink the edges and mat onto a piece of blue linen cardstock. Use foam pads to adhere to the card base.
   
   
5. Stamp a pair of the mermaids onto Neenah cardstock and colour using TriBlends. Fussy cut around the edges and stick to the card with foam pads.
   
   
6. Finish with Dew Drops as shown.