Favour Boxes tutorial by Kriti Mishra

Hello Crafters, 

I am back on the blog with another tutorial. Why purchase gift boxes when you can make your own? Making gift boxes is fun. It’s super easy to learn how to make a cute gift boxes out of scrapbook paper.

To honour the small gifts in life, here is a really cool tutorial on how to wrap up your awesome heart-felt gift with something handmade, your own DIY gift box from scrapbook paper.This is turned into one of my favourite little projects to do because not only is it quick, but it’s personalized, hand-crafted, a beautiful work of art that will be remembered way beyond the day that you give the gift. Extra bonus...making your own gift box will cost you much less than a roll of wrapping paper at the store! Unique and cheap...who could ask for anything more?

Tutorial for Fold over Paper bag

• Take a piece of scrapbook paper ( 10" x 12") and score at 5- 3/4"  and 11-1/2" on the long side.

 

• Paste as shown in the picture with glue. Allow it to dry for some time.

• Score both sides at 1" and fold it. The thickness of the fold will determine the space inside the bag and this will become the width of the bag, so accordingly score the paper from both sides.

• Open the folds and along the creases made  fold inwards on both the sides as shown.

• Fold the bottom of the bag for a length of around 1-1/2". This will depend on the size of the bag you are making.

• Unfold the last fold made. Along the side crease, fold inwards to form a triangular shaped edge.Fold the flap inwards and flatten it as shown below. Paste the two flaps together using glue and press so that the base is firm.

• Now moving on to the top, fold the top of the bag for a length of around 2", open it and pinch inside from both the sides and fold it over again. I had put brown colour cardstock over it for colour co-ordination.

• Your fold over bag is ready, embellish it accordingly.

Tutorial for Milk Carton Paper bag

• Take a piece of scrapbook paper (10-1/2" x 7"), score at 2-1/2", 5", 7- 1/2" and 10" on the long side.

• Turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 2- 1/2", 5", 6- 1/2".

• Fold and crease all the score lies.

• Cut along the score lines from the base of your paper upto the 2-1/2" mark to make the flaps which will form the bottom of your box.

• Next cut away the narrow side tab as shown in the picture.

• Fold the paper and glue the side tab down.

• After that it will look like this

• Apply glue to the top of 3 of the bottom flaps. Fold each one on top of each other to form the base. The one without any glue should be the last flap to fold down.

• Now gently pinch in the sides from the top, and close it using mini peg, wooden peg, washi tape or ribbon.

• Milk carton paper bag is ready.

So I made two favour bags/boxes, hope you get inspired

Tip:- To get the right thickness, use can use high gsm plain cardstock also and later you can adhere scrapbook paper over it. It makes your box sturdy.

Personalize the labels with your own message.Even though it’s a plain design, you can dress it up with more embellishments to make it look more sparkly & special.

Material Used:-

• Pattern Paper from Papericious

• Cardstock(Brown, Yellow and Ivory)

• Sizzix Dies( Circle, Scallop circle, Scallop Oval)

• Glue

• WRMK Crop-a-dile

• WRMK Trim and score board

• Twine

• Archival Ink

• Sentiment stamps

• Acrylic stamp block

• Martha Stewart Lace Punch

All the above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari or you can pre- order them.

Kriti Mishra

Blossom Mixed Media Tag by DT Kriti Mishra

Namaste Friends!!

I am Kriti...back again with an inspiration post for the current challenge
Here is the moodboard of the challenge ( Use minimum of any 3 elements from the board)

Here's what I made

I have selected three colours from the mood board....Yellow, green and brown.
Yellow colour signifies joy, happiness, intellect and energy.
Green colour signifies growth, harmony, freshness and fertility.
Brown colour signifies stability, structure and support.
So, that's why I have selected these colours from the vibrant mood board.

For this tag I have cut three tags from the cardstock.
Yellow- 3.75" x 6.25"
Brown- 3.50" x 6"
Green- 3.25" x 5.75"

Adhered them together one onto the other, after that I mixed the yellow acrylic paint with the texture paste and tapped with the palette knife after that I mixed green acrylic paint with the texture paste and again tapped with the palette knife to give some interesting textures to the surface.
 Put some embellishments like brick chipboard( coloured with brown acrylic paint), gauge, flowers and buds.

Now to add more interest to this, I have added few art stones mixed with gel medium, after drying applied some gesso and then coloured it with brown colour.

In the last I had splattered all the three colours with the help of brush and stamped the sentiment.

Here are few close- ups of the tag

Material used:-

• Cardstock( Yellow, Green, Brown)

• Acrylic paints ( Yellow, green and brown)

• Handmade flowers

• Buds

• Sentiment stamps

• Art stones

• Gel medium

• Gesso

• Gauge

• Brick chipboard

• Palette knife

• Hot glue gun

• Heat gun

• Paint brush

• Black Archival ink

• Stamp block

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Cratykari store or you can pre- order by sending an email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.Hope my project inspired you. Do participate in the challenge.
RegardsKriti Mishra

"This is my Dream" by DT Kriti Mishra

Namaste Friends!!

I am Kriti and I am back with a new project and this is an inspiration post. A layout with some bright colours titled "This is my dream". A dream leads to hope, this is a dream of a wish to come true and all we have is hope.

The lines which I have used are from a song....these lines focus on the motivation and hope we get while dreaming.

Here's the project:

 Some close-ups:

Here's a brief about this project:
To start with, I have taken a wooden plank (Size is 10" x 8") and affixed a few chipboard rectangular pieces on the right-hand side to make a wall and gauge on the left-hand side. Then covered the entire surface with gesso.

Next, I have used a bubble stencil to make the background more interesting using modelling paste and covered the entire surface with gesso again. Next, I have added this beautiful Dreamcatcher chipboard and few beads and again covered the surface with gesso.

After that, I used spray colours i.e., yellow, orange and red(Spray some water too to let them run). I then used gold, copper and black colour to highlight the textures. I then used few stamps, text, brick and music notations to make it more interesting.

Lastly, I embellished it with some coloured gauge, flowers, and a beautiful song lyrics.

Supply List

• A wooden plank

• Rectangular chipboard pieces(small)

• Gauge

• Dram catcher Chipboard (Papericious)

• Beads

• Gesso (Papericious)

• Bubble Stencil

• Text, bricks and music notation stamps

• Black Archival ink

• Heating tool

• Spray/Acrylic colours (Red, Yellow, Orange, gold, copper, black)

• Water mister

• Handmade mulberry flowers

• Paper smooches Leaf die

• Big shot

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store or you can pre-order the products by sending e-mail at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

Thank you for stopping by!!
Hope you got inspired by my work!

Kriti Mishra

Mixed Media Wall Art Tutorial by DT Kriti Mishra

Namaste everyone!!

I am Kriti Mishra and I am very excited to be a part of Rainbow Craftykari design team, and this is my first post. Heartiest thanks to Maninder Kaur and entire Rainbow Crafykari team for this opportunity. 

Today, I am here with a tutorial post. I have made a mixed media wall art and here's a sneak peak

Let's begin

1. Firstly take a watercolor paper, cover it with clear gesso and dry it with the heat gun.

2. After that take a regular tissue paper, crush it between your hands and tear it in small pieces. Now paste these small pieces over the paper (in a random manner) to make the first layer of texture, and prime it with white heavy gesso (apply gesso with a spatula to create an interesting texture). Now randomly add some thread to further create texture and cover it with gesso. Completely dry it with a heat gun.

3. Spray some water on the surface and spray the colours. Let them move around and blend. Stop when you get the desired shade.

4. After that use any background stamp ( I have used bubble stamp) to give a bit more contrast and to fill in a bit more of the open spaces.

5. Now embellish it in any way you like ( I embellished it with some burlap string, flowers, glass beads and sequins). Lastly, adorn it with a beautiful quote or a sentiment (I distressed the edges with distress ink). And its all done.

Some close- up pics

With this same technique, you can create different projects. Here are some more samples:

Material used:-

• Canson watercolour paper

• Gesso ( By Papericious)

• Clear gesso

• Paper napkins

• Thread

• Spray colours

• Glass Beads

• Sequins

• Kaisercraft Stamp for sentiment

• Bubble Stamp

• Jute String

• Hot glue gun

• Heat gun

• Spatula

• Handmade Flowers

• Distress ink

• Foam tape

All the above-listed materials are available at Rainbow Craftykari store or you can pre-order them.

Don't forget to participate in our ongoing challenge Rainbow Friendship. Link your projects here.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and do let me know if you try this out.

Kriti Mishra