Brutus Monroe A2 Gift Card box with 5 Cards

This week the design team is creating something "gifty" (something that coordinates with a pretty gift bag, tag, card or a gift itself.). I decided to use a template that was created by the lovely Gina K early this year during one of her live crafting nights to make an A2 gift box that holds 5 cards with envelopes.

My cards feature the Candy Stripe 6x6 Paper pad papers, some digital files from the Brutus Monroe Store and a variety of other products (stamps, dies, embossing powder, etc).

Here is the box with the cover and has the 5 cards and envelopes inside

All the patterned paper from these cards is from the Candy Stripe 6x6 pack and any white or glitter card stock came from my scrap bin.  All of my cards are an A2 card size and made from red heavy weight cardstock from my stash.

For my box I used the free template created by Gina K in a video.  I used the measurements from the template to cut my patterned paper for the front, back and sides.  I used white card stock from my scrap bin to mat the patterned paper before attaching it to my box,  I used my Scan and Cut to cut out the Happy Holidays Cut File and the Vixen-Snowflake Shaker Digital Cut file.  I attached the Vixen Snowflake Circle to a red circle (I used my scan and cut to make a circle mat that was just a bit bigger).  After attaching two of the Happy Holiday layers together (The file comes with three layers, however, I decided not to cut out the bottom shadow layer). Before attaching both cut outs to the front of my box, I put them in my splat box and sprayed them with some shimmer spray I had in my stash.

Card #1

I had the help of some card sketches to help me with a few of my cards.  For Card #1, I used the MFT Sketch #352, with measurements, that I got from this blog.  I matted the patterned paper on scrap white card stock about an 1/8th bigger for the mats.  I used the same Vixen Shaker Snowflake Digital Cut file and mat layer that I cut for the front of the box for this card.   The Noel sentiment was a free file in my Scan and cut.  To finish off my card, I used some Diamond Stickles in a random pattern across my card front for some glitz/sparkle.

Card #2

This card used MFT Sketch #286 and more of the Candy Stripe pattern paper. I used one of the middle foundation dies to cut a circle from some white scrap card stock.  I used the Season's Greeting sentiment from Falliday Silhouettes in a red ink from my stash.  However before I removed it from my Mini Misti, I cleaned my stamp and used my embossing buddy over the stamped image and restamped the sentiment over the top with the Brutus Monroe Embossing Ink.  I then covered the red/embossing ink with Icicle Embossing Powder and heat set it.  This gives me the color I want, but also a shine to my sentiment.  Next, I cut two and one of the second smallest of the small simple snowflakes dies from some of the red card stock that matched my card base.  However, I did not like how the snowflakes were lost on the card.  So I also cut them out of scrap red glitter card stock and adhered them over the top of the red snowflakes.

Card #3

Using Sketch #249 from Freshly Made Sketches, I cut and matted my patterned paper.  I found a piece of green glitter stock in my scrap bin that matched the green in the patterned paper.  Before I attached them to my card, I decided to find a background stamp for my card base.  I stamped the polkadot background with my Brutus Monroe Embossing Ink and again used the Icicle Embossing Powder and heat set it.  I attached my patterned paper to the base.  I used a piece of white scrap card stock to stamp my sentiment from Holiday Essentials Stamp set with Later Gator ink by Simon Hurley Creates and then covered the ink immediately with the Icicle Embossing Powder and heat set it. This gives the sentiment a shine.  I used liquid glue to attach it to the top of the glitter stock layer.

Card #4

I did not use a card sketch for my last two cards.  Both of these patterned papers were left overs from some cut cards tock from earlier so I used them just as they were.  I matted the smaller piece on some red scrap card stock and adhered both to my A2 red card base. I stamped the Merry & Bright Sentiment, from the Merry & Bright stamp set in Red ink, then Embossing Ink like I did before and covered it with Icicle Embossing Powder and set it for the that shine. The white and red circles were sitting on my desk so I am not sure exactly what size they are.  I used the same green glitter stock scrap from before to cut out more snowflakes and attached them to the finish off my card.

Card #5

I did the same for this card using leftover piece of the paper from previous cards.  I chose the Season's Greetings from the Holiday Essentials set and performed some stamp surgery, Jennifer McGuire style, so that my sentiment would stack on top of each other. (Don't worry I can put the stamp back in a line to stamp in the future.  I used the Later Gator with Embossing Ink and Icicle Embossing Powder over the top just like I did for all the other cards.  Then using a Square Foundation die, I cut down my sentiment and used liquid glue to affix it to the glitter layer.  For a final touch of bling, I used the same Diamond Stickles to add three dots to the upper left corner to balance out the white square.

Here is a close up of the cards inside the box

Here is an attempt to show the shimmer that I added to the cut outs on the front of the box.

Thanks for stopping by.  Which one is your favorite card?  Have you started making holiday card yet?  Leave me a comment below.

Products Listed below have affiliated links to the Brutus Monroe Shop.  (These links are at no additional costs to you.  Thank you for your support)

• Candy Stripe Pattern Paper Collection
• Falliday Silhouettes Stamp Set
• Holiday Essentials Stamp Set (retired)
• Merry & Bright Stamp Set (retired)
• Vixen Snowflake Shaker Digital Cut File
• Happy Holiday Digital Cut File
• Circle Foundation Dies
• Square Foundation Dies
• Simple Snowflake Dies
• Embossing Ink
• Icicle Embossing Powder
• Simon Hurley Creates Later Gator Ink

November 2020 Die of the Month from Brutus Monroe. (2 cards)

 Be Happy Be Bright Be You Card

For my first card using some of the dies from the Brutus Monroe November Die of the Month, I cut out the two large flower dies five (5) times from some scrap white cardstock.  Using pixie spray to temporarily affix them to my white card panel (which measures 8.5" x 3.5").  I chose Worn Lipstick and Squeezed Lemonade from the Distress Oxide Inks and blended them over the top of my cardpanel and flower die cuts, blending the two colors wherever they met.  Before, removing the flowers, I used some shimmer spray from my stash to give some shine to my card.  I carefully peeled off the die cut flowers and saved them from my second card.  I used liquid glue to attach the card panel to my White Slim Line Card Base.  I took a small scrap of white cardstock and stamped the Be Happy, Be Bright, Be You Card from the Floral Frame Stamp set with the same pink oxide ink.  Finally to finish off my card I used some yellow flat back pearls to my sentiment strip.

Thanks Card

This next card was very quick and easy.  I used liquid glue to attach all the die cut flowers used from my Slim Line Card project (Be Happy Be Bright Be You Card) and arranged them around my white A2 Card base.  I flipped the cardbase over and cut off any overhanging pieces, filling in small holes if needed to my card front.  I looked through my scrap bin for some matching pink and yellow cardstock.  I cut down a 4.25" x .5"(about) piece of yellow cardstock and attached that to the top half of my card.  I used a Thanks die from my stash and cut it out of both the pink and a white scrap of cardstock. I sprayed the Thanks with the same shimmer spritz from my stash to have the pink sparkle like the flowers. Next, I glued the pink Thanks to the white, offsetting them slightly to leave a small shadow of white showing.  I attached this to the yellow strip to finish my card.

If you would like to buy this fantastic set of Dies this month, here is my affiliated link to the November 2020 product. (Affiliated link is at no additional cost to you, however I receive a small percentage to help fund my crafting.)

Brutus Monroe Stamp of the Month for November

 

I used the stamp of the Month with the Raven Detail Ink and stamped it out twice on the Perfect Blend Alcohol Marker Cardstock.  I also stamped the fire from S'more Coffee the same way.  I colored all of three of these images in with a variety of Copic Markers and fussy cut them out with my Brutus Monroe Detail Scissors. I used a black marker to go over the edge of my cut out images, which hides any imperfections during the fussy cutting process. I also used my black gel pen to go over the eyes of the bears (and made a second "open eye" on dad to make their faces look alive.

Next I cut down my white card base to 7" x 8.5" (scored and folded at 3.5" and set it aside for now) and used the leftover piece for my card front which I cut down to 3.5" x 8.5".   Using two blue Distress Oxide inks (Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire-I believe), I used my Ranger blending foams to create a night sky not blending all the way to the bottom since I would be covering that up.  Next I used just a touch of Black Soot Distress Oxide ink to bring in a little bit of darkness around the edges of my night sky.  I placed this background in my splat box and used some Pearl Aqua Pigments (which I watered down on my glass mat) to flick some "stars" on the background.  I also used a little bit of watered down white watercolor to flick on some more stars.

Next I looked through my scrap bit to find some green cardstock and used some dies in my stash to cut out some hills and trees for my scene.  I also found a set of very small star and moon dies from my stash and cut them out from white cardstock that I had painted with Pearl Aqua Pigment (and a wee bit of Yellow Sparkle Aqua Pigment).  I attached all of my diecuts to my card with liquid glue and then arranged my little bear and his dad around the cozy fire.  I used some of the Yellow Sparkle Aqua Pigment to add some sparkle to the fire and I also used just a bit of the Yellow Sparkle in the area of the sky before I attached the moon.

I left the panel to fully dry overnight, and then after treating the area for my sentiment with an antistatic tool and stamped the sentiment "You make me a happy camper" from the S'more Coffee set with Brutus Monroe Embossing Ink, covered with the Alabaster Embossing Powder and heat set it.  Finally I glued the whole panel to the front of my card base to finish off my card.

 Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great week.

List of products used (using my affiliated links, which are no additional costs to you but do help support my page and crafting.). All products listed are from Brutus Monroe unless noted, however all products linked are available in the BM online store.

• November Stamp of the Month--link good during November 2020
• Raven Detail Ink
• Perfect Blend Alcohol Marker Paper
• S'more Coffee Stamp Set
• Pearl Aqua Pigments
• Yellow Sparkle Aqua Pigment
• Embossing Ink
• Ranger Distress Oxides
• Alabaster Embossing Powder