30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop

Hello again! What an exciting season we are getting into! My husband actually thought it would be a good idea to put our Christmas decorations up last weekend! I said let's wait just a little longer... I mean, I love Christmas time but I thought that was a wee bit early:-).

Anyway, here is my project for the 30 days of gift making hop, if you are just finding me the hop is ongoing all month with a project each day. If you want to see all the projects check out the Scrapoholic's post on Nov 1st as that's where it all began and she can help you hop along.

A while ago I watched a crafting show on decorating a wooden box and I thought it would be a great idea to decorate a box with paper and use it to give as a gift. I asked my husband to go to the cigar store and see if they have any left over cigar boxes they were willing to give away, the owner said he would give my husband two. How perfect is that? free is always good! Well once I started working on my box for this blog hop my daughter decided that the box would PERFECT for her to hold her special things in and she took over in the design process. She picked out the paper and said she wanted butterflies and her name on it. Here is what we came up with. Hope you like it!

This was my first time cutting chipboard with my cricut. I cut the crown using the Disney Happily Ever After cartridge on chipboard then again with the silver glitter paper. I used Storybook for the letters and stickles to decorate it.

I used my Stampin UP! butterfly punch for the butterflies

This is the "before" of the box

My daughter with the inside of it (this is after she decided the box should be her box)

How would you like some blog candy? I am giving away a calendar page of your choosing from my site Simple as ABCraft. Just leave a comment on this post and become a follower;-). Super simple! I will pick a winner this Friday morning so have your comment in by Thursday the 18th. Have a great day everyone!