"For You" gift box tutorial - Close to my Heart Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

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This month’s card swap again didn’t have a theme so I was able to decide what I wanted to come up with. I admitted here when I showed you all our cards that I had been quite the procrastinator this month. I just couldn’t figure out for sure what I wanted to do. One night I was up playing around in craft room and was going through all the images on one of my favorite (and huge) cartridges, the Close to my Heart – Art Philosophy cartridge. This puppy is FULL of just about everything you could want to do. I decided to do another little goody box. Not quite as big as last month’s, I don’t want everyone to hate me 🙂 this one can actually be opened up and folded down flat so it can more easily be kept with their other cards.

This box can be found in the Art Philosophy cartridge but it can also be a bit difficult so the majority of my *tutorial* is showing you where to find it.

This is all done in craft room by the way. If you haven’t downloaded craft room yet I HIGHLY suggest that you do, it has made ALL the difference in the world to me, I now truly love and enjoy using my cricut. I know exactly what is going to cut and how big it is going to be and you have so many more options with sizing and stuff, trust me…you want craft room AND it’s totally free! (PS, you may be concerned about having the cord to connect your cricut to your computer but it is the exact same cord I have to use for my printer so you probably won’t even need to buy one!)

OK, this picture shows you how to find your file. I have selected my cartridge (Close to my Heart – Art Philosophy). Once you do that you want to make sure your shift/lock images button is clicked and then click on Decorative Font – over there on the right.

Once you have all the above clicked your 2nd image is the one you want to click on. It looks like this ^

For my box I set my largest size/side to 11″. It basically used an entire sheet of 12″x 12″ paper except for the corners of the page which I used later on.

I would suggest using a card stock for this project so the box has some strength. The box is SIMPLE to put together. You’re going to fold along the scoring marks and then you’re going to connect the 2 sides that have little slits in them together and then pull the other 2 sides (with the holes in them) up and use a ribbon or something to tie them together. Super simple and with craft room it tells you all the settings and stuff to cut it out so you don’t even have to worry about that.

To make the tags I again used the Art Philosophy cartridge. This time you’re going to unclick shift/lock and go back over to Basic. The image I used was Oval 4. It’s the 4th row down 2nd image. I cut the oval at 2.5″ on it’s longest side and it filled up 1 side of the box nicely.

I used coordinating papers for the ovals. I used as many of the corners from the boxes as I could, sadly some of them didn’t coordinate well with others but if you’re using 2 sided paper you can easily get 4 2.5″ ovals cut from the scraps of your box paper.

This is a quick photo I snapped with my phone of all of the boxes before they headed off to card swap. Paula took them for me since I had to run to the basketball game.

I used one of my font cartridges (I can’t remember which one) to create the For You. In craft room I was able to weld the letters all together so they cut out in one piece. I tied a little piece of baker’s twine between the words (I used a dash to connect them) to add a little more pretty to them.

I then glued the “for you” to a rectangular piece of burlap. I glued the burlap to the oval and the oval to the box. I used 5/8″ ribbon in a simple knot to tie them up.

I think they turned out pretty cute. They’re also pretty big. You could easily put a little gift inside. I’m thinking a couple fingernail polishes or something like that.

One more view of the front:

And a view of the side.

I hope you like them and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Have a wonderful Sunday. I hope it’s nice and relaxing for you.

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