Afternoon Tea Day One - Swedish Mail - Box Tutorial To Hold Christmas Tags

Hello, lovely blogger friend's.

For the next three day's on Swedish House Crafts blog, I'm going to be showcasing some picture tutorials.

For my first tutorial, I am going to be showing you how to make a Swedish mail box to hold Christmas tags.

Links to the products are in text, and can be found at the end of my post.

Here is my decorated mail box.

I used the gorgeous new Maja Design "Joyous Winterdays" collection to decorate the mail box.

The lace, and flower pearl trim are from my stash.

I decorated the sides of the box with the papers. I didn't decorate the back, but there was plenty of the paper left over to use if you wish do to so.

I stamped Gummiapan Merry Christmas text sentiment onto a piece of cardstock, and cut it out to fit behind a decorative chipboard frame.

I made the larger flowers with the papers, and Gummiapan flower 3 dies.

The white paper flowers are from the store, and the 10mm open roses are from my stash.

For the foliage I used Gummiapan little twigs die.

I coated the flowers, and decorative chipboard with Snow - Tex.

I used Gummiapan nesting stitched rectangles to cut out the image, and stamped the top corner with Gummiapan Angelpost stamp.

I adhered a tiny blue rhinestone to the centre of the snowflake, and added some glamour dust to the snowballs, and snow on the ground.

To make the tags. I cut out the images that I had left over from "Vintage Frost Basics" diecut sheet, and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Vintage photo distress ink.

I used scrunched seam binding, and twine to thread through the eyelets that I made at the top of the tags.

I hope you like what I achieved?

Now on to the tutorial.

You will need; Scoring board, paper trimmer, card, scissors, ruler, pencil, and glue or sticky tape.

Cut a sheet of A4 card to 27cm x 19cm.

Position the card landscape on the scoring board, and score at 1cm, 9cm, 14cm, and 22cm.

Position the card portrait, and score at 1cm, and 6cm.

Position the card landscape and score 2cm down where I have marked with a pencil.

With the card landscape cut out the areas shown as above.

Using the scissors cut up to the score lines as shown above, and fold in the score lines.

You can then start to assemble the mail box with glue or sticky tape.

Once assembled, the first part of the mail box should look like above.

Using scissors. Snip off the corner at the top of the box.

To make the lid you will need to cut a piece of card measuring 10cm x 8cm.

Score, and fold 1cm in from the top of the card.

With the score line folded in, you will have a piece of card Measuring 9cm x 8cm.

Using a pencil, mark in 1cm each side, and cut up, and along the score lines.

You now have your lid ready to place inside the mail box.

Assemble the lid to the inside of the box as shown above using glue or sticky tape.

Ta Dah!

One Swedish mail - box to hold your Christmas tags.

Below are the links to the products that I used from the store to decorate my mail box.

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs

Maja Design - Joyous Winterdays - Blizzard

Maja Design - Joyous Winterdays - Snowball Fight

Maja Design - Vintage Frost Basics - Christmas Diecuts

Gummiapn Dies - Nesting Stitched Rectangles

Gummiapan Die - Flowers 3 Dies

Gummiapan Stamp - Text Merry Christmas

Gummiapan Stamp - Angelpost

Paper Flowers - White/Curls