Gift Box

I'm very excited about this post tonight!  There are several pictures, so please bear with me.  You may have read this post the other day about a sympathy card I made for a dear friend of mine whose mother passed away last weekend.  I was going to insert a gift card for her into the card until today.

One of my colleagues received a gift card from a student packed in a pretty little box.  When she showed me the box, my wheels began turning and I knew that I could make it myself.  Which I did - as soon as I could after school.  Here's the box:

LOOK what I made!  I know.  I'm a little dorky - but I'm very excited about it.  I took some pictures as I was going along.  Of course, a die would be a lot more convenient for this, but I imagine the die would be very large because I had to start with a 12x12 piece of patterned paper.  8.5x11 wasn't large enough. 

I carefully took apart the box that my friend received, traced around it and cut it out.  Here's what it looks like:

After I cut out the pattern, I had to score it on the correct lines so that it would fold correctly.

Added some adhesive and folded along the score lines:

Carefully pushed in on the ends as I was closing the box:

Inserted the gift card and folded in a little more:

(I grabbed this card to show the box here.  I have a different card for my friend.)

Here's a side view of the finished product:

As I did for the sympathy card, I'm entering this project to this week's challenge at CAS-ual Fridays - using BOLD black with BEAUTIFUL pastels.  You can get the information and see all of the inspiration here. 

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place today and sticking with me with all of the pictures!