EOS Lip Balm Box

I love receiving gifts but I love giving them more. As Valentine's Day looms on the horizon I was brainstorming little gift ideas. It got me thinking about a few of my favorite things that I always have on me and one of those is my eos lip balm. I never leave the house without one and they are scattered throughout my house. I even have multiples in some room. I hoard them much like my cardstock and why not when there are so many amazing flavors. I thought what if I could make a cute little gift box for a eos. Here's what I came up with. 

Supplies

1- 6"x6" piece of cardstock

1- 4"x4" piece of cardstock

1- 1 7/8"x 5 1/2" piece of cardstock

4- 1 7/8"x 1 7/8" pieces of cardstock

1- 1 7/8"x 1 7/8" piece of pattern paper

4- 1 3/4"x 1 3/4" pieces of pattern paper

Circle Punch

Corner Rounder

Adhesive

EOS Lip Balm

Instructions

Begin by scoring the 6"x6" piece of cardstock at 2" on all sides. This will be the box that holds the EOS. Fold on all the score lines. Once done that you'll grab your paper snips and cut out the corner squares so you have four flaps connected in the center by a square. Take your corner rounder and round the corners on all the flaps. I then took the 4 1 7/8" square and my 1 3/4" squares of pattern paper and rounded what I decided would be the top two corners. When rounding the corners on your pattern paper keep in mind the direction of the paper. For instance stripes, do you want vertical or horizontal stripes. I chose horizontal for my box and I wanted the stripes to appear continuous.
Then adhere your pattern paper to the cardstock layer lining up the rounded corners. Once done that you can adhere them to the flaps.

Next take the 1 7/8"x 5 1/2" stripe of cardstock and score along the long side at 1 7/8", 2 3/8", 4 1/4" and 4 3/4". Fold on the score lines. 

At this point you would take a 1 3/8" circle punch and punch a hole in the center of the first square (if your paper is in the same orientation as in the picture above). I did not have a circle punch but I did have a flower punch that was the perfect size. So I punched a flower out of the square instead.

Then glue the insert together to make a hollow box essentially. Then glue it to the center of the box base, in the middle square of the flaps. At this point I folded down the pieces of paper that separated the petals making a circle in the insert that fit the EOS perfectly.

Now take your 4"x4" square and score at 1" on all sides. This will be the lid for your box. Fold on your score lines. This time you will only cut on one side of you corner squares, miter both sides it will make the lid go together much better. Before you glue the lid together make sure you glue your square of pattern paper to what will be the top of the lid. Once done that glue the lid together and you can slide it onto your box and its done.

Step It Up

If you would like to step it up a bit make a gift tag to go with the box, wrap it in ribbon or stamp and cut out (or punch if you have..) a flower or heart to decorate the top of the box even further. Or add pattern paper to the exterior of the flaps.

Happy Paper Crafting!

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