Candy Cane Peek-A-View Box

I made this for this weeks Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge to make a Christmas Box or Bag and thought I'd post it over here for our followers too!

Here is the box I made:

I started with a Peek a View Die Cut box from Creative Cuts and More.

I stamped the top and bottom portions with Large Dots Backgrounder from CHF.

Then I punched a strip of red cardstock for the bottom of the box and cut a thin strip of the same cardstock to go around the top portion.

The "sign" stamp is from the Winter Vintage Sign Set from CHF.

I stamped it in red ink and sponged more red ink around the edges.  Then I backed it with a couple of die cut scallop edged panels.

This box would be a great way to display mini candycanes for little visitors to eat or a fun gift for a teacher or friend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Continuing With Christmas

So, Christmas in July got me on a roll with Christmas projects. I'll be thanking myself for this in December!
Today's project using the Peek-A-View Box embellished with the Cottage Cutz Elegant Reindeer Die. These boxes are the perfect size for a Christmas ornament or some yummy candies or home-baked goodies! Stock up now at Creative Cuts and More to get a jump start on your holiday crafting!

Peek a View Santa

More Christmas in July from 

Creative Cuts and More!

All month long the design team from Creative Cuts and More are sharing great die cut Christmas projects.

I have a fun Peek a View box  that I paired with a die cut Santa Peeker by Cottage Cuts Dies.

This is a super fun way to give a gift or some other little treat.  

I filled mine with candy canes.

I used Killer White Tacky Tape to put it all together.

I hope you are enjoying the Die Cut Divas Christmas projects this month.

Be sure and check back for more inspiration!

Kristine

Christmas in July Celebration Starts!!!

Welcome to July  everyone!
our Christmas in July event begins today......

Our first fabulous item we have for you is this adorable Peek -A-View-Box filled with peppermint candies.

It was made by one of our alumni design team members:
Lila Holgate
Stamps used: Our Craft Lounge
Border punch: Fiskars
Adhesive: Killer Red Tape

Make sure to check back often for more wonderful holiday samples from our design team and alumni team members during the month of July. Were working on inspiring items to to help jump start your holiday cards, gifts, decor and more.
*Plus fun new Cottage Cutz holiday dies are now available at Creative Cuts and More. Amazing projects will be shown this month using these fun new dies. Check back each day for a fun project and you might see your favorite dies used.
Merry July!

Butterflies Fly Free (LOTS of picts & text!!)

Hi all!

Becky here today to share another Out-of-the-Box idea with a Peek-a-View Box "Lantern" & the fabulous new Butterfly Assortment from Creative Cuts & More!!

When I first saw the Butterfly Assortment, I knew that I wanted to play with it! How could you not? With 3 different sized butterflies cut in all sorts of fun materials!!

Hanging Butterfly Lantern

I love working with the Peek-a-View Box for things other than its intent! It's such an easy product to think of different ways to doctor it up!! So, I got this crazy idea to cut a hole in the bottom & fit one of those battery-operated tea lights inside! Because it's meant to be hung, I had to tape the "peek-a-view" (acetate) portion to the cardstock part so that the bottom wouldn't fall out. Because of that, I needed the light to poke out a little from the bottom so that I can turn it on/off & change the battery when needed.

View from the bottom

(But, I did glue the tea light to a piece of floral foam inside so that it was more anchored in the hole in the bottom.)

Tea light inside

After I figured out the logistics of the light in the box, the rest was just plain fun! I added alcohol ink to one side of the acetate from the box to look like stained glass, and did the same to 4 vellum butterflies from the Assortment. 

Alcohol Ink on the acetate of the box

While that was all drying, I pulled out the Glimmer Mist in 2 shades of blue & added that to 3 of the "dictionary" butterflies & one aqua cardstock butterfly. When those were all dry, I used some Red Tacky Tape to attach one vellum butterfly to one dictionary butterfly for the bottom hanging ones; and the larger vellum butterfly to the cardstock one for the top. Using fishing line, I strung a length between the layers to hang from the bottom.

Bottom butterflies

In order to hang all the butterflies, the dominoes & suspend the entire thing from more fishing line, I used my crop-o-dile to put holes & eyelets in the top (4) & bottom (3). The top butterfly is attached with a dab of Aileen's Tacky Glue just on the bottom of the wings (That stuff is like cement!!).

Top of lantern butterfly

For the box itself, I inked it all over with walnut ink & added some Antique Brass Distress paint to shabby it up. I found some great images on Etsy for the dominoes (I drilled a hole in them & inserted an eye hook with my Dremel) that fit right in with my theme!

Top Domino - "Land of Enchantment" shop

Inside Domino - "Magicpug" shop

That's pretty much it! Hope you enjoyed my little treasure!

Here's just a few other things I've done with this great box...

For holding sea shells

For holding scary candy corn!

Or just a crazy circus box!

Don't forget to hop on over to Creative Cuts & More to order your own Butterflies & Peek-a-View Boxes to play with!!

See what kind of crazy creations you can do with them too!!

TTFN!!

Designer: Becky Voth

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Somehow every time I seen this Peek A View box with a view from Creative Cuts and More I thought it should be a flower box like a terrarium almost.

This is a view of the box closed and ready to give as a gift

This is an acetate butterfly from the  Butterfly collection I used as a holder to use as a knob. There are a few felt flowers in pink from the Flower Assortment Pink Felt Pink collection

This is a view with the top off and all the felt flowers showing. I used the Flower Assortment Pink felt flowers and married two together with each wire pic.

I tied a small label to the wing of the butterfly and put a Primitive heart tiny.
Hope you like my quick project with so many great collections from Creative Cuts and More.

Peek-A-View Box!

Hi everyone! It's Taylor here today to share a quick project. I made a fun little peek-a-view box recently, with the intention of giving it as a gift. Except, once I colored it, I decided I liked it so much, it's still sitting on my desk! The box is entirely unembellished and I really like it as is.

I love these boxes from Creative Cuts and More - they are SO versatile! They couldn't be any easier to put together, either. I started with the pre-cut and scored pieces (in Neenah White, and acetate). I stamped my image (it's a Cling Jumbo Dogwood stamp from Stampendous) and colored it with Copics. Once that was done, all that was left was to put it together! I highly recommend the Killer Tacky Tape, which is available in different widths.

I think I'll be making a lot more of these - they are prefect for hostess gifts, teacher gifts, or just to sit on my desk and look pretty, like this one is!

Sweet Treats For You

Hi Everyone Dawn ll here today to share a quick project
I had made some of these cute Peek-A-View Box containers to share with my mother and her room-mate at the assisted living home and forgot to post them sooner.
My mom likes pink like I do, her room mate really loves blue so those were perfect just for them.

 Just click any of the pictures to see the details if you would like to see them better

This is my real favorite - I added some of my favorite flowers from my stash and a quick border to accent.

 This purple /pink version has some Webster Pages fabric flowers. I added a couple from my stash and a few pearls.Used some soft ribbon from CTMH that seemed to work well with this container.
The cupcake small on the front is a die cut in the store I decorated with liquid applique in pink and heat embossed. The colors added were done with H20's

 This simple one is just some yummy ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon and a flower I made with a few buttons- got this great button idea from Becca Feeken.
Remember to stop over to the Creative Cuts and More store and check out the new items being added every week. You can also use
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Don't you just LOVE Peek-a-View Boxes?

Hi Everyone!  It's Noelle posting today. I LOVE these, they make the BEST gift holders!  I went to my work Christmas party lunch this week and as usual we had the BEST time!  I embossed {ippity} stamps with Ranger's silver EP.  Inside the boxes are hand lotion's and a monogrammed candle holder.  So I put their initials on the outside of the Peek-A-View Box too so I didn't get them confused. 

I wrapped some gold ribbon around them to keep them closed and topped them with a Prima flower!  They are super easy to make and are perfect for giving little gifts!

Thanks for stopping by today!

We are happy to introduce you to one of our November guest designers Kristine Reynolds!!

How lucky are we to have her? Here is a little bio in her own words:
I live in Sunny Southern California with my husband, Jeff, my 16 year old son, and our labrador, Jadie. My daughter, Tyler is 18 and a Freshman, attending college at Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo. My son is heavily involved in music-marching band, jazz band, etc. and Jeff and I are die hard band roadies. When I'm not helping with the kids in the band you'll find me happily stamping, coloring, and creating cards, scrapbook pages, and other projects in my craft room. I have been a huge fan of Creative Cuts & More for a while now and am thrilled to be a guest designer!

How cute is this peek-a-view box? To see more about it, please head on over to her blog!

I love what she did with this Tuck and Close bag! Isn't it so cute? To see more you can check it out here!
Thanks so much for joining us this month Kristine! We love your work and we think you are fantastic!
Be sure to come back on Wednesday, the 17th for our Blog Hop you can see even more of her fabulous work!

Peek-a-View Jelly Bean Box

Hi, Lisa here and I've got a cute Peek-a-View Box to share with you today!  Who wouldn't want to recieve a cute box filled with goodies!  I used the Peek-a-View Box Die Cut in Cherry Splash Bazzill Smoothies for my project.  I covered the Cherry Spash with some Basic Grey Sugar Rush Pattern Paper. I used  Killer Red Tacky Tape to close the box top/bottom and acetate, filled it with some Mike & Ike Jelly Beans, and tied on a beautiful Red Satin Bow.  Just add a tag, and your all set!

Can't you just picture these boxes filled with all sorts of things for Easter.  Wouldn't they be cute decorated with some Map Scrap Paper and filled with Matchbox Cars for little boys, or  decorated with frilly papers and filled with trinkets for little girls.

These boxes are really quick to assemble and would look wonderful filled with anything!

Details:

Die Cut - Peek-a-View Box

Card Stock - Bazzill Cherry Splash Smoothies

Other - Basic Grey Sugar Rush, Red Satin Ribbon, Killer Red Tacky Tape

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Holiday Wishes & Seasons Greetings

I get the opportunity to showcase one of my favorite boxes from Creative Cuts & More - they are called Peek A View boxes and are exclusive from CC&M - that's because the center/midsection of the box is acetate and the recipient gets a little glimpse of what's inside. With these CC&M die cuts, cut and scored all you have to do is use a little creativity and some Killer Red Tacky Tape with whatever decoration and embellishments you have on hand.






















Both use “Peek a View” die cut boxes from Creative Cuts & More, decorated with two of my favorite OCL Holiday Releases “Tag You’re It” and “Parka Penguins”. The peek a view box has an acetate middle so the recipient can get a little glimpse of the treats stuffed inside. Both boxes have a white and red theme going on – including the peppermint melt candies stuffed inside. A little coloring with COPICS, some white Flower Soft and “Ice Crystal” Crafty Sparkles glitter really add some dimensionals/pop dots and bling! The first box also uses a couple of border strips using Threading Water border punch. The second box lid and bottom were run through a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Add some satin ribbon and pom-pom ribbon, a couple of glittered snowflakes, and tags attached to the front finish the projects. It’s real easy peasy to access the goodies stuffed inside – just lift/slide up the top….. Fun huh? Keep in mind that the “Tag You’re It” is a year round set – the sentiments range from Holiday Wishes and Seasons Greetings to Happy Birthday, Sealed with Kisses (that will be a fun one for Valentines or just because), playing Tag You’re It, and Celebrate!!!, With Love, Baked with Love. I hope you’ve enjoyed the samples and ideas for using this versatile set. Same goes for these super cute and easy Peek a View boxes.




















Enjoy and Create, Lila

Blog Hop & New Dies!

Welcome to our first ever BLOG HOP! At the end of this post, we'll describe our hop and tell you how you can win blog candy at each blog in the hop!

We're so excited to show you all the fun projects we've been creating with love & weddings in mind -- and it's been even more fun because we have four new dies to show off: Dress Box, Tuxedo Box, Chair Box, and A2 Scalloped Border Card.

Here are Deb McNett's interpretation of the Dress Box which she had cut from Crystal White Stardream Metallic Cardstock and covered with lace, and the Tuxedo Box cut from Onyx Stardream Metallic Cardstock.


Next up is an entirely different take on the same two boxes from Andrea Ruccolo. Her Dress Box is cut from Ice Gold Curious Metallic Cardstock and Tuxedo Box is cut from Onyx Stardream Metallic Cardstock.


This wonderful ensemble of wedding items was created by Judy DiScipio. What creative ideas! In addition to favors, she created some beautiful cards. One card is the Creative Cuts & More exclusive Shoe Card.


Diane Koerner made this beautiful cake using multiples of the Cake Slice Box. They were cut from Papaya Blast Bazzill Smoothies Cardstock. (Note: You can also choose to purchase the Cake Slice Boxes by the set.)

Our next samples are cake slices created by Kat Salmon, cut from Aqua Bazzill and Lagoon Bazzill respectively.


Next we have two fun samples from Deb Oberg, who served as a Guest Designer during the month of February. Her Tuxedo Box was cut from Black Tie Bazzill Bling.

And this favor box from Deb is one of our exclusives, the Peek-a-View Box cut from Anthracite Stardream Metallic paper. It is adorned with Flower #6 Small cut from Kunzite & Amethyst Stardream Metallics and Lavender Velvet paper. Beautiful!

We hope you've enjoyed looking at these samples! We have even more for you! Each of our blogging DT members have additional samples posted on their blogs now, and they're each offering BLOG CANDY! Start here at Hop #1 with Angie Pearl.

At the end of the hop, Pam will direct you back here for the chance to win one more prize. Leave a comment on this post with the name of your favorite new die or your favorite project you saw during today's blog hop. Entries will be accepted through 11:59PM Mountain Time on Thursday, March 5th and the winner of a $15 gift certificate to Creative Cuts & More will be posted the following day.

Now that you've seen all of our wedding-inspired projects, we'd like to see yours! Check back later in the week for details on our upcoming customer challenge.

Thank you & Happy Hopping!