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Christmas Gift Box - Monday Challenge

December 10, 2016 by Lucy Leave a Comment

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How to make a Christmas House Gift Box with a ribbon roll

Most of the things I make are little Putz houses because I love to make them so much. I promised a friend that I would make a Christmas house for her daughter who loved her Easter house with the storage area. I made them out of the cardboard rolls from stickers. And I made the tops removable so a child could put a treasure inside. Well, apparently her daughter thinks it is the greatest thing so I made a Christmas version for her. I also made the base larger for even more treasure storage.

Christmas gift house on ribbon roll box

First Make the Little Cardboard House

The house itself is from offcuts from one of my designs that I glued to a cardboard rectangle. Then I covered the house with Christmas scrapbook paper.

I don't have a pattern for this specific Christmas putz house (yet), but you could make one of the houses from either of these challenges - 12 Houses for Christmas Challenge and the 13 Days of Halloween Houses. They are the perfect size for a ribbon roll.

Front of little Christmas Putz house on ribbon roll

I try to make my houses really sturdy with double layer cardboard walls and coat them with Mod Podge to make them somewhat impervious to elements. So I think this one will survive several Christmases.

Side view of Christmas Putz house on ribbon rool

I placed the house in a bed of glue underneath the house and "snow" made of Ranger texture paste and then sprinkled on some glitter. Then I covered it with Mod Podge to try to prevent the glitter from falling off. Because who wants glitter all over their house, right?

Embellishments for the Christmas Gift Box Glitter House

The main embellishments are the snowman which is a cupcake topper and the deer from Poppy stamps Christmas delights die and stamps. Usually I cut out several layers and glued them together to make things sturdier.

How to make the Ribbon Roll Box

Christmas Putz house as a gift box on ribbon roll base

To make the gift box from the ribbon roll or a cardboard roll I glue several layers of cardboard circles together. These are 5" Sizzix circles and I use the Eileen Hull Cookie box die to adhere the bottom circle to the ribbon roll or a cardboard roll. And I do that to make sure everything is sturdy enough to be handled by a child.

The top is made by cutting a strip of cardboard that goes loosely around the roll and gluing it to the top circular cardboard base the same way. I find this makes a very substantial container. It's a fair amount of work, but I really like making the bases rather than buying them.

For the edging on this house I used some ribbon left over from last year. I love all 3 of these ribbons because they work very well with the scrapbook papers on the little glitter house.

I am usually pretty happy with the projects I post here, but sometimes a project delights me more than others. This little Christmas Glitter house makes me very happy. I think the young lady who gets the house will be pretty tickled with it. At least I hope so.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge "Christmas Gifts"

Once again I am going to enter a challenge with the house. This week's Monday Simon Says Stamp challenge is Christmas gifts so the little Putz gift house fits the challenge.

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Christmas Glitter House Gift Box

 

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  1. Sandra

    December 11, 2016 at 5:33 pm

    What a stunning house, love all the gorgeous pattern papers and the stamps are so cute. Fantastic project. Thanks for explaning about our challenge blog! And thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra

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  2. Lucy

    December 11, 2016 at 5:29 am

    The link is at the bottom under "This week's Monday Simon Says Stamp Challenge". First they have the design team projects then at the bottom of the post there are a bunch of little photos with the entries. For the Simon Says Stamp challenges they usually have 200-300+ entries. They pick out about 5-6 of their favorites and highlight them with a link, but there is a random winner of the gift certificate. See if it works when you click on the link at the very bottom of my post. Thank you for looking at my blog. It always tickles me to see a comment from you.

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  3. Lynn Koeppen

    December 11, 2016 at 5:26 am

    Very cute! I am always confused about the challenge. I click on your link hoping to see all of the entries, but can't seem to find them?

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