Everyone
loves watermelon and candy especially my grandkids! I made these candy boxes
for them that look just like sweet pieces of watermelon, and am sharing how you
can make them too using Tonic Studio’s Cake Slice Box Die and Nuvo Ebony Black
Crystal Drops.
Supplies
used to make this card:
Here are the
steps to make these watermelon sweets gift boxes:
1. Die cut two main cake slice box pieces out of thick white
cardstock. (As you can see from the die set picture above, there are 16 pieces in
this cake slice die set with lovely floral layers, but I am using the
main cake slice and the round tag pieces only for this project.) Fold all scored lines on both
pieces and apply very thin red liner tape to the thin side folds. Remove the
cover on one of the skinny tape pieces and attach the two cake slice pieces
together as shown:
2. Create
the watermelon seeds by shaping them with Nuvo Ebony Black Crystal Drops on
release paper. These could be done directly on the finished boxes, but it is
easier to make a bunch of the watermelon seeds on release paper, let them dry
and then apply your favorites to the completed boxes with a glue dot. The
crystal drops seeds are larger than a typical crystal drop embellishment and
take at least an hour to dry.
3. Sponge green Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink along the
top of the two attached box pieces and Fired Brick Distress Oxide Ink along the
bottom of the box pieces. Fill in with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink
blending with the red and leaving a little white under the green.
4. Spray the sponged pieces with water in Nuvo’s Light Mist
Spray Bottle and blot with a paper towel. The water creates spots on the
Distress Oxide inks as shown here:
5. Remove
the last thin line tape piece and fold together to form the watermelon slice box. Seal the
bottom of the box with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.
6. Attach
the watermelon seeds with small glue dots.
7. Slide
the tabs on the top of the box to close and tie a black checked ribbon bow
through the holes after filling the box with candy.
8. The
Dimensions Cake Slice Box Die Set includes a cute “Eat Me” tag that you can
choose whether or not to include on your watermelon sweets gift box. I sponged
a couple scraps of white cardstock with Fired Brick and Cracked Pistachio
Distress Oxide Inks and die cut the scalloped stitched circle, the regular
circle and the “eat me” sentiment out of a black scrap in my Tonic Tangerine
die cutting machine. My orange die cutting plate is worn with thousands of cuts
but it never bends and still cuts beautifully every time.
9. Attach
the black sentiment circle to the red circle and then to the green scalloped
circle with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive, and then attach to one of the watermelon
slice boxes. Fill the boxes with candy and the sweet watermelon treat boxes are done.
My
grandchildren are going to love these sweet candy filled watermelon boxes. I hope they will think “they are the juice!” I was inspired to make them by the
watermelon box shared on
this blogpost using a different box die.
