Tea for colder days

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The weather is cooling as we head into gift giving season, why not give the gift of hot tea. I created a simple accordion style tea gift box. The box holds 3 standard size tea bags. I used the Papers 1 Winnie Christmas Wishes paper on the outer areas of the box. I created a belly band for the closure featuring an adorable penguin from 2 Cute Christmas Penguins. I also added Tis’ the Season to the belly band from Christmas greetings, quotes, and sentiment pack. 

2 Cute Christmas Penguins Digital Stamp download – Winnie White 

Christmas greetings, quotes, sentiments printable stamp craft card making scrapbooking

Papers 1 – Winnie Christmas Wishes digi scrap printable download

This little penguin was so fun to color and adds the perfect embellishment to this Tea gift box. And if I am being honest, you can whip these up in 30 min or less. That is of course after the trial and error with the first one lol. There are many closure options, but for the least expensive one I went with belly band because I plan on giving a bunch of these to friends at our co-op. You could use other closure, magnet, Velcro or even ribbon.

I used a corner rounder to round my edges for the fold down flap and my cute penguin. And added the Tis the Season sentiment to finish off the box. The box will hold 3 standard tea bags, so have some fun and mix and match your teas.

There are many different styles of this gift box out there, here are the measurements I used.

Measurements for Gift Box:

• Blue Green Box base: 3? x 8 3/4?
  • Scored along the 8 3/4? (long) side at 3 1/8?, 3 3/4?, 6 7/8?, and 7 1/2?
• Green: accordion side pieces (2 pieces) – 3-1/16? x 3?
  • Score along the 3? side at 3/8?, 1 1/8?, 1 7/8? and 2 5/8?
  • Flip cardstock and score at 3/4?, 1 1/2? and 2 1/4?
• Green Gusset: 3 1/16? x 2 7/8? (4 pieces)
• Winnie Paper Haven 1 Bulbs and Holly leaf digital paper:
  • 3? x 2 7/8? (2 pieces)
  • 2 7/8? x 1 1/8? (1 piece)
• Green Belly band:
  • 1″ x 7″ you will cut off any extra when you attach your image

Ohuhu Marker Colors Used:

Penguin Body and face: CGIIO4, CGIIOO CG5, CG050, GG060, YR180, YR170,RV030

Holly, berries, scar: R180, R8, G130,G170, G190

Ice under penguin: BG4, B110

I added this project to this month’s The Paper Funday Challenge! This month is an Anything Goes with an optional twist Tag. Be sure to head over and link up your project!

I hope this Gift box gets you inspired to start crafting and if it does be sure to leave a comment!