Upcycled Truffle Gift Box

More recently, I have found that I am looking at packaging and thinking how I can use it for my projects. At Christmas we received a lovely box of truffles and I immediately thought how I could decorate it, when all the chocolates had been eaten.

I measured the dimensions of the box and laid my patterned paper onto my cutting mat. I cut the pieces for the wrap around the box, the inside and top of the lid. It was so easy using the Transformation Menu in my Pazzles software to create the exact measurements for my paper piecing. The video tutorial in the Pazzles Craft Room called How to Resize Images helps you understand the capabilities of the Transformation Menu.

Then, I decided that I would decorate the lid using my favorite Twirled Flowers. I cut six flowers out of the blue spotted paper, and one flower with the reverse design of the double sided paper.

I rolled and curled the flower to get the look I wanted. I just went with what I felt looked good as no two flowers in nature are exactly the same. I spritzed the flowers with some Glimmer Mist and used my hot glue gun to adhere the flowers to the lid. I added a pearl droplet to the centre of each flower.

The box now looks so much prettier with the help of my Pazzles.

~Joanna