This week I wanted to show you how to make this fun heart shaped candy box for the dolls. After all Valentine’s Day will be here in a few weeks and the dolls need to be ready.
Over on my dollhouse miniatures channel I have been making a lot of projects with free patterns that can be downloaded to make them much easier for my viewers to recreate. I decided to do some over here on the doll channel too. So this week I have free pattern for this candy box that you can find right here. The link will lead you to Google Drive where you will find a folder that contains the pattern in two forms. A PNG to be used with any electronic cutting machine that uses PNG files. (be sure to consult the text file for directions on sizing) In addition there is a PDF that can be printed and used if you are hand cutting the pieces.
I am happy to have you use the pattern to make candy boxes for yourself, your friends or even to sell. Just please don’t sell or share the pattern. If someone else wants to make one too send them to my video/blog post so they can download it themselves.
I am using just plain medium card stock in white for this project. I find that many colors of card stock fade badly and the painted stays true to color a bit better. Also, the paint helps to disguise the fact we made this from layers of card stock instead of a single layer of heavier material.
I am going to lead you through the process of what I did in the video here.
Let’s
start with the box bottom:
Once you have the pieces cut they should look like this:
I have 4 large hearts, 6 smaller hearts and 1 strips.
Set the strips off to the side for a bit and glue the hearts together in two stacks, one of the larger hearts and one of the smaller ones. Do your best to keep the edges lined up and even and use a small amount of thick glue. I do suggest drying the pieces under a bit of weight to help keep them flat.
Once dry we are going to add the wider of the two strips to the sides of the smaller heart. First use something like a blade of your scissors to slightly curl the strip then give it a fold in the center. Now line the fold up with the “v” at the top of the heart and glue it around. The strips are all cut a bit long so that you can trim them. Fold the end of the first side around the bottom of the heart. (I forgot to take a picture of this but I did take one of the pieces for the lid so check below if you can’t visualize what I am saying here) We will trim the second side when the glue dries. Be sure the strip is lined up with the back of the heart all the way around. Allow the glue to dry.
Once the glue is dry cut off the extra bit of the strip of paper at the bottom of the heart. Now repeat the process with the narrower strip being very careful to keep the long edges lined up at the back side of the heart. Allow to dry.
Once dry trim the strip just like we did before. Now it is time to glue this heart to the larger heart. Apply thick glue to the back of the small heart and do your very best to line it up in the center of the larger heart. You might need to weight down the smaller heart to keep it flat against the larger heart. Allow to dry.
Now we can proceed with the lid to the box. Here are the pieces cut out. The are the same as for the box bottom except the strips are narrower.
Glue the hearts together exactly as we did with the box bottom.
Now for the strips. Here is what they should look like when they are curled.
And here is what I mean by making the crease in the center.
Now for the big difference in the box lid from the box bottom. We need to glue the narrow strip on first this time. This will allow the top of the box to fit onto the box. Allow to dry.
Now add the wider strip to the lid. Allow to dry.
Again we need to glue the smaller heart with the sides glued onto it to the larger heart. Again being very careful to line it up in the center as best as you can. Allow to dry.
Once the glue has dried paint both pieces with some red (or your choice of color) craft paint. You will probably need two coats you want a nice even color. Allow to dry.
I used some wash tape to decorate the top of my box, you could to the same or use a pretty sticker, or you could paint a design, of add some Valentine paper, or leave it plain. I do suggest that if you use a sticker or wash tape you add it with a layer of glue instead of depending on the sticky to remain good. Some times over time the sticky baking can fail so glue will help the project still look nice in years to come. Allow any glue/paint used to decorate the box top to dry completely.
Now we need to add a thin even coat of Satin Mod Podge to both pieces avoiding the places that will touch when the lid is on the box. Allow to dry.
Now we have a wonderful candy box but no candy……
come back to the tutorial next week where will be making some chocolates to add to the box.
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