Creating a Box Card without a Box Card Die Set

I love box cards. That should be pretty obvious. I've made quite a few with my Cameo. I also love stitched lines that you get with dies. The Cameo stitch lines are barely noticeable by comparison. I looked at box card die sets, but they were pretty pricey, and with my husband's health issues, it just wasn't an expense that I could justify right now. I have all of the Queen & Co. card making Foundation dies sets, though, and as I was looking at them, I got the idea to use them to make a box card that would have stitch lines.  I posted the card earlier both here and on the Queen & Co. Facebook Royalty page. Someone there asked me to give a link to "the tutorial."  At the time, the tutorial was in my head, and nowhere online as far as I knew. I said that I would try to make a tutorial when I had time. I've taught a lot of classes, but I've never made a video, so it was a learning process. It's not perfect, but it turned out fairly well, and it will teach you a few new things if you choose to watch it. If you don't have the Queen & Co. dies, you can probably use other, similar dies, that you already have on hand. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2ESsUG6MfCl_6py5ImaxA

And here is a reminder of what the box card looked like, that I made exclusively using Queen & Co. dies:

Summer Cards with Scraps: Lemonade and Patriotic

The sentiment and lemonade stamps for this first card are a set that I bought off Amazon, probably last year, possibly longer ago. The papers were scraps left over from a previous project. I found the papers at Tuesday Morning long ago. I used Foundation dies for both cards. The rectangles and fishtail banner of the top card are from Foundation Die sets 3, 8, 11, and 10 respectively.

I used Foundation Die sets 2,4,8, and 11 for the card below. I used scraps from a previous project, but the patterned papers were from the BoBunny Celebrating Freedom Collection, also found at Tuesday Morning before the pandemic.

I've found a lot of fun papers, dies, and more at Tuesday Morning over the years. Sadly, they seem to be gradually phasing out their paper craft section. I don't live near any LSS, and I'm not a fan of the papers from the big box stores. I will miss the Tuesday Morning treasure hunt, but I've been crafting mainly from my stash for a long time, anyway.

Tim Holtz Village samples from Goldenshill Paper Arts Store

First, a disclaimer: the photos are mine, taken with permission, but I did not make any of the samples shown below.

Back in 2016, Tim Holtz Village Sizzix dies were on sale at Goldenshill. I saw the samples in the store that had been made with them, and I bought the dies. It was totally an impulse buy, but the samples were impressive! I was decluttering photos from my phone this afternoon, and I came across the photos I had taken so long ago. I usually post only cards and crafts that I have designed and made myself, but I don't want to forget about these. Hopefully this will remind and encourage me to get out these dies and get creative.

The Time Holtz Village dies are going to be re-released in the fall, in a smaller size, and as a complete set of Thinlets dies.  Here is a link to photos and announcement:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/193394460@N06/albums/72157719501616592/

 

And here are photos of the samples on display at Goldenshill that I took almost 5 years ago:

 

And my favorite:

And here is what a couple of my grandkids made with them: