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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is part of a post I have over on the Our Daily Bread designs blog<\/a> today. I hope you’ll stop by and let me know what you think of my redone card holder box I made to go with this card.\u00a0 Recently, I saw a flower pot card and thought I’d like to give it a try. There’s a tutorial<\/a> for this card on Splitcoast and I’ve also seen it on several blogs.\u00a0 This blog<\/a> had not only the instructions but a printable template as well. I made the pot part of my card with a dotted dp and added a coordinating wide band I cut w\/ a Quickutz scallop border die.\u00a0 A third dp pattern was used to make a narrower scalloped band. Instead of the ribbon for the closure, I made a narrow belly band, again using one of the scallop border dies. I attached the punched butterflies on top and slipped it over the lip of the flower pot.<\/p>\n The sentiment was cut using the new, exclusive ODBD\/Spellbinders Labels One die.\u00a0 I traced around the same die and hand cut the striped layer. For the insert, I stamped several tulips and daffodils on the three patterns of dp and cut them out. I stamped the greeting and layered the ivory onto a piece of the striped dp. A narrow piece of the scalloped edge dot dp left over from the belly band was attached down the side.<\/p>\n Here’s a pic of the entire set please head over to the ODBD Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n Right about now, you’re probably wondering what’s up with this box. I found it in my local craft store with the trendy desktop\/scrapbook organizing items when it was on sale. The label stated it was a photo holder. Since it’s made to hold 4 x 6 photos, I reasoned it would also hold A2 (4.25 x 5.5) cards as well as larger cards if they were put in sideways. I usually have quite a few cards I’ve made that will be going out to different people throughout the coming weeks. I don’t want to put them away because I’ll forget, but I don’t like to have them just laying on the table either. I thought this would be a good place to hold them until I’m ready to mail.\n<\/p><\/div>\n Here’s the before pic of the box:\n<\/p><\/div>\n Well the colors are ok, but I wanted something a little different. I just finished making a really cute Flower Pot card and decided to use the papers to recover my box. I started by prying off the bottom and since it has a clear vinyl insert covering the window, I peeled it off from the inside. (It was attached to the final paper covering from the inside.) I left all the other paper “as is”. Using the box as a starting point, I cut out one piece from the dotted 12 x 12 sheet that went around the back, both sides and about a half inch on each side of the front. The exact measurements are: 5 1\/8″ x 11 1\/2″. On this piece I scored it (from the left side) at 1\/2″, 2 1\/2″, 9″ and 11″. From the bottom, I scored up 3\/8″ inch, and at 4 1\/2″ and 4 5\/8″ inches. These narrow bands became the the bottom overlap (to be covered by the bottom piece) and at the top where it folds over to the inside.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n