Box of Candy Hearts Card- December Release sneak peek

It’s Karen Burniston’s SNEAK PEEK WEEK, and I know I say this every time but I’ve got to say this is such a fun release. These candy hearts take me back to my grade school Valentine’s Days 💝 and I had so much fun creating with them.

Here is the link to Karen’s Preview Video

I had the idea in my head to have the candy hearts on the Heart Collage Pop up, but I thought it would be missing something, like why the candy hearts would be moving around 🤔 so I played a little bit and got the Candy Heart Box to fit in the card 🤯

All the fun is in the reveal, to see this card in action please check out my FACEBOOK page, feel free to join if you would like to share your own crafty creations. You can also see a video of this card on my INSTAGRAM page.

1A- I needed the card to be at least 4” x 9” so I made the card base using the dimensions below. The card base is pink, and the panels are white.

B- I added the borders to the inside as shown.

2A- I diecut the candy hearts from 7 different pastel colours.

B- I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen,

3- I diecut 2 Bam Boxes from the Small Scenes Bam Box dieset. And assembled (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

I’m down to my last piece of this shade of purple cardstock and I needed the candy box to match the candy hearts and bam boxes so when I made the mistake below I had to go with it and make it work.

So first I diecut the square on the wrong side of the box, I cut the square through the back side and not the front side. Also I laid the Bam Boxes down the way I thought they would go but I ended up having to put them in horizontally not vertically.

4- I added a piece of clear plastic to the inside of the window

5A- I started adding hearts to the inside back of the box, so they are visible from the front

B- then I started adding them to the inside of the window.

C- this is what it looks like at this point.

6A- this is where I actually figured out that my box was backward. I cut the flaps off of both ends of the box, the top one because the box is backwards, the bottom because the box won’t fold flat in the card if the bottom flap is closed. Keep the top flap handy.

B- I added the first bam box vertically on the bottom corner next to the flap.

C- then close and adhere the flap. This is what it should look like.

D- making sure the second Bam Box is going to fold in the same direction as the first, add adhesive to three sides, the side that will touch the top, bottom and the sidewall. It needs to go on the opposite corner as the first one. When I put in the Bam boxes I was planning on it folding towards the back of the card.

7A- I added the flap back on to the card on what is the back side as shown.

B- one of the Bam boxes was visible through the window so I covered it with the pink heart.

8A- cut out and assemble the mechanism for the Heart Collage Pop up (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ )

B- I adhered the candy box to the card, making sure there is room for it to fold in towards the back so the card will close. If you prefer you can have the box fold towards the front just make sure your bam boxes are put in reverse of what I did.

C- Add the Heart Collage mechanism to the card base with the center being 2” from the right side.

D- Start adding hearts, MAKING SURE you open and close the card often to check that the mechanism can open and close freely and there are no catch points.

Because the Candy Box, has 2 Bam Boxes in it I needed a closure for that side of the card.

9A- cut a piece of patterned paper to the dimensions below

B- I used a matching piece of pink paper cut into the long strip (dimensions below) I made a section roughly in the middle that is 4 1/8” with score lines on each end. Glue this section to the back of the card with the 2 flaps coming over to the front

C- using the hearts from the Candy Heart Box Set I created the closure part. I sandwiched 2 white hearts, a magnet, and a piece of ribbon to the top flap. I added a purple heart to the front

D- for the bottom flap I sandwiched the magnet between 2 candy hearts.

E- I added 2 candy hearts to the closure.