A New Year and a JAI Blog Hop!

Well welcome back to our regular weekly challenges! 

We have a Big Shot Blog Hop for Challenge #149 and its a pearler! Instead of posting the pics of each of our members' projects involved in this blog hop..we will be starting with Mae and then going on a blog hop around the Design Team. If you get lost along the way, come back here and click on the next link down the bottom of this post.

The challenge of course this week is, to use the Big Shot or any diecut machine on your card, scrapbooking page or box/project etc. 

And here's what the Design Team came up with ...

So off we go on the first Blog Hop Journey  to Mae Collins. 

Click on the Big shot badge to go to the next blog.

Here is our Big Shot Blog Hop order if you get lost.

Mae

Delys

Nikki

Christine

Tina

Chantell

Jodene

Patrice

Kim

Trish

Narelle

JUST ADD INK RULES

• Create a card, layout or 3D project using our challenge as inspiration.
• Link your post, NOT your whole blog back here.
• Your project must be new, created for this challenge and combined with no more than 5 other challenges.
• Please mention JUST ADD INK in your blog post and provide a link so others can come and join in the fun too.
• Please DO NOT use your challenge entry as self promotion. We are here to have fun and encourage creativity.
• We reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with the above guidelines.
• The challenge closes each Wednesday at 10.00 pm (AEST) Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Id like to apologise to Bronwyn Eastley and Helen Heil for deleting their submissions during this challenge. It was a mistake on my part and I apologise profusely to you both of you for deleting your gorgeous submissions! We hope you will join us again for our challenges girls!

Big Shot Tutorial - Top Note Box

I shared this box on my blog, and today I'm sharing a step by step tutorial on how to make it.  I want to be really clear - I didn't design this!  There are lots of variations of this box on the internet, I've just re-done this in centimetres rather than inches.

Big Shot Tutorial

Top Note Box

Supplies:
Big Shot
Top Note Die
Horizontal Slot punch
Adhesives
Ribbon
2 pieces of card stock -

• 1 cut to 14cm x 20.5cm
• 1 A5 size/half an A4 sheet (15cm x 21cm) scored down the centre to make an ordinary sized card (15cm x 10.5cm)

Step One

Score your 14cm x 20.5cm piece of cardstock. 

On the long side, score at 2.5cm, 9cm, 11.5cm, and 18cm. 

On the short side, score at 2.5cm and 11.5cm.

Step Two

After scoring, cut the score lines along the long sides up to the 2.5cm score line (this will make the tabs that will hold the box together).

Step Three

On one side, glue four of the tabs (to the inside) to form a basic box. 

On the other side, glue the remaining two tabs (to the inside) to form the top of the box. 

As shown in photo.

Step Four

To make the Top Note top and base for your box, you need to run a folded card through the Big Shot.  

Lay your folded card on the Top Note Die so the score line sits just below the perforation marks on one side. 

Run through your Big Shot - this is how it will look when it comes out.

Step Five

Cut the card in half on the score line. 

You now have your top and bottom panels for your box. 

If you want to stamp or embellish your panels, now is the time to do it.

Step Six

Use the Hoizontal Slot punch to punch slots on the outer edge for the ribbon to go through. 

Attach the top and base panels to your box - I've used Tombow glue. 

The top panel should go on the part of the box that only has two tabs attached as the box will open and close more easily this way.

Step Seven

Use Sticky Strip or Snail Adhesive to attach your ribbon to the back edge of the box. 

Leave the rest of the ribbon unglued. 

Add any extra embellishments.


You're finished!

Finished Top Note Box

I hope you found this tutorial useful!  We'd love to see your Top Note Boxes, so feel free to leave a comment with a direct link to your creation.

To see other tutorials on Just Add Ink, click HERE.