It's a Cracker!!!

Hello and welcome back...

Today I have been making these fun Mini Christmas Crackers....

Here is a box of six crackers that I made which would be great to give as a gift, especially if you filled the crackers with gifts personal to the recipients....

The box has an acetate lid so that you can see the contents, check back tomorrow for more details on how to make it.

The crackers are simplicity itself, you start with a piece of DSP 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". I used the lovely Merry Moments Designer Series Paper. Then using your scoring board score at 1",1 1/2",2" and 4 1/2", 5", 5 1/2" along the long side, then turn and score at 1", 2", 3" and 4" along the short side.

Once you have done that you can fold all the creases ready to go in the Envelope Punch Board.

Place the long side in the board and line it up at 1 1/2" and 5" and punch. Do this for each of the creases and it should look like this....

You do not punch the smallest tab which you use to glue it together...

Once glued you can push the ends in a little and it will look more like a cracker....

Put some ribbon around one end and carefully tie it into a bow.

Before tying the other end pop in the gift or chocolate and then decorate it, you could put names on them and use them as table favours..

They are so cute and ideal for any occasion not just Christmas, I'm thinking about doing some for Halloween, but they would be great for parties of all kinds...

I hope you enjoyed, pop back tomorrow to see how the box is made...
Thanks for stopping by...
Happy Crafting X