Chocolate box

 

I saw a card online made using a TL chocolate box die which I loved.  But the lady said that the die is old and I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I saw TH has one out now at £25 - so, moving on, I made my own using a Sue Wilson heart die.

I used snippets of mirri card and originally this was going to be a test run, but it worked out ok. I recut the heart using just the bottom of the die to give some depth to the box and stuck it behind the original heart. I used a TL bow from a TL wreath and for the ribbon I cut it by hand and scored it to look like material gathered. I then used a pokey tool to punch the edges and put some detail on the bottom edge of the box. 

I backed the two halves with some snippet card from my box. My biggest concern was how to make chocolates? I found some brown and chocolate metallic card for the rose and violet creams (did you guess that's what they are?). Then my proudest moment was using a TH inlay die and using just a corner to make that swirl, just like you see on chocolates. 

I used a piece of vellum all over the base and then a polka dot paper for the box to stand out from the background. The sentiments are from a PB set.

As I doubt I will ever feel the need to make a card like this again, happy to have saved myself from buying another die set lol!

I'm off to the Snippets Playground to show everyone as apart from the base papers I used everything from my snippet box. Unfortunately they aren't real chocolates to share.