AAA Birthday challenge #80 - box card

Good morning lovely friends and welcome to the last month of 2025!  I can't believe it's already December 1st - where did November go?   As it's the first of the month it means we have a brand new challenge over at AAA Birthday. This month's theme is 'box card' which may sound intimidating but there are lots of tutorials out there to follow (there are links over on the challenge blog if you want check them out).  Our guest designer again this month is the talented Sigrid so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

To create my box card I used a die set from Studio Light, which I have used once before to make a birthday box card for our cat Willow, which you can see here.  This time around I simply used all the dies in the set to create my card and I think it turned out so pretty and girly.  I hope you like it.   There are a few more photos today as I tried to get as many good views of the project as possible!

Here is my box card:

Plus I added a white panel on the back to write my message:

To create the box you need to die cut two of the pieces and adhere them together to make the box shape so I began by die cutting two of them from black card.  I adhered them together with strong red line tape so I know they would stay secure.  I also cut three of the supports for the inside of the box from black card.  I used a very old but a really pretty paper pad to cut the layers (the stripe paper has glitter running through it and looks beautiful in real life) and cut the back panel from white card and stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.   I then added them to the box with liquid glue. As I said I decided to stick with just the dies in the set so cut the butterflies from pink and orange scrap card (to match the papers) and also cut some leaves from paper from the pad.  I also die cut the grass from two different colours of green card from my scraps bin.  I stamped the happy birthday sentiment onto white card and used the decorative label die to cut it out; I also cut the layer from black card.  I adhered them together with liquid glue.  It was now time to decorate the box.  I adhered the grass to the inside supports with liquid glue and then added them into the box with more of the red line tape.  I adhered two of the smaller butterflies directly to the grass and box with liquid glue but the others had a tiny piece of acetate stuck to the backs with double sided tape so that they look like they are flying above the grass.  I did cover the backs with another butterfly to hide the tape.  These three butterflies were then adhered to the supports with red line tape.  I adhered two more of the butterflies to the side flaps with foam squares and the sentiment to the front also with foam squares.  I added two leaves behind the sentiment label (but not sure if I like them now lol!) and finished off with some black pearls in the centres of each of the butterflies.  I also added a butterfly to the white panel on the back.  At the last moment I decided to cut two banners, one from orange and one from pink card for the back flap; I adhered the orange one with liquid glue and the pink one with foam squares.  A really sweet box card and the added bonus is that is folds flat and will fit in an A2 envelope.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

* to be updated *

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs. I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Have a great day.

Love and hugs,

box card supplies:

Studio Light - exploding box die set (SL-ES-CD116)

MFT - sweet 16 stamp (for happy birthday sentiment)

DCWV - Nana's nursery - baby girl 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" paper pad

Limetree Craft - 220gsm black card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Gina K Designs - on the inside stamp set (for sentiment on the back)

Gina K Designs - mini pearl mix - black, gold & silver

coloured card from scraps bin

acetate from stash

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Thank you x