The Crafty Den: Christmas Kickstart challenge

Good morning lovely friends and welcome to the weekend; I hope you had a great week. I am back to share my second project as guest elf over at the Christmas Kickstart challenge for this month's theme of 'it's a gift'.

As I made a card last time I thought I would shake it up a little and make a gift box. I love decorating gift boxes and bags and I don't do it nearly often enough. It's not much space to fill plus it's an adorable way of gifting something small.

Here is my gift box:

A close look at the cute image:

I decorated the panels of the box:

I began by die cutting the gift box twice from kraft card and adhered them together with red line tape. I forgot to decorate the box before I stuck it together so die cut the coordinating panels and stamped the present image in a light brown ink randomly all over to resemble patterned paper. I attached all the panels with double sided tape. I stamped the adorable image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. I fussy cut the image as I don't have the coordinating dies for this set. I cut a white panel with the die, stamped a present in the bottom left corner (which I coloured with Promarkers) and a sentiment in the upper left corner. I attached the white panel onto the box with double sided tape and then adhered the penguin with foam squares. I found some small wooden embellishments recently in my stash and thought the candy cane would be the perfect finishing touch so I tied a length of natural twine around the candy cane and then tied it to the handle of the box (it's only a loose knot so can be undone when the time comes to fill the box). A really cute box and very easy to mass produce, especially if you remember to decorate the box before glueing it together!

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional twist anything but a card

Classic Design challenge - ATG option fancy fold (is a box a fancy fold?)

Craft Rocket challenge - no design paper

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG option fancy fold (is a box a fancy fold?)

Creative Inspirations challenge - Christmas in June

Creative Friday challenge - many layers

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option use sepia colours

Moving Along With The Times challenge - early Christmas

My Time To Craft challenge - winter

Sparkles Christmas challenge - use dies

The Holly & Ivy Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Triple B challenge - use at least one bird, bloom or butterfly (a penguin is a flightless bird)

I hope you can join in with the challenge; I can't wait to see your creations in the linky. Jo does a great job running the blog singlehandedly (with just her guest elves) so please pop over and check out her gorgeous card and leave her some love too. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jo for asking me to be a guest this month; it's been a delight being an elf and maybe one day I can join you again Jo.

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for stopping by.