2011 Hops in Like a Rabbit

Happy New Year! For my very first project of the year and in celebration of the Year of the Rabbit, I made up a little over a dozen of these large trapezoid boxes filled with goodies to give to relatives at our New Years get together. I found a Design Studio cutfile for large chipboard boxes created and shared by Tanya Strom over at Custom Crops.

Tanya's cutfile was for just the right size box I was looking for, but because it was intended to be constructed from chipboard and tape, the sides of the box are not connected in the original cutfile.  Since I wanted to use cardstock instead to make my boxes, I tweaked & modified Tanya's file in Design Studio a bit by welding the sides and bottom together, adding scorelines for folding and tabs to the sides that needed to be glued.

The finished size of this box is large...about 7 inches wide, 4-1/2 inches high and about 3-1/2 inches in depth...and takes 3 sheets of 12x12 cardstock to create. The bottom of the box is reinforced with two layers of cardstock, which makes it sturdy enough to hold at least a dozen or more cookies.

To decorate my boxes, I wanted to use washi paper, but with each box requiring 1-1/2 sheets of 8x11 paper, and over a dozen boxes to embellish, I knew I would run short. Instead, I used a scanned image of some washi paper I had, printed up on Ice Gold Text. The rabbit is a cutfile created using Make The Cut (MTC) from an image found on the internet. Filled the boxes with goodies and finished it off with some ribbon tied into a bow.