Special Delivery Valentines

Happy, Happy Valentines Day! This year I made these fun post office drop box type mailboxes to help me share the love with special friends and family. The svg cutfile for these adorable boxes were designed by the super talented Mary Kowal, and may be purchased at her site, SVG Cuts. Love that all the pieces needed put this project together cut so clean, and that assembly video tutorials are provided for every project.

I used Bazzill Bling Feather Boa for the mailbox bases and some fun heart patterned cardstock from MMBI to decorate the front door and side inset panels. The round medallions on the side panels were designed using Calibiri and Armonioso fonts in Microsoft Word and cut out with circle punches.

On the front door, I added a paper pieced teddy from the "SWAK" file from Designs On Cloud 9. Thought he looked so cute peeking out of his little envelope filled with hearts!

Then a "Special Delivery" banner with scalloped heart and flower accents were created in Make the Cut and added to the top of the mailbox.

The finished size of this is quite large, 6-1/2" tall, 5" wide, 3-3/4" deep...but what I loved most about this is how the door on the front drops down so you can fill these up with lots of goodies! I baked up a couple batches of Cranberry Shortbread cookies (recipe from Craisins website) and filled each mailbox with over a dozen cookies with still lots of room to spare. Unfortunately, with the day for Chinese New Years falling so close to Valentines Day this year, I only had time enough to make ten of these...so much fun to put together but a little time consuming...darned, wish I had gotten started earlier!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful time celebrating the love this weekend!