It is officially February and love is in the air! Let’s celebrate those warm-hearted feelings with a couple of enchanting, new designs. All you need is love in your heart…and a few sheets of cardstock, to make these fancy envelope boxes.
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Supplies
- Cardstock
- Precision Craft Glue or a Glue Stick
- Bone Folder (optional)
- A Cutting Machine or X-ACTO knife
- My Free Template
How to Make It
1. Use your cutting machine or X-ACTO knife, along with my template, to cut out all of the pieces for your fancy envelope boxes.
Note: If you are using the SVG files that includes the score lines, don’t forget to set them as such in Cricut Design Space and attach them to their shapes before sending them through your cutting machine. I used a lime green color to mark the score lines, so hopefully that helps! If you’re having trouble with the score lines, check out this video.
Layering Your Pieces
2. Layer all of the decorative panels like so. Then, layer on the fine-detailed pieces in the center of each of the rectangular strips.
Assembling the Box
3. Fold along the score lines of each of your box pieces and then lay everything flat, with the decorative sides facing up. Attach the two smaller flaps to the shorter ends of the base, and the two larger flaps to the longer ends of the base.
With everything attached to the base, flip it over and fold each of the sides up. Attach the little tabs to the inside of each of the box walls.
Fold the two shorter flaps in first, then the two larger ones over them, with the detailed flap on the very top.
Assembling the “Wax Seal”
4. Layer the three pieces of the heart-shaped “wax seal.” Add glue to the backside of the seal, but only on the bottom portion (leave some space for the flap to be able to slip inside).
Attach the seal to the lower flap on your envelope box, and your pretty project is complete!
Compared to some of my other designs, these boxes are fairly simple to put together, but super pretty and practical nonetheless! I designed them to be just slightly larger than standard 5″x7″ greeting cards, so that you really could use them as storage boxes for cards, or as a keepsake box for sweet letters that you might have.
Of course, they work pretty darn well as treat boxes too, though!
I use Adobe Illustrator for all of my designs, and a Cricut Maker to bring my creations to life. For tips on creating fun paper cuts like this one, see the FAQ section on my website. Also, be sure to check out the other fun freebies available on my blog!
Enjoy putting these fancy envelope boxes together. And don’t forget to share your fun finished projects with me on Instagram!
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Mandee is a professional graphic designer, amateur bird watcher, and rollercoaster enthusiast. She is a wife to hardworking high school teacher and mommy to three adorable little humans. She fell in love with graphic design when she started working on a comedy website with a guy she met her freshman year of college. Design wasn’t the only thing she fell in love with, and they were married a year and a half later. She created Designs By Miss Mandee to be a place where she could merge her passion for design with her lifelong love of crafting. 10 Comments on Fancy Envelope Boxes – Valentine’s Day Cut Files
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Mary Ellen
February 1, 2023 at 7:19 am (2 months ago)Wow this box is gorgeous thanks so much
Mandee
February 1, 2023 at 9:39 am (2 months ago)Thank you Mary Ellen! I’m so glad you like them. 😊
Thuong
February 1, 2023 at 8:59 am (2 months ago)These are super cute! I love your cardstock choices 😍
Mandee
February 1, 2023 at 9:41 am (2 months ago)Thank you!! I wasn’t 100% sure about them at first, but I’m really happy with how they turned out. 😀
Helen J Roberts
February 1, 2023 at 9:10 am (2 months ago)Fabulous file. These are perfect for Valentine’s Day as well as any other sweetheart gifting.
Thank you for another wonderful file.
Mandee
February 1, 2023 at 9:41 am (2 months ago)You are so welcome! I’m glad you like them Helen!!
Sharon F
February 1, 2023 at 1:37 pm (2 months ago)I am over the mood about these boxes! I am also happy because they are 5 x 7, which is the size cards that I make. Hopefully I will be able to make them with all of your fabulous instructions. Thank you so much!
Mandee
February 2, 2023 at 10:48 am (2 months ago)Yay! Yes, I wanted them to be able to store 5×7 cards, so I’m glad that feature will be useful to you! Have fun putting them together. 😊
Dawn DeBlois
February 2, 2023 at 1:10 am (2 months ago)This is a great and very useful project Mandee. Your Box design is pretty WOW! and I suspect that it will be perfect for 3D cards. .Thank you again for sharing your fab creations and for all your hard work. D
Mandee
February 2, 2023 at 10:48 am (2 months ago)Aww, thank Dawn! I’m so glad you like them!!