Bastelesel

Who doesn’t love them, these cute boxes for little give-aways. I found this version on several blogs posting on pinterest.com and tried them immediately. Choose one size of the free template and transfer it to your selected card stock. Simply cut it out and fold as marked. Fill in your praline or candy and slip wings into each other. The small box just fits for a single praline and I made it with plain-colored card stock matching with my paper napkins, flowers and tea light holders. The edges are embellished by small fancy handmade designs. Wanting to use them as seating cards simply write the name of your guest on one of the wings or mark with “Thank you” if you want to take them as give-aways. Alternating with little flower vases they look very nice too as a center piece.

The same procedure as for the apples on Tuesday but different sizes and papers. As already mentioned these balls are perfect for using leftovers of all kinds of cardstock papers. My lovely paper napkins influenced the choice of color and the length of my strips was determined by some coconut truffles. These are hidden inside my paper balls and can be savoured either directly with a nice cup of tea or taken home in their neat wrapping. As for the bottom I also used a jiffy clip for the top to close the ball. I usually conceal it with a nice satin ribbon. (Just for the blue ball I left the clip visible to show how the strips are gathered on top.) Here you can as well fix a little name tag for every guest. If you’re suffering paper ball fever then simply make some more of these balls and place them in the middle of your table. According to paper design and size of the balls they can be used for decorating windows or your Christmas Tree.
Go ahead, cut some strips and stick them together for nice balls.

Autumn is coming and with it lots of crisp and fresh apples. For a tea time invitation I hid some apples in woven paper balls which I placed in a little chip basket. You can buy those strips cut and folded but I took leftovers of different papers to cut them myself. For a small apple you need 4 strips with a length of 9-10 inches and a width of 0.5 inch. All strips are punched at both ends and in their middle. Therefor fold each strip and punch both ends at once, open again and punch in the middle. Stick together 4 strips with the help of a jiffy clip and then place the apple in the middle of the paper “star”. If the stipes are long enough the open ends of all strips can be attached here. A small ribbon bow prevents the ball from reopening. If stipes are too short just take a thin twig (I always keep a certain stock of those materials at home) and place it beside to loop up the paper strips. Cut a small leaf of green cardstock and place it beneath the little bow. For an autumnal table setting these apples can easily replace the traditional place cards. Simply write the name of your guests on that little green leaf. To avoid toppling of your apple pass your jiffy clip through a paper circle first.
For some further decoration I chose different paper leftovers. Pictures and description to follow within the next days.