You may remember that last year I updated my business card to include my new website and some of my favourite 3D papercraft projects, and I also created this little box to display 100 of the cards in.
Well, now I’ve created a different kind of box to hold 70 cards. I went to a networking event recently and this was so handy to carry around to give the cards out.
This is how I made it …
I started by measuring a set of 70 cards and worked out that I needed a 6cm x 15.7cm piece of cardstock, a 13cm x 9.5 piece of cardstock and a 2.5cm x 19cm strip for the belly band. I used the lovely vintage mint green colour again to match my other box and used my scoring board to score the lines shown below, then I cut out the tabs.
I assembled the box using my favourite glue (Cosmic Shimmer Special Acrylic Glue) and started with the front section.
This is how the front section looks from the side once the back piece was glued on and folded over.
Next, I cut out some patterned paper panels to cover each of the sides.
After gluing the panels on, I put all 70 business cards inside the holder, then wrapped the belly band around the centre. I creased all four edges using my bone folder, then trimmed it in the centre and glued the ends loosely together.
As a finishing touch, I die cut a circle out of mint cardstock and a smaller one out of white cardstock and glued them onto the belly band. I then printed and cut out my logo and glued this to the centre.
I love that it perfectly compliments my business card display box, and my cards were kept safe and neatly presented at the event 🥰
What do you think? Will you be giving this project a try?
Happy crafting!
Suzanne
Esselle Crafts 