Tabby Cat Favour Boxes

30th May 202412th Jul 2024 EsselleCrafts1 Comment

These little Tabby Cat Favour Boxes make the perfect gift box for any cat lover! Easy to assemble, you can make the tabby cat head in any colour you wish and adapt the colour of the eyes, nose, whiskers and stripes to match!

Three Tabby Cat Favour Boxes by Esselle Crafts

Ideal as little table favours or for a cat-themed party, you can fill them with sweets, chocolates or small gifts. You could even put some cat treats in them like I did – much to Prince’s delight! 🐈‍⬛

Silver Grey Tabby Cat Favour Box with cat treats by Esselle Crafts

Available from my Etsy shop, the template comes as an SVG cut file, as well as a PDF if you prefer to cut out by hand.

Two Tabby Cat Favour Boxes filled with treats by Esselle Crafts

PLUS you get an optional extra white face patch to create a bi-colour cat face!

Two Tabby Cat Favour Boxes by Esselle Crafts

To make one of these cat boxes, you will need:

* Tabby Cat Favour Box template (SVG and PDF available)
* Computer and printer to print the PDF templates and instructions
* Double-sided, textured cardstock (220-250gsm / 80-92lb recommended)* Craft glue / double-sided tapeIf you are not using a digital cutting machine, you will also need:

* Craft knife / scissors
* Scoring tool
* Ruler

Watch my video tutorial showing how to assemble the box and be sure to follow the tips below:

TIP 1 : After gluing the side panels on, gently curve the sides using your fingers or a bone folder before the glue dries. This will make assembling the box much easier and give it a neater finish.

Brown Tabby Cat Favour Box Assembly by Esselle Crafts

TIP 2 : Make sure that the (white) whiskers / mouth panel and the (black) eyes panel completely cover the cut out sections. They should line up like this:

The cat boxes measure approximately 11cm (W ) x 9.5cm (H) x 4cm (D) / 4.3″ (W ) x 3.74″ (H) x 1.6″ (D), however, this is only meant as a guide, as the templates can easily be re-sized to suit your needs.

Tabby Cat Favour Boxes by Esselle Crafts

I hope that I have inspired you to create your own little Tabby Cat favour boxes using my template and I can’t wait to see what you fill them with!

Suzanne

3D Papercraft Projects

Set of 15 Gift Tags

4th Apr 20246th Apr 2024 EsselleCraftsLeave a comment

Get ahead of the gifting game with my fabulous gift tag bundle! You get all 15 shaped designs in SVG, PNG and PDF formats, giving you the option to cut them out using your digital cutting machine or to print them and cut them out by hand.

Set of 15 gift tag shapes by Esselle Crafts

Using this instant download file, you can make and decorate your own gift tags for Chrsitmas! You can customize the tags for a themed celebration using your own colour scheme! Or how about using them for scrapbooking or journalling? There’s also card making, jewellery price tags, clothing labels and all sorts of other papercraft projects that they could be used for!

The download contains:

🎁 16 SVG cut files (one of each gift tag and the complete set of 15) These can easily be resized up or down to suit your needs without any loss of quality. I recommend setting the complete set of 15 tags to 28cm / 11″ (W ).

🎁 15 PNG files (one of each gift tag on a transparent background)

🎁 1 PDF file (with the complete set of 15 gift tags, black and white, outline only on A4) This can easily be resized up or down before printing to suit your needs.

🎁 1 numbered PNG file to help you to identify the individual gift tag shapes

They look stunning covered with vintage papers and I added some brown ink to the edges to create more of an aged appearance.

After adding a length of twisted twine to these two tags, I tied them to a handmade white gift bag.

What will you use the tags for? I can’t wait to find out!

Happy crafting
Suzanne

3D Papercraft Projects

Layered Butterflies

19th Mar 202411th May 2024 EsselleCraftsLeave a comment

My Butterfly Favour Bag has been hugely popular recently and I’ve had several people ask if I have any other butterfly designs that could be added to the bag.

This is something that I’d considered doing when I designed the first one and so, as I loved doing it, I have designed three more!

Set of 4 3D layered butterflies for paper crafts

The first one (that comes with the bag) is a likeness of a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly and the others are likenesses of a Peacock, a Monarch and a Speckled Wood butterfly.

I have the whole set of four butterflies available in my Etsy shop as SVG cut files as well PDFs if you prefer to cut out by hand.

Layered butterflies blog post by Esselle Crafts

They are so delightfully versatile and, as well as adding them to the favour bags, they can be used for all sorts of different papercraft projects.

Here I’ve used two of them on a greeting card.

Greeting card with two 3D layered butterflies cut from paper

The butterflies are super easy to assemble (consisting of only two layers) and look amazing with the top layer cut out of mirror card.

I can’t wait to see what you use them for! 🦋

Happy crafting
Suzanne

3D Papercraft Projects

Business Card Box Tutorial

13th Mar 202418th Mar 2025 EsselleCraftsLeave a comment

I recently updated my business card design to include my new website and some of my favourite 3D papercraft projects, and I’m so pleased with how it’s turned out!

So, this got me thinking … How can I safely store and present my lovely new set of 100 business cards, whilst keeping consistent with my brand?

And, of course, it had to be a handmade box!

A business card display box made from mint green cardstock and decorated with white spotty card holding 100 business cards.

This is how I made it …

I started by measuring the set of cards and worked out that I needed a 20cm x 20cm piece of cardstock. I chose the lovely vintage mint green colour to match my brand (and my Cricut Explore 🥰). I then used my scoring board to score the lines shown below and drew the diagonal lines at the sides with a pencil.

I folded and burnished the score lines, then cut the tabs as shown below.

Next, I added some patterned paper panels to the front (measuring 8.5cm x 1.5 cm) and the two sides (measuring 4.5cm x 5cm with the diagonal lines at 1.5cm).