MFT Outside the Box – MailBox Interactive Cards

Mft outside the box dies interactive mailbox card

Hi friends! I’m sharing a re-modeled design for an interactive card shaped like a MailBox. A few months back, I thought of this design while I was using my favourite MFT Outside the Box dies. But I find the size of the card too small so I revisited my crafting desk and decided to modify the previous mailbox card. This time, I used navy blue and red cardstocks.

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I cut the cardstocks first to the desired dimension. The first piece was folded like a regular card base, and then a second piece just one layer with the same dimension as the card base. Then I run the card base and the single piece cardstock through the die cut machine, using MFT Outside the Box dies, but cutting only the top portion to create the arch.

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I lined up the cardbase and single piece cardstock and punched the bottom part using my Stampin’ Up! Timeless label punch. This makes the feet of the mail box.

I worked on the single piece of cardstock first. For the slot where you drop your mails, I used a silver cardstock and cut it using a small label die. Then I used a smaller label die to cut a hole in the middle. If you don’t have applicable dies, you can just cut a rectangle with a pair of scissors and cut a hole with a craft knife. I traced the hole on the blue cardstock and cut it a craft knife. This is where the interactive message goes through.

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Then I decorated the middle part with my Scrap Dragon Dies Stitched Square Scallop Frames, I used the second largest square die. For the inner part, I used the same coloured cardstock, and for the scalloped frame, I used a silver cardstock. I cut from the same silver cardstock the word HELLO from Poppystamps dies. For embellishment, I punched tiny flowers in shades of coral pink and leaves from yellow green cardstock. I used the leaf dies from Lawn Fawn Centre Picture Heart Add-on. I also added pearls on the centre of my flowers.

Here is the red version of the mailbox. For this design, I decided to keep it even more simple. I just added a border design stamp at the top of HELLO and heat embossed it in gold. For embellishments, I used gold snowflakes (they’re just nail art embellishments by the way).