Fils et Papiers: Olga Romanenko (inspiración)

miércoles, 16 de enero de 2019

Ideas for Valentine's Day

Fils & Papiers enero 16, 2019 20 Comments

Hi everyone!

I hope each of you had a great year!

Today I want to give you some ideas for any occasion where you want to give a small detail,

like chocolate, not only on Valentine's Day.

If you have bought a chocolate box maybe you can embellished the cover, as I did.

Could not be easier!

To cover the box I measured the "face" of the cover and the sides too and I cut the whole piece.

And this looks like a card, right?

Yep! It's a card. But there is more.

What do you think about the idea of an "embedded" card to a box?

I've seen this type of chocolate bar packaging many times and it seems a very nice way to beautify a gift, but the idea of embedded card I've only seen it in a mini candy boxes that Olga Romanenko made.

I thought it was a lovely idea and I wanted to try to do this in big size. And it's not really hard to do.
It's more the work that takes than the difficulty. But you should have your chocolate bar
(or whatever you want to keep inside) in front of you to take the measurements well.

So, maybe you love red or pink color but what do you think about this color palette? I used 3 scrap papers from "Cozy Winter" paper collection and this great chipboard. I thought that this heart would be too much but I loved it, this chipboard is amazing.

I've tried to choose smaller embellishments than the heart and in the same blue, cream and brown colors than the papers. I used Freetany paper flowers (28 Little boy and 49 Музыка любви), my crochet flowers, die-cuts, ribbon and threads, lace...