EPBOT is the one craft blog that alone has given me most inspiration for the ornaments for my daughter's Harry Potter Christmas Tree Advent Calendar. And their template for Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans Boxes is as brilliant as their other crafts. Please take a look at
this tutorial to see how I made today's ornament.
I found some thick, satin photo paper, shrunk the image a bit to make the boxes my preferred size, printed, cut and folded according to the tutorial. I then applied the contact cement, waited for it to dry, and started sticking the box together. This is where I stopped reading the tutorial and therefore made a huge mistake, though. Instead of just assembling the top first, and then attach the metal eyelet for hanging before closing up the entire box, I glued the whole thing together at once. Not only with one, but with 6 of the 8 boxes I made. Which made adding and fastening that metal eyelet in a constructive way pure hell... I put the eyelet in from the top and added a large bead on the inside. I then tried to bend the wire right underneath the bead to hold the whole hanging contraption in place, but it was really, really difficult to do this without ruining the boxes, and thus I didn't get them as snug and tightly fitting as I would have liked. Lesson learnt - add metal hanging eyelet before closing box completely!
I'm still quite pleased with the result, though!
And with a pretty ornament hook:
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