This week at work a co-worker pointed out a cute box in a magazine. We got to talking and I remembered that I had the Bags, Tags, and Boxes Cricut Cartridge. I wanted to see how big of a box I could make sometime during my vacation. Fast forward a couple days and I needed to wrap a gift card. I decided to make my own box using the cartridge. After looking at various boxes, I decided on the crayon box. I had some heavy green metallic card stock, some green trees I had stamped using Tim Holtz distress inks on water color paper with a few flicks of water, and a piece of ribbon from Bath and Body Works when they gift wrapped something for me last year. I dug through my scrap drawer and found some red and white scraps of paper. I cut out my box at 8 3/4 inch. I used some adhesive to put it together, wrapped the ribbon around the box and framed my stamped image of an evergreen tree. I popped my tree up with some foam adhesive. I was happy this turned out to be fairly masculine, because the gift card is for a male. 
I also knew that at Fantabulous Cricut they issued a challenge to trim with a tag in this week's project. I used some of the same green cardstock to cut out a tag on my Cricut. I trimmed the bottom of the tag and rounded the edges with a corner rounder from Stampin' Up! Next, I used some scrap paper and some seasonal Tim Holtz ink to stamp my message on my tag. I added a little green gem to the corner of the stamped image. I finished the tag off with my coordinating ribbon. Voila, a gift box and tag!
