I bought the Whimsy hexagon box die years ago, but I didn't put it to use until recently. The die makes a cute 3" hexagon shapped box with a hinged lid that flips up. Because the box shape reminded me of a honeycomb, I thought it would be fun to try to design a series of adjoining boxes to mimic a honeycomb. I die cut three boxes out of yellow medium weight card stock. After gluing (with Fabri-Tac glue) the box tabs, I used the same glue to glue three boxes together. I only applied glue to lower half of the box sides (where I wanted to join the boxes) so that the box tops could be opened and closed. (You could actually join many boxes together but I suggest putting a cardboard base under them for support if you want to join many boxes together.)
I used half of the die to cut out the printed card stock pieces (from my scrap pile) for the box tops. I added some artificial flowers (form my stash) plus bees stamped ( Doodlebug Designs), fussy cut and colored with Copic pens.
The words came from a package of bee themed ephemera purchased from HM Ben Franklin Crafts. Some glitter dinensional paint (in a squeeze bottle applicator) was used to decorate the bee's wings.
I also made a single hexagon-shaped gift box which I think will be perfect for a small gift.
These hexagon boxes were super easy to create thanks to the Whimsy die. I really enjoyed decorating the boxes as I love bee themed papers, stamps and well...bee design anything. I hope you'll try to make bee-u-tiful bee themed hand crafted items just bee-ause they're sweet as honey. Well, time to buzz on to more craft projects. Hope you'll buzz to this blog site again...soon!
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