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I am desperate. The communion is next week and I want to do something different. I have done a bunch of the regular things for party favors...I was hoping to do a small treat box, sort of the shape of a church (Rectangle) with a Cross on the top. Seems easy, thought I saw it somewhere but off course I can not find it...I was hoping to put a little plant (like part of a egg carton) in it. Any ideas, suggestions, templates? I am really new to this although I have had my Cricut for months I just never seem to find time to be able to work with it.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for any ideas you can share!!

I found this one and converted it..The instructions are at this link..http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h ... s%3Disch:1 The dotted lines are just there as a folding guide so you can delete them or copy to a separate layer..

Thank you so much for that. It looks a little beyond my ability..... I am going to save this for my CCD class to make.

What I was hoping was that it would be a simple box, with a cross on top...I have seen it with flowers, but either I saw it or I dreamed one up with a cross on it.

If you want simple, it doesn't get any simplier than this:



One piece. Sides fold in, crosses fold out, then slide the slits over the crosses. I like to give the sides a quick run over a sharp edge to curve them.

Hope this helps.

This looks great...I just can not figure out how to get it to work on my computer...I used to have brain cells...

sandyj wrote:If you want simple, it doesn't get any simplier than this:



One piece. Sides fold in, crosses fold out, then slide the slits over the crosses. I like to give the sides a quick run over a sharp edge to curve them.

Hope this helps.

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My brain drain is solved just fiddeled with it til the bounding box was smaller. Guess I need to cut more SCUT files instead of importing so many SVG"s
Grammy

Mine brain issues are solved...Thank you so much for taking the time to do this...I think I have it figured out!! Now to just get it the right size....(and find something to put in it!! )

Ok, thought I had my problem solved. When the SCAL 1. opened the wonderful file for the First Communion Party favor box I had a very large bounding box around the favor that fell off the mat, way off the mat and I fiddled with it til it got smaller but as you see there is an invisible box still there. Almost as if there was another object that is going to cut. I usually don't use scut files but only svg's but this one is wonderful and thought about giving it a try. Is it me or is there something else on the mat that I can't see. When unselected it shows as a empty yellow box. Any ideas?
Grammy

Ok, here is the svg file - importing that should be easier than trying to fix a scut.

If you make the box 5.75" (which gives you 4 to a 12" sheet), the base comes out a little more than 1 1/2" square and a little over 1" tall. Really too small to put anything in.

But if you cut it 8" square, it comes out 3" at the base and about 1 1/2" tall - big enough for kisses or mini candy bars. You might want to think about using 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock to save paper. I made the sample with 110 lb cardstock from staples:



Let me know if you have any other questions.

I so LOVEt this box!

My DD's First Communion and party are this weekend... guess what I will be doing tonight?