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Silhouette Tutorial: Pretty Pink Castle Valentine Mailbox

February 22, 2013 By Jason

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The Back Story

Back when I was in elementary school, during class on Valentines Day we made the bag or box where we would collect the valentine cards from our classmates. Sometimes we made the valentine mailboxes out brown paper lunch bags and decorated the bags, other times we would staple two big construction paper hearts together and leave the top open so the cards could go inside. But today, with the invention of Pinterest, there is a new standard in Valentines Day valentine mailboxes.

Pink Castle Valentine Mailbox

Supplies needed for this project:

  • 1 cardboard box
  • 2 paper towel tubes
  • 2 sugar cones
  • door and windows cut outs (download cut file below)
  • black spay paint
  • acrylic pink paint
  • optional – white paint (used as a paint primer)
  • white glue
  • hot glue gun

Used black spray paint to paint the sugar cones black.

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Cut off 3 of the top flaps of the box.

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Cut a checkerboard pattern across the top of the remaining flap.

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Use a hot glue gun to glue the 2 paper towel tubes to the front of the box.

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The door and the window shapes were cut out on the Silhouette and glued into place with white glue. I created the door shape by drawing a square and a circle and putting the circle at the top of the square. Once I had it in the right spot use the Modify Tool to Weld the two shapes into one. Then I copied and pasted the door and shrunk it down to the size of a small window. I used the Replicate Tool and Duplicate Right to make the top row of windows, then selected the row of windows and used Mirror Below to make the bottom row of windows. I did it this way instead of copying and pasting so all the windows would be in a close group together.

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At first I tried to spray paint the box pink but the majority of the paint was soaked into the card board. To overcome this all the card board (the box and the paper towel tubes) were painted white with white acrylic paint to act as a primer. Then it was painted pink with pink acrylic paint.

Once all the paint was dry, the 2 black sugar cones were hot glued to the tops of the paper towel tubes and the windows and door was glued on with white glue.

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When my daughter took her pretty pink castle to school, she said that the whole school loved her castle.

Here is the download for the door and windows cut file.

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Last week’s tutorial was how to make a Hello Kitty Valentine Card.

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Filed Under: Crafts, Silhouette Cameo, Tutorial Tagged With: valentine's day

Comments

  1. Sabrina says

    February 23, 2013 at 6:55 AM

    Oh I’m saving this idea for next year….actually, my daughter will love this activity ANY time of the year. Thanks!

  2. Chrystal D says

    February 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM

    Too cute! And so easy to make as well! Thanks for this craft project.

  3. Sam Dock says

    February 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM

    Super cute!! I bet I have all the stuff I would need to make that in our recycling bins 🙂

  4. Miccs says

    February 24, 2013 at 1:37 PM

    Thanks for this, great project!
    Sure kids gonna love it!

  5. jennifer says

    February 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM

    oh how cute!! love this idea! 🙂

  6. amber whitehead says

    January 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM

    turned out really cute

  7. Mailbox and beyond says

    June 8, 2017 at 8:48 AM

    You can buy a new mailbox from
    http://www.mailboxandbeyond.com/

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