Free Pillow Box Template for Protecting Quilling Cards

Protect Your Quilled Cards with a Cushion of Air

Do you want to shield your precious quilling as you hand deliver a greeting card? Then I have a simple solution for you!

In the past, I've simply used an extra large envelope, letting the excess size accommodate the bulk of the quilling strips. The bulge was not great, but it got the job done fast. I did worry about squishing more fragile quilling designs though, because obviously the envelope is touching my quilling as it's going in and out.

I've also purchased sturdy boxes designed for jewelry to offer great protection for mailing. You can watch the video I made about it here. It was certainly more expensive to buy those boxes, and I'd do it for a special occasion like a wedding or for mailing; but I had to buy several of them at a time from a store that I don't visit often, which meant they sat in my closet, taking up storage space.

So imagine having a quick envelope on hand that completely surrounds your quilling with a puff of air! I'm talking about a simple pillow box, which looks just as it sounds. It has minimal gluing and tabs, making assembly quick and easy. The curved side flaps automatically force the paper away from your quilling, making sure nothing is touching your quilling.

Since I'm making a series of smaller cards showing how to quill Lowercase Letters, this is the perfect time to introduce this free template to you for your projects. This template is customized to fit a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card, which is exactly a quarter of a letter-size sheet of card stock.

Watch my YouTube Video or follow these directions:

1. Download the template:
   a) PDF file for hand cutting or
   b) SVG file for electric cutting machine (Cricut Explore or Silhouette with applicable software).
2. Score along the dotted lines. If you're cutting by hand, you can use a dried up pen or scoring tool.
3. Cut along the solid lines.
4. Always pre-fold your scores lines to make it easier on yourself later.
5. Apply glue along the tab, and glue the pillow box together.
6. Fold down one side (it doesn't matter which one you do first).
7. Insert your 4.25 x 5.5 inch card and fold the other side down. All the flaps are notched so it's easy to open.

No Peeking Gift Boxes

Paper Gift Box Die Cutting with SVG files and PDF instructions for Silhouette and Cricut Explore machines

I am so thankful for the time everyone offered me on the Make The Cut Forum. Below are some responses I got from my testers and the above photo taken by Brigit. I love the way she inset those panels and inked the edges of the tags - something I've only recently learned about.

Brigit (Zing): I love the design of your bow it's so pretty when put together, I used glue though. The pillow box I just did after the zing plugin and it cut perfectly, I love it, it went together so nicely, here they are.

Laurie (Cricut): have cut out three of the gift card boxes. The perferations work differently on different types of paper. It worked great on a doublesided 12x12 sheet. I used some solid regular card stock and it was much more difficult to fold the end flaps. But all in all they cut out great and are really neat little boxes. Such a great idea.

Pam (Pazzles Inspiration and the Pro software): Your bow worked out fine for me except that sometimes I'm a little fumbled fingered..lol  I mainly  create and design greeting cards and rarely do scrapbooking and when I cut your files, I actually used scrap papers that I had on hand.  I cut the cube box using some GA Pacific White Card from Walmart and for the Pillow Box and Bow I just used some lightweight paper because I think those two items would be better cut from it than from cardstock.  You are more than welcome to use my comments as they are quite nice cutting files!