As promised here is the really simple gift box.
It is from a design from Crafters Companion using their A3 Scoreboard.
I am just surprised I had not thought of it before
If you have a scoreboard that acts as a box maker or a box maker board, this is how you make this great gift box literally in minutes
Decide the depth of your box
I used a 12 X 12 sheet for the first box, and I wanted it to be 1 inch deep.
So I scored at 5.5" ,and 6.5" giving me an inch in the centre of the paper.
Turn the sheet and using the box top scoring lines score an inch down to the score lines
Turn the paper and score 1inch along the top, turn again and score 1inch again down to the middle score line. You now have an inch score line all around the top half of the sheet.
Next using the base score lines repeat the 1inch scoring around the bottom half of the sheet scoring down to the middle score line.
You now need to cut all four corners as you would when making a box and cut up the sides to the 1inch score line in the middle, so that the middle flaps are able to fold in .
You should now have a box where the top is just slightly bigger than the base, either store flat now or glue the corners together ready to use
Having made this box from a 12 x 12 I was ready to try an A3 piece of card and here is the result.
With this box I wanted a window top and so I scored the box as before making a 1" score line through the centre and then the top half scored an inch around with the box lid score lines and the bottom half an inch around with the box base score lines
Before gluing together I cut our the window area on the card and this was a section 9.5cm x 16.5cm
I cut a piece of acetate 10cm x 17cm and fitted to a sheet of paper to decorate it (again cutting out the middle section. The paper was cut at 13cm x 23cm leaving a 2cm width around the top of the box lid.
The completed box measure 25cm wide by 15cm with 1" depth . Sorry about the mix of inches and centimetre but thats how I worked out the measurements .
This box took a little longer but you could easily decorate it with a simple strip of coordinating paper and a bow and this would not take long at all . The first box took me less than 15 minutes to make the basic box. The same principles can be used to make any size box, just decide on the depth and make the sides the same width when scoring your folds.
Back tomorrow with a more ways to use your 6 x 6 papers. So be sure to pop back and please click on the FOllow button at the top of the page if you would like to comment or ask a question.
Dee
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