Back to Basics 6 Box Card

 Card No 6 in the Back to Basics series

Box Card

This card is a greeting card, and when the belly-band is removed and the card opened it reveals a small box in the centre of the card. I have added some Teabags in mine but there are several small items that will fit into this box for you to give a gift with your card.

Trial Piece

You will need a sheet of card 8.5” x 10”

2 pieces of card 2.75” x 5.25”

2 pieces of card 1.75” x 5.25”

1 piece of card 2 5/8” x. 5 1/8”

2 pieces of designer paper 1 5/8” x 5 1/8”

However I decided to alter the sizes and so the one I made with my measurements requires:

2 sheets of 12 x 12 card stock or 180gsm paper pad

Cut one piece to 12 x 10, if the paper is one sided you want the pattern going across the 12” side

Score at 2”, 4”, 8”, 10” and mark the 6” centre of the page top and bottom

Turn and score at 2” either side 

Next cut up each corner from the short side to the second score line, cut off the the outside piece and nick a piece along the second section to allow it to fold up easily , you can also shorten this piece if you wish.

Do this on all four sides of the base card.

Burnish all your score lines. 

With the card laid out with 12” side as the width find the top and bottom middle score and score from the mark in the middle to the score line in the same box both top and bottom of the paper. Fold the score lines.

This is the layout for the first size card I made, and the system for cutting and scoring for the box ends are the same on all sizes

From the seconds sheet of 12 x 12 cut the following pieces

2 strips measuring 1 7/8” x 5 7/8 to line the side of the box

2 pieces 3” x 6” for the top 

2 pieces 3 5/6” x 5 4/6” one to be cover the base of the box and the other one round the corners and slide in over the box contents 

Fold up the box so you can see how it goes together and then glue the outside flaps of the box on the back of the card. These you can glue to the inside or the outside of the box. If you glue them inside they are covered neatly with the panels, but I glued mine to the outside as they sat very neatly and firmed the box ends. Next glue the top panels on the gatefold part of the card and finish with a greeting of your choice. I made mine a Thank You card and so cut it out of an oval gluing one half to the left part of the gatefold 

You can see the second piece of card resting inside the folds and covering any items placed in the box

This also allows the card to be opened a little to stand on display.

This is number six of this series, check back soon for more oldies but goodies.

Dee