March makes - Boxes & Gift Bags

 Boxes & Gift Bags 4

Wine Box 

This is a lovely way to give a bottle. It makes the gift so much more personal when the box matches the theme of the gift. 

Although not difficult to make perhaps this is more geared to an experienced crafter as it requires working with A3 card and preferably an A3 Score board

My inspiration comes from Crafters Companion. When I purchased the A3 scoreboard I had a DVD showing me several boxes and projects. This wine box was one of the first projects I tried

The demonstrations were shown by Sara Davies and her tutorials were very good and easy to follow. Unfortunately I cannot find a video on YouTube to link to this post. 

You will need 3 sheets of A3 card, good quality and weight

Decorative papers

Greeting & and decorations

Sheet 1 Outside box base 

1 sheet of A3 with 1” cut off the bottom 

With the Lid score marks - Score with long side at the top at 3.25”,6.5”,9.75”, 13”

Turn and score at 3.25 all the way down.

Cut up the bottom score lines with V notch, except the last section (cut straight for this one).

Sheet 2 Outside Lid

1 sheet of A3 cut 1” off length and 3.5” off width

With the base score marks score 3.25” fold and burnish place the scored side to the edge of the board and score the next 3.25” repeat for the 4 sides

Turn and score 3.25 on top measurement 

Cut to down these score lines with small V notches as before.  

Sheet 3 Liner Cut 2” off length

With long side at top of board - using the base line score at 3 1/8” fold and score again at 3 1/8”, and another twice to make the inside liner.

You can decorate the two outside pieces of the box before you put the box together or after.

Each panel should be cut 1/4” smaller than the actual measurements of the box side. You need to use a decorative paper rather than a card as if the outside papers are too thick it will make the opening of the box more difficult. 

For the Outside box base glue the side fold into the inside of the box to form the square sides and then fold over the base and glue each panel in place making sure the straight sided panel is the last to go in place for an even look to the base of the box. 

Repeat for the lid 

While this is drying glue the liner side seam again fixing the glued panel inside the cube. Slide into the base of the box. This should fit snuggly and once you are happy it is a good easy fit, mark where the base box comes up to the liner with a pencil mark. Glue the sides up to the pencil mark before  sliding it back in. Lay flat and use your bone folder to adher the lining securely. 

The lid should slide down over the liner to the base edge, if it is not fitting smoothly you may find a little hard soap or candle wax rubbed gently over the corner of the box base, at the top edge, will help.

Add your decoration and greeting.

As I am giving my bottle as a Thank you i have made the label accordingly, and simply added a matching tassel as decoration.

Dee