Exploding Box Card Instructions

Instructions on the basic measurements to make an exploding box card. Although this is not really a tutorial I hope it is useful to help you create your own exploding box cards.
Just pause each slide until you are ready to move on.

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• exploding box card
• cardmaking
• papercraft

[usaearthling]

Finally got this down and done. A co-worker wanted a unique idea for letting her husband know she was pregnant, so we did a congratulations thing for him. Every one loved it. Thanks for the great instructions. Happy New Year.

[PMaddict]

@usaearthling Wow! She told you before she told her husband! That's an honour.

Glad it was a success. It is pretty spectacular when you get it all done. Happy New Year to you too :o)

[cmruss3]

I used theses exact measurements and it didn't work the small box doesn't fit inside the middle box!

[PMaddict]

@cmruss3 The measurements are approximate & you may need to make adjustments. My small box fits fine as you can see in my box card video.

[lolcats0727]

When you take the lid off, how do you make the flaps come all te way down? Mine stays up there and slowly comes down :p

[PMaddict]

@lolcats0727

If you crease each fold well, back and forth before sticking in place it helps. If you've stuck them in then just keep folding each crease until it loosens up.

[PeachCandyNinja]

Thanks for posting this video. Sadly the measurements for the lid is too big. I played around with it and found that making the lid 5 1/2" was perfect. =)

[toastingu]

@cmruss3 I had the same problem. I kept cutting until it did, but the smalled box was so "thin" by then.

[usaearthling]

@PMaddict lol, yeah but I pretty much told her she was pregnant when she was throwing up..got a pg test and it was positive...so I was the first to know, hahaha. She's 5 months now. Again thanks for the great tutorial.

[PMaddict]

@molecules94

Make sure you score your folds well & folding/unfolding will help loosen the flaps a little to get them to flop open when you lift off the lid.

It could be that you need to trim a little bit to make the flaps work well. I had to play around a lot with the inner boxes to get them how I wanted & they may be millimeters different to the measurements shown.

You can try sticking them in place with blue-tac first to see how they work together before making them permanently stuck.