 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really cool interlocking Moroccan style gift box. Interlocking seemed the best way to describe it because it's a very similar way to how you would fold and close like a cardboard box if you were packing up a box or something and you can see there just want to go around how it all kind of interlocks over each other. So I'll just bring it up here you can see all the detail I've done on the top there. So this is using all the products apart from the green card from this month's hobby base kit that I receive. So every Wednesday I do a hobby base tutorial and some kind of project for you. So I've done this really cool box. The box was called A Taste of Morocco and I just loved it. It's got some really really cool bits in it this week this month sorry and I shared the unboxing tutorial last week and I'll share that up here somewhere just so you can have a look and if you are interested all the links as always are all shared in the video description below. So it just opens up any old way that you want you just pull it up like that and then inside you've got a really nice roomy three by three by four and a half gift box and then again you put so anyone put one down that one over the top that one over the top and then the very last one you then pop in like so. So it's really really easy obviously you can add sentiments on it you can put ribbon around it you know there's lots and lots of ways to um to make this box look fab. So let's crack on and make it you are going to need. So this is some of the stuff that we got in the kit so this was the crafters companion foil that I'm going to be using to make these little detailed dies on top there you get two meter roll it's really good so I'm going to be using that and show you how I do that today using these embellishments that we received it's 120 of these gold really lovely like faceted little gems and then we've got these three um Moroccan designed dies and I used uh this one in the middle uh for that design so I think I'm going to use this one here today just to make them a little bit different and I'm going for purple theme so the purple card is my own and then this was another one of these so we got I think we've got eight pieces of six by six cards we've got lots this month um and then there's this one here which has got this kind of gold you can just see it kind of catching there running through the purple so I thought again that would work really well and then this one is like a slightly embossed and you can see the slight raised parts so they're really textured papers as well um which is great so this is six by six and I've got this card here as well let me just grab my scoreboard so I can give you all the measurements okay so six by six piece for the main base of your gift box and then two pieces of four and a half by six and a half okay and I'll do the scoring in a second and then I've just got some white card um I've already die cut two of these here I'm going to do two more with you um and some double-sided um tape you could always also always you could also use this instead just double-sided tape roll I've got double-sided sheets here as well so I'll show you um what we'll do with that in a minute so scoring first of all with your six by six piece you just want to score on each side at one just come down a bit there at one and a half inches so one and a half one and a half one and a half okay this is a really thick card so I'm just breaking down the fibres there just so it doesn't crack and then you with both of these pieces here so first of all along the four and a half inch side you want to score it one and a half then rotate it and you want to score at um half an inch just look in there and nothing was nothing was like reaching my brain I was just literally staring and nothing was going up never mind okay so half an inch and three and a half inches and again with that other one so it was scoring at one and a half then rotate and score at uh half an inch and three and a half so you want to make sure that that's half that one and a half inch line there is at the top towards the top of your card all right so it's at the top end here so you're scoring your half inch and you're three and a half you don't want to do it that way so it's at the bottom okay although it probably wouldn't matter because we just flipped the card around so ignore me don't know what's wrong today right so that is all of the scoring done so I'm just going to get rid of my scoreboard okay so let's work on the base festival so you just want to burnish all of your score lines like so and then grab your scissors and you just want to cut down so choose a side and just cut all the way down to the first score line and again like so okay so you see what I just done there then rotate the whole thing round and again just cut down okay then what you want to do is with the outside of each of these squares that we've just made here these little one and a half by one and a half you just want to take a notch off the outer side like so another one like that rotate the whole thing round and again like so you see I've taken quite a chunk off I'd say it's about a quarter of an inch in because basically now when we bring that round because this isn't reinforced when we stick that on the side there like that you don't get anything overhanging you can see there where we've gone down so you don't get that poking up outside here because you're going to see all of this so it just gives you a nice neat finish and then that will be covered by this when we stick it inside so now we can just grab some of our glue and we're just going to pop glue on the tops of these squares that we've made so this has got a slightly shiny surface but this glue would be fine with that bring it down and then bring that one up okay and just sliding it around just so I can get that glue right up to the edge there make sure you pull it right up so you get really nice join okay go around to the next one again make sure oh gosh run a bit too crazy there and just bring that one down and then up and again just sliding it around until I get it exactly where I need it and just go around and do that on the other side as well okay so now we just got that nice kind of like tray ready to put all the purple card on so now just burnish all of your score lines okay and then where we've got this one and a half inch piece here this is all of the side panels this bit here is the bit that's going to interlock on the top so you just want to cut down really neatly just down to that first score line there and then on this one here again cut nicely down the side and then just take a little notch off and just cut that piece out so we've created this little tab now on the side so again with this one just cut right down the middle and then again so okay then we're going to pop some double sided tape you can use red tape you can use your glue I'm going to just use some of this tear tape and it's half an inch wide so it fits perfectly in there make sure that's all down properly and then just remove the backing I'm just going to fold over the top bit there where it's overhanging and again do that one in a minute and you just want to sit just turn upside down line up the score lines that's the most important bit because if you're slightly off at the bottom here we can trim it and you won't see that but just make sure that the top there is all nicely lined up okay flip the whole thing over pop that one down and this one down take your backing off again I'm having a real fight with that tape today okay so again line up the score line and then the rest would all fall in nicely like so okay so now we've got this piece and then this will all now interlock on top of each other like so okay so now we can get this all stuck down so again we're using my glue and you just want to come up this is one and a half inches deep so with your ruler I'm just going to do it by eye if you would rather there's one and a half inches and just do a thin pencil line all the way along and you know that you can glue within that bottom area then but I'm going to just run my glue just roughly an inch like so so concentrate on the real corner there so it sticks nicely in your box but I'm not going up any higher than about an inch and that will be fine grab your base get this top here and then what you want to do is push all of the pieces in like that so you create in that shape it will then fall into your base perfectly and then let it out and then push make sure it's pushed right down okay so it's right to the bottom there and just go around and push each side onto your box and then we can grab our ruler and just go and spread that all out you might have a little crease just spread that crease out but it would all fit in there really nice and snug it's got a little bit of glue I've got one of these rubbers here which are great to rub off any glue so I can go around once that's completely dry and now we've got you can see that really nice box coming together absolutely love this it's so cute so now we can decorate so I've already done two and I'm going to grab this one here and then with that scrap piece of card and I've got some double sided tape here which will just fit two more of these um little squares so take off one of the backings and I'm going to just sit it on my scrap piece of card put the backing back over that piece just so I can save it because that will work for something okay like so now if you're just using double sided tape what you would do is just go along and just run strips of it right up against each other like so to cover whatever area of card it is that you've got to then put your die cut over the top because you want to be able to basically now going to die cut this twice on here and then we're going to put our foil over the top so you don't need to worry about taking the backing off yet grab my die machine I'm just going to make sure I get that right up to the edge and that through you want to run it through a couple of times just because obviously it's it's got to go through those two oh you can see how tough it is this is such a good little machine but you want to make sure see it needs to go through again because it's cutting through two pieces of plastic um you know sticky plastic so I'm just going to run that one through the ease of the second time and go back again confident that one's gone through yeah so I can see now it comes out perfectly just take that out like so and then just push out all of those little pieces like that so now I've got a little die cut which has got my double sided tape on it okay and that's ready to put the foil on now you can put the foil on you could have peeled peeled all of that off and put the foil on first but I just find that then you might get your die the metal on the die can be quite hard against that foil and it might scratch it um so that's why I like to do it afterwards so then again pop that one on and I'm just going to run this one through again okay so that's both of my little die cuts beautiful die cuts really like these like really like these grab your foil so obviously you can use any color you want if you don't have gold foil and you want to do this box you can still do it with just gold or silver um murry card that'll be you'd get just the same effect it's just fun to use different pieces so I'm just cut a little strip there just so it fits over it doesn't matter if it doesn't because you can find a dab over um you know it doesn't all need to be from one area of the foil so just take off your backing and then I'm just going to lie the foil over the top just rub your fingers over it it's just like the the rubbing um rub on stickers and things like that and the more you rub it and eventually you'll see all the gold underneath transfer onto that double-sided tape and it will start to lift so I can see now it's lifting off and it's just leaving a clear plastic don't worry if it doesn't lift off of every area because it would have still taken but if I now peel that off you can see you get that lovely piece and then what you can do is just go over and if you feel on it that is a little bit sticky still you might have missed an area you can just go over like so I really love this technique and I've done a really good tutorial um about foiling with double-sided tape and I'll share that link as well for you but now you can just see got that really nice little die cut so again just take your backing off so again if you've got double-sided tape um on here now you just have to take each kind of strip off but as long as that whole area is covered if you don't cover it all and you think oh I've missed some just grab some tacky glue it needs to be a tacky glue so once it's dry it's still got a tacky um you know to touch texture so like tombo Alina's tacky glue um there's the nuvo stick as well which I've used that one there the glue pen that dries tacky they're all really good as well so if you've missed any pieces or you don't have double-sided tape cover your die cut in the tacky glue let it dry so it's tacky and then you can apply your foil so again you can see that there's just any areas that I think I've missed I can just go over it so there you go now I've got those four really nice gold and they have got a texture they've got a bit of a rough it's quite kind of like almost like a patina um aged vintage that kind of look to it so yeah it just gives a completely different finish so now we can get these stuck onto the top so if you want to go around and fold so to fold this you do one two three and then the last one you have to lift up that first one and pop it under and it just gives you that effect there and now I've done it so that these are one inch so they perfectly sit within the little squares that you have so I'm just going to go around and stick each one down okay so now you can see how gorgeous it's got a real opulent luxurious look about it now I really like that and then just to finish it off I have got these embellishments here so I'm just going to cut off four of them there and what I tend to do with the bigger ones as well is put a little bit of glue on the back um again not too much but it just um just means oh gosh just means they're gonna definitely obviously stay there stuck down and these fit perfectly in the middle so I'm just going to pop one in all of those okay so there you have it a really lovely interlocking Moroccan themed gift box so I think it's a nice twist on a normal square I've got to rub that bit of glue off there on a normal square gift box um but I think they look absolutely fine love them so there you go so I hope this is um inspired you I hope you like the style that I've come up with today um if you are interested in the hobby base kit um all of those links as I mentioned before will be shared in the description box below but until then um happy crafting give this a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye