 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make these I'm calling them my deluxe selection boxes but they will also work perfectly as a storage for your craft room or even a jewellery box so I'm keeping mine as a selection box so what I've done here beautiful big bow I've got this lovely big gift tag although I will probably take that off and put it on the gift bag so that these will go into with the matching papers but you open it up it's got a velcro dot I've got this lovely tag there inside and then you slide out the trays to reveal even more chocolates but what I thought would look nice is if you put a mirror here and I do have some somewhere and I've been looking for them just to show as an example I got them from the works I think you got pack of four for maybe 199 something like that I'll try and link them below those ones but they're just little square mirrors and you could put a mirror there if you want to give someone maybe it's a you know a younger daughter and you could buy her lots of the fun just costume jewellery like in Claire's you could fill this with jewellery little rings little mirror there maybe some little lipsticks I think it would make a really lovely gift and then it's a lovely little kind of storage piece afterwards but like I said this is going to be my deluxe selection box making one more because I need three and they're going to go to couples my friends that are couples so there will be chocolates for one of them on one side and then chocolates for the other on the other side and then more here if that's what I end up doing I'm going to be changing them around because I've got I've got too much chocolate right now and it's actually scaring me because I could just eat it all but I'm not once these are done they are sealed up they're going in the gift bags and that's it I'm not touching them but they just slide in really nicely and then you just bring down the front and that's that one and then I'll just bring in this one here again those lovely big bows just open it up if you're in the UK I picked these up on sale in the co-op they were £2.50 each now you know how much chocolate is the chocolate bars in the UK now individually and in this ridiculous amount like some of them are like over a pound for a normal chocolate bar which I remember being like 25 30p when I was younger so I didn't I was trying to look at ways to be able to feel this was so much chocolate without cost me too much so all of this galaxy here that you see came from this galaxy selection box for £2.50 so I thought that was actually really good and then I've bulked it out with this one here you've got them the Mars so I put the Mars bar and then I picked up the gold you know the coins that we we like to use and then there's the Maltesers yeah I got the Malteser one there and there and then I've got more chocolates coming but I've also put in some coins here so you can make like a treasure box you know this if you've got just someone who loves pirates and you could just do so many fun things with this and it doesn't have to be death you know Christmas paper but also they hold two layers on the top as well so you know you've got double here and double on the base there's a ripple in here just to give you ideas of the length I've got bags and Maltesers yeah you get the idea so if you are someone that likes to do a homemade Christmas and or you just want to give a token gift and just you know we are all watching our money we don't want to go crazy sometimes and I think people can sometimes lose touch with what Christmas is actually really about and it's being with your family so these are just my little token gifts the gift the gift cards are just going to have a nice little amount to go and have a nice coffee maybe some lunch you know so it's nothing extravagant but it's just a nice gesture and I think that the boxes are really really sweet so I hope you like them and I hope you enjoy this fun tutorial okay for this one here I use the festive folly 12x12 pad really gorgeous papers and then for the second one so that one there you can see it's beautiful love that paper on top I use the Christmas tails so I've really been able to kind of use some more papers out of these pads I'm going to be using a lot for gift bags which I'll be doing some tutorials for and then this one I'm using magical stories so I will link all of those paper pads as always okay so what I'm going to do is talk you through the two trays and the case and then we can do all those little bits later so for the lid and the base you will need two pieces that are seven this is seven and three quarters by eight and a quarter along the seven and three quarters side you just want to score it two inches okay you want two pieces of those I won't put that in there you want two pieces now I've already gone ahead and popped these mats on so this is going to be my lid so it's going to flip up so this is where I'm going to have that little message inside for these mats you want two pieces in fact you'll probably want three but I need to double check that size because I couldn't measure it inside those ones because they've already been obviously put together but just do two for the minute the measurements be in my blog two pieces that are five and a half by eight I believe yeah okay and that's the pattern paper so two pieces so this is actually the polka dots the reverse of this Christmas tree one I love the Christmas tree one it's one of my favorite ones from that pad so two pieces fold and burnish so that's that one all ready to go then you want two pieces so I'm doing a few block colors for mine the other two I've done the two trays on top and the base tray all the same color but my base tray that big one is going to be in green okay but you can do obviously any colors for the top two trays you want two pieces of eight by nine and a half okay and on any other side on basically on all four sides you're just going to score one and two inches these are reinforced it's nice and strong rotate one and two inches rotate one and two and rotate one and two so you will have those score lines okay and do that on two pieces I've already gone ahead and done this tray okay I thought I put the paper in there no I stuck it down oh there it was there and yeah do that so I've already done that once you don't need to see me do both but then to decorate the inside because I've done this because it's nice obviously when they remove the chocolate they see something but also if you are going to have it as more of a decorative storage piece then you you know you're probably likely to see that more so this is three and seven eighths of an inch by five and three eighths of an inch and you want two pieces okay and again just fold and burnish all of those score lines all right so you'll have two of them two pieces of that and then one piece of nine and a half by 12 I'm also using the little cardstock okay so it's that lovely strong cardstock so that's actually the default width the nine and a half and then I just trimmed it down to 12 and again doesn't matter what size each side you start on you just want to score it one and two inches on all four sides so all of this stuff it's very very easy to do there's just putting it all together in the right order and there's a couple of little hinges I'm just going to go over them because I don't think I've done them that good there we go and also what I'm going to do with these is I'm going to make gift bags with the matching pattern paper to put them in so I'm not going to wrap them and because they're only held together with that Velcro dot I don't want to add salatate to them and things like that so they're going to go in a gift bag which I will then you know obviously seal better and I may well even take those gift tags that I've put on the tops of those boxes and put it on the gift bag but I just think it'd be a nice little gift like that and then if they do want to keep the box something some people use the boxes at Christmas to put their Christmas decorations in or something they may well you know do it for that I don't mind what people do with their stuff but okay so one piece of that and then well I've got my scoreboard these are going to be for our hinges so the drawers can slide out so these are two pieces that are one and seven eighths of an inch by three and along the three inch side you want to score one and a half so just right down the middle two pieces and just fold and burnish and then if you do want to do that closure that I down on the front then you'll want this piece here and this is a piece of three and a quarter by one inch and along the three and a quarter you want to score a half an inch and just fold and burnish you're going to fold and you're going to score the top bit but I want you to do it just so I know it's all going to fit then you'll want some more pattern paper formats and layers but for the minute I want to see what it's going to look like before I decide the you know what ones I'm going to use but this piece is for the back and this is eight by two all right and then this is for that ledge that little lip where the boxes will rest on and what I've done here is I've cut six strips from the same cardstock so those of you that have that little cardstock you know how strong it is I've glued these all together using my callow glue and it is solid this is just as thick as my you know my grayboard these here measure half an inch by I think it was so yeah seven and seven eighths and you want six pieces and just stick them on top and you'll see there just how thick that becomes and that's enough if you feel you want to make your ledge thicker you can do add some more to it so when you do go to and you can do it right at the end as well so if you put it all together and you feel that your tracer may be dipping you can just add a few more layers onto that and that might help you you know get them all straight again okay so we're going to do a bit of cutting I'm going to start with this one but you're going to cut this the same way as you cut the base all right they're all the same it's just a reinforced tray so along the short side so you want to do the short side on the small trays and the short side on this long this big piece as well you'll have the four squares in the left and the right hand corners here you want to cut up the score lines that go past the first one and cut up to the second so I'm going to pass that first score line up to the second so you'll see what they look like there remove the outer two remove the top one so you're just left with that tab just there on its own and then just tightly off the edges just take a little kind of wedge off of those kind of outer ones here just so they kind of fold inside the box easily and then that one you can take a nice chunk off of each side because that should tab to glue it together okay so do that again on this corner here so again I'll just just show that again for anybody new you just cut up past the first score line to the second remove the outer two and then just remove that top one and then again just take a little bit off of there and there and then take a nice chunk of those okay then flip it right the way around and do exactly the same on this end here and you're going to do that exactly the same on this larger one so I'm going to go ahead and do all of that okay so you will have two pieces like this and one piece like this then we want to glue it together so I'm just going to bring in my glue here I'm going to use the Cosmic Shimmer one just because I can control how this comes out and it does grab very quickly but I'm going to use my Kalao for the larger areas because this is a water-based glue I don't like to use too much water-based glues because they do warp so I will go back to Kalao in a minute I do mix glues a lot in projects but this Cosmic Shimmer is very good for just getting that instant quick grab very very small amount so it's quite handy for tabs I'm just going to pop a little bit on this one here and you're just bringing your tab under and around so you bring up those sides and just make sure you get a really nice right angle okay and it is key to make sure that this is nice and even and straight because obviously this is all on show and you want them to sit the same and to sit on that little ledge and all that kind of stuff so and then the other end here I'm just going to put the glue on both like I said it's only a thin amount of glue because once we fold these pieces in to reinforce it that's really what's going to hold it all together these are just really helping it to get in that shape but it's those reinforced pieces that will really kind of strengthen it and okay so now we've got something like that I just then just kind of push these out a little bit and then I'm going to bring the Kalao in anybody new thinking well why is she changing this glue here is just amazing and it is a solvent-based glue and when it dries it dries it almost like puts a very thin sheet of cement between your card stock it doesn't warp because it's solvents there's no water in it but it just is so stiff and so strong so it's great for paper crafting so I'm just going to now pop some glue along there and along this one this one and that one and then you just want to fold them all in just kind of roughly for the minute just kind of tack them in place like so they kind of hold themselves in and then pop it on its side and just with your bone folder go around and really crease those score lines and it will also spread out all that glue just go around a couple of times until that kind of grabs I've put quite a lot on there so it does take a minute but it's um yeah it's great stuff and there you will have a really nice tray and when that glue dries it will become very very strong so you'll do two of them and then with that pattern piece of paper again I'm going to use my callow because this will add some nice strength to the base and then I'm just going to sit that in there it should be a real nice snug fit and just use your chisel end of your bone folder and you'll be able to get in there and pull that glue spread out okay so now I've got two really nice equal trays and then you want to do exactly the same again on the larger one so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on these tabs it's exactly the same process so if you want to just rewind back to how I done that red tray you're just going to bring up your sides when I've done the four sides fold those out a little bit put your glue and fold them in okay so I'm going to get that one done okay and there's my other tray next you want to grab that strip here and you want to stick it in the back alongside of the tray so it's going to obviously be in this orientation here and you want to make sure when you stick it down that it is flush has to be flush with the top of this if it's not then it's just not going to work it has to come up to that exact level there so I'm going to pop some glue on the back of this one and then just sit that in the side there and just kind of put your finger up the top so it's resting and push it up so it hits your finger and just pop it on its side and just make sure that it is running perfectly with the top there and just make sure you're happy where that is and that's yeah pop maybe put a few pegs on there just so it can kind of you know stick down but that's fine that's not going to go anywhere now okay then I've got this piece of pattern paper to line that tray and this is seven and seven eighths of an inch by five and three yeah five and three eighths again I'm just going to pop I wonder whether that want to be better then trying to see kind of picture everything together that's going to come out like that do I prefer that one maybe I'll do that one actually because I've got that one on the back so just flip that over again just spread all that out okay so next you want to bring in these pieces you're not really going to use the lid for the minute but the base so that's the one where you wouldn't have put your decoration on what's going to happen is this tray is going to eventually we're going to stick it to the bottom of this piece and what you should have is an overhang on all of your three sides okay so I'm just about to see there's a white overhang there there and obviously there on the front okay but before we stick that down we need to attach these hinges to this back piece and then onto no just onto the back piece for the minute okay so I want to make sure I get it in the right order because when I create things on my own before I do videos sometimes I forget that I'm going to film it and I just go ahead and do it and then I'm trying to work out the measurements when it's all put together and that's not always the best way so um right so what I'm doing here is I've popped glue over the on one of them there just make sure I do so I'm going to work on this side now you want to come in the same so lay that tray down and whatever the overhang is makes you got evil even white showing at both ends so get mine lined up here so you can see that white there and there you want to stick this at the same so actually it's best if you just pop it around the corner of the tray there and then bring up the side so try not to move the tray this is just to stick this all down because we're going to be um well I guess you could stick the tray down and just not attach it to the back maybe we could do that I just want to make sure that um you get the right distance so can you see now that you will want to come in slightly so I've come in about one eighth of an inch okay so I'm going to take the tray away maybe you can see there so when I fold that red in it's not right up to the edge that's what you don't want to do okay so when that goes in because then the trays we're going to attach the tray to the top half of this which will allow it to come out and the tray will rest on the sides of the base tray and then when it comes in it will rest on that ledge and then the outside of the tray okay so I guess you could stick the tray down let's have a go and you can well you know what to do you can see what I'm doing but you may find it easier to stick this tray down before you put that first hinge on because then I guess the tray won't move so I just put this in place so yes so now I can kind of I mean I've already put that hinge in place but pretend that one's not there make sure you've got even overhang and you want to put it right up to that score line and make sure you fold this up so that's obviously all straight as well but now I guess it is easier then to just add some glue to the next one on the other side like so and then all you have to do is sit it around the tray and then bring that one up and it's one and seven eighths high so that it sits slightly lower than this two inch piece all right I didn't want you to be able to see that because I just sort of some people do stick it a little bit out or you know you've just you're not happy you don't have to worry about trimming it because it will be a slightly reduced in size so you can't see it anyway but yeah so you might find it easier to line up your sides by sticking the tray down first or just do it the way that I done it but now see when that comes up you want it to wrap perfectly around that tray like so then with this pattern piece here which I gave you the measurements for earlier that should now sit perfectly in there no although because I've put that tray in oh no it's fine yeah just bring that up oh yeah no that's fits fine and that just will then cover these hinges so I'm using the papers all from that pad so all the colors work but if you you know play around with whatever you have I'm just seeing now whether I want to do the same as that ball ball hmm do I do the same see I wish I could have someone telling me now kind of thinking I do the same do I do a contrast don't tell me if you don't like the way that I do it kind of now I'm gonna I'm gonna do contrast guys sorry if any of you were going stick with the ball balls no I've done it now I've added glue but yeah just play around that's why I didn't want to kind of give all the measurements first because I needed to see what it looks like when it's all put together but now I can just slide that one in there and just make sure and get it right down so it runs with the top I might have to trim it a little bit I think because I put the tray in this time before I didn't but yeah if it overhangs a little bit which mine is you do want to trim that off purely because you're going to be putting the lid over it and you don't want that to kind of interfere so I'm just going to get my nice long scissors always go from underneath and then you can get it perfectly lined up with that white piece it's only a little slither but you might find that you do have a little bit sticking up there we go all gone and now what you want to do is add glue to the back of the box so I'm just going to add try and lift that up so you can see what I'm doing the glue along there it's probably way too much but at least it'll be nice and strong and then bring that up and just spend some time pop it on its side just making sure that is really secure and your hinges should come up nicely so that's that's the most if there is a difficult part of this that's it or what we've just done then it's just getting it all in that order and I'm just going to make sure this is dry before I move on to the next bit I've just remembered that's why I didn't do the tray with the glue you forget this piece so you want to stick this down before you stick the tray down but I think yeah I can still get it in there so all I'm going to do is just pop a little bit of glue so just that scored piece pop on the bottom and you want to pop it in the center of this piece so it's still mine's still a little bit tacky I'm just going to line this up so just so I can count um if I line it up so it's four one two three four and a half one two three four three and a half so I need to come across a little bit of there and just make sure yeah I think that's about right because this should sit perfectly in line with the trays when they join okay so just go on under that tray there but if you're if you're using the same glue as me then you'll be able to you've got time to still lift that up because I did put quite a bit under here so I would say use a liquid glue on this one because having that little bit of wiggle room and to be able to add things in like that is always handy so all right I'm going to make sure this is all dry now okay so now we want to attach the trays to the hinges so what you're going to do is you're just going to put a little bit of glue on this corner of the tray so it sticks to just the top half of that hinge the bottom half you don't add any glue to because that will always have to open and you want it to pull that tray out as it does okay but once we add the other bits on which I'll give you the measurements for in a minute that will secure the tray even more and give it I guess kind of like the feet to the support of the front so what I would say for this bit to make sure that you get it your glue in the right place is just bring the hinge round like so okay I'm going to make sure we get all that straight just roughly and then with a pencil if I can find one there just put a little pencil mark just there and there is where you want to add your glue okay so I'm just going to add some glue there and then just sit it on the ledge so it sits right flush with the green one underneath in my case and the back is all straight and just bring that hinge around you want it to have a real nice tight right angle okay and that means everything will be straight don't worry about the front here if it's even dipping into the tray a little bit there don't worry about any of that because we're going to be adding another piece on you're just focusing on getting that all straight and also the measurements of this remember is that one and seven eighths of an inch so it won't come right to the top you don't want it to you want your tray to be within the back of this piece but we're going to be putting the lid around so again mines come up a little bit that's fine don't worry trust me but make sure it is sitting on that ledge that's the only bit you want to focus on that and the right angle there okay and then with the same with this one I'm not going to draw a pencil because I kind of know where I'm going with this but just um do the same on this side look the whole thing they should sit side by side like that okay so just make sure they're all where you want them to be okay so I've got these two pieces here I've totally forgot about these when I'm done on my original measurements then these are nine and five eighths of an inch by two inches and you want two pieces and along the long side you want to score at four okay just on both pieces like so okay just fold and burnish what's going to happen is you're going to stick it you're going to add glue to the front of the top tray and all the way down the side of the top tray and that should stick in actually it's a little bit long you could do nine and a half I'm sure on the other one I needed to be a bit bigger but I guess nine and a half's better because again it's that default length and that's why originally done it but for some reason I found I thought it was too short I'm just going to take a little bit off so just check it first and if you feel it's too long just take a little slither off it's not an issue but um let's just try that again now yeah that's fine okay so we're going to do this one first so you're going to add glue all along actually now you cover the whole piece of this on the outside because it's not sticking to the green underneath so all of that piece and then all along here and then all down here okay and then get that one and just make sure that it sits with the top of that top tray and it will come right down to the end perfectly it's that that will hold everything together make sure it sits on the bottom of the box so you see there and it's running all flat there and that now when you pull that tray out you see it stands up itself so just giving it all the support it needs so it's got the hinge there it conceals everything as well but just when you go to close it just make sure it does sit on the bottom so then with this one you want to do the same so you want to add your glue all on this piece here and then all along this one then again stick that all in place okay and so now just check obviously move it away you don't want any glue oozing out anywhere but it should start to come out once you start working that hinge a bit it will sit where you want it to and then also that piece in the middle here when it comes up it will should line up within the middle of those trays there like so so it will all be very neat okay and then with your lid so there's the top it's going to flip like that you just want to put glue all along this back piece I just put the score line before this in actually and then you want to make sure that the white piece lines up with the white piece underneath they're both the same size so you'll have that nice overhang and because of that overhang it will sit and conceal those boxes underneath and you should get a really nice finish on the back okay so now with this piece here what you want to do is I'll just open that lid up it is still drying a bit but it's there it's okay we're just going to rest it so close them up bring this up and just make sure it's nice and taut and just kind of bend it like so and then you can just go in you can lie it in a scoreboard if you want to and just find any track it doesn't matter which one I'm just going to line it up with that one there obviously make sure it's all straight and just kind of score that a bit better or that the score lines the wrong way but anyway you get the idea it's just to help you you can just fold and pinch it but now that will sit perfectly on there so when I put the velcro dot it will just keep it closed and I just think that's quite a nice way to have a concealed closure because I'm putting this in a gift bag and that's what I'm going to really kind of secure everything so that any prying eyes won't see what they've got but the idea is is that this person can easily keep this you know and like I said it does make a nice little storage box so I'm just going to use my the 10 mil velcro dots here so I'll just grab a pair together you can use magnets of course but um I think velcro is velcro is great it's cheaper does the job I tend to use like I say magnets on mini albums and stuff so just pop that in there bring the lid down you can push down quite hard on that as well because it's got the support and just open them up and then just make sure they're really stuck down like so okay so that's that all done now I'm going to stamp my sentiment and do my big bow for the top and then we are done okay so there is the bow love it love it in the bread actually it's really popped more than the others I think so yeah I think this might be my favorite one this is using the simply made crafts ultimate bow and I've done a separate tutorial on how to put it together which I'll link there and I'll share the links below as always so that's done and then what I've also gone ahead and done is I've popped the sentiment inside so anything you want obviously to go there you might just keep it with patterned paper or put the mirror there like I mentioned at the beginning I think that's a nice touch if you're going down that jewelry box route and then I've also gone ahead and put mats and layers on the fronts here the sides here and the sides here okay so you'll want two pieces of five and a quarter by one and three quarters you'll want two pieces of three and three quarters by one and three quarters and then you'll want two pieces of three quarters of an inch by five and a quarter wasn't it yeah again all those measurements will be in my blog but look how great that looks though I absolutely love these and let's just have a little play around with the kind of configuration because you can have them however you want so you could have these so if you imagine the bounties fit perfectly along with you know your galaxies all your standard chocolate bars will fit in there perfectly but you could fit I mean this is all the other ones plus I've got them you could do double layer of that you could do double layer of them and a bounty so you get two four six eight you get nine chocolate bars on the bottom and this will all still close oh that's just you know that's just one example I just put them up there just to prove it does you've got lots of you know still got lots of you know clearance there for it it fits perfectly so I just need to spend some time now playing around with you know where all this is going to go I've got pretty much all the chocolates I've got one more that I need to get that I know that person loves and I know it will fit in there perfectly but yeah I think they've turned out great and like I said if you're using them in your craft room you're now just going to fill it up with brads and all bits and pieces just keep it in your bedroom maybe with some jewelry in I just think they've got so many functions and I really do and yeah I just love them so just bringing the other one there I haven't done the tags I do think I'm going to take them off this they're only tied with a bow and I'm going to put them on the actual gift bag because these will be the actual tags so you know when you take that off you know they're they're not ruined you know they can obviously be used for what they want so this is just using let me just quickly show you I've used that one there which is that big tag which is the it's just called twaz tag by woodware and then this one so I've just stamped those images is the hand drawn greetings which you've seen me use a few times now again all those links will be shared below but they're lovely big stamps and yeah like I said I think I'm going to stamp a ton of these and just have them all for most of my gifts this year okay so thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial I know a lot of you are going to really enjoy this one because a lot of you that follow just love making the gift boxes and and storage ideas as well so I think yeah I really do hope that you enjoy it please share them over on mixed up crafters I always look forward to that and as many of you do I know it's such a lovely group over there I know I keep saying it but it really is a lovely group so head over if you haven't and yeah thank you for watching please 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