 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixercraft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these envelope boxes. So I make so many cards and some of them are quite 3D and they don't always fit into just a normal envelope so I make these box ones but what I'm finding is that when I am maybe making another tutorial and then I'm using for example this box I'm telling you guys to go and check out that tutorial and you've got to skip to certain parts of it and it's just it could be easier. So what I've decided to do is do this tutorial which is just going to be on how to make these envelope boxes. Now I'm making the six by six and the five by seven so you're going to see me make this one here and some of you might recognize this card I actually found it I totally forgot I still had this it's a beautiful card absolutely love this one thank you card and as you can see it's got a lot of dimension so that's why I needed to make this box so I'm going to make this one here with the lid but then I'm also going to make the six by six with the lid kind of opening from the top okay so you've got two versions of six by six and this is the other version that I was just saying so that's where it opens at the top so you're going to get a six by six in this and a six by six in this version and again the same you'll get a five by seven in this and then this five by seven version and it just means that you can just come to this tutorial rather than hunting through other videos and it'll be easier for me to use this as a reference as well. So first of all I'm going to make the separate lid boxes so this is a five by seven and the six by six so if you want to make a five by seven you need a piece of card stock that's seven and a quarter by nine and a quarter and then a piece of card stock that is six and three quarters by eight and three quarters this piece is for your lid okay so this smaller piece first of all you want to score let me show you get mine all correct three quarters of an inch and six inches and that's along the six and three quarter side okay then rotate it along the longer side and again you're going to score at three quarters of an inch and at eight okay so that's all you need to do for the lid then for the base so you've cut it to that size which was seven and a quarter by nine and a quarter but then you want to take a little slither off of two of the sides okay and this is the easiest way for you to make these boxes so that you get a really nice kind of closure now when I mean a slither I literally mean if you use one of your little markers on the the ruler part here it's just one of the little notches so I'm just going to line this up here and you can see there what I've cut off okay it's not quite one eighth of an inch it's probably just a little bit shy of that and again there you're just doing that off of two sides so it's easier for me to give you that simple measurement and then you cut off those little bits okay and then grab your scoreboard and you're going to score it one inch on all four sides and now by taking those little pieces off of the two sides it will allow this base to fit nicely underneath the lid so next you want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay so I'm going to use the lid first this is the smaller of the two and your lid will have a three-quarter of an inch side whereas your base will have the one inch and that's going to give us that nice depth so that we can you know add lots of embellishments to our cards so I'm just going to bring in my other scissors here so along the short side here I'm just cutting up those two score lines just to that first one there and then rotate it and do the same again so you're just snipping up to that score line okay and then with the four squares in each corner just take a little wedge off of each one and that will just help you conceal those pieces so you haven't got anything overhanging okay so that's what you should now have for your lid for your base you're going to do exactly the same thing so again along the short side here I'm just going to cut up like so rotate the whole thing round and then again take little wedges off of all of those sides okay next we need to glue this all together so I'm just going to bring in some of my liquid glue here into each of the corners and then bring it down and around so you can bring the other side over okay just hold that there for a second and then go to the next one bring it down and under again just hold it there and then repeat on the other end okay so now we have our base we've got that tray and then for the lid you want to do exactly the same again so just add some glue to all of those tabs okay so that's the lid all done and now that should fit nice and snug over the top like so and because this one's shorter it allows you to be able to pull that off nice and easily now the finished size of this is five and a quarter by seven and a quarter I've done them slightly higher and wider because it allows you to have any kind of little detail overhanging on the card and also if anybody does do something slightly bigger than six then by five by seven it will fit nicely into this so that is your five by seven gif box envelope now I'm going to give you the measurements for the six by six and construct it in exactly the same way okay so for the six by six for your lid you want a piece that's seven and three quarters squared okay and for the base you want a piece that's eight and a quarter squared okay so for the lid you want to score which is that seven and three quarter squared piece you're going to score it three quarters of an inch on all four sides okay so because this is a square it's even easier than the other one oh gone off a little bit there there we go okay and then for the base you want to do the same thing again so we need to bring in our trimmer and we're just going to take that same kind of slither off of two of the sides again there's my pieces and then grab your scoreboard again and you want to score it one inch on all of the four sides okay again fold and burnish okay and then you're going to cut exactly the same way so you can choose any like opposite sides now it doesn't matter because they're all the same but you're just going to cut down and down and then rotate it all the way around and down and down do that on this one and then take the little wedges off of all of the squares as I did with that five by seven version okay so there I've cut all of those the same and then you're going to add your glue to the tops and fold them all in exactly the same way as I did for the five by seven okay so there's those you've done and again it will fit on nice and snug like so okay so now you have a six by six and a five by seven gift box envelope and so now any of my cards that I make so I always make my cards in either six by six or five by seven you know that you will have a nice size envelope for them so that's that style with the lid that's separate then I'll show you how to make the one with the kind of flip lid okay so to make the five by seven flip lid gift box or envelope box you'll need a piece of cardstock that's seven and a quarter by nine and a quarter and another piece that is seven and a quarter by nine and three quarters okay so with the smaller piece along the seven and a quarter side you want to score it one inch and again at six and a quarter so this will be one inch in depth just like the other ones then rotate your cardstock and again score at one inch and an eight and a quarter so what you should have is a one inch section on all four sides okay then with the slightly larger piece so again along the seven and a quarter side you want to score at one inch and at six and a quarter and then rotate and again score at one inch eight and a quarter but then nine and a quarter so you've got that extra score line and this piece here this half inch piece is going to be our little kind of tab to lock in that flip lid okay so that is the five by seven then you want to fold and burnish all of your score lines okay so I've got my two pieces now the one where you've got that extra half inch piece okay so it'd be the longer piece because they're both the same width that's going to be the back of the box so this is the front so we'll say this is the top I'm going to turn it around and you want to cut down those two score lines it doesn't matter what end you've chosen at this point because they're both the same okay but now we're going to remove this whole middle piece so if you just tuck down one of those I'm actually going to bring in my longest scissors now and then just cut really neatly because this will all be exposed right the way along to the very end there I need to sharpen my scissors there we go okay so that is now going to be the top when it goes in these are going to be our side pieces so now this is the base so again you just want to cut up like so and then you're going to take a little wedge off of both of those like so so that's what you should have for the front of this box then for the back so this half inch piece is the top and then you've got a one inch and a half inch like so the bottom you'll just have that one inch so you want to cut up both of these okay now because we've kept them on this one we need to remove them on this one so you just want to cut those squares out completely okay and then again along the very top here flip it around you've got your half inch line and then your one inch you're going to cut down both of them and again because we've kept them in here we want to remove it completely so now you can see what I've removed that whole square but also this top piece so again you can see it all here we're removing that and the square so just cut all the way down remove that completely okay so you have two pieces like this and this one will be slightly taller by half an inch because that's our little kind of bit that we're going to like I said seal the box up with so with that piece there you just want to take a very small sliver off of the edge not too much because if you take too much off it will pop pop out it won't lock in and again with these pieces here just take a very very small amount so not as much as you take off of those you just want to take a small bit and if you find it doesn't close properly it's too tight then you can just take some more off when we put it together so it's best to just take a little bit you can always take more off okay and then what's going to happen so the base so the piece that's got that half inch you're going to turn over and kind of fold up like that and then this will all fold in and we're going to glue it and kind of hug the one below okay and then those two pieces will go in and the box will close okay but like I said we'll do that when we get to it so what I would say first of all is glue the bottom pieces on the front piece and get them stuck down and then you can glue all the rest together so I'm just going to pop it underneath this one here okay and then you can go and add glue on all of these three sides here and I'm going to flip this one over and I'm going to pop it all inside if you want to do it bit by bit you can but I find if you just get it all in and then it's easy then to just go in with a ruler and you can just kind of push everything down smooth all the sides down and just line it all up okay so there you have your five by seven just fold those bits in a bit more what you might have to do is just take actually could have done with taking the little wedge off of the top pieces there I'll show you on the six by six because you'll get a bit of bulk like I've got here but you can just go in and just trim that but before you do it you see there where it's kind of gone over just bring it up and you can just trim that off okay and now those will fold in nicely okay so if you've got any bulk there just trim it off and now the lid will close and you want it to slot in you want it to be tight if you feel it's too tight then do trim a little bit more off but that is your five by seven flip top envelope box and again the final size of this is five and a quarter by seven and a quarter so now I'm just going to give you the measurements for the six by six okay so you're going to need one piece that's eight and a quarter by eight and a quarter and then one piece that's eight and a quarter by eight and three quarters again exactly the same process as before you've got that extra half inch piece so with your eight and a quarter by eight and a quarter piece you want to score on all four sides at one inch and then on the other piece you want to score along the eight and a quarter side at one inch and seven and a quarter then rotate and score at one inch seven and a quarter and eight and a quarter and that will give you that half inch piece here okay so that's all the scoring and again you want to fold and burnish all of those score lines okay so starting with the front piece so the smaller piece again exactly the same way as the five by seven you're going to cut up the two there and then rotate and cut down these ones here decide what's your top or your bottom because at this point obviously it doesn't matter because they're all the same so this is going to be the top so this whole piece here we're going to remove so like I did before fold that one down I'm just going to bring in my longer scissors you want to cut that whole piece out then you just want to take little wedges off of the bottom one so the one the bottom is the one with this piece still on okay the top is this one and again just take a very very small slithers off you don't need to take a lot slithers wedges I always name it different something different miter there we go okay so that's the front of our box then this piece which is the back that half an inch extra piece that you've got is the top okay so the bottom here you're going to cut up those two again at this time because we've kept the squares on that one again you want to remove them on this one okay so again now that's the bottom all done flip the whole thing around and you're going to remove both those sections from here like so and what I didn't do on that one and I had that little bit of buckling on the tops of these ones here just take a wedge off like so so we've got a slight angle now on these ones there's that half inch piece there's a slight angle there so that when this wraps over and folds in it won't catch on the top okay so next you just want to glue so this is that front piece with that piece cut out glue these pieces to each other first okay and then again I'm just going to add glue to all of these sides and just fold in all of those pieces and it will just sit in side that one and just with your ruler make sure all your sides are stuck down okay and then fold that down and lock in your lid there we go another nice six by six box envelope so there you have it two different styles and I think it's going to help out a lot of you because many people message me and say that you've made this card and you need an envelope that's going to be big enough so I think one inch is plenty I don't think I've ever made any card with dimension higher than an inch but um you know you can obviously adapt them if you need to but I love these ones here I think they're nice for real special occasion ones you can add ribbons and obviously decorate these you know as much as you want and then you've also got the ones there with the flip lid which are handy for if you're doing I would say like a gift card set so if you've got a box of you know cards that you want to give to someone you could put quite a few cards in there and again with the five by seven size but also just if you prefer to make that style yeah so I hope you find this video useful I hope you can use it now as a reference I will use this video a lot so when I'm making cards now I will always kind of use this one and direct you to it so that you can make the envelopes to obviously present and finish your cards off you know nicely so yeah until next time guys thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon bye