 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so I've got another fun Easter tutorial and this one is I'm calling it the Roll Up Box. Now the idea has come from Pinterest it was actually some packaging but it was considerably different and it was huge and there was eight sections whereas I've only got four and I've added this big belly band as well so you'd actually look at it and think it just looks like a you know quite a nice box and you know it could open from the top but actually you slide this piece off here so if I just pull that one down there we go and this folds flat again so if you are making these now you know you've got a few weeks still before Easter you can keep them stored away and then you have this okay and these are your four sections and then all you've got to do is you just undo the velcro and pull it apart and you have this and I just absolutely love this I think it looks awesome and then you just lift the tops up of each one and you've guessed it two tunics teacakes but you but you you know like I said you can put anything in here so you could maybe have some jewelry in one you might want to put a gift voucher in one sweets in one you know and so on but the whole thing is just it's just really really fun and it's so easy to make and you just fold it all up squish the top and then you pop it in this belly band and the belly band I mean you don't have to have it you can see there you know it does stay together on its own so you don't have to have this option but if you want to decorate it you again you can decorate on this but I wouldn't advise you to do two I like don't do any mats and layers I've just done layers because otherwise you start to add too much bulk to all of this so that's why I've just thought the addition of the belly band gives you then that place to be able to do all that decoration if I just bring it up a bit closer I've got a little kind of sign here and then I've used these are one of the coasters the felt coasters again I've shared all this product before and then you've got the little chick and all these eggs and the glittery piece of carrot piece of carrot the glittery carrot and I've got some little picket fence there as well and I've just had some fun with it and stuck that bow on so this is what we're going to make very easy and yeah I hope you enjoy the tutorial okay so I've gone ahead and done three of the four boxes and I've already started to decorate this one as well but you can see there how you know you know you'll come together and I've got all the mats and layers ready all of this here and there's my little happy so just done some heat embossing and popped it on a little wooden stick the stamp set that that one's come from is from the apple blossom it's called springtime sentiments and it's yes the happy Easter there but you also got happy Mother's Day and all kinds of ones so I have been using this one quite a lot because it's just really nice fonts so I've yeah like that one and I think this one was really cheap so again the links will be shared below the paper pad I'm using is this one here I'm just finding the colors are really nice actually for Easter although it is your beach life these here just really nice and that's what I've been using but I've used the stripe there and this one and the bunting okay so for today's one I'm using this lovely blue color I'm going to give the measurements of those latexes for the belly band but I just want to double check something before I do that so all you need are four pieces that are eight and five eighths of an inch by eleven and a quarter okay so along the eleven and a quarter side you want to score it two and one eighth four and a quarter six and three eighths eight and a half and ten and five eighths okay and all the measurements will be in my blog as always then along the eight and five eighths side you want to again score it two and one eighth and then six and a half okay so you should have just turned it around there but you'll have this just over half an inch tab at the top and then all these squares on the sides will be two and one eighth of an inch squared okay and then you'll have these sections in the middle so you should have one two three four five kind of rows or six including that little one at the top okay but you want to do that four times so I'm now going to get rid of the scoreboard and then you want to fold and burnish all of the score lines the next we need to do some cutting so I'm going to do it so that I've got this smaller tab on my right hand side and first of all I'm going to go along here and just cut up all of these score lines just to the first okay so I'm going to go all along this side and then all along that side there you're just cutting up to that first score line okay so you'll have these two pieces here you want to remove those completely okay and then you just want to take a small wedge not a lot just a small wedge off of the sides because this is going to be the little tab that will slide in to close the box okay then these ones here are going to be your little kind of side tabs just to keep the you know just just well it's actually to really stop anyone seeing what's inside but just cut about half of it away okay and then on this side you want to do a heavy kind of wedge you know so you almost looks like you know the tail the wing of a plane you want to go down quite deep and try and get it roughly the same on the other side okay and then just take a smaller like your normal kind of wedges off of the bottom part there don't worry if they're not exactly the same once I put this all together you'll see why we're doing it and you know you understand it a bit better but just something so it looks kind of like that okay then flip it around so all of this is now at the top these two here we're going to remove completely and these are actually going to be the connecting pieces to join each box together so this will actually stick on the side of one of the other boxes so make sure you're cuttings really nice and neat because this is all going to be seen all of this is all going to kind of be disguised but these ones will be seen okay next you're going to take look you go over that way we're going to take little wedges off of these squares here but not these ones leave these completely intact they're going to be the last ones we stick down so it means you have a nice finish on the side of your box okay but just so we don't get anything kind of overhanging it's good to take off a little bit from the other ones so I'm just cutting just little wedges off of just these two on each side you're basically just removing bulk that's all it is okay so I'm just going to lie that down there so you can pause the video if you want to but basically you will have a section here where you've removed them these two here you just want to take little wedges out of this one leave completely intact and then the top you will take half off first and then cut the big wedge and just the little one and then you'll have that tab and just take a little bit off of the sides but again I'll just leave it there if you want to just pause that for a second okay next we want to construct it so we're going to add glue so I've got the this kind of tab end in my hand this middle square we're going to add some glue onto the top now I'm going to use my liquid glue one because it's my favorite and it just strengthens everything but also it does give you that time to wiggle it around if you need to so you're going to bring this one under this one here and use the square the perfect square of this one to get everything nice and lined up probably want a bit heavy on the ends there just remove that glue but just make sure that that piece is all stuck down and then you want to do the same with this one so make sure the nice square one is lifted up you're putting it on that middle one so you will now have just this piece left and this piece here next you want to add glue to this one and you want to do it on this one as well at the same time because they're both it's going to kind of go in the same time as you know whatever side is you stick down first it's best to add the glue now and then you just kind of want to fold them both in and then in like so and what I would say I'm just going to quickly tack that a little bit but fold these pieces out and that way you can really see inside the box and you can get everything nice and lined up and because we've not taken anything off that outer square you will have that perfect square shape all right now what will happen is this is going to fold in these side pieces and because this goes in here if we hadn't taken off that heavy wedge it would hit against this so that's why if you take it off and then that piece will all just slide in but what I might do and what you might want to do is if you get some you want a very very thin piece of ribbon or just a piece of cardstock just to stick on the side here so it sticks out but can fold down and that way it's almost like a little pull piece for these so once I put it all together we can add that at the end but I'll show you because I think I'm going to do that because I think it will help people be you know be able to undo those but that is what you will have is this box with this flap because that's what we use to attach everything together but you want to do that four times okay so I've got that one I've got this one here so I'm just going to stick that all in and then I've got these two which I've already joined together and just started to decorate so what you want to do is I'm going to start off with this here so you will I've already got those two and to get those two you get one of these and you add the glue on this side here and you stick it onto there but you want to make sure that you're doing it with the ones where they're both opening from the top so you can see both mine open from the top that is going to stick onto the back of that one okay and that's what that is there then you will get this one and you will add it underneath the next one so I'm going to add my glue and all of these open from the top and you're just going to stick it on there now what I would say is stick it when you know keep this lying side by side and then you can just lay that back piece down because this is the position that it needs to close up in and you want this to all be really you know flush and nice and neat so it's best to stick it like that rather than like that or with it kind of just like this put them right on top of each other and then you've got a nice kind of surface to be able to you know push down on and make sure everything's kind of flat okay and then again this one is facing up the right way same way that this one is because that's where we're going to open it in there that's why I think it's going to be handy to have the little pulby pieces that this next one is going to stick on there and you want to just make sure that when it comes out that it's all you know joined by the same point so if you've done this one here but then you've got the next one coming off here you've done it wrong they all need to just work down like this okay so like don't stick it there for example because then you know you've gone wrong so you know you're doing it right if each one is like that and you have that shape okay so another way to explain it where the lid is on the top you're sticking to the bottom okay so if you use that as a way of you know knowing where to stick so that's going to the bottom to wherever the lid is you stick to the bottom so again I'm going to add my glue on this one so this is where you can keep going so if you do want to add more you know keep adding more but you need to finish with an even number if you want it to stack obviously like I have and again because that's on the bottom I'm going to sit that one like that it's nice and flush you can see now when that all goes together you get that perfect square shape okay so there we will have this and then the tops of all of these will open okay then you want a piece that's four and three eights by four and a quarter and along the four and a quarter side you want to score it two and one eighth then you just want to fold and burnish that score line and we're going to stick it on this last one here but it's on the side so that's where you open it from the top rather than sticking on the bottom like we had done before you're going to stick on this side here and we're just going to stick it like that so this side overhangs and it will just join up with that one on the top so basically just attaching like a handle really and if I just bring it all up you can see now it just creates that perfect side for this one that's where we're going to put the velcro dots so yeah I'm just going to keep that one opened up for a minute just so I can make sure it's all stuck down in the end you want it to look like you can't see the joints you know it's just this continued kind of piece of card you know and people are kind of thinking how have you put all that together now when you go to decorate this obviously I'm using a directional paper but it actually is going to work fine on the side pieces but on these pieces here can you see they're all going to end up going in different directions but I'm not too worried because the belly band is going to cover all this and once it's opened it will all kind of line up because you can see now they'll all be facing the same way so just if you are using a directional paper just bear that in mind but you might be better off using something like on this one here it was just all of those so this one off it's just that polka dot paper so it didn't really matter for that one there so but next you want to oh I just shook that sorry next we want to decorate all of those sides so for everything inside here I would suggest just doing one layer because you don't want to add too much bulk to it otherwise it's just not going to close up into that nice square shape so I think it was 16 pieces what we've got here two four six eight ten twelve yeah 16 pieces and these all measure one and seven eighths of an inch by four and one eighth of an inch just want to check that it is yeah but you want to make sure when you do your top ones if you're using a directional paper obviously you want it to all face the right way so these ones now I'm going to have coming down on the back that way but all on the inside you know it doesn't really matter so I'm going to stick all of those down first I'm going to carry it on this way because if you want you can hang this so with that in mind I've got my bunting all facing the right way here so I'm going to stick them all down first okay so I've decorated all inside and all on this side here but you would have noticed I just took that one off because I have done the top ones that I'm actually going to cover over that because I stuck that down by mistake but I've got here a mat and a layer because this isn't part of the box kind of you know when it wraps up so that's not going to create any bulk on the top of it but I wanted it to match the belly band so that's why I've done the white so it's completely optional you don't have to but I have done these pieces here what were those ones for why have I got two lots oh because they're for there as well I'm going mad I've cut so many pieces of paper you can see why so the white piece is the same size as all of these measurements that I gave you before so the white was one and seven eighths of an inch by four and one eighth the pattern paper on top is one and five eighths of an inch by three and seven eighths and you want four pieces of those in that um with the mats and layers because one is going to go on there that's a little bit tacky so I'm just going to stick that down again it's just how I wanted to decorate it so it's entirely up to you but like I said do mats and layers on the outer pieces so if you wanted to do you know white frame and the pattern on all these outer pieces but don't do them on these inner ones because that extra bulk will mean it will just end up being a probably a bit like that and it won't close up properly so I'm going to stick that one there I'm going to go over that one there I must have had one that covers it perfectly okay I just ripped off that one underneath and put stuck this one back on top because it just wasn't lining up so it was better to just get rid of it completely and then you just want to finish off with the squares on the sides because I don't believe I gave those measurements it's one and seven eighths of an inch squared so again I'm going to open it up just so I can work in the same direction yeah as I did I mean I'm yeah I'm not way too much it's just a colorful pattern you're not going to really notice it because the belly band's going to cover it all it's just when it's opened but I know who I'm giving this to oops is uh will not notice that at all so I'm not too worried when these pieces here you want eight okay so I've just gone and cut these pieces here because I'm going to add in just those little pull tabs this is just some scrap it happens to be three quarters of an inch by one inch and I'm just going to lift these out and I'm just going to attach just to the the side of the tab there just so it sticks out in fact I don't want too much sticking out but it is it does need to fold over so what it might be worth doing actually is with your scoreboard is just score halfway down that one inch to score it half an inch and burnish them actually because yeah it shouldn't add too much bulk we'll soon find out anyway I'm just going to fold all of those and then I'm going to use my quick dry glue here I'm just going to cover the inside of one of those half inch pieces pop it in the middle of this so it's it's coming over the side there and then close that up but now they have that pull tab and they will know they wouldn't actually go and pull that I don't want to pull it yet because it's obviously still drying but I'm just going to go and add those in okay I'm really pleased with that I think it looks really good so now loads easier all right so I definitely recommend that you do that I mean if it won't dip in once your stuff's in there because the tonics teacakes will stop that happening for me anyway but now when I bring it all around yeah it's not created you know that much bulk and because it's in the centres anyway you wouldn't really see it on the sides so now I'm going to add my velcro dots but again I'm using the velcro brands these are linked on my amazon store and these are the so they're 12 or 13 mil I'm just going to use two sets you can have one big one but I'm going to pop one there and one there and then just make sure it lines up and just really squeeze them together okay so there is your box now if you want to keep it like that you can it does look really nice but I do want to add that belly band and I want to do all that really lovely Easter decoration so what I've got is you're going to cut these down a bit that's what I wanted to check first let me just do all of that okay so you do want to have one piece definitely that's four and a quarter by 12 and you want to score along the 12 at half an inch okay the other side I'm going to trim and I'll tell you what you need in a minute but I'm going to just add some glue on this half-inch tab don't fold and burnish it it's really just a guide but I just you know rather than getting a pencil out and stuff you might as well just score and you just want to stick that over the top making sure it all lines up because we've got four inch sides here 12 inches isn't obviously long enough so you need to stick them together and I just end up trimming it a little bit off of one of you know this other piece but I'll give you that measurement but it will be four and a quarter and then what I've done rather than doing those 16th of an inch score lines and all that kind of faff if you lay this piece on the back of your box okay so choose a front and you're going to have this on the back with the join right in the middle hold it in place and lie it down okay and then bring up the side and just push against it so you get a nice fold okay and then come all the way around and again just make sure all the card is running nice and flush against the box and just burnish and then this last one bring it down like so and then I'm going to bring up this one again really push it against there and bring it up to here and then I'm just going to grab a pencils if you want to do it like I just have then you'll want two pieces at four and a quarter by 12 but I'm now just going to put a little pencil mark just a little bit under there and I'm going to take the whole thing off and grab my scoreboard flip it over and I'm going to get line up these folds on a any of the tracks and now score them and it's much easier to do that than to do all that kind of in between scoring because that's what it will be so I'm just literally just picking any track and getting nice score lines and that way you know your belly band is going to fit really tight oh actually that's the one I need to I know where's the pencil line oh just got some hot glue on that oh it's inside here I'll be trimming that away anyway so it doesn't matter and then with that where I put the pencil mark I'm just going to cut that piece off so if you want to have it exact and you don't want to waste 12 by 12 then that piece there is six and seven eighths of an inch by four and a quarter okay so we'll put all that measurement in my blog but now just go around and fold and burnish those score lines so I just think that's a little bit of an easier way or don't do that back one that's a an easier way to do it so you know whatever works you I always just wrap my belly bands around I never you know score them properly but now we just need to join that up but I would do it when it's wrapped around not before because I just think it's easier so again I'm going to wrap all that around and you'll see now that that is going to join up perfectly like so and then we've got our mats and layers to go over it but you've got a really nice snug belly band that's popping out a bit there because I went to fold that score line but it's fine okay so with it still on there I'm just going to pop some glue on here and then just bring that up keeping everything nice and straight you see there lines up perfectly okay I'm really pleased with that okay so I've got these here you'll want two pieces of white if you're doing it like me that are four by three and seven eighths and then two pattern pieces that are three and three quarters by three and five eighths and there for the side pieces and then for the front and back you will want two pieces of white that are four and one eighth by three and seven eighths and then two pattern pieces that are three and seven eighths by three and five eighths I will write all that down in my blog okay but yeah it's so they're just they're more they're just ever so slightly more rectangular more rectangular than they are square so I'm going to stick all of these down and then I've got my hot glue gun which has been on for a while now ready to just do a little bit of decoration on the front okay so now we're going to decorate it so I had the picket fence on that one because it was a bit of scrap but I don't want to just cut into the fence just for that tiny bit so I'm not going to add it on this one but I've got this is one of those coasters these were from the pound shop again hopefully this is all still in there but um it does always tend to sell out quite quickly so I'm just using my hot glue gun and I'm just going to stick this one down make sure yep on the front and it's just going to come off slightly down to the more of the right hand corner there like so I've got yellow ribbon I'm going to do on this one because I think it you know yellow and the blue go really nice together and then I've just got a few of the you know all those bits I've been collecting so I'm just going to have the carrot on there and then I'm going to add a little blue one just down in the corner there and just start building a little seam with whatever it is that you've got you might be just doing a nice you know stamp sentiment in the middle there but I you know you know me I always go over the top I've got these little chicks here which were actually from last year because the ones that I the small ones I saw this year I thought really rubbish so but these ones were okay so I'm going to use that one and yeah just have a bit of fun and get this all decorated okay so there is my finished box I put some yellow tinsel on this one which again I shared in one of my what did I get videos just because I didn't have the picket fence on that one it did need something else but I'm really really pleased with this one and I've also got the yellow ribbon instead of the pink on this one as well because again I just think that works really nicely with the blue so to get into it and that's the nice thing about it is you don't have to undo that bow or anything so just take off the belly band so whatever way you know will work best like so and then you just undo this and out pop all of your boxes it opens the right way up as well and then you just got your little pulleys there to open up all of your compartments and I just love it so yeah you can fit eight tonics tea cakes or you can fill it with lindor chocolates you know I've got lots of little Easter chocolates that may well go in here as well I just think it's a lot of fun and once you have put stuff in there if your box lids are kind of dipping like that one seems to want to dip down these ones are not too bad but once you've got stuff in there that won't happen anyway and then it just all folds up I like using velcro I don't I very rarely use magnets unless it's on like a mini album or more of a real special like gift you know keepsake box or something I just think velcro is fine and that way you know if you're giving it to children and stuff they're going to be okay so yeah I absolutely love these I think they are brilliant I'm so chuffed cannot wait the best bit now is giving them to someone as well so I know they're going to enjoy them and they hold quite a bit of weight as well because because of the way it's constructed and that it's all wrapped up on itself you probably could get I don't know how tall a miniature is I haven't actually got anything on hand at the minute but you might be able to get a little miniature in there I've got a feeling it might be a little bit small but it's another idea anyway and you know or some nice little the little candles that you can get so I think they are fun so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial I hope it's given you lots of inspiration can't wait to see your versions of this because this is again something that can be adapted for many occasions this is going to be a great one for Christmas and you can hang it as well if you wanted to you know change the way that I've kind of put it together at the top there so yeah there you have it so thank you very much for watching as always if you have enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up consider subscribing so you get to see more of the Easter series and all of the other many tutorials that will be coming so thanks a lot bye