 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 this really fun faceted origami gift box. Now in true Mixed Up Craft style I have made this my own so I got the inspiration from Origami Folds on YouTube and I'll share the link to that video but I have changed this up I think quite a bit. I have made these so that they're exposed, these are actually folded inside but I liked them on the outside. I've added eyelets and I've changed the way it's decorated because like a lot of origami it's used origami is made using the 6x6 paper so it's very very thin paper to allow all the intricate folding which is what origami is all about so you can't always transfer a lot of the origami over to card stock and I didn't know whether this was going to work or not but it's turned out really well. This is using really thick cardstock which I'll show you the ones that I use and then this paper here is the floral fusion by First Edition which is their oriental collection and I thought because this is an origami it's an oriental fold I'm going to go with oriental papers as well and I'm going to continue that in a minute. So that's using one sheet of 12x12. This is more I guess of the original kind of way it's to look. That's using one piece of 6x6 and that's with the folds folded inwards so these pieces here that are flapping go inside so I'm going to show you it's very simple whether you want it outside or not but you can see the difference that you get there and that's using one piece of 6x6 that will hold a small little sweet singular sweet a piece of jewelry very nicely we'll go in there wrapped in a little bit of tissue these make really really cute little favors so that's 6x6 that's 12x12 I'm going to make it with 10x10 today but let me just show you what it's like inside so if I just take the ribbon across there there's a good way to fold to tie your ribbon as well which I'll show you but I've got three little treats in here and then you can see the bottom there I've decorated as well so where those pieces what I've done sorry these pieces are sticking out but I've also taken away the bulk inside here as well so like I said the normal origami one they they show you they just fold it and it's just a fun kind of little box but you can't realistically you can't actually get anything in it so I have found a way I think and I I love it and I hope you all do excuse me like it too that works so that we can hold and you know use it as a nice little gift box so just going to shovel that to one side because that is ready to give to somebody and let me bring in the 10x10 so I've also done a template just to show you the folds that we're going to be doing so again don't be you know don't look at this and think oh my god look at it all it's really really straightforward but I just this is going to be easy for me to revert to when I'm talking you through the bits that we're doing so I'm going to keep that to one side like so so that's the paper pack floral fusion it's an older one now it's been out for some time you can still get it and it is beautiful it's an I I always say that Paradise Crush is my favorite but actually floral fusion is a close favorite I mean just look and these are you can see the shine on them there really really lovely and again I'll share all the links to where you can get that from double-sided really good quality and that's what I'm using to decorate so for this one I'm going for like this kind of deep red and that's the paper I've pulled out there it's got this beautiful like repeated pattern which I think is just going to look really really pretty so talk you through all of that sizing in a minute for the for the main bit let's just crack on and get this done now you can do this box in any size you want as long as it's an equal-sided square piece of cardstock that you're using okay any size it's got to be equal once you see how I do it you can crack on then and I'll leave the measurements for the 12 by 12 I'll leave the measurements for six by six in my blog and obviously the 10 by 10 but 8 by 8 you can even go 2 by 2 I mean that would be really really tiny and if you're very you know patient then go for it so what you want to do first of all here is along your whatever side you've got so this is 10 inches you want to do your halfway mark first now you'll do other score lines but I'm talking you through the way that you is easiest to do for you to use any size you want so whatever length you've got here find the halfway and score so in this case it's 10 so we're going to score it 5 then you want the halfway of 5 which is 2.5 and again halfway between 5 and 10 is 7.5 so using a 10 inch side you will actually be scoring at 2.5 5 and 7.5 rotate the card and do exactly the same again so 2.5 5 and 7.5 so now you will have 16 squares on this piece of paper now those 16 squares are these here so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 no matter what size card you have you have to have the 16 squares okay so let's just give you another one so if you're using a 9 inch piece you'll find the halfway which will be 4.5 and then you'll do half of 4.5 which is 2.25 that's another example and then half again there okay so hopefully this is making sense so that's all the scoring you need with the scoreboard so now what we're going to be creating so I'm going to now turn this that way and turn my card that way as well okay and we're now going to create this line going right through the middle here okay so I'm going to turn my card over because we want to keep our score lines all in the same orientation so you want to make sure key thing with origami is your points make sure all your points really line up and then go in and obviously you need to really work this more and burnish it so we have just created this score line here so if I open that up this is this one that we've got now so then rotate again it's exactly the same and do the same again so right up to the corner there make sure it's all perfect and again score okay so now you'll see we've got this cross here like we've got here next we want to create this line here and this line here and in order to do that you're going to take your point and you're going to match it up to the square below so there's that square there this is this square here we're bringing this point across to there okay so just below the diamond shape there you want to go to this point here so bring it up and pop it in there so again it should all sit within the squares that we made at the beginning those 16 squares you just want to be lining up your sides all with that okay then flip it round again and do the same so bringing it up to this one here then rotate it and do the same again and then rotate the whole thing once you remember this is very quick I mean I whizzed through the 12 by 12 but didn't take me long at all so now can you see we've we've recreated all of those lines here we've recreated here now the ones we've got left to do are these tiny ones at the top so if you see there all I've got is this and just know there needs to be a line across there okay so to do this one all you've got to do is bring the corner and fold it within its square okay so if I show you here you're just bringing it across just into that piece so it's all within the square just over there so again bring it over and just burnish leave those ones in don't pull them back out because they're actually going to stay in that position so that folding that I've just done is going to be the same for every single size that you have as long as it's an equal-sided square okay there's no measurement you know measuring or anything involved it's just folding in half sorry it's folding that way that way then that way that way it's just folds but as long as you've got those 16 squares to start at the beginning okay then you'll have it so now we've got this so I'm going to get rid of the template now because we don't need that anymore and what you want to do is where you've got so we've got this piece folded over and we've got a square then you've got these triangles here just bring in the triangles inwards and just kind of pop it on his side you can just burnish that there so we're going to start bringing it into the shape that it's going to naturally come up to okay and this is the bit that we're actually going to cut away because now if you imagine once it all comes in even more so in fact we need to burnish all of our score lines that's what I forgot to do so take them out and you do need to burnish the original very very original straight score lines that we done that made the 16 squares it was just easier to do all that other folding whilst they're not burnished and then just fold those back in and then we were back up there now if you imagine you've got that on all four of your corners you can hardly get anything in the box at the end of it so we end up cutting that all away but just go around to each of those bigger triangles and fold them inside and you should have everything should join nicely on the side there so all we're doing at the moment is just kind of getting our folds where they need to be now where we've folded the triangle over you want to fold bring that bit down okay so that's the back of it that's the triangle folded over bring it in so that these two come together okay so there's the top left and right of the square you're bringing them so they touch at the top here okay and again pop it on its side just burnish in those lines this is the one with the little triangle that's folded over like so now if I bring that all over there is your box okay but you can get hardly anything in it because look at all the stuff that's inside there's just so much card inside it and I just thought it's such a great size we should be able to fill it more so okay so what we want to do next is stick down let's decorate the inside because that's going to be easy once it's open this is optional and let me tell you what size unique because obviously I haven't done the 10 by 10 yet so flatten it out so this is a three and a half inch square inside so I'm going to cut a piece of three and a quarter by three and a quarter okay so so there is my one to go in the middle now you can also add to this another maybe white piece of card and you could have a little message on there you know or a little happy birthday or whatever you want I think would look really nice but that can now be stuck in the middle okay so that's now all stuck down and again it just all because we've already folded everything in the direction it should it just all folds nicely next we want to start removing some bulk but first of all we need to stick the sides down to then cut into it afterwards so these larger triangles so not the triangles where you folded over that piece it's these bigger ones okay so along here these large triangles there and there we need to stick together all right just remember it's not the ones with the piece folded over it's the other ones so turn it over and just you want to make sure you get the glue right up to the edges because that's what's going to actually end up holding it together because we're going to cut away the rest but it's easier to just stick the whole thing together first and then bring it across and then flatten one side onto any other side inside so you can squeeze it together and make sure it's a really nice join and this is basically this side here where we're going to be attaching our eyelet so that's what I'm creating here once we stick our decorative paper on top so just again making sure see the glue is coming that through there which is good because then I know that I've got a really nice join because like I said this is going to stay and we're going to end up cutting away that piece there and the even about a quarter of an inch and that's it so that's that one and then go around to the next big section and again glue that so to go and get those four all stuck down okay so now what you will have if I just straighten it all out is you'll have a square or a cube okay and obviously these bits just naturally want to all fold in these bits should go out so you should have a point on the side you can see here then four points inside yeah it's the easiest way to tell you where you need to at this point you should have these four points inside and then these four side points outside and then you will have that shape so again when you push them together you've got it okay so now with those I've got some still sticking I'm just going to open up the box again and basically pick one of them all right it's going to be hard for me to show you here but there it is okay just make sure I get the light so this piece here so with my scissors I'm going to go in and cut as far in as you can get your scissors really obviously I don't know if you've got some super thin something I've never seen before and it goes right to the edge then don't because you do need to leave a little bit there you go I've just cut that out and if I bring it up you can see there it's about a quarter of an inch tab and that's what's keeping that joined together okay there you go you can just see it in there okay so again grab another one here we go so I mean looking at my triangles that I've cut out you can see they're a little bit they're all roughly the same size that's good but that one there's gone a bit crooked and you know don't worry it's you know you're not going to be able to get that perfect because of the way that it is but now you look at the room we've just created so much space because when that goes in you've still got this that's the kind of height that you've got so it's about one and a half in terms of height in there but yeah it just gives you so much more room by doing that so now we need to decorate the all the triangles so first of all I'm going to bring in another piece of this so when you go to decorate on any size that you're doing so we're not well I'm not going to be putting anything on these small triangles that all go inside because you don't see it what I'm going to be decorating first are these larger ones here now when you put it that way it's actually just a square okay if I bring it out flat there it is it's just a square so whatever size you're doing all you want to do is measure the square so in this case it's a two and a half inch square so now I'm going to cut a two and a quarter inch square I always like a one eighth of an inch border so you need to do four because you've got four squares on the side so I'm going to cut this now so I've got four two and a quarter inch squares okay so I've got my four two and a quarter squared and then you want to cut them in half again so you want to this time pop them on a diagonal so they're in a diamond shape and then pop it in and you just want to make sure that your points are lined up in your trimmer and then you will have these two let's get that one stuck there like so and now if I come in here they fit perfectly giving you that lovely little border and it's not until it's all together that you'll really appreciate the border that's in between them because it will then really make that pattern paper pop like here you can really see it stand out okay so I'm going to go and do that on all four of my squares and get them all stuck down okay so there is it all covered all right it looks really good see what I mean with the border you get the red lines through there it really defines the box and shows all the sides nicely now that now this one looks just like this one okay everything folded in but I prefer it open it up and then all these pieces put them outwards and then you get that look and I love that look I think it looks really good and I like the the the kind of blank red against the pattern and I'm not actually going to decorate the bottom here if you do want to decorate these ones just like I've done here all you've got to do is cut two more of those size squares that I told you before cut them in half again like this but then cut those halves in half again and then they will go in the two smaller triangles down there okay so it's really easy to do so next the hole punching so whether you've got eyelets or not with these bits here that we've got inside just push them to the side that they want to kind of go and then I'm coming about half an inch down and I am putting my hole right on the join okay so it's right in the middle like so you can see that I've got my hole and then that's ready if you're going to put your ribbon through but I just again I said I'm going through a phase I've just got tons and tons of these eyelets so I'm going to I've got some red ones there actually if it's the right red no it's a bit of a brownie red I don't want that one I think I'm going to go with the gold still like the gold the golden red I look nice and then I'm just going to pop that through like so pops in you see that just looks really finished and this kind of really again just holds your box together it's it it snaps that join into place so you know it's not going to come apart come apart at all so there you go I've got that one there so I'm going to go and do that on all the four sides but again if you don't have the eyelets then you just want a hole punch just on those four sides okay so now you can see if I bring that up how it just is beautiful like I said I think this is now a favorite I absolutely adore this box so pop in your treats whatever gifts you're given I've got some ribbon here now the easiest way that I find and the nicest way to do this to seal it up is pop your ribbon in and then go to the opposite side so gone in this side I'm going to go then go through this side here okay bring them together see the other ones want to come in there as well if I leave that one out a little bit so bring them together and then just don't tie them in and out but twist it round like so so bring them tighter together but I'm just crisscrossing and then one I want to put then through this side and one through this side and that way you get all your ribbon inside like so so it's all concealed it doesn't take away from the box itself and then just tie in a nice bow okay there you go do it that way look that ribbon so it's just you know ready for a gift tag on there or just like that I mean that's going to look gorgeous under the tree so these are definitely going under my Christmas tree I can't wait to make some Christmas themed ones but I adore that I think it really shows all the sides that's what faceted means it's an object with many sides and I just absolutely adore it you could put something on the bottom there in fact you could have a little message or something underneath there so that is the 10 by 10 there's the 12 by 12 so again you can get a good kind of idea there of the sizes so the 12 by 12 base is four and a quarter 10 by 10 base is three and a half and then this dinky little one folded in that way is two and one-eighth of an inch so hopefully it all makes sense you know now how you can make it in any size that you want I will have all those measurements of these ones today on my blog along with that template as well that I showed you but please to give it a go and please share it on my Facebook group because I would love to see it on Facebook page even you know I love to see what you create so I hope you've enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye