 Hi everybody it's Sam, it makes that growl. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a really cool, very tall curved closed gift box. I don't really know what this is. I done it with my smaller curved closed gift box, that's what I called it. I guess I need to come up with a name for this design and yeah I'd done that design a while ago, I think it's about nine months ago now and absolutely loved it. So I have done it again at this time in a taller box. So it's using the whole length of A4, so in the UK that's 11 and 5 eighths of an inch or 11 and 3 quarters. I know that for others you may have letter paper which is 8 and a half by 11. You can still make this because I'm using 8 and a quarter in width so you could just cut yours down to 8 and a quarter and use the 11 inch length it would just mean yours is just that slightly bit shorter. So yeah this is what we got, it's a really nice size, it measures I think it was four by four, yeah it was four by four and then in height was nine inches I believe and then basically it just does up with this here and these all interlock. You lift one up at a time and then it opens up to a really big box but I don't want to open it all again now you'll see it as I'm making it. The papers I'm using are from Simply Creative by Trimcraft and again I'll show you those packs in a minute but let's go. So these are the paper packs so for the one that I showed you before I used this one here so like I said Simply Creative and this is their Tropicana and 12 by 12 pad, 20 sheets 15 designs and five of them are double-sided and they're 200 gsm so nice strong pieces. I used the Puffin or Pelican or Toucan whatever it is and these stripes here they looked really good and then the one I'm using today is this one and I'm using this pattern like checkered one here. I'm not going to do anything like this on it I'm going to leave it blank because I don't know what I'm going to use it for, it'll be there ready for to give to someone but you get the idea that all that is is just a fussy cut little creature there and then I've just mounted it on two circle framelets okay it's really simple. Right so you are going to need that bit's already done so you need two pieces like I said mine is 18 1⁄4 by 11 and 5 1⁄8 11 and 3⁄4 it's always in between that so you need two pieces of that size or you will have two pieces of letter paper you will need to bring your letter paper into 18 1⁄4 but keep your 11 inches okay. Then you are going to need four pieces of pattern paper this measures 3 and 3⁄4 by 9 and 5⁄8 of an inch. Now if you are using obviously 11 inch card I would say you need to bring this up so what is the difference there so we've got a difference of what is it 11 by 11 and a half no sorry no yours is 11 so we've got a difference of about three quarters of an inch so I would say you need to bring yours up let me get to it and then do it I'm trying to figure that out in my head and I can't think of it right this minute so once we get to that point I'll tell you what measurement you're going to need but you need four pieces of that okay so with your face piece you need a piece of 5 and a half by 5 and a half what you want to do is just pull the card out ever so slightly so you're just revealing a little bit of the bottom of your scoreboard and you want to score it 3⁄4 of an inch you want to do that on each side so rotate pull it out a little bit 3⁄4 of an inch you're not pulling it right out to that 1⁄8 of an inch score line that first notch you just kind of put it in between there again rotate it and put it right in and then pulling it out a little bit 3⁄4 of an inch and again pull it out a little bit 3⁄4 of an inch okay by doing that it allows us to fit the box inside okay so my scoring is exactly the same for when you're using the 11 inches as well because all of the stuff we're doing is along the 8⁄⁄4 inch side so first of all you want to score it 4 and then 8 then rotate it so you've got this small 1⁄4 inch side now facing the top and you want to score it 1 inch all the way down then rotate back again so this 1 inch piece is at the top and you want to score it 1⁄2 to the first score line 2⁄2 to the first score line 5⁄2 to the first score line and 6⁄2 to the first score line okay then what you want to do is pop it back again along the longer side and from that 1 inch score line you want to come down to 3 inches and you just want to put a little notch like so flip it over and notch again okay then just fold that one in half and again just put a little marker at 3 because basically we're going to be connecting all of these little notched marks together okay repeat that on your second piece keep your stylus because we're now going to need that to do the next bit and what you want to do so like I said I'm going to just go and pop in some little pencil marks just so you can see it better because I'm working on white card so all I'm doing is putting a little cross just where all these little markers are okay so just put pencil mark basically um you've got that 1 inch score line along your short side coming down from that you've done those little score lines at the bottom of each one I've just put a little pencil mark if you want to do that as well just so it's easy for you to see then I've just put a little pencil marks over those two inch little notches that we created okay then what you want to do is grab a mug this is just a normal household mug it's a pretty standard size I'm sure of it and it's diameter I mean the inner circle there is just under three three it's three and one eighth of an inch the full width of the mug it's just a normal I think I'm doing it yeah it's just a normal mug but you want anything you use circle um uh what you call it circle dies you could use tape but I'm just using a mug here the all it will do is if you've got more of a larger circle or an oval kind of shape it would just mean that this may come up slightly higher or or slightly lower depending on that curve so if you imagine that curve is longer it's going to come up higher okay so what you want to do is grab your mug and grab your stylus and first of all I'm going to put my stylus on this little cross here okay so at the bottom you've got this square one inch square bottom left hand side of that square put my stylus down first pop the mug in make sure the mug comes down to then this two inch little cross and you're going to then join those two up now this is exactly the same way that I've done that smaller one and many other boxes so I will share all those links and those of you that have done them will know exactly what you're doing here now if I bring that up can you see I've created this curve score line okay then turn this and then do the next one so again popping my stylus down in that two inch little cross there and lining up my uh my mug to the bottom of this little one inch square so it's in line with that other cross make sure you do really want to make sure that you get these exact do spend time on it if you've got the pencil mark there just makes it a bit easier so now if I bring that one up you can see I've created this kind of perfume kind of neck shape okay so again onto the next one put this time you've got the bottom you've got that other one and a one inch square just there bring the mug down till it sits next to that other one just bring that one around so the last one okay make sure you really do leave a good impression because you are going to be obviously curving all of this and now you can see all of those score lines okay so I'm just going to grab my rubber just go over now and rubble that out and basically you want to go and repeat that on your second page okay so just go along now and burnish you've done the big middle one do that little quarter inch tab like so and just that top one then with this um end facing you so where we've done all that scoring first of all you're going to cut down this first score line here okay and then you're going to cut along and just take that whole piece out like so then cut down the next one like so miss the middle main score line that goes right down the middle and go right over to the next one okay and then you're going to remove that whole middle section you want to kind of remove you want to remove the score line so I'm just kind of cutting a little bit under there just so I can take out the bulk of that okay then go along to the next score line cut down and then remove that whole piece like so so now you'll be left with these two one by one squares which are at the top of your score lines both of these score lines there so repeat that on your second piece okay and then you just want to just very gently just push down you want to just start to create these little curved score lines you just want to start bringing them to life and you can see there I've got that's I've got all that score line hanging over so I'm just going to remove that bit there and then again just very gently like so once you start putting the box together they will all help each other but now if you were to bring it onto its side and start bringing it all down once they sit perfectly together you can already see you're getting one of those corners okay so again do that on the other one then with all of your pieces here so you'll have four of these what you want to do just pop that to one side grab a pencil and a ruler and you want to come down two inches from the top just put a pencil mark then two inches on the other side and put a pencil mark then along the top you want to come in at one and a half and again one and a half from this side you're basically creating that same kind of shape so now with our our mug again this time with my pencil I'm just going to hold my pencil at the top of one of those pencil marks and then just trace around the mug and then again put my pencil down first and trace around and that is you can see there the two pencil marks connecting so just like we did on the white card but this time we're using the pencil and now you want to cut cut that out so just really neatly right through the pencil mark you can rub out anything you really want to make sure you get a really nice curve so try and do it in you know in as little cuts as possible so you're getting quite consistent see I'm using the whole kind of cut there before I start again and that way you'll just get nice flow hopefully a nice curve okay and then get rid of that much feeling like I've got cup of tea and just rub that out so you want to do that on all four of your I've got these here and then you want to stick these over the top here okay now this is when I can tell you the measurement there you go so yours your pieces need to be nine by three and three quarters okay that's if you're using letter paper right now just get these two stuck down I'm just using my wet paper I've already just stuck that one down but for this one here all you want to do is just come away from all of your score lines these the main score lines the side and those curved score lines by about one eighth of an inch just under a quarter of an inch and it'll give you that nice little border okay so if I just bring one up you can see where the score line is there and then where they come in okay so bring it down yeah like I said about one eighth of an inch and then stick it down okay so while that is just all setting we can do our base like I said you want to do that so you'll now have two now go back to this it should all be nice and stuck I might have to roll that a little bit I think I've gone a bit too heavy with the glue and it's just walked it over slightly but a little tip with this is just run it through your it's fine it does lie completely flat but I can feel it a little bit it's just run it through your um die machine so I'm going to stick this together with my um red tape so I'm just going to run along the little tab here and this all the way up I shouldn't use those scissors but oops quickly I've got my other ones there I forgot okay just make sure that's all this tape's a little bit thinner than the tab but it will be fine and then grab your other piece and you want to just make sure that you line up the bottom there I don't want to get my head in shot so let's bring it around that way there we go all right you should be making sure that the score lines there curve score lines meet up and obviously your pattern paper as well okay I need to get my eraser on some of this okay and then again on this last one here just run okay then bring this one over bring this one over actually take that off first and then this one and it should all match up if it doesn't just kind of you can pull it across a little bit like this one I can see is already about a millimeter off turning it all the way around start from down here instead there we go like so I'm a little bit out of the top though which is weird obviously see this what I mean some of the card is um which call it three uh three eleven and five eighths of an inch and eleven and three quarters that's slightly out there so I'm just going to have to pop it down here just show you what I would quickly do just trim that bit like so and then I can just my bigger ones here it's hard to get them in just trying to work my way around to this side and then I can just straighten that out I've got a bit of a score line there still I can remove like so there go that's just straighten that all off again now okay so this is what you will have keep it flat and then with your hole punch you basically just want to put a little dot in the middle I'm just eyeballing it but if you want to obviously put a cross through there and measure it properly and then just hole punch through both of them because that way you know that you're getting your holes in nice and even okay and then what you can do is where you obviously squash those sides do it again now it's now they're all together you might need to help the ones where you've joined obviously your um card together you might need a little bit help now if we squeeze them all across you'll see you get a little bit more we can just burnish all of those score lines then we just need to do a little bit of cutting so you just want to cut up each of these those two like so okay then rotate and again cut up like so then I'm just going to grab some of my wet glue just pop it on the outside there this card's cracking a little bit which is not very good and then bring that side and just pull it right up there if you get anything overhanging you can just trim it like so you can see there I've got a nice right angle to rub that glue out in a minute okay and again see where I've got the crack in there what I'm going to do is I'll just run some glue along that and it will just secure it but the it's only on that one side which is a shame and again I'm just going to bring that one over and bring up the sides and there you can see got a nice little corner just repeat that on the other side and just make sure that each of those are stuck down you can see oh no I've just um just gone right through with my bone tool oh no I'm not I'm not wasting that that's going to be fine do you know well once a bit of glue is put on there and it's put in it it would be okay I'm not redoing it again I'm just taking off that's a glue with this rubber and there we go oh I can't believe I've done that okay when you do that be really really careful don't do what I just did it's because I've made it soft this is obviously a crappy card blaming my mum we've just got out of her stash anyway you'll be using a better card than I will be it's just that little bit there I'm going to have to be careful with that okay so now what we want to do in fact I'm not having much luck with this because I like to edit this video because the other one I done the measurement was obviously out and I wasn't concentrating I had to rip it off the bottom of this box so you can see there where I've tipped had to tear everything off so fortunately I've got another one and now this one should sit perfectly inside which it does and then that's all going to stick down and hide it anyway so what you want to do now is just grab again your wet glue just pop it on the bottom here but don't go any higher than three quarters of an inch so maybe just do half an inch and then you can just when we stick it all together you can kind of when you put pressure on it with like the ruler and stuff it will it will kind of spread out that glue right up to the edge so I'm just kind of I know I'm covering all of this horrible paper so you can still save projects like I said this is starting to stick and I thought this doesn't look right I've gone wrong and I followed my own tutorial right so what you want to do is just get the bottom and push it in like this okay and then pop it on your little tray let it go you can see because I've edited I've already done this bit because I've already done it now I need to undo that so I can get inside of it but you can see how this all goes together once you put the ribbon in okay pop it all open then pop it on its side and then get your ruler just go in make sure you don't put it out like I just did and just push that all down on each side get your hand in there and you can feel the bottom of the box here just make sure your card's coming right up to the bottom there okay when you've done that one side make sure obviously it's nice and it's stuck down flip the whole thing over and just bring that card down to the other side and just keep working your way around then do the other side and so on until that glue is completely stuck to all of your edges okay so I've gone around there you can see now where it all sticks nicely to the bottom I'm just being careful not to go through make sure I can get that hole fixed which I think I've hidden I think it's okay just make sure all of your corners are all nicely joined and that's why it's good to use the wet glue because you can obviously spend time moving it around if you had used red tape now I think you'd be in a bit of a mess but you can see there how nice it is and I've managed to cover up and save my box so now you will have some ribbon for this you will need what I say it was 12 inches 11 or 12 inches of it tie it in a knot and then basically start from one of these sides pop it in like so and obviously pop all them down then go across to your opposite side if you wanted to look at a different way of closing it check out the curved one and the other tutorials that I've put up alongside this one because I think I've got about two other alternative ways to close it um so yeah you might want to you know you might prefer one of those and um I think I stuck the base down to the other one a different way as well um it's all the same measurements that was a four by four as well it's just this one is taller and then that one goes on top there you go so there is the box super strong perfect for you know a small bottle of wine a nice bottle of beer um big candles all sorts of stuff so that's that one and then I put the other one over the other side that was that one as well just to give you an idea obviously in terms of decoration but yeah I'm really really pleased with these you can hear they are solid this one's still got to set a bit and I think I've saved that hole but uh yeah there you go try and cover it all up not going to hide anything so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you 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