 Hey everybody it's Simon at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make what I'm calling a lift and reveal box so you have the little fastening on the front just open that and as you lift it it will reveal the gift and you can see how it looks on the side there it's like this hinge it's very easy to make don't be put off and then I've got the ribbon there which is just tied from underneath to hold your gift in place you could also use some strong glue dots but if you're having something heavier which these lip glosses are then the ribbon is a good you know idea if you could put a gift card in here quite easily and yes it does hold two of the tonics teacakes as well if you would like to pop them in there I've got this lovely little gift tag here as well which I'll be tying on to them so I can write a little message and the to and from and all that kind of stuff but yeah let's get into it and I'll show you how to make it okay so the inspiration for today's box has come from this picture that I've had for ages on my phone I actually saw this on an online shopping store when I was living in China and this one's from creative packaging made in china.com and I think I've done pretty well getting a good match to that so I'm doing a Christmas version today and I'm using the almost Christmas papers and that's what I've used for this gorgeous kind of holly sparkle paper there and then I've used the gingham on the side and I'm doing exactly the same again with this one because I love them so much and they're going to be going to two separate people anyway or two different people so that's the paper pad as always everything will be linked below and then you've got these three pieces of cardstock here so for the main box you will need a piece of 9.5 by 12 inch cardstock so this will just make a nice gift box this isn't this piece is stuck onto the lid so you know you might just want this nice size box then this is what you would need to make that so along the 12 inch side you want to score it one inch three and a half six eight and a half and eleven then along the nine and a half inch side you want to score it two and a half and seven okay so that's all the scoring on that piece then this is for that pop-out piece so this is for the all of this here so this piece here measures just under five inches so it's not five and seven eighths it's just in between if I bring it up here on the scoreboard so can you see it's not quite on the five it's not quite on the four and seven eighth it's just in between this notch here okay so just a little bit shorter than five and the only reason for that is so that it will slide inside this piece you see this is slightly shorter than that section so it slides in nicely and then the length is nine and three eighths okay so along the nine and three eighths you just want to score it two and a half and at six and seven eighths we're bringing this piece in just ever so slightly just so it does all fold in and then along that side that's just slightly under the five inches you just want to score it two and a half now you'll have this whole section which is two and a half because you've just scored there this piece is just under two and a half because obviously the cardstock is just mark base on that side okay so you'll see if I bring up so you see all the score lines in this bit here this is the base and what that means is it's this piece it's this bit here that your present will sit on all right so just mark now base while you've got it in that orientation so we know that we've got a whole two and a half inch piece there which is going to stick to the back of the lid this piece is just slightly shorter than two and a half so it will slide inside and then I've got this little bit here which is just to reinforce and this is two and three eights of an inch by four and a quarter and it's actually going to be stuck on top of here okay so that's all of the cardstock that you need now you can fold and burnish all of the score lines okay so we'll just stick with this bit for the moment what you want to do is just cut down along the short side cut down that score line just to the first score line like so and again do the same on the other side and then turn it over so you've got that facing away from you but you know that that's the base that's going to be on the bottom you're then going to bring up the sides like this okay now you want to stick that together don't worry if the squares kind of don't perfectly line up because obviously one is slightly shorter so see I've got a little bit of an overhang but you're going to be cutting this all away in a moment but as long as that one where you've wrote base is always on the bottom then you know that you're doing everything correctly so another thing that might be worth doing before we stick the side bits down actually is because you want to add your hole punches so you will need to cut cut one of these slightly shorter yeah this one here so this is going to match this one here and this is two and a quarter by four and one eighth and this one here is going to decorate this bottom section of the one where you've wrote base so I'm just going to stick that one down because it's best to do the hole punch whilst it's all flat and we want to add this decorative paper on and then put it all together so I'm just going to stick that one there and then I've also then got another piece this is now and you know say a normal size but this is two and a quarter by four and a quarter and that's the size of the mats for the rest of it but I'll talk about that in a moment but then this piece will then decorate the look just like so I'm going to trim that a little bit it's a bit too long I think that's better so actually I think I'll actually do four and one eighth again I guess I don't know why I made that a bit bigger because it's all the same isn't it so yeah four and one eighth so you can see I've just put glue on there but I forgot to do the hole punching which is the whole point of doing this so I'm actually going to use this to do my hole punches because I need to get in further so I'm just going to go through the middle of this and it's quite good because I've got that gingham paper I can kind of line up so I'm going to do one there and one so you can see where I've just done my holes okay now you could just use a pokey tool if you're using some Baker's twine it's quite thin but this is really handy if you want to kind of hole punch in a larger surface area this one here will only go in so far but everybody's got something different so work with what you have and if you don't have something then use a pokey tool and just poke a hole through there okay then you want to add your glue you can see I've started to put mine on there already and I'm going to bring this one up and then just stick that one down and again I've got my glue on there I'm actually going to add a little bit more because I think that's dry now to get the shape so again this is make sure this is your base piece you'll want to rub that out because you you would see it I guess if someone's going to lift it up if you're not confident to be able to cut a curved shape use your tape see there and just draw around that with a pencil line make sure you get it from point to point draw around that and then cut that curve but you don't have to have a curve shape you can just cut across from corner to corner okay but I am going to cut a nice curve into this so I'm just going to like so just eyeball it okay and then again on this side okay so I'm happy with that then you've got your reinforcement as well which I forgot to add I'm just going to stick that underneath there doesn't matter what side you add it on and I'll just repunch my holes but this I guess if you're just putting something maybe a bit heavier in then this would be a handy thing to have if if you're not the collow glue strong enough on its own in fact I don't need to worry about rubbing out now that's writing but that will just cover that space perfectly and once this dries it will be nice and hard and I've just realized I'm not going to be able to punch that hole so make sure you do it in the the correct order so then just going to peel this off at least you can see what to do if you make a mistake all easy things to correct and then I'm just going to punch it and now I can just stick that one back over here there we go once the ribbon goes through that that will hold your gift in place okay so that's what you want to do that okay so now you want this piece here and you'll have two one inch sections at either end so pick and end it really doesn't matter what one but first of all you're going to just cut down these two score lines here like so and then just take just a small just a smidge these are actually going to be reinforcements just on the top of the gift box just to give it a little bit of strength so you just want to take a little bit off all of those sides like so then pop it on its side like this and you're going to cut down these score lines to the first score line and then when you get to here you've got that one inch section you want to just remove all of that so come down from there cut past that first score line and all the way down this is going to be your lid so make sure it's nice and neat like so I just hold that there so you cut down along that side you just cut down to the first score line bring it along here you're starting you know you obviously you're not cutting that one away you're starting from this one here and just cutting down when you get to this one you're removing all of that corner and then do it on this side so this time you're going to come down so you've got your hot your one inch and then you've got this one you want to come down to the second score line I guess in that case cut up and remove all of that section see that's our lid to the box okay and then again just work down here you just want to cut the two now because you've already removed that one so just cut down that one and that one don't cut that one away otherwise you'll cut all of that corner off so it's a bit of an unusual one but that's what I worked out was the best way to do it from one piece of cardstock really as well so what's going to happen you want this piece facing away from you this is going to be the last piece you fold down so you want to bring up this is your middle this is your base then I would bring up that one and you're going to stick it to there and then bring up this one and that's going to wrap around the front and then these are going to fold in to kind of conceal all that but also reinforce it so you can see the little box that you get there if you do just want to make this as a box I would try and leave where you've cut these bits away what I would do is try and kind of cut down here but leave like half an inch or something attached to this side bit so that you can slide those bits inside here so the middle one here I'm going to add my glue onto the side and I'm going to bring that one up and around and just line it up make sure the bottom is nice and flush if you want to maybe cut little bits off the side you could I guess just to tie it up but I think I think we'll be okay with this and this is all adding strength because this is obviously reinforcing each side the more that you know you're sticking on top each time and then I'm going to now add glue to this side I'm going to do this one at the same time and then just wrap those around you should get a really nice finish if you do have anything overhanging so I've got a little bit there just going to cut underneath my scissors and just remove that and then if you just fold these pieces out if you put glue on these and just fold each one in and I just use my bone folder and just go inside there and just spread that glue out and make sure they stick down then you're going to stick the back of this piece so where you've cut your holes remember that's your base the back bit is going to go on to the the lid of the box and it will be just slightly smaller you should have a tiny little lip that you can feel on each side so I'm going to add glue onto here now make sure that you're straight when you put this on the lid and just test it as you're wiggling it wiggling it around that you can close it you should get a really nice closure can you hear it just kind of gliding in so just spend a minute just make sure that you're happy make sure that that closes like I said you should have a little overhang on each side I'm going to keep it down this way it reminds me of one of those little kind of like storage boxes my my auntie I think had one and you would lift this lid up and then you'd have a storage box there as well so I think I might do something like that for I think I might evolve this I've got an idea already now what I want to do so now I'm going to pop all the mats and layers down so these are all two and a quarter by four and a quarter I've got two different designs I've got the gingham and again this holly so I'm going to pop that one there I've got this one to go on the back and then I've cut two pieces which are two and a quarter squared it's gone each side and then I've got another piece to go on the lid there as well I've also cut these two pieces which are four and a quarter by three quarters and I've just rounded off the corners and they are going to go on each side of this closure so I'm just going to pop my corner punch there and now that will all line up so I'm just going to go and get all of this stuck down okay so stuff all that down I'm just using some of my these are I think these are 10 mil they're only dinky ones but they're enough to hold it in place you might want to pop a hole through there and maybe one through here and have it so it ties it's entirely up to you and then just close that one up and then just lift that up carefully and just push them both down so nice and secure and then I'm going to add that lovely big bow so I've got two strips here one of them is so this is the dovecraft double-sided glitter card it's beautiful and it's non-shed so I've used the whole length which was eight and a quarter by one and this is six by one and I've done these before on my channel and you just basically just curl the edges I'm just going to do it with my hands and just run a bead of glue and just kind of join it together so you got a ring so you're kind of making a paper paper chain at the minute and do the same with this one okay and then where the join is on the bottom there I'm just going to run a bead of glue and just bring that down into the middle you can see already you start to get that both bow effect and again do the same with this one so just run your glue just along the join there make sure you get it right in the middle and again put some glue through the middle there and stick that into the middle of that piece so you have this effect you can kind of just shape it give it even more dimension like so okay you see we got that pretty bow and then I've just got some red mirrored card and I'm just going to cut about a quarter of an inch strip like so and starting from underneath I'm just going to put a little bit of glue and attach that bit there then I'm going to pop glue along there only a thin amount because when you squeeze this down you don't want it all coming out so just bring that one around okay and then just pop another little bit of glue under there bring that around and then you can just trim off any excess okay so there we have our bow and then I'm going to pop some more glue just in the middle there open up your box put your hand underneath so you can push down on the bow and just line it up in the middle and just squeeze that glue so the hot glue works best for this because it's quite a you know the cardstocks thick and the glitter and everything but if you don't have that and you've got a gel glue then you could use that you just have to hold it there for a little bit longer but now we've got that gorgeous bow on the top and then I've got the sentiments here I'm using these a lot so I'm going to use the gold open up the bottom there and just sit that right in the middle I've added the glue I just I never trust the stickers or the stickiness that they you know these self-adhesive kind of things come with so I always like to add my own glue I'm just gonna leave that there for a second going to thread this through underneath there I've probably cut way too much and then I'm just going to imagine the kind of size that I well I know what's going in here but I don't want to show it so I'm just going to tie this off like so and I just give myself a nice big bow so I've got plenty there I'm just showing you kind of how you would do this and then I'm just gonna cut away these scissors are not good for cutting the ribbon so let's just tidy that up there we go and there so it's a big bow at the moment but it gives me plenty of ribbon there to wrap around my gift and then I'm just going to feed this through I think these tags are from Lawn Fawn I've had them for about three years and they're just really cute but now I will tie that around underneath there so I can write on the tag but there is the finished gift box okay so there you have two very cute lift and reveal boxes I'll show you this one again with the gifts in so you can see exactly how it will look I think it's a really nice surprise I don't think people will expect it you know when they open these and again you can imagine that one once I've tied the gifts in there but it's yeah super pleased with this I'm definitely going to be working on some larger sizes and even something maybe a little bit smaller as well I think it's adorable so thank you for watching I'll link as much as I can in the video description below and I'll be back in very soon with more 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