 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 pretty substantial size storage box for your six by six paper packs. So you could obviously store anything in this as long as it's no more than six inches wide but I've made this specifically for my six by six papers. I was keeping them in A4 trays which is fine but I was forgetting and they were kind of getting broken up amongst each other and it's been since moving. I moved them when they were still in the trays and then some of them had kind of jumbled up and I've sorted them out it's fine but I needed something that was going to I don't know just be more organized and I've come up with this. So if I bring it up you can see it is very strong it's two cases. Now the reason I've done two is for two reasons. Firstly you may want to just have half the size you may not want to have two and I want to be able to make a maybe a smaller one and have that to hold just other things in but so they all match. The other reason I've done it is it just adds that more that bit more structure to the boxes. So these are made with one mil chipboard which is just that very very strong cardboard that's on the back of your 12 by 12 paper packs or your eight by eight ones. You'll be able to use eight by eight. Six by six won't work because this is six and a quarter the longest length I believe if I remember rightly. Anyway I'll go through all that but that's why and then I've done this base again if you see there and I finished it with corner protectors. I've got this pom pom trim and then I have made all of these dividers that I've laminated and then with my labella I have I've lost where that one is now where's my go wild. I have made all the the labels for it so there we are go wild and also the reason I've done them with the stickers over the top is so that once these papers are gone I can just peel that sticker off because it does peel off easily and then just pop something else on there so I don't need to these are reusable which is great. Initially I thought I was only going to make one but now I think I'm going to make two so yeah I will be making another one and then I've got that really nice stamp on the front which says there today I will create something beautiful and this looks really nice on my shelf and I'm super pleased with it so let's get into the tutorial. Okay so first of all to make the actual box itself to hold the six by six paper you need two pieces of five by six and a quarter one two three four five yes six and a quarter so two pieces of this is one mil maybe two mil chipboard that's not the right one I'm using let's just double check yeah one mil um so yeah two pieces of that and then two pieces of three by five okay so that's your sides and then for your base you need a piece of three by six and a quarter okay then the thing I'm using is this one here and basically when you put this together it's a piece of 12 by 12 okay so that's what I've cut it from so from that 12 by 12 if you cut it in half it's six inches and then cut along the six in the the 12 inch side of that six by 12 piece at seven and three quarters okay so you'll have these pieces here which will be six yeah six by seven and three quarters that's those two pieces and then these two pieces of what's left over so six by four and a quarter okay once you've got all those you need to start sticking them down apart from the base the base we don't do nothing with because it's all going to be attached to that other piece so you're pointless wasting your paper on it and and anything like that so starting with these two the bigger ones I guess you can start with the sides if you want you're basically going to stick it in the middle here okay your overhang will be slightly um thicker on the shorter side then this the longer side that doesn't matter we can always trim that a little bit later but that's what you want to do so I'm using my half inch um tape here and just going along and just covering the backs if you've got thicker then that's fine but just go over and cover if you don't have double sided tape just use your wet glue again just make sure it's paper friendly you don't want this to get all wet and end up being quite soft the whole point of using chipboard is to keep our project nice and strong if you start adding a pva glue or a heavy water based glue all that will do is the chipboard will soak up the water it will go very soft and it will lose shape and over time it will just not look very nice so just make sure that you select your glue um where's my bone folder so I've just gone over that and then just go over if you're using double sided tape and just make sure that that is completely stuck down and it's not going to go anywhere I've got a little bit that overlaps on that one there but that's fine peel off all the backs okay once you've removed all your backing there just flip it over and just stick it down am I only am I I'm only eyeballing mine or I'm eyeballing mine which is what I was going to say just sit it down there as long as you got enough to fold over all the sides and then just go over the backside there and again just make sure that that's all stuck down like so then just go over each side and fold it over and just burnish it okay and then just get that card used to being in that position like so okay so that's what you should have you want to repeat that with your other large one okay so stick that one down in the middle there and also with your smaller one so your two sides just stick them down so they are like so and do the folding on each side as well like I just did there okay so with your pieces on your large chipboard these edges that are slightly larger you just want to trim them so they're about the same as that it's a half an inch I mean it's just easy to do this quickly you don't have to be too precise just so they're kind of the same it just means you won't have it all hanging over inside they stick together which will make sense when we get to that bit okay like so so now what we're going to do first is get your two larger pieces and your base so the piece that we've done nothing on and what we're going to do first of all so we're going to stick two of the flaps down like so so the easiest way to do this is I've been using my red tape oh it's my pom pom trim and pop your red tape down so that it is kind of hogging the chipboard okay so don't worry about going towards the end of the card just the chipboard like so and then just make sure you got all your air bubbles out of the red tape like so take off your backing and then I'm also then just going to use some of my wet glue which will then stick down that other bit where the tape didn't quite reach but it also just gives us a little bit of movement and this glue dries very hard so it will also give it more strength and then bring this up onto the side okay so it's now bent and then stick that one down so it's completely flush so make sure you've got it at a right angle make sure your chipboard lines up end to end perfectly with your side bit of chipboard here and just using my bone folder to make sure it's all stuck down and then when you open it you get the perfect gap that it needs to come back up so that now sits perfectly side by side there okay so that's one of our sides so you can leave that that down again you can do exactly the same with this side so again just running my red tape along hugging the chipboard add some wet glue and stick that one down okay so you can see now I've got those two even gaps on both my sides there and turn it around you're going to do exactly the same with these pieces so one piece is going to go underneath like so so you're going to lift it up stick it lift it up and stick it in so when it comes down again you'll have that kind of gap so do that with two side pieces okay so this is now what you should have then what we're going to do is stick down these pieces and these pieces on your larger ones and those and the top one there all right so exactly the same way red tape and glue you're going to stick them all in okay so I've done those two sides and one thing make sure you use your bone folder and really work those edges to cook to create that really nice corner that I've done it's all about making sure this is all really stuck down I've been squeezing any glue that I've been getting out there make sure your corners are all really nice and it's just completely flush you can see there you've got two really tidy sides okay so next what we want to do is add um let me get this right because I'm thinking you've got to stick it in that way so you want to flip it over and you're going to put red tape on the backside of the flaps on your side pieces here so these little bits here you're going to put red tape on now when you add the red tape you don't want to go completely up to the score line you want to be about a millimeter away from it so if I just pop this one down first just so you can see because otherwise you run the risk of being able to see the sticky tape so if I pop that bit of red tape on that one and I fold that round can you see that I've come away from it by about a millimeter or so okay so that when we bring that best way to do is to check so you know I've put my tape down now when I stick that you don't want to see the red tape so I know I'm not going to see any of that stickiness okay so do that on all of the four sides here okay so I've done those ones then flip it over and just pop some tape on the short ends of your side pieces because you're just going to stick these down normally okay so with your little side pieces get them stuck down first it's just easier to do it whilst it's all flat if you don't do it you just do it when it's together so it doesn't really matter either way but we might as well do it now so again just stick it over and then like I said with your bone folder just make sure you're really working that card like so and just do the same on the other end okay so flip it back over again so you've got this side and we'll start with one of them here so take your backing off and then again I'm going to add some of my wet glue because this dries clear so it doesn't matter if it splodges out the sides but it just gives us that wiggle room which is what we need and then just bring this one down and bring up your corner just like you would if you're making any other box that should come up completely flush there with the top so sit it down so the base is on the bottom so you've got something to lean against and just bring up your corners and get that all stuck down and then pop it on its side and use your bone folder and just go in there and just really work that in so it's nice and secure okay and then just check the outside I've got no glue there but you can see now how we get that really nice corner just looks really professional just like ones I've seen in paper chase and stationery shops and that's the look I wanted to get so then do this side so you're working on the same sides there so again just taking off my backing and add my glue so just carry on and do those when you do this side take both bits of plastic off at the same time I put my wet glue on at the same time and then just bring it down because we've got that wet glue you've got time to kind of just make sure they're both in place pinch the top so they're stuck and then flip it over and then you can just go in there with your bone folder and flatten it all down okay so there is one very strong box so if you want you can line the insides but you really don't need to so now if I bring in some of my six by six as soon as you put this in you don't see anything I've got a lot I've got a sort rule out make all the dividers but it just looks so much neater so you now need to decide how many you need so I'm using obviously the two and I'm going to give the rest of my six by six that I don't need to my mum but now we're going to make our base for the two for two sizes and make all our dividers okay so for my base I've got the same chipboard again and this piece here measures seven and a half by seven and a half and then I've got a piece of matching paper here for some reason I done it a nine and a quarter by nine and a quarter and I wanted nine and a half by nine and a half but it really isn't going to make that much of a difference it's still going to give us a nice overhang so this is for two boxes that's what I need it for obviously if you want one box then you'll just grab your box pop it on your chipboard and I'm just giving myself a half an inch overhang bring this up just so you can see like there that would be and then you would cut this so I'd say for one box let me tell you actually you would need a base that will be so what's our so that's three so it'd be four four by uh what are my measurements here so I don't know I'm working the other way so it'd be four by and that's six and a quarter so four by seven and a quarter yeah four by seven and a quarter okay for just the one box but because we're doing two that's what you need and then that bit of paper so this is exactly the same way so you're just going to cover this with your tape and wet glue and then we're going to stick it down okay so I've just stuck that down on the back and then you want to do exactly the same as what you did to make the box so just go around on each side and just really burnish it throw my bone folder there across the table and that one there okay and then to do the corners instead of cutting them what we're going to do let's get a bit of wet glue and you would have formed a square shape from when you folded it that way in that way pop your glue in the square and then come over a little bit like so okay and then what you're going to do is pull up the corner exactly the same way as I do the mini album corners bring it up and then that square you want to just line up the lines again if I bring it up so where it's folded you want those score lines to just line up with your chipboard okay and then just use your bone folder again push out any glue it would just get absorbed by the chipboard anyway you just want to work it into corners like so okay so that's what you want to do and you want to do that on the all of those four corners okay so there's my four corners and then all you want to do is add glue and then fold up each side and again really work it with your bone folder make sure the glue is spread out and get those four sides stuck down okay so those are now all nice and flat now if you want to cut a piece of white card just to cover that you can I'm honestly not going to bother I'm not going to be lifting this up and neither is anybody that comes into my craft room so there is your again really nice base and we just need to do the edges so again doesn't matter if you don't have these it's still going to look nice but this does just prolong its life and help it obviously last longer so pop your corners on all of my links to what I've got will be in my blog really butt it up to the corner pop some tissue over it and I prefer the hammer the pliers they leave marks and they're really really hard to use sometimes and whereas the hammer it's just done quick and easy and you get a really nice finish so just do that on the four corners okay so that is now our base all done so next what you want to do is we need to stick our boxes together side by side so you want to stick them like so so I just use your wet glue for this and just stick them together just on the middle sides there okay so I've stuck them together and now what you want to do is stick the base which you're going to now put tape wet glue all on this so we can then put the whole thing down on there okay okay so just spend some time making sure just pop mine down now just just hold it in place there until it's uh you're happy that it's stuck down just grab a ruler or something um your bone folder you can just get in there as well and just make sure you're pushing all the glue down on the base there I've just put a load of my six by six in there and I'm just going to leave that now because the weight of those six by six papers will keep the bottom of my base nice and flat so that glue really really dries and then when we come back I will be doing the dividers and decorating it okay so I've been busy I have gone ahead and I've decorated all around the edge there put this pom pom trim and I've got a sentiment sentiment it's not a sentiment I've got a stamp this one here today I will create something beautiful and I plan on having it on the front there okay so you'll see that in the photos when that's done but what I've been um doing is making all my dividers so for example here I've got old stamping up I've got my label so I'll show you that in a minute as well um first edition botanical beauty so that's the first edition storyteller first edition floral fusion first edition paradise crash and so on and so forth um I am sorting them out and I've got a feeling I think I'm going to make another another two of these and do and have two sets together because I love it and I know I said I'm going to be getting rid of six by six but now I don't know so much anyway so that's that one ready now what you need to make your dividers is as many pieces basically um that are six inches by basically you're going to it's going to be six and one eighth of an inch because I wanted them to come up just slightly above my actual card stock which is six inches so the white comes up just above it and then I've got these little divider dies so you get all different ones I'll share the links in my blog and basically this one doesn't stretch across the whole six inches so I'm having to let me just bring in my base plate so I can lay it on here first sit it on your base plate and then lie it down so it is in line I've just done two pencil marks which are at six and one eighth of an inch from the bottom so up to this point here it's six and one eighth of an inch then I'm just lying that across there and then sandwich it and die cut it okay so then it's cut it out and obviously it's like that so all then you need to do is just very neatly just trim into the ends there now it doesn't matter if you don't have this die what you can do is just cut straight at six and one eighth of an inch and then just die cut a rectangle piece of card and just sit it slightly over stick it down and then we're going to run it through the laminator so you can still make this you can still make it look you don't need to have the bits that I've got and it will still look nice and then I've got one of my laminating pouches again I would usually cut that off but I'm not going to for the video quickly I've got my laminator here all ready to pop it there and just run that one through okay so that has nicely covered and then what I'm going to do is get that cut out so just with your scissors you just want to go around okay that's that cut out and then you want to label it now the reason I've done not done the labeling first is because I want to be able to use these again and again so once I've used that paper pack I can just peel this sticker off so this one here is for this this is all my origami paper which again I kind of forget I have which is why I'm glad I've done this now because I've got some really gorgeous origami paper here to do some lovely projects with so yeah that's just reminding me so I have the brother p-touch uh what's this one p-touch d210 um now I had to label my labeler because I brought mine in China so mine was all in Chinese and it is in Chinese but I just went onto the brother website and just copied the English so it all works perfectly fine so I've already got in the one I've done last so this is just going to be random origami paper random okay print and then print again comes through the back and you've got a little thing there with the scissors on it and you just cut that like so and there's your sticker so you have to trim it back a bit there is a way to make it so that you don't have that kind of waste um but I haven't got around to learning how to do it so it probably takes me a lot longer because it's all in Chinese so I'll just carry on like this you just peel it off and then line it down line it down lie it down here make sure I get it nice and even there we go so I've got one now with that and then this one's going to go so that's all my old stamping up at the back that's stamping up that's that I'm going to put it right at the back so I can see it so origami there you go that is nicely full I could probably fit another thin pack in there but I adore it like really really adore it you know and you just love something that you've made I love this so um so yeah I'm going to do my little thing on the front I might decorate it a bit more I think just the pom-poms are enough actually so I love that you can just flick through it see what you've got it's going to sit great on my shelves and yeah it's it's not hard it's just long winded again takes time it's a nice nice day project um you know put movies on and stuff like that which is what I've been doing but I'm yeah really really pleased with it so I hope you've enjoyed um this storage solution from me today and please give me 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