 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is the last of my Valentine series, I'm just doing five this year, so today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really cute box, well it's an exploding box, so I haven't finished all the decoration yet, I think I'm going to do it throughout this video because once I start putting the other one together and I can see what I'm using with that one then I can play around with it. So basically some of you may be familiar with this, this has also been requested, yeah I'd say quite a few people actually have requested this, but whenever I get requests sometimes I get sent other people's tutorials, I get sent pictures and I try not to do direct copies of someone else's work, if I'm going to do something then I like to change it up a little bit. So I know Shrushti Patil, she has done something like this some years ago, Helen Griffin has dyes to make it, so you know there are and there's hundreds of tutorials with it on there so I don't really know who was the first person to come up with this, however I was looking at some of them and I thought I can see other ways to develop it so this is what I've done, so it's a rectangle shape, take the lid off and then you have this little drop down here which is a little envelope with a gift card in which I'll show you in a minute, but then these drop down and this one drops down and yes there they are, two tonics teacakes, but I filled these with Lindor chocolates, now I think I would like to put Lindor ones in here as well, but I only ate one I promise so I'm going to probably buy another one of these ones here, these are delicious, they're the strawberries and cream, yes this is what I've got so you just take off this like little, you can just pull them off the top, I mean if you want to put a little tab there to maybe pull the acetate up you can do and then you can just take the treats out and then that just slides back in, so and then like I said here, now at the minute this is attached with a little glue dot, but I want to change that, I'm going to cover that with something as well because I did put a Velcro dot on but it was too bulky on the sides and then I've just got a gift card in there, okay so I just need to kind of tidy that up a bit but otherwise it is nice in fact that glue dots already, yeah so we need to look at that and you've got room here to write something but I'm unsure whether I'm going to or not, I did cut a piece of card stock, I think I've got it, I don't know maybe I cut a heart out of it, anyway to go there and then you could maybe write something, you could also have a card in there so it could open up and there would be a nice little card for someone to read, there's lots of ways to play around with it but basically the other ones that you'll find, I've got four of these so another box drops out at this end but I quite like the thought of having a little gift card in there so it's kind of a little bit like the selection box, I had the gift card in that with all the chocolates and the tears and all the bits that you know you could slide out and that was really nice, so yeah this is what I've done here and then it all folds up together and then you just slide your lid back on and then I've just started to just do you know a little bit decoration on the front there with a couple of hearts, you could put a belly band around this as well if you wanted to but it's a really lovely gift, you can fill this with all sorts, you don't have to put chocolates in there, you could have some you know gifts, jewelry, all that kind of stuff but yeah let me show you how to make this because it's pretty straightforward. Okay so I've gone ahead and done two of the boxes so I'm going to show you how to do one on camera and show you how to do the lid and then the base and then everything else is just your mats and lids to decorate it, so you're going to need three pieces for the boxes okay and these are six and a half by eight so on all of the sides you just want to score at two inches so two four six and eight okay then fold and burnish all of your score lines okay and then I'm just going to pop that to one side while I've got the scoreboard then you want a piece of cardstock that is so this one here you want it to just be under so you're better off obviously you'll you know cut it with your trimmer first you just grab mine so you can see what I've done here because this is the lid so we need it to be that little bit bigger to sit over everything so you want this here to just be under six and a quarter so you'll see there you've got those other little small little kind of markers there you're one sixteenths of an inch you want to be on one of those so you'll have your six and one eighth and then you'll have your six and a quarter you want to be the little marker under that one okay and that extra little piece that we give the lid will allow it to close okay so it's a little bit yeah make sure you want it to be under six and a quarter and just above six and one eighth it needs to be in between that one there and that is by eight and a quarter okay so that's how you get that measurement there and then you just want to score on all four sides at one inch so one one one and one and again fold and burnish all those score lines okay so that's that one again only one piece and then one piece for the base so this is nine and three eighths of an inch by eleven and a half and you want to score at two and five eighths of an inch and eight and seven eighths of an inch and then rotate and again do two and five eighths of an inch and six and three quarters and again fold and burnish i'll do the acetate in a moment because i've put it all away so i've just remembered i thought i've not pulled out the acetate but we can do that in a minute and we'll fold and burnish okay so i'm just going to get rid of my scoreboard okay while i've got the base here really easy you just want to remove the four squares in all of your corners i'm just going to get my longer scissors so you just want to cut up and you want to remove all the score line okay so you don't want that to be on show because this will become the outside of your box so i'm just cutting each of those squares away in each corner okay okay and then just go around just make sure that you can't see any of the score lines so i'm just removing like i said any lumpy bits okay so that's our bottom of our box all right then i'm going to go to the lid and for this one along the long side i like to just cut straight down each of the score lines to the first score line so just like so and then rotate it around and again just cut straight to that first score line and then i'm just going to go around each one and just take a little bit off each of the sides so you just don't get anything overhanging on your lid okay so you've got something like that and then i'm going to grab my glue and you just want to stick actually no i'm going to do it last because there's a little tip that might come in handy for some of you so we'll do that at the very end because it all makes sense so okay this is one of your boxes so again it doesn't really matter but i'm going to cut down the longer side i'm just going to cut really neatly straight down to the first score line like so and again rotate and just cut straight down and then again just take some little wedges off of each side so just exactly the same way as you've done the lid but you want to do this three times okay so you've got something like that so now i'm going to grab my glue and on each of the tabs you just want to bring it under and around and then bring up your side so you create a nice right angle like so make sure it's all stuck down and go across to the opposite side and again bring that under and around and then you've created one side of your box and then go to the opposite side and this time you can do both at the same time so just some glue on those tabs and then just bring that up and if you're using liquid glue i mean you can use double sided tape if you want but you've got room there to be able to just move it around a little bit and you should have everything should join up nicely at the tops and the tabs should line up you know with each other inside there because of the measurements that we've got there so now i've got my three little boxes there ready to stick onto the base so again we're going to leave the lid for the minute till last so now you want to decide what end you want to have your gift card what you want to do is you're going to be gluing all of the bases down okay so i'm going to glue one base down to there because then that will stick and then when we bring it up it will come in like so okay so you want to do one of your ends your shorter ends first so i'm going to add my glue again if you want to add any mats and layers also at this point i would do that first i didn't i've just stuck the boxes down because i just thought it's wasted paper really you're not going to see it but you might want a little border or something so i'm just going to add the glue now what you want to do is you want to this the width of the base this is slightly wider than the width of this so you want to make sure that you get this hugging the score line okay don't go over it because it's going to interfere with the the fold otherwise but you'll see there you should have just a little kind of one eighth of a inch little lip here that's what you want and if you bring it up while you're still kind of you know moving it around and that glues not set properly it will just mean that you know that you're going to get it you know you've got a nice kind of hinge there so you want to make sure that that box is completely flush with the bottom when you bring it up but you've got a little lip there and i just it's better to have that little bit of room than it come over and then your lid be a bit funny okay so i mean if you don't like that and afterwards stick it all down there's you know there's no harm in trimming that off you know you can quite easily cut that off if you want to it's entirely up to you but that one's now stuck okay then with these ones here these are both going to stick down the the far end of the long ones you've got to leave this section here clear so that when they all come down this one's got room to come up it's got to all all three boxes have to all be within this width here or the length so again you're going to stick them down the same way but this time you're just making sure that you kind of hug it into that bottom corner so again always on the base of the box so i'm going to come right down here and hug this score line again so you've got that little bit of overhang at the top here and then just bring it over you can go in and push it make sure it's right up against the edge there and you'll see that all comes in nicely there because once the acetate's on there as well that will pop out just a little bit but it just means you've got the room for all those kind of things and anything extra that you might want to add to it i mean you might decide that you want to put an actual lid on the top of the box and you know have a closure that way rather than the acetate so you can do that and then again stick this one down bring it down that way and just stick that all into place okay so it very quickly comes together all right so that's it you know and it does all kind of square off once the acetate's in and everything else is in place so now get your lid and you just want to i would say use liquid glue you'll see why in a minute but if you just because we've done this a little bit bigger anyway because we've done it the width was just that little bit over you know that one sixteenth of an inch we've got you to cut it just slightly under eight and a quarter if you bring up two of your sides so do this one try and do this one at the same time i mean the lid will fit so you know don't worry you don't have to don't watch this now think oh i can't do all that how she's doing it just see what i'm going to do and then you know it makes sense but now if you bring this up and put the lid on you can see there that it's definitely going to you know um it's going to fit so sometimes it's good to actually because i can move that around so if that was a little bit tight i've got room to kind of maybe widen it a little bit by just pulling out the tabs slightly but that one i you know i know it's going to fit okay but sometimes if you're a bit unsure if your lid's going to fit and you're worried it might be too tight just use some liquid glue do a couple of the tabs at the same time and actually glue the lid together whilst it's on the box so now i can just bring that under bring that under and then close it and that way you know it's definitely going to fit so you know there's nothing worse and they've had people message me before saying you know they've finished all the project and then they've gone to the lid and they've cut it too small or you know not quite got the score line right so you can just go around there and just make sure they're all stuck down but that way yeah you just get a really nice closure now we've got mats and layers to add to it that's going to add a bit of bulk and obviously the when you add the gift card that does create a little bit more bulk so the lid will move quite freely now but it will become a little bit more um you know tighter once we start to add all those mats and layers so i'm going to take my lid off now i'm just make sure it's really all stuck down but that's it it's all now down to the separation so it's very easy done so if you want to make quite a few of these you can see you know if you go and get all your lids cut and do all of them and then get all the boxes cut and do those and then do all the bases you can probably put these together quite quickly and i think they'd make nice gifts for you know um just little favours like on the table or something maybe you're doing a little dinner party and you want to give everybody little gifts i love doing that kind of thing so um yes that's where we need to be so i'm now going to go and look at my papers and um get the envelope punch board to make the little envelope for the gift card and uh yeah just decide exactly how i want to decorate this really nice little box okay so i've stuck loads of bits down and what i'm going to do is just talk you through the mats and layers that you're going to need and then i'm going to show you how to do the acetate and the envelope and then that's it so i've done all of the sides if i bring this up you can see how it's going to look and i've added the mirrored card stock to this one oh i just realized i haven't done the outside so that's fine i can cut them in a minute so for these three boxes you're going to need six pieces of three and three quarters by one and three quarter so they go on each of the sides here so that's six and then six pieces of the pattern paper which is one and a half by three and a half okay so that covers them for the insides here these pieces are just slightly smaller than the the width of the box so that's two and a half so i've done two and a quarter by three and three quarters that's three pieces of those and then for the short sides here again you want six pieces that are two and a quarter by one and three quarters and six pieces that are two by one and a half then you will want three pieces that are three and seven eighths of an inch by two and three eighths that's for this side this side and this side and then you want two pieces that are six by two and three eighths of an inch okay and then this inside piece here you've got three and seven eighths of an inch by six and then the pattern piece is three and five eighths and that will be by five and three quarters okay so that's all of the mats and layers now to make the envelope you want a piece of five by five pattern paper and i'm using the envelope punch board and it's the very first one here says gift card so that's the one you want to follow and that will be the perfect size for all your standard gift cards it's credit card size so it's a piece of five by five and the first score line is at two so i'm just going to punch and score i always like to do mine this way slightly different to others but i do prefer it and then do the others there is a tutorial to use this so i'll link that for anybody i don't expect you to just follow that straight away most people know and there's lots of videos online anyway but now you have this piece and then you've got your corner punch on there but i'm just going to use my one here and then i'm just going to burnish all of the score lines and then just grab some of my double sided tape oh my god i've got such a mess to the right of me there's so many um scrap pieces from where i've cut all of my mats and layers so i'm just going to pop a strip there and one there and then just take off the backing like so keep that up the right way because that's directional underneath there we go and then i'm going to put a little glue dot there and then i've gone and fussy cut the same you know the underside here i've just cut one of those out and that's going to stick on the front so actually stick that one down now and then i'm going to nearer the time when i actually go and put the gift card in because i need to buy the one for this one um i will put a little glue dot and seal it okay so now i can just add some glue onto the back of this one and then stick this one onto the mirrored cardstock so it will have a tiny little border but i do think it looks nice it take a little bit longer to dry it does dry against the mirrored cardstock um otherwise you can use double sided tape like the red tape or anything like that but now that's all in place okay so it's looking really nice i love that look and then that will all close up so you do get a little bit of bulk at that end but like i said the lid will still fit but you can see how nice that's all coming together for your pattern paper on here because i'm going to go cut this off camera and stick it on you're seeing the photos but you're one a piece you want two pieces of five and three quarters by two and a quarter two and one eighth sorry and then you'll want two pieces that are three and five eighths by two and one eighth okay so that's that then you want three pieces of acetate that are eight by six and a half and on all four sides you're going to score at two inches so two two two and two now you can fold and burnish next if you want but i actually find it's easier to cut the acetate when it's still flat but you're going to remove the four squares so you see there's a square in every corner just removing that and you want to remove all the score line okay so take all of the score line out in case you want three pieces and then i just always find it easier just to fold acetate with your fingers don't you know burnish it with one of your bone folders it's just easier to do it just like this that's enough because then you can manipulate them back a bit but now that will sit perfectly inside and it will wedge itself in push it right down but it will go in really nicely and they stay in okay so there is the inside and then there are my sides so i've tried to make sure i get the hearts on all of the sides there i think it looks really really nice and i love this i mean you don't have to put a gift card in there you can also put one of those little kind of encouragement cards that you can buy from like the card shops and things like that they're really nice i've got them for friends before but i just love these i think it's just yes lovely and like i said you can put a card in the middle there if you want to but i'm super pleased with this one and then once i've added a few more little bits of decoration onto the top there i might even put a bow or have a gift tag hanging i might even do something around here maybe put some ribbon around there possibly i don't know but you'll see in the photo so that's that one and that's the other one there so again the white on this one looks okay i think because it's a white lid whereas with that one i think i might need to put something on that so definitely need some ribbon or something but again you can just see it's quite simply decorated i will add a little bit more to that i might put some nuvo drops and some sequins and things like that which i like to do but again just open that one up and then everything drops out really nicely i think it's great work for many occasions great for birthdays christmas easter you know but easter eggs in here all kinds of things but um yeah i'm really pleased with how they come together the lids fit on nice and snug i think they make really nice gifts and you can post them as well i mean obviously that's a little bit more weighted because of what's in it but if you're putting light things in that will post quite nicely so yes there you have it so thank you for watching i hope you've enjoyed this valentine's series thank you for all your comments messages everything it's always you know i just i love it you know i do so thank you please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's tutorial and i'll be back again very soon with another video thank you for watching bye