 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really gorgeous jewellery box or trinket box or storage box or whatever box you want to call it, it can just be a nice little gift box if you want. Now it has got a lot of stuff in it already which is why the lid was kind of falling off then but basically I've just finished this, this is all prima flowers, leaves, I've got a doily, I've got papers here by Floral Fusion and basically you lift it up and you've got this nice little ribbon detail there and then I've got this sentiment, don't let anybody dull your sparkle which I'll show you in the tutorial and I filled this with all of my rings. So you know that I am a huge fan of jewellery especially rings, the bigger, the bolder, the wackier, the garishness about them, anything like that I just love. So I've got a hoodie on today and I've got my bling ring on, it really doesn't matter, you know I could be in my pajamas and I've got some you know crazy ring on like that one there, I absolutely adore that one. So I wanted a little kind of trinket box in my craft room with the rings in because at the minute I was, they were just kind of dotted around and I was worried, I was, I did panic because I thought I'd lost one of them. So basically now what I've got is this lovely little box so I can rotate my jewellery, it's like a big thing in my life but I have in my bedroom I've got a jewellery box full of more rings and I find that they kind of get forgotten because I just leave the same ones lying around here and yeah I just wanted to kind of change it up a little bit so this is what I have come up with. Now I do advise that you watch this tutorial first right the way through, don't go and get all your stuff ready and start crafting me because I make a lot of changes, they're very simple changes and they are alternatives for you so I give you lots of options and lots of ways to make this box look and work to whatever it is that you want it to work so yeah just watch it first and then decide what you want to do. So but yeah it's really really lovely, it is a four, just over a four by four base, oh no it is four yeah four and a quarter by four and a quarter and it is one and a half tall not including the feet and then you can see that just drops down, it's got a really nice closure to it really nice and heavy and it's just a gorgeous little you know keepsake box so let's get into the tutorial. So first of all you need a piece of eight and a quarter by eight and a quarter cardstock and you're going to score at half an inch and two inches on all four sides so rotate half and two half and two and then again half and two okay next you just want to burnish all of your score lines okay and then we're going to turn this now into our reinforced base our little box so just flip it over and you basically it doesn't really matter which side you choose but you're going to cut down past so you've got the because it's an odd style this one because obviously we've just got the half inch reinforced sides but basically you'll have this larger square here in the corner and then you'll have a rectangle a rectangle and a tiny square there okay so you want to cut all the way down past that first score line here down to this second score line and then go along this one here and cut all the way down like so then rotate it and just remove that piece completely and then remove this other rectangle like so so you'll now just be left with the square in that corner and then what you can do is just take a little wedge off so it's exactly the same way that you would do any other reinforced box it's just you're not working with two even sides i.e. you don't have this one and a half and then one and a half again it's one and a half and half so but it is exactly the same process so you can see now what we've got and then you go along to take a little wedge off that one there as well there we go then go along to this side and do the same so you'll cut all the way down this one cut all the way down that one again just down to that second score line then rotate remove that completely and remove that strip there and then again just take little wedges off of all of your sides there okay so that's what you should have and then flip the whole thing around so that it's facing away from you what you've just done and repeat exactly the same again okay so that is now what you should have so now we just need to start sticking all of our sides in so I'm just going to grab which glue had more in it that one there and basically what you want to do festivals again just the same way as you're going to this is still flipped over so this is the inside okay so you're working on the outside these four square tabs that's where you want to put your glue so I always like to do one at a time but just apply don't have to go crazy but just enough glue and then bring in that tab and bring up the sides there make sure as I always say you get a really nice corner to your box there okay and then just bring in your bone folder just spread out any glue there just so you get a really nice seal okay then go around to the next one again pop a little bit I always like to focus on the score line edge so and the inside piece here more than anything else because you want to make sure that you get that really tight join you don't want it open at all okay let's see again there okay so then just repeat that again on this side here okay so that is what you will have and you'll be left with this half inch piece and then you're just going to fold that in just like you would normally but obviously you know it would in normal reinforced boxes it would be half one and a half inches the same width as the side there but it's not because I just wanted to use that A4 size cardstock so but just even by adding this half inch reinforcement will make a huge difference so you know you don't it's just other ways to show you you can still create strong boxes even if you've got smaller cardstocks how to get different sizes um you know but still make them strong so yeah I love to this green and it matches perfectly so you just have to find ways to make it work so just going around there you can see I'm just putting a thin thin amount of glue and then just let the bone folder really do the rest of the work because that will spread the glue out and give you a really nice crease inside there and once that dries that will like I said reinforce it nicely I'm going to line the inside so you won't see those fingerprints and get those other two stuck down okay so next we need to make our lid so the flap that's going to come down and you need a piece of six and a quarter by four and three quarters now I've got a couple of random score lines here this was paper that was scrap but a little tip if you do ever you know have bits and you might have scored it wrong don't throw them away all you need to do is flip your cardstock over so I've scored it um so whatever side you've got the lump on okay you want that facing up and then just burnish and flatten it now you will still see it there will be a shine there but you you shouldn't be able to feel it it will pretty much flatten that cardstock again so you can certainly use it if you're covering it with any mats and layers which I intend to do with this piece so you know don't don't throw those bits away sometimes if you think oh I've just scored a whole piece of 12 by 12 wrong or something I mean generally I would salvage salvage you know elements of it anyway but you can still use that as another 12 by 12 piece again just flip it over and burnish over those score lines okay so what you want to do here so you need that piece of green card that I've showed in lots of tutorials this is just the piece of cardstock folded in half doesn't matter what size um but it's to do that little kind of one sixteenth of an inch and um you're going to pop your cardstock in in the corner there and then with your piece that you're scoring along the long side you want to score at one and five eighths of an inch okay so by just adding that card in if you've not seen this you're new to my channel it basically now is they're going to allow us when we score um burnish this we're going to pop this on one of the sides it doesn't matter because it's an equal-sided box but it means now that it will see how it just curves around and you get a really tight closure if we didn't pull it out just that tiny tiny piece then you wouldn't get that real nice finish so that's what you want now you want it to overhang by about a quarter of an inch on all four sides if I turn it upside down there the back's going to be stuck down but can you see this overhang on the left the right and along the top here that's what you want because once we build up all of our design and everything it's going to create a weight which will just make that drop down and it will fall perfectly on top there okay so let's just get rid of this so then what we want to do is stick that down so what you want to do is decide what side of your box you want it to go on I'm going to put it on the side where I've got my joins so if you see in there you see I've got the joins there so that's going to be the back and then the other joint is going to be at the front just so that when you look in you're going to see this but I mean I intend to cover it anyway so probably doesn't actually make any difference right now but in case you're not going to cover it do it that way because then you don't see as much and I'm just going to pop my glue again focusing on the outer edges like so turn that over and just make sure you get it nice and even on both sides and we get it right up to your score line if you have got concentrate on getting it up to the score line don't worry if you've got a little bit that maybe might be poking out the edge here because you can trim that off but that's the the main bit is keep it close to that score line and just keep lifting it up like so if you don't if you're still not confident doing that scoring don't score it at all lie it on here stick it down like I'm doing and focus on this end and then just bring it up yourself pull it up and just make that fold yourself with your finger and your thumb okay so there are ways to do it just by doing it that way you may not get a real clean you know kind of burnished score line but it will still work so if you're not scoring concentrate on keeping it onto this edge if you have scored it make sure you focus on keeping the box up to the score line because even though I can see I can feel that I've got a tiny little just ever so slightly a little amount there so I'm just going to grab my scissors here and just again you're not going to see any of that there we go just taking a tiny bit off so I probably didn't need to pull the card out as much as I did but I just want to show you different ways that you can do it but now you can see how nice that looks okay so I've just got my little six by six floral fusion pack which I've made I've used this paper and I've made a lot of my kind of trinket boxes and stuff like that because I just think it's really pretty so I've just pulled out this one here which is like the bamboo kind of effect and I've also cut a piece of cream card stock and I've cut this doily as well so basically I'm going to have the three of them on top of each other might add some flowers as well and then that's all going to sit on top like so because I want to start creating some weight now on the top of the lid so for the cream piece you need a piece of now it's not an exact square because obviously this bit flaps over the box below so it's a piece of four and five eighths of an inch by four and a half so just slightly off and then the piece to layer on top is four and three eighths of an inch by four and a quarter okay so oh I'm just get it there so that will just go over the top just make sure you get it in the right orientation so your two sides are equal okay you can see that I've got a nice border and then so you just want to stick them down and stick that all down and obviously if you're going to decorate or put a doily on you might have pre-brought doilies because they will fit nicely on there as well so I'm going to get all that stuck down okay so that's now all stuck down and already it's it's wanting to just drop down put you know which is what we want so now I want to do some more inside decoration so I've got this piece here which is from the same kit and sorry the same pack and this is the you get fabric papers at the very beginning two fabric designs so there's that one which is really lovely and then this one here and yeah although this is quite an old pack it's still available I can find links for you so it will all be in my blog this piece is going to go inside and then I really like the clash of that against it which is the same obviously pattern there so this piece to go inside if you want to do this is four and one eighth of an inch squared because it's going in there so that is an equal side because it fits in perfectly and then these pieces here are all going to go on the insides like so so I want this to be quite luxurious it is going to be obviously a little jewelry box so these are one and three eighths of an inch by four and one eighth of an inch and you'll have four of those and they will all go in like so it makes it look all cosy in there I love it and that one so that's what you want to do you want to stick them all inside there and then I am going to find a just a happy inspirational quote and I'm going to have that in the lid here so these two are exactly the same sizes as these two here but I've just reversed it so instead of my larger one being this cream color my larger one is patterned and the smaller one is cream and that's what I'm going to stamp on but that's basically going to sit inside like so make sure I get the right orientation you get a nice it's just a tiny like little one eighth of an inch border on those ones and then that is going to go over the top like so and I'm going to find some nice inks and get something stamped on there just so that every time I open it up I will have something nice to read and again the weight now you've got one two three four five the doily six and what I'm going to decorate it with already we've got a really strong really nice heavy lid there okay so go ahead get that all stuck down and decorated how you want okay so I have changed the inside so I've shrunk down this cream square and then I've just dug up these two here just using some fancy nest squares that I've got dies and then the sentiment is lovely I love this it's the let me grab it it's the woodware clear magic the singles and this is called one for the girls and it's got a bit of everything don't let anybody dull your sparkle which is what I've used birthday girls just want to have fun stunning fabulous and perfect this was the other one I was thinking you always sparkle but today you're going to rock you put the sassy to sassy and I remembered your birthday without social media really fun and they're inexpensive I'll share all the links but they are good stamps these and the photopolymer they stamp beautifully so yeah I wanted this one here because I thought you know like I said before I've got my hoodie on I've got my my bling on my hand so yeah nobody's going to dull my sparkle and yeah I just like to look at that every time I open it now I'm changing my mind again so this is why I always say watch my tutorial because I'm only making one you know I'm I'm literally just pushing record every time I kind of decide what I want to do so I've got these feet which I've had for a while now these are for using on a a wooden box so if you're altering a wooden box then you will use these where's my other foot I did a four I'll put it down somewhere anyway I'll find it in a minute so you get all these nails that's what the nails are for to actually screw it in but if you're just using hot glue and it will work fine on here but basically you find the deeper side I'm going to stick these feet on the corner they don't look much at the minute but once they're on they're going to look really nice so if you don't want to do this then decorate the sides here with the same size paper that's in the sides here and you can do that on the sides there if you want or you could put corner protectors on which I've used in the past but I want to use these feet now to do that I need to take off these flaps on the back okay so only do this if this is what you want to do but this is how I work if I was making two of these I would have had this ready and then I would have you know you wouldn't see all this part but a lot of people say like when I make my tutorials that how do I decide what I'm going to do it's just like this really trial and error you make something and then you think actually I want to change it or I'm going to add that in that's what I do so I'm just very carefully using my snips because these are very sharp so I can get right up so the corners then get a really nice cut like so so you can see what I've done there still looks really nice but yeah only do this if you're confident doing it I you know don't go uh you know ruining your projects that's why I would say like I said just before watch the tutorial first because you could do this before you stick it down so again just take that tiny piece off there we go just smooth off the edge there perfect there we go so now it still opens still looks good in fact I like the way it kind of has that little bit hanging there it really frames that square and now I can put my feet on all of my corners like so I mean I could decorate it with paper as well but I just the feet are quite fancy and by the time I finish the top as well so I'm going to get my hot glue on and get those stuck down okay so I've stuck the three on so just wanted to check it's all going to be nice and it is so I'm just getting make sure you get the right end up and just following the design really I'm just putting a little bit in there like so and then just I kind of slide the bottom into the corner someone's car alarm apologies isn't that stunning I adore it I just think that is so sweet and it now has a weight on the base as well so it will start to balance out the top of this now this is another thing I've changed so again I'm going to put a little thing at the beginning of this tutorial to say watch first but basically I want to add a piece of ribbon because I'm going to be putting some stuff on here in a minute and already it's wanting to fall back which is fine because I know it's going to fall I want that way but when I'm opening up my jewellery and looking I want to be able to obviously see that sentiment I don't really want to just flopping over so I've got some very thin organza just this pretty ribbon here I've got these tweezer things and I've just very carefully just prized open a little slot just between can you see there and basically I want to feed that ribbon in there with some of my glue and then I'm going to attach it and I need to do the same is feed another little open a little gap there which I pretty much can do anyway so even if you've used double sided or wet glue you should be able to do this but if you just carefully just go in it's just ways I'm just again kind of showing you really this is this is what I do before I obviously edit and show you guys so I'm going to very carefully pop some glue in there this is only holding the lid up so it doesn't don't worry it doesn't have to be like super super strong in fact I think what I'll do is I'll add the glue onto the actual ribbon itself it's and it is kind of more decorative although it does have a purpose it's it's more decorative than anything I'm just opening up that and just carefully slide that in and then I can push it in further okay so I'm just kind of lining it up there and then just squeeze that back down you wouldn't even know that I added that you know after we've stuck everything down you can see now it's just sticking out I'm just going to let that dry because basically that is going to hold in fact I think I need to have it on a slope there we go yeah have it on a slight angle last time I done this I used a real chain I'll share that one so that was a nice little trinket box I'll share that up here have it on a slope see how I've got it kind of coming at an angle down here because basically it is going to go like that see now how the lid holds up I just hold on its side that's how it's going to be so I need to just line it up with where I want it to open on the bottom here I need to feed it in a little bit more okay so now I'm just opening up the bottom there you can see just prized it apart so I'm just going to splodge a little bit of glue in there and then just kind of cut the ribbon where I think I'm going to need it to be and then I'm just going to slide that one inside so I've got it with my tweezers I'm trying to just pushing it down until I'm happy with this positioning really okay so you can see there what I've done see it's nice so what I would say is before you stick this down and before you stick this here pop your ribbon in just so you've got it at an angle like that so tile it do you might want to have it further here or higher up higher up it doesn't matter but now that needs to be worked so it falls inwards but you can see now that's what I will have and then when I open it up it doesn't fall back so now I'm just going to finish and decorate the top okay and there is the top which I love and I've just filled that with prima flowers with leaves from Ikea the doily underneath there I just think it looks gorgeous so now when it opens up see that stands there and then I've just gone and grabbed some of my rings so these are like my I kind of rotate them I've got a big big tub in the in the bedroom we're not tub it's a nice box but I'll put them in there and then I can use them and keep that in my car room so I can just choose which ones I want I've just been pushing the ribbon just kind of starting to fold it inwards so that now you can see it folds probably that one there needs to go up slide down so yeah there you go just bring it up again just so you can see all the detail the feet everything just looks gorgeous so it's going to look so nice on my shelf and easier now for me to just choose which rings because like I said they're all dotted around otherwise so there I hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye