 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 really nice, it's a reinforced box and it's a pen box, so inside take off this belly band which I've stamped and this is a thank you gift and then inside here you can see it's got a really flush closure all the way around, I'm using my craft card because I love it and then inside is the pen and it's set in foam so I've used foam foam for this and again it's all reinforced, it's got this lip all around it and then you just take out your pen and I've put some pink in there just to kind of tie in the pink and the green there from the belly band so yeah it's pretty straightforward to make, a little bit fiddly having to cut this bit out but other than that it's really really straightforward and it's a nice reinforced box if you want to use it for jewellery instead, so yeah so that's what I'm going to be doing, I've brought these pens these are from Walmart, I've used these before so they just make nice gifts and it just slides back in like so, so that's what I'm going to make, so pop that one aside, the one I'm doing today is Father's Day so I have got this stamp set which I've used once and I brought a long time ago 2016 but I'm going to use the nice big happy Father's Day because it does fit, I was sitting it over there it should fit perfectly on that belly band so yeah like I said this is due cross paper mania you probably still find this on eBay and Amazon so if I find any links I'll share them so I'm using the craft card again but this time I'm using all blue with the foam and I'm going to talk you through all of that in a minute and I've got a template there as well which it's easier with, it's two of these trays that you make to form your box and they're both the same size so I've already made one so you are going to need to do the belly band later as well so you need two pieces of four by nine okay that's for your base and your lid then you need one piece of one by seven which is going to be our hinge and then this piece here is ten and three quarters by three quarters of an inch and this is going to be what forms the little lip around the edge and we're going to trim just a little bit off both of these it's just easier to cut it to that length and then just trim a little bit off rather than the fuffer belt with those silly measurements so yeah need to score don't we, let's get rid of it we've got to score it so you'll have two pieces of these on both pieces you want to score it half an inch and at one inch and do that on all four sides half an inch one inch and again half an inch and the last one okay and do that on both of your pieces then with your piece here which is your hinge so this is the one by seven yep you want to score along the one inch side just a half an inch all the way down this piece here we're going to pinch it and then just burnish it so we don't need to worry about scoring that for now okay so let's get rid of that and we need to burnish this one so again you'll have two pieces you just want to go around and just burnish all the score lines if you're using the craft card like I am you do need to really work these okay so that's what it would look like then we need to do some cutting so all we're doing here is making a reinforced box just how you would any other one so for those of you that know how to do this you can just whiz through it but I always talk through it so start from the shorter side here and just cut up every one of these score lines up to the second score line so go past the first one up to the second that one there then the two outer ones you want to remove completely okay so you'll be left with those two and this middle piece with these two here you want to then remove just the top square so cut along that score line there and these will be your little tabs so now that's what you should have this one here with the two bits and then the little tabs and then you just want to go around and take little wedges off of all the sides so that one and that one you can see that I'm just taking tiny little triangles off the corners and this will just help fold everything in and keep it all nice and neat you don't have anything hanging over the edges like so so if I just lie that one down that's what you will have okay so now you want to rotate the whole piece and you want to do exactly that again okay so that's both of my ends now so it should look like this and you need to do that on the other piece so you'll have two pieces like this then we need to glue it all together so get rid of all these pieces here okay so I'm just using my wet glue and you just want to pop it on the top of these ones here just do one end at a time and then just bring it under so fold this down and tuck it underneath there and bring up that side and just make sure that you've got a nice right angle any glue you can just wipe away and just make sure that is perfectly lined up because that is what's creating the side of your box here and then the same with that one bring it under and create your other corner okay like so and then you want to do the same on this end here so just blod your glue on each one and then just stick them down okay so that's now what you will have and you'll have these pieces all sticking up now what you want to do is glue inside so I'll start with the ends first and just again run your glue along like so and then you're going to fold it right over inside the tray box lid base whatever it's going to be and just with your bone folder especially if you're working with the craft card just work that in and really burnish the sides there and it will just create a really nice side there and that's now reinforced and when that glue dries really hard when the glue dries it will be really hard okay you want to do that on all three sides I'm going to do the other end and then fold down my two sides okay okay so that is what you will have and you need to have two of those so I'd already done one before so that is now what you want you just want to need to make sure they're all perfectly lined up again if you follow those measurements and score lines they should be so now we want to add our hinge so this piece here which was that one by seven yeah one by seven yeah what you want to do because now that is going to sit inside here so mine does just squeeze in and even though it's buckling that'd be fine so we stick it down if it isn't if it's really really buckling and when you go to push it it's going to cause a crease line you don't want that you just want to take the smallest sliver off so if I just grab a piece of scrap literally just cut something like that off and just keep doing that until it fits it's just easier to do that then cut it what six and fifteen sixteenths of an inch or fourteen sixteenths of an inch and stuff like that it's much easier to just do this I don't need to actually does fit in there okay and it's really snug which is what you want so just burnish it and then inside one of the sides it doesn't matter which one and just again adding my glue this is the original tacky glue a leans and I use it all the time it's the only glue I use that and Tom though okay pop this in you want to push it in so it's completely flush with the bottom and it should come up and that scoreline should meet the top of that piece again decide what you want to be the lid and so on it doesn't still doesn't matter at this point because you can just turn it over but just get your bone folder and just again make sure that is like so and then just bend it completely over like that just to kind of help it in its new position and if it lifts off slightly from the bottom that's fine because that's where it obviously it does want to naturally be okay so that is what you will have this piece hanging over so now we want to put glue on this top back piece okay and then with this piece you want to again pop it inside it will just you want it to be nice and tight fit like so and then you don't want to open this up you need your ruler or bone folder I'm gonna use my ruler because it's got the corners there so I can get right in keeping it closed making sure it's flush on the back like so and then just push it down until it is set you don't really want to be opening this until it's all stuck down if you've got a ruler you can just keep working on it until it's all stuck down in place and this is just going to give you that really nice join on the back okay so don't rush this you really need to make sure your glue is dry before you start pulling it apart okay and then as you're happy as you're happy once you're happy that it has started to stick you can open up a bit more with your thing with your finger and your thumb you can really make sure it's all pushed down and just keep prizing it open and you just want to again don't rush it because the last thing you want is it all pinging off but now as that is all coming over I can bring the whole thing back over on itself like so okay so you can see now I've got a nice join on the back don't worry that it's all going over on the sides here and let it's going down like that that's fine that's what it's going to do that's when this piece here is going to come in to play so moving us on nicely grab this piece and the easiest way to do this I'm going to start with the left hand side here is you want to butt it right up into the corner top left hand corner here of the base or the lids and this is when you want to decide whether you want that to be the top or the bottom okay because this now will become the bottom so pop that in there so it's right up in the corner holding it there with your finger and your thumb with this hand bring it up and start to push it right up into the top this left this then that's top left this bottom left hand corner okay again then hold that corner and keeping it completely flush with the bottom work all the way along and get to the next corner again get it right in there and then if you've got it if the end isn't going down which mine isn't it's just a little bit too long now I've got a crease there and a crease there I'm going to take another tiny little piece off less is more less is more no do less this isn't when you would use that phrase but take a little bit off first don't go in taking loads off pop it back in again and I think yeah again you want it to really wedge in that is going to fit there perfectly okay so now that is all in there you can see you should have a quarter of an inch lip so now I'm going to take it back out fold each of those corners and burnish it and again just line it up again pop it back in it should now fit in there really neatly and you've got a nice corner okay and it goes marries right up to the back there so now you want to add glue all along the bottom you don't want to go all the way up so obviously you've got some of it overhanging so half of half of it not half of it sorry half an inch of it you can cover in glue okay like so and then bring in the two sides like that pop the front in first and then the sides would just go in like so and then pop it on its front you can't see this but I'm just popping my bone tool right in there and just rubbing that down make sure it is flush and it's flat because you don't want to lift it up and some of it's wonky and it's not quite stuck down so well on one side to the other and again just work all that glue okay so you can see that's now stuck and now when you close it you should have a really nice snug closure like so okay so that is now a nice box you could put jewelry in that you could put a watch there's lots of watches you know they're in the fashion shops where they're just hanging they don't come in boxes this would be perfect for that and again then it opens up really nice thing you should have that kind of you want that sound you want to know that it's really gripping it okay so that is the box so that's easy now we want to do this foam piece inside so what I recommend you do first is you make a template because I found I done before I started cutting them without a template and it just I was going wonky and it just wasn't working very well so if you cut a piece of cardstock that is what I got here six and seven eighths of an inch by one and seven eighths of an inch okay so cut that out then the next thing now is this is when it's down to you because this is all about whatever pen you're going to put in it because pens are different lengths and from what I've kind of measured myself they range from kind of like five so I've got this one here which is well this is five and a quarter and then the one I used in here which seems to be more of a popular length this one is five and a half but there is also things like this so this one here is five and three quarters almost five and seven eighths so you need to decide what pen you want to use now I haven't actually brought the pen for this one so I am going to do some guesswork and the kind of pen I want to you to to give is going to be similar to this so I'm going to go with five and yeah do the same as this one that I've already got which is five and three quarters that's fine so you want to grab the pen that you're going to use so I'm going to get this one out again and to make the template so imagine this is it I haven't cut this out yet you're going to put your pen over the top and with a pencil you want to mark the top of the pen the bottom of the pen and then the sides but when you do the sides hold the pencil down completely straight don't go under because obviously it's a circular shape you're actually going to go in thinner and then your pen won't fit in make sure you go straight down just mark the sides of the pen like so and then you just want to with your ruler line and drew a pen draw a pencil from one end to the other and again on the other side one to the other and then just cut that out with your cutting knife okay and that then becomes your template then you want to cut one two three four yes six I think it was six did I use six let me just check one two three four five six yeah it was six so then you want six pieces of this same size so it was one and seven eights by six and seven eights okay six pieces three of them you don't need to worry about doing your template on they are just to lift the pen up so these will just go straight in again they should have quite a snug fit but they would just sit straight in like so then these three here the ones that we need to now cut so we're going to sit the template over the top and we're going to cut straight into it now that's why I found it easier and this is that craft card so I would I would advise you use do your template with a strong card then with a metal ruler you want to push it down and line it up with one of the sides and then with my cutting knife you need to make sure you push against your ruler to keep the line nice and straight and just follow that template all the way down so you can see there how nice and straight using the template I've got my line and then I'm just going to turn it around and keeping it all nice and lined up and do the same with this one okay and then I don't need the template for the sides I can just sit my ruler over and just cut you want to be really neat and try not to go over the corners you want to try and stay right in there so you get a nice and if you're slightly out you can then go back in again so I now want to line that up with that piece there like so okay so this is the fiddliest part okay but you can see now I get this piece and then that's going to sit on top there we're going to glue it all down in a minute but once you do the other two that are on top that gives you the well to sit the pen in and it holds it in place so I'm going to do these other two okay so there's my three pieces now I appreciate this isn't going to be for everybody and some people may struggle with this because you do need to be really exact with it but you can go in and tidy them up if you find oh there's a little bit there that doesn't look right and if you've got one better than the other then that can be the one that sits on top alternatively you can create a card piece of cardboard that sits in there with the pen so but I just like to use in the foam so now I'm just going to sit them on top of each other like so I think I've got one that I like better than the other so I'm going to put that one on the top like that okay then I find the red tape is best for this so take out those ones which are now stuck in there so I need to rise them out okay so first of all with these ones you don't need to add a lot I'm just going to pop a piece there just randomly on the back that's to stick it actually down inside and then do one there and stick that one over the top and again just if you use the wet glue it will just absorb into the foam and it will take ages and it won't really last because this is just another form of plastic so you're better off using the red tape okay and then take the backing off of that and just stick the whole thing in there like so and then with these ones here again deciding on which one was going to be the top seemed to have lost I think it was that one yeah so like so flip this one over and again do these all then together stick these all is going to go on top of this one basically you want to stick them all on top of each other with your favorite one on top okay so they're all stuck down and then just go in from one end and work your way along and that will down I'm going to use that just as the example now that will sit nicely in its little home okay so close that one up I'm sure take that back out again and we can make the belly band so close that down let's pop that one back in like so and move my mess to one side where did I put it there we go so this piece measures five by just the default a for length so it can be 11 inches as far as fine because we're going to actually chop into it in a minute but basically you just want to flip it over because that's my front pop the box in I'm using my grid board below just to line it all up and make sure I mean it doesn't matter too much actually so I'm going to end up moving it in a minute but you just want to bring up the sides it's easier when you're doing a wrap or a belly black belly belly a belly band to do it like this I'm just going to trim off of that side and then bring up this one and again just pinch around the corners and then just trim off so it's not overhanging and now I've got all of those kind of crease lines so now I can just lie it down and with my bone folder burnish the lines so they're nice and neat like so and then you can just pop it back in again and just check you're happy and that now becomes a really nice belly band so now before I stick it together I want to stamp so I'm going to just grab my position I've got so much mess I'm usually a tidy crafter but it's really messy today okay just bring this one take that one off and I want to have that happy birthday that happy father's day going right through the center here so bring this one out and it should fit look at that it's like it was made for it because I didn't I got the stamp after I done the the sizings and stuff for this so it's literally just worked out really well so that's that pick that one up and then I am using the stamping up dapper denim color because this was the one that worked matched best with my foam doesn't want to leave I haven't used this for ages I can't remember if it stamps nicely or not it should do oh yeah okay so I think I'm going to color it in like it but I want it it looks a bit flat I need to lift that up a bit so I'm gonna color that all in okay so I completely changed this I stamped it and I didn't like it I started coloring it in I didn't like it I added stars and I didn't like it and I even put that little gem on it and I didn't like it so I scrapped it or I thought no there's a reason maybe that I haven't used that for a long time so it is nice I just would have preferred it if it was filled in I don't like that it's just a you've got a color it in so anyway so I raided my other stamps and I've remembered I had this one and it's got this really nice pen and this is the do craft stationery collection from last year and so I just stamped two of them and I just think it looks I've just gone really simple and I really like it now I think this would work lovely for a craft fair be a really really nice gift so that's what I've done so I then also put another bit of card behind it and this piece measures five and a half because this was five the white piece so yeah so it's giving me a nice little belly band there and obviously that all ties in nicely together so yeah now I'm happy with it so again I can pop my pen in there that all sits in nicely like so so there you have it so two really really nice pen boxes and yeah perfect for craft fairs perfect for birthdays father's day all that kind of stuff as well Christmas you name it it's great so I hope you enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to see more thanks for watching