 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to make this very cute little ring box. Now I was requested to do this probably I would think now back in September October looking at my list and all the other requests I've got but the other day someone else also requested it and I just said to them you are in luck because I'd already done it so here it is hope you like it. I'm probably going to go smaller with the bow on the one that I show you but there is still something quite cute about it all with that big bow and such a little box but anyway yeah you can see there it's got 4U I've got some I've used my Cosmic Shimmer pen is it Cosmic Shimmer no Spectrum Noir sorry pen just there it's got a real nice sparkle to it and this is all using the V&A2 collection so I've used the stickers and the little flat back pearls and the papers there which are gorgeous but just open it up and then inside you have this ring and what I've done is the ring is set in fun foam so I have die-cut I can't remember how many layers I'll show you that when we get to it and then I've just created a little slit inside actually pulls it out there we go can you see and then your ring just sits inside this is obviously one of mine and I thought this is more I'd say in terms of size more more people's cup of tea because you know by now the rings that I wear are always pretty big but there you go and it sits nicely inside closes down yeah and there you go got a nice little ring box so for that one side okay so it's a reinforced box inside so that this this is separate so this box is separate and then this is just a wrap that goes around so for the I've got a template that I've drawn up here so I'm going to cross this out as I show you because there are a lot of squares so I think it'd be easier just have a template side by side but this is a piece of six and a half by six and a half just come down a bit there six and a half by six and a half cardstock okay and then for the wrap you want a piece that's two by I don't think I decided on the length yet because the way I'm going to show you how to do it I think will be a bit easier so for now I've got a piece of two by eight and a quarter so it was just my default a for width so I just yeah two inches but we will trim that down and then like I said that there's just my template along your six and a half inch side you want to score it one two and a half four and five and a half then take your cardstock and do the same scoring again so one two and a half four and five and a half and then that will give you all of these squares so you'll have these three quarters of an inch by so it was by one and a half all along the side here and then you'll have your big one and a half by one and a half squares three six nine in the middle but with the template it will make it easy when we come to cutting it all away so you just burnish all of those score lines okay so that's all been burnished now with my template here and a black hem I'm going to now talk you through what we're going to be completely removing so I'm just going to draw around here and this is again a reinforced this is how you make a reinforced box okay so that is the initial shape so you can see we've got one two three four five six seven eight nine you should have your full nine squares in the middle and then you'll have these smaller rectangles on the sides these are all going to be what we're going to reinforce the sides with these little tabs here so all of this we are going to cut away that will all be discarded okay like so then what we will do is once we've removed all that we will then cut down these two and those two okay and then we do those little wedges where we cut away here here you see what I mean and can you see that straight away they start to create these tabs so I do that one up a bit okay you can also take little wedges I was cut little bits off of there there there I'm also going to show you this but I just think I've had people ask and say that they really like it when I show the templates and it does make it a lot easier for me to actually explain it to you but once we've cut all that away you can see what we're left with and this one this one this one and this one are our four sides that's our base okay so now you've seen me kind of roughly make that look a bit more easy to follow with my scissors doesn't matter which way it is because this is you know it's a mirrored you know the all the score lines are the same they mirror each other so we're going to create this bit here first so we want to remove we've got one two three four bits here which is one two three four so we're going to cut all the way down that one basically every scoreline and you're going to cut down past the first scoreline and down to the second on all of those score lines okay now we want to remove these three so there's one two three so pop on its side cut those two off cut that one completely away around the other side cut those two off and cut that completely away so already now you can see we've recreated this now we just want to take these little wedges off okay so it's only on these two here so again I'm just going to come in and just sniff away like so like that and then I'm going to take just a little wedge not as big because this is our reinforced kind of piece like so so now if I lie that back down we've got this yeah okay because all of this now has been cut away so then if we just flip this around you just want to do exactly the same again okay so now if I lay that over my template there we go that's what we've now cut and you can see where we've cut away all these bits to kind of make our tabs I've just cut little bits away on these four here as well but that is now all ready to be stuck down okay so I will just keep that there if you want to freeze frame and then you know what you need to do okay so clear all this away okay so I'm just gonna grab some of my wet glue and these four tabs so this one this one this one and this one is the one we're going to glue on top of now so do one at a time always making sure you focus on your bit that's closest to your school line if you're using Tombow don't go really close and if you do make sure it's really really thin layer or even wipe over it with your hand because you don't want it really splodging out because Tombow is notoriously tacky and very very sticky it is one of the best glues out there but you don't want to get it to the edges of your projects whenever I use it to mat and layer my cards I always just go within the middle stick it down you don't need to go right up to the edges so now I've got nothing oozing out the sides and that's secure it dries very very quick again just on the edges there I don't even squeeze the bottle I'm just kind of dragging around the glue that one in and bring up the next size size the next side and you can see how it's starting to create your cube okay and then do these two and then the last one you just have to kind of almost curve it and then tuck it around again gets a little bit fiddly because obviously you've got a very small area that we're working with but all of our sides have become very reinforced if you imagine two of those side pieces that we've just stuck behind us there's actually three layers now of cardstock there plus this piece is going to fold in over and that's the reason I've never done it to the full size of this because when we fold in and then add this inside you can see how high it's going to come up it's going to be reinforced even more that's going to come down further than this not that it mattered if it didn't but you just fold them out now and again you need to go too crazy but fold it in when you fold it in just go in there and just make sure the glues all spread out yeah nice side I'm just going to do that with all the others that's now done now this piece here so the fun foam this is just the a5 fun foam sheets and I buy packs of them from the range you can get them on eBay and on Amazon I always get the a5 you can get a4 if you want to and I don't really worry too much on colour I guess if you're going to go if you do a lot of shaker cards and stuff whites probably the best shout really black would be good as well for your darker cards but generally even the mixed ones it doesn't matter so I've got the pink just because I was working with pink but I've put two layers of white there just because that's what you're going to see when it's done now I've cut it to the exact same size of this because I want to really wedge it in there I want to pack it in so it's not going to move and I'm just going to put a little bit of glue on the bottom so you want to cut yourself yeah one and a half you want to cut yourself was it 12 I said 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 yeah 12 pieces of one half by one and a half and I just cut it through my trimmer it was fine you know it doesn't damage your trimmer and if afterwards maybe just get some aluminium foil and just you know cut a few pieces of that through your trimmer if you're worried it might blunt it or use one of your older ones but you can also cut it with scissors just mark along your a5 at one and a half cut up with some long scissors and then just cut them down if they're all a little bit wonky don't want you can see that they're a little bit but it's really hard with thumb foam to get it perfect you know every single one but overall you can see them when I look straight down they're pretty okay and because it's all squidgy and soft it doesn't really matter so I'm going to pop a blob of my glue on the bottom this really just to kind of tack it down and then go in one side and really like I said look it's snug and that is what you want you want it to be yeah right in there now I'm cutting mine when it's in there because I'm it it does work fine that way but if you feel that you want to cut it first then don't put it in yet as I just have but now because now there's no you can't see any gaps and that's what I didn't want so it looks really really good and when you pull the ring in and out you want it to be pretty stuff and stuck in there so that's why I put that little bit of glue but that's now already so I'm going to decorate it so we've got these ones here so I've already stuck my pattern pieces on choose what which one you want to be your front that's got a nice full piece of the pattern there so I'm going to stick that on my front and then the other two go on the sides because this back piece is what we're going to stick down so you don't need to see that and the base is going to be stuck down as well so it's just the left the right and the front and obviously make sure it's up the right way so I'm just going to stick them down okay so that is now all ready pop that's one side now I'm going to grab this strips this was the 2 by 8 and a quarter I'm going to grab my scoreboard you're not going to be actually really scoring well you may want to but once I show you how I do this and again I do this because it's easier to do I find this way then try and explain the whole sixteenths of an inch thing so pop your piece of 2 by like I said my 8 and a quarter with this piece here at this point it doesn't matter which way up it is because it's a cube so just use it as a cube don't worry you know like I said if it's facing up pop it in now you want to decide if you want to have a border and how much border you want so you see I've got all the overhangs to see I've got this overhang here now that was a quarter of an inch roughly so you can see here when I put it down I'm not putting it right up to the edge I'm actually starting a quarter of an inch so I'm just going to sit my this cube down here now this then is going to be the first piece that's going to come up so if you just lift it up with your hand and literally just fold it okay just push it up and then put it back down again now more than likely your score line or your folded line you just bring this up with you trying to see it see where it folds it is folding bang on the piece in between where my notches are and that's because we're stretching it around something else another piece so it just pulls it out so then if you have lifted it up like that okay so like I said you can see now if I bring it up can you see the nice little overhang I've got a quarter of an inch roughly so again that's like that we brought that up what you can do now is just find any of your tracks line up that fold and just score like so and then I can just fold that around so already now I've got my first piece if you imagine that's now going to stick against like so and I've got that little overhang okay next put it in like that so there's the folder piece pop it in grab this again and wedge it up to it and then bring the next size around and really make sure it's folded right up to it and that'll give you the the close nice tight fit that we want for that piece to wrap around okay and again I can see that that fold is hitting right on it's in between the tracks it's on the piece that kind of sticks out so now I can grab that again and just line it up actually I'm going to flip it over so I get the score line in the right direction line it up in any one it doesn't matter and score and I can fold that around like so now when I put that in you can see that really nicely wraps around perfectly so now we just need to trim off so when you pop it in you want a quarter of an inch again to kind of come away or what you can do is just measure here so this is two and one two yes in between so it's easier again to just grab your pencil like so and I'm going to do mine it's just there just want it to be roughly the same so it's just under one and three quarters that's where I put my little pencil mark there okay so I'm just showing trying to show different ways to make something so now it doesn't matter what size you're making by following that kind of technique that way of doing it you'll be able to get a nice tight fit rather than worrying about you know measurements and stuff because I'm aware that everybody may do it slightly different and therefore theirs may come out slightly different whereas this way you should all get it the same so now I can stick that in there and you can see our little ring box okay so hopefully that makes sense now it's just the fun part of decorating these last few pieces so you'll have three that should have mats on top or layers on top and one that's plain this one is optional but I just wanted to just put it on the bottom there and it just kind of gives it again a little bit more strength like so but before you start sticking these pieces down this is when you want to add your ribbon so I'm going to bring this one in here so I've got just because on my sentiment so I don't really want just for you as well so I think I am going to go with this plain one because I don't know if this will be given as a birthday gift or whether it just be just because kind of thing which it does so probably do that I'm just going to take the whole bit off for the minute because I don't know how much I need and I can just add it on at the end so what you want to do is you're going to stick your first end of your ribbon is going to go on at the bottom like this here now I've got my pattern facing up so just thought it looked nice when you obviously when it's undone so again it's entirely up to you but I think this one I might do the other way so do it wrong side up so you've got your pattern facing down and what you want to do is just add a splodge of glue quite far in okay because remember this is set back the box is set back anyway and then just make sure you get it centered up and just pop your ribbon on the bottom like so and then this piece here and then going to glue down on top so with this piece you're going to do the same but on the top so again put some glue set back this time with your pattern facing up again just stick that down nice and centered like so and then I'm going to have this piece on the tops it's got the most design so do it that way stick that over the top again you should have a really nice little border of whatever color in my case is that pink all around you can see now that hangs out looks really pretty okay so mine's all attached at the minutes one piece but that's fine because now I can cut that down to I think that will be enough for my bow and then I've still got one little piece of ribbon okay so now we want to stick these pieces here still have a nice of that one's going on the back where was my other one top oh yeah inside here I'm sticking there where's my extra one so I'm going to have this one on the inside and then this one on the back because this is your base you can put one there as well if you want for some reason I've cut that completely wrong can you see that's way big I'm not going to stick that just notice then so I'm going to leave that but you will have one there I will do that off camera so now we just need to stick the two pieces down so the back piece here's your front you're one two three so this back piece and this one so basically the last two plain ones you want to add glue to okay and then pop your base down first have it front on and just make sure you get it again nice and centered and then stick your back down like so just realize as well that white one should have been a bit thicker can you see I've got a gap whereas with that one I haven't I've gone all the way back see there she actually want to make that one a bit deeper I mean that's not the end of the world I'm not worried at all but just in case you do flag it I already have so I'm just pushing the foam down just so I can push down onto the base there and now when you close the lid down this is just so cute and then I'm going to cut it inside in a second but I just want to make sure yes better when the ribbon I think is a bit bit thinner see now how that's going to make a nice little bow now inside I'm going to cut it now this is when the a lot of you will be saying no I'm going to cut it before because I guess you don't want to get to this stage and then if you mess this up you've messed the whole box up but I have done it before so you basically just want to cut an area that's going to be you know the width of the ring size really because you do want to generally rings will go down is you know halfway across the actual ring itself so you know you've got here this is three quarters of an inch so I'm going to go a little bit smaller than that because it's the thumb foam and you can squash these things in and you want this to sit in nice and tight basically put a hole a marker right in the center first come down a little bit so I'm just going to and already I've pierced down quite far really as far as I can because it doesn't matter and already I've created this slit that's about a quarter of an inch so I just need to cut out a little bit further onto each side but again the thumb foam to vary forgiving so doesn't matter if you do go a little bit bigger but if you have done this before sticking it down then maybe you can put a little pencil mark on this but there you go so you can't actually really see that I've cut there you can just make it out but now if I grab the ring and push that in and that will go down quite far and that is solid that isn't going anywhere look see how far down that's squashed in there and it looks really nice you've got a really nice finish with that foam on top you could also put some decorative paper on there I guess as well but it works it does work really well so now I'm just going to decorate the top so I've got my just because which is going to go across there just bring that up you can see how much sparkle on that heart and just see how cute it's just so dinky and tiny and small so now I'm going to tie this in a boat there you go please play around with it a little bit probably done with a little press but how cute does that I just absolutely love it and there's the other one they are just adorable adorable little ring boxes I love them so you can do them for any obviously occasions they'd be great for Christmas be great sat on the Christmas tree actually like nestled amongst all the the branches and stuff and nice as little favours as well you don't have to put rings in them they can just be nice little boxes you know take out all the foam and stuff so yeah I think they will work for many occasions but I hope for those of you that have requested this you like it and give it a go and yeah just need to put something on the back of that one there and they are ready to be used so as always thank you for watching if you've enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching