 Hey everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make an origami gift box now I first saw this on the craft label website but it was when it was trim craft and it was early on last year and I just thought it looked really nice and but if you want to check this out I'll link theirs in the description box below it's really nice and they do it in rainbow colors but I thought I want to give it a go and I'm actually going to make this as a Valentine's box so I thought we've got that coming up in a few weeks so I'm going to pull out the paper posies which is the dovecraft so you will want a paper for this now I am using a heavier weight paper origami paper is obviously recommended because that's it's got all the folds and it's thin so it can take that however this is 150 gsm and you can get away with it so if you've got your paper posies or any papers then that's great you also want something that's single-sided because not so much on this one because I've covered this but on the lid you're going to see the white on the reverse it's really easy the base is done exactly the same way as the lid so I've already done that one here basically what you need is 16 pieces of any size square that you want like I said I'm doing six by six because it's already done but you could use 12 by 12, 8 by 8 or any other size so if you have got a specific gift that you want to put in this then you can just check the length of that and then make the box according to that gift if you're using six by six papers it will be a five and a half yeah it's about five and a half if I do point to points five and three quarters yeah so it just gives you an idea anyway so grab your paper and I'm going to show this one here and then you just do that 16 times okay and you can see all of these ones that I've got here so this is the shape that we're going to create so first of all whatever paper it is you want your pattern facing down so you've got the white side up or basically whatever if you're using double-sided paper if you whatever print you want to be on the outside have it facing down so you can see that's what I've got there so on the diagonal you're going to fold from point to point first of all right up here and I would say use a bone folder it's going to really help you if you don't have a bone folder you can use a ruler you can use a pen it's entirely up to you and then again on the other corner okay so I went across one side and then I went across the other so you'll have four triangular segments then you want to again starting from one of the points you're going to bring each point now into that middle section so I'm going to bring that one up and the key with origami is to make sure all your points join up that your lines are nice and crisp and they're straight and then you're going to bring up the next one and just make sure it sits nice and aligned with that one and you get your point down here nice and sharp and then just work your way around again I'm going to do that one I'm not going to speed any of this up because I want you to just be able to rewind and stop easily and then you're just going to do the last one there and you should have it all meet up get the odd little bit of white don't worry too much but try and get it so that it's all concealed like so okay then what you want to do is open up the top and the bottom also I would recommend a non-directional paper for this so if it's a floral print that's great because usually they they're just in any orientation or it doesn't matter if it's upside down and you can see things like this that I've used there that doesn't matter and I'm going to bring the bottom up and this point is going to sit in the center of this line here so you'll have the line you've got the score line going down the fold line so you're just going to line that up to that point there and just fold then burnish it every time like so then you're going to bring it around so it's now in this orientation and you're going to bring up this side here what I like to do is put my thumb down on this kind of corner here to keep that down you're going to pull this up and this side here needs to line up with this here so you can see I'm bringing it around and then I'm folding it down again makes you get a really nice point and it sits right next to it so it's a bit of an odd fold I'll just bring it up a bit so you can see what I've done there so just bring in this outer side up so it runs next to this piece here okay then so this is facing you flip it over so that's now at the top and then fold this in half and it should all line up really nicely and again just burnish all of that now again you've got a bit of a funny fold which is why you don't really want to be going any heavier than 150 gsm because this can just about take it but you're now going to bring this side to run along with this one so it's similar to the fold you just done but you need to bring this up as well and lay it that down like I said it does feel a bit weird but trust me it's you know it is what you do and just again fold that all down so again if I just bring it up you can see you're just bringing it up so it runs you can't really see it there but you basically making sure it lines up with that piece there and then it will just continue down and the point will be at the top of that square piece there okay and then you've got the two side these pieces here in this middle bit just open that up and you've got this kind of one of the corners basically and that's it that is what you want and then you need to repeat that seven more times or like I said 16 more times if you're doing the whole box I mean you might want to just do a nice little decorative tray for your desk you know that's really nice that would just mean you need the eight pieces okay so now what you want to do is I've got these little bits folded under but you'll have them like this now how they do it the official origami way I guess is this now goes in here and it locks in that piece just clips under there and it locks in like so okay and you'll just go around and do that with each one so this one again you would lock that in it's a little bit fiddly but you're just kind of pushing it in and can you see and it soon quickly starts to form that lid however I'm going to change this a bit now if you're doing the base I guess that's what I would do just go around link them all in and once you get to the last one just clip it in and then what I did with the base one is I then cut away all this bulk and I just punched a scallop circle there just to cover it because I found for the base it's quite kind of bouncy and they don't really talk about that in any of the videos that I watched but I found that it was maybe not so much if you're using origami paper but maybe because this is obviously thicker that I found that but I did cut away the bulk because you don't see it anyway okay I want to do the top of this slightly differently so what I'm going to do and I'm going to use glue because I just think I get I don't know I just I think because this is thicker harder get a better finish these pieces here I'm folding them all under okay and I'm just going to sit it on the top and I'm going to glue that on to the top of this okay but as I'm doing this I'm going to do it whilst I'm putting it on top of this so I know the lid is going to fit okay because you do want it to obviously just be that little bit bigger so I'm going to grab my let's use I'm going to use the quick grab glue so just think it's going to be a bit easier for this now because I'm just sitting each one on top what I am also going to do is just kind of pop some glue you know inside all of these kind of loose bits so that everything can kind of stick down and then I might even just pop a bit of glue on the back of that one and just fold that one under there so okay and then I'm going to pop it put one on there doesn't matter at this minute and then I'm just going to actually first of all I'm just going to put the glue around here and then you can see where it's going to sit so I'm going to pop glue all on this bit here and then most it's on here I'm just going to lay that down you're just following the same shape as the base I'm going to get the next one and then again I'm going to just add my glue over that same kind of area keeping that all in place it doesn't really matter which one it's following at this point and then sit that one over there and once I've kind of got it in place I can just take it off and then I can place some pressure there I actually didn't put any glue on the side here okay so already now I'm confident that's all starting to sit nicely so I'm just going to keep working my way around doing the same thing okay so I'm now down to the last one so I'm just going to pop that back over there and don't worry if you've got a like gap and everything like I've got there because it's all going to get covered and it just continues the same you should have a little bit each time see I've got a little bit of the one below so it will all you know just add to the pattern so this one now is going to go please take the lid off for this one actually so it's going to go over and then under that one so that needs to come out just just follow your pattern but there you can see now how cool does that look on top I absolutely love this so again I'm going to lay it on there and then you'll be able to lock that in and just add your glue again so what I might do is yeah I'm just going to I think I'm just going to pop my nozzle in here just to kind of initially tack it down I can always then go back in with a bit more you know glue if I need to and under this one here I'll just make sure you get a nice snug fit around the base and then I'm just going to I can take this off now and I'm going to show you how to add a couple of little finger pulls so you can pull the base off as well and there you have a really nice piece of storage for your desk or a lovely gift box it's just got such a nice handmade feel about it and it actually does remind me of some of the packaging and gifts I received when I lived in Asia because I'd received lots of beautiful things like this now you have the hole there because of the way that I've constructed it but I really like it anyway but if you're going to put a gift in there then obviously put some tissue over it however I was going to use this tack but I almost think it's a bit big so I think what I'm going to just do is I quite like no I don't like I'll thanks the idea but I have see that actually looks really pretty it's having that flower in the middle okay so I have ended up going for this so it's just one of the decoupage little toppers from that pack and I will eventually attach it onto here but obviously I want to be able to write on it and I'm going to have it just there and I think it looks really really pretty but I do just want to show you I'm just going to pick that out for the minute but if you want to make that easier I'm just going to use a punch here this is the one inch and I'm just going to if I can get it in there yeah I'm just going to go up as far as it'll let me make sure I've got it in the middle and just punch through all those layers you get a little arch there and then do on the opposite side there so again just go as far as the punch will let me it's quite I mean not everyone's going to be able to do this you could always cut just a little triangle as well but now when I put that back on it's really easy to just hold the sides now and take that apart but there you have it I think it looks gorgeous I'm so pleased with this it's really neat and I have a lovely gift tag to finish it off I'll probably just end up gluing that on there I think but yeah there you have it so I hope you've enjoyed this one check out the trim craft one if you want to do like a nice rainbow effect as well because that's really nice and yeah I look forward to seeing your versions over on our group thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon bye