 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 large gift box. I think it's the largest one I've done in terms of gift boxes at the moment, I've done obviously large gift bags but I am working on another kind of gift box at the minute but I'm not sure whether it's going to make it to film so like I said I'm still working on that one. Anyway this one here I'm going to call my rocket box because it does resemble I think like the top or the edge, the end of a rocket so that's what I'm going to call it anyway. But I'm really pleased how it turned out, I wanted something that was going to be nice and big for these bows so the bows are the Simply Made Craft bows that I shared about a week and a half ago now and they're just beautiful so this is using the glitter cardstock and I showed you how to make this so you won't get this in this tutorial, hit this little bit up here and you'll be able to see how you put that together but I'm going to just be showing you how to make this a lovely large one. Now when we go to put this all together you'll see how it kind of fastens better but it's just one of those bits there. Now the one thing that the only thing I'm not happy with about this one is this cardstock. The cardstock I ended up choosing is a white core cardstock and it just turned out to be too soft but I can get away with it because the bow covers everything and once this is under the tree and it's got gifts in it I'm not too worried. Again I'm just going to take that one, why is that one not coming? Oh there we go. So they all open and then look at that you have so much space in this gift box. I have done similar to this before and I have a playlist so I will share that one for you because if you don't want something this big then you don't have to. There is smaller versions as well but yeah it's really straightforward it's deconstructed which is why I've been able to get it so big because and it's using a four card and you can use you can use letter paper as well you might need to play with the measurements a little bit but let's crack on and I'll be able to explain more to you in detail. Okay so this was the other bow that I made in the tutorial so this is the rose gold in the mirrored card so that's what I'm going to be using today. So the papers I used for the one that I just showed you and for today's is the winter rose this is first edition and this is the 8x8 pad. Beautiful papers not all Christmassy as well for example the very top one this one here you can use just as a nice winter card and there's lots of other papers throughout this pad that are not completely Christmassy so that's the one I'm using I've already gone ahead and taken out this paper and it's a little wreath and in the middle it says Noel so I thought that was nice. Now with today's I am doing a shorter version but that's the beauty of this box is you can have it as tall and as short as you want once I show you that bit in a minute it's really easy for you to decide. Okay so three pieces of they will all be eight and a half no matter how tall you do it okay they'll all be eight and a half wide and then along this side here it's entirely up to you how high you want it to be my one I use the whole width of the A4 card size which is eight and a quarter and then you have half an inch at the bottom here so no matter what height you've got here you have to do half an inch tab I've done four and a half and then take off the half an inch tab that's here when we fold that in this will be a four by four high box and then I've got my little mats there so this is going to be much shorter but if you want the size I've got then you want yours to be eight and a quarter and then just score at half an inch so yours will be if you're doing my one it'll be eight and a half by eight and a quarter all right so yeah along the shorter sides in my case like I said it's four and a half I'm scoring at half an inch and you want three of them in whatever size like I said you want then if you just fold and burnish these score lines here like so and then along the bottom here just do a little bit of cutting so you want to cut a little wedge off this end here okay then I'm going to cut a triangle in the middle so there's my triangle alright and it's going to cut that out completely so now we've got there we go that triangle and then here you want to cut another wedge another wedge down there and you just remove in that so again you can see the shape that we've got and then cut another little wedge at the top like so all right and you want three pieces of that and then you'll need six pieces of your pattern paper mine are three and three-quarters squared because they're going to fit in the four by four squares with a nice border if you want the size that I've done again there'd be three and three-quarters but the height I think seven and a quarter yeah you'll want seven and a quarter I went too short but I made sure I kept it consistent all the way around so actually it looks okay but if you don't want that thicker bit of gold there in my case then you'll want yours to be seven and a half but the width is the same three and three quarters and again that will all be in my blog so because I'm using mirrored cardstock I'm just going to quickly while I've got these here and then I go back to scoring the top part I'm just going to stick these down onto the mirrored card okay so to make these pieces here I do want two pieces that are eight and a half by six and three-quarters along the eight and a half inch side you want to score at four inches and eight inches and then rotate and you want to score at half an inch all the way down and at four and a half all the way down then rotate it back again okay so you've got that half-inch tab on the right hand side and you want to score at one and a quarter down to the first score line okay and then two and three quarters down to the first score line then at five and a quarter down to the first score line and it's six and three quarters down to the first score line okay so what you should have is six of these rectangles well seven including this thin one here but you'll have these three pieces above each of these four by four and a half squares and then this half inch tab along the base and half inch along the side okay then we need to do a bit of scoring in this in the middle here so that we can all fold in to kind of give us that rocket top that I've got so I'm going to use my metal ruler and working within this square here you're going to score from the bottom of each of these down to each corner so this corner here and this corner here don't go down to this bottom bit or into this section you're just staying within the squares so I'll do this one first okay so you can see there what I've done and this is very similar to how I done my lanterns as well so it's got that very similar top to it so again just want to do the same in this one okay so that's what you want to have then we need to do some more well a little bit of cutting so now if you burnish all of the the main score line so I'll do that one the tab there and the tab there now I want to cut the bottom of this just the same as these gold ones here and then what you want to do is turn it on its side and you're going to remove the whole of this section here okay so we're going to just cut up to this first score line and then I'm going to cut down like so okay and then next you want to cut down that one miss the main middle score line and then cut along that one okay and if you fold down those two you can then just cut that piece out completely so it's tidy that one up okay and then the very end one here you just want to cut out completely so I'm just cutting down again that score line and then just remove that okay like so then you want to fold this outer one here this score line so it's a mountain fold just very carefully start that off and then just then this one on the other side again you want to make it into a mountain fold the middle score line will now become a valley so it's going to go down and then this next one here will become again mountains so either side of this kind of chimney part here they should be mountain folds okay so again that one that one and then when you fold it in just have to help that bottom bit down there but it should all fold in like that okay let's see what we've got there so you'll now have three that all look like that okay so what I've gone and done is popped double sided tape on all of the tabs and on the sides as well and again on here all the bottom tabs and on the sides now I'm using the red tape purely because I'm working on mirrored cardstock and the centura pearl does have a smooth texture to it so I just find this is just very very strong but if you're just using normal paper then a liquid glue will be fine or just double sided tape as long as it's strong because this is quite a big gift box so we'll get to the base in a moment because you need to put it all together for me to be able to explain the base to you in the most easiest form so what I'm going to do first of all is you want to add one of these to the top of one of the bases okay like this they should all line up perfectly because they're both eight and a half and that's eight and a half so I'm just going to take the backing off of the bottom tabs here so we're just yeah just take off just the red and then we'll be doing this side so we're not going to remove anything from the base one until we actually get to that bit so what I would say to do is work focus on the middle score line of this piece with the middle score line of that piece because then if there's anything overhanging you can always trim it so you just need to make sure that this lies nice and flat like so and again that one there okay so then we've got that then grab another one again remove the backing okay so I've done all of them now I've also realized that because I've done a smaller one that you don't actually have to have separate cardstock you can have this all one size it's because I've been working from this one and I've obviously got that separate to this that I just went ahead and carried on that with this one but if you do want to just cut it from the same cardstock i.e. have it all this rose gold or all the red in my case then you would want this to actually be still eight and a half wide but it's then coming at 11 and three quarters okay so I'll also put that in my blog because you don't have to cut two lots if you don't want to but I do like that contrast I think it looks really nice next you want to start putting them together on the side pieces here so you want to take the backing off of both because I know some of you would probably watch this and would have thought why didn't you just cut that all from the same piece it's because I was working with my mind thinking about doing that kind of the two tones so what I've got what you'll see is see I've got slightly I've gone over just a little bit there so I'm actually going to trim that because I don't want it to be all out otherwise so let me just grab my scissors I'm just going to very carefully just cut that slither off there we go and that way that's nice and flat so just make sure that this is all completely flat and straight and then again if you focus now you want to focus on the base scoreline okay that then should marry up perfectly with this scoreline which it does and then I can just carry on up to the top there okay then if this is a little bit off which mine is there again you can just trim that with no problem all right so it's easier to work from the base to the top because you can always correct the top you wouldn't be able to create that create you wouldn't be able to correct the base but now that's nice and straight there's no problems there at all and it's all stuck then I'm going to go along to this end here again take my backing off again start with that base scoreline I'd already took the backing off the bottom bit here so actually let me just double check I think that one's okay it might be a little bit just a tiny bit there we go I'm just going to stick that one that one's okay at the top a little bit just there okay and then if you fold it over okay so just taking off the backing off of that one and then if you have it so that you've got one piece here and you can fold these two over and again make sure that base scoreline lines up and everything else will fall into place okay so it's already now you start to see it all really starting to take shape now what you'll need to do is where we've joined all of these ones here within this V you're gonna have to re kind of work the scoreline on one half because it's gonna go over that slightly so on this case so with this one here I'm just gonna pinch that again because you need that to obviously fold in on itself so it might be a bit thick there but just any of these kind of faceted styles especially when you're working with angles you have to kind of go back in and rework them but can you see now I've got that nice corner so again that one's okay so it's not a join this one here's a join so I just need to go over that side there and then start to bring it all in now I'm gonna have this shape coming together okay so now we need to do the base and I've got this piece here which is the whole length of a4 you can use 11 inch will be fine as well and then the width this is seven okay now you are gonna cut some more off of this but it's much easier for me to explain the base to you this way then well you might as well get a die to do it otherwise because it can get a bit tricky when you start working with shapes like this but the easiest way for me to do this is you want to take the backing off of one piece so I've taken the backing off of that one there and you want to sit it so that it's kind of in the middle of this bit here so I'm gonna work around this section and you want to fact if I bring it up on its side you're just gonna fold the others right inside okay and then again working within the kind of the middle of this don't worry if it's a little bit off you don't have to be exact but you do want to make sure that you get this stuck right on the very edge of the cardstock turn it upside down just go in there and just make sure that's all stuck down so now I've got that one piece just stuck on that one tab okay then go to the one that's on the complete opposite so there it is there here so you're gonna go right across it's this one here take the backing off of that one and you're gonna then put that right in right along the other side of this cardstock okay you want to try and keep it as straight as possible so again just gonna fold them in so if you lay it down and then just kind of pull it towards you and you want to make sure it's straight as long as you get that straight then you know that everything else will be lined up so get it running completely in line with that top there so now so we stuck this side and then the exact opposite we stuck that end and the rest of the box will naturally find its shape okay so get those two stuck down and everything else is easy what we're then going to do is just trim around the shape it's just so much easier doing it this way because I was trying to think of a the easiest way to explain things which I always try to do and I just think this is just gonna work for everybody so then what you need to do this fits a little bit for you I guess if you're using liquid glue it's quite easy now to just go in and squeeze glue along there but you just want to kind of unpick if you're using double-sided tape like me you can also fold half of it out and then fold the other half and then pull the other bit out but you can see it's quite easy as long as you got a pokey tool and then I'm gonna take the other one off as well so I'm just pushing it away with my finger there just so I can get into the tape without actually sticking so I guess it's a little bit fiddly but you should still be able to make this work it's such a nice gift bag gift box I just wanted to yeah and then just let that drop down it's already formed its shape so it can't really go wrong like it won't go anywhere else apart from there so now that's all stuck out then I'm just gonna come over to these two here again just turn it over and it will just naturally find that shape okay and then with your scissors cut on an angle so you're cutting under and just follow along that line like I said keeping it on an angle can always go and tie it up again and I'm gonna try and cover it all carry on all the way around just so I can save this cardstock so I have gone from the center to show you but if you want to if you know what you're doing now you've seen the tutorial edge more towards this end here and then you'll save more of your cardstock okay so yeah there's a bit of waste but I just wanted to show you how how you can do it without the need of dyes but now you can obviously make a few little changes so that you don't get any wastage and you can trim it down more if you want but I just thought it's easy again that way so now you've got a really nice base and a lovely gift box okay so now we've got that all folded where it needs to be we need to do some cuts on these pieces so I've gone ahead and done it because it's easy for me to explain it but what you need to do is first of all with a pencil go around every side here and from the scoreline from the fold here you want to come up one and a quarter okay and put a pencil line alright and do that on all of those then you're going to be working in pairs so the opposites are going to pair together so with the first one you want to cut at the height of that pencil line in by about halfway or just over so you can see there where I've cut into that the cuts don't matter if one slightly longer than the other it's not going to make a difference but it has to be at that one and a quarter height from there to there so that one I've cut in this side here then the opposite one you want to cut on the opposite side so I've cut here I've cut on the right hand side so on that one I want to cut on the left so I'm going to bring it round and again cut across again about halfway okay then these will come together and just split open the cut lines and they will lock together like so okay and this is how I do all of these then get your next opposites so let's do this one here again cut in on the right hand side along that one and a half one and a quarter pencil line the opposite one I've gone in there on the opposite side again cut the same and then let's just lock them in move the others out of the way like so okay and then the last two do exactly the same again and lock them over you know this centura pearl is done the same it's just all look don't use white core really frustrates me it's fine for card bases and stuff it's brilliant card don't get me wrong but when you want to do things like this is not the best to don't use white core take you know learn from me but it's fine because where it is got where I have got these white areas my bow is going to cover it all so I'm still not too worried I'm still going to look beautiful and it would all get thrown away on Christmas Day anyway so let's not worry too much what I've gone and done is I've got my big bow if you don't have a big bow like this you can make one from scratch and just follow my big bow tutorial which are linking up there but this here I've just die cut a just punched a circle and I just basically I'm just going to pop pop glue on that side I just need to give this more of a base so I'm going to stick that in the middle it's just now that's just better for me to add glue to that and then stick it on to this and what you're going to do is just add glue on one half of this so I'm just going to stick glue on this one so I can still slide it apart so I guess if you're with a person when they go to open this you can tell them that they want to keep the gift box then they can just slide this apart or as I say with most of my gift bags and presents rip it open if you want to save the bow you can but just rip it open get into it it's a gift box this isn't you know a storage box it's to be used and to be enjoyed for a moment I'm just going to pop some glue just on that one there and then with my bow I just want to make sure that's going to stick on there just hold that down for a second okay so there's my two gift boxes it's hard for me to really get them both here but you can see the difference in size there they look really really nice I'm so pleased with them like so just make sure you use a color core card stock not white core and then you'll be fine but yep love these so please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's tutorial consider subscribing so you get to see more and I'll be back again tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching