 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixup Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I've got this rather large gift box to show you today now it is similar to the flip lid one that I've done I've also done a one using craft card which I've done I think maybe about a year ago and I've done a few others but I haven't done one this large in this style so again as I've said you know lots of times before I'm trying to just build up a catalog of lots of different size boxes in a similar style so for example this one here I've probably got now got four or five so I will put them into their own playlist so hopefully you'll find something to suit you know a gift that you have in mind but the idea I thought for this one is this will easily fit some slippers because we like to give slippers at Christmas a jumper what else have we got lots of different clothing pajamas you roll them up put some ribbon around them and pop them inside so it's just a lovely size now the reason I've done this is because the papers I'm using which I'll show you in a moment they are more of a scrapbook kind of paper pad but the images are beautiful and I wanted this on a gift bag or a gift box which is what I said when I showed the the product that again I'm about to show you in a second it's just gorgeous so I thought I'm going to do the matching gift tag on the side there that's the side there where it wraps around so you have merry Christmas and then it goes around to this lovely door and then on the top here I've got my gift tag and then I've done this holly which I'll show you in a moment I love the holly and yeah I've just put some mirrored card I'm going to change the other one slightly different and then inside you have your gift box now this cardstock it is a cardstock it's strong this is 240 gsm but you could easily reinforce this some more so if you did want to put something even stronger in this you could reinforce the base by adding an extra you know piece of greyboard at the bottom and you can also reinforce all the sides if you want to but I know that I'm going to use these probably for some clothing or like I said slippers something like that so yeah I'm happy with it to be that way I just love how it looks I love how it stands up this would also work really well as a letterbox so if you were to do black top black bottom red obviously the shell and then a black kind of rectangle here for the letterbox itself you could open that up and have this as something for your grandchildren to put their letters to Santa maybe because it's a great size it's just under six by six and it's 12 inches okay so enough talking about the box let's start making it okay so this is the wonderful paper pad so I've got the six by six in the Christmas bells and I've got the motif sheet and there's the 12 by 12 so I've used the two 12 by 12 this is by Dress My Craft I'll share all the links below for you and I've used the letterbox one there and today we're going to use the Father Christmas because again I just liked him down there but you've got these other ones here as well and it's just really nice so I'm going to be using some punches for the tag and then I've got some ribbons for the handle and the gift tag there I've already gone ahead and done one of them so in my case this is actually the lid and I'm going to do the base because they're both the same size okay and again I've got all those ready because I've already stuck them on the side here and the reason I stuck these onto this piece and I've done these is because this is a directional paper with all the writing as you come around the sides here the writing goes on the side there it starts to become upside down so I went and cut it again from the six by six pad so at least then when you read it the writing is reading the right way up okay and obviously that's it it's more suited for the base because that's all upside down so as you'll see here that's going to be the bottom so that will read correctly what's in the center and that one there will read correctly but all the rest are going to read yeah a little bit odd that's because I've chose that paper but I wanted it because it goes really well with all of this so we're crack on with the case for the moment so these are the papers here they're gorgeous really really pretty I love that center so these are 12 by 12 so you want two pieces of 12 by 12 really simple scoring all you're going to do is score at half an inch and then at six and a quarter okay and you want to do that on both pieces okay so I'm just going to fold and burnish those like I said this is a beautiful thick card stock it is coated so when I'm sticking this I am going to use red tape because my Kalau glue will stick and it will work but it will take a lot longer to set so I just thought you know I'm going to use the red red tape which is very strong and it's just an instant bond so yeah I'll be using that today okay so that is the actual case ready then you want two pieces of we're going to score along one of the sides doesn't matter because it's the same scoring so it's one and a quarter and two and a half and then eight and three eighths of an inch and nine and five eighths so each of those two there should be one and a quarter wide and again the two on this side should be one and a quarter wide it's all reinforced the lids are really strong and the base is strong on the sides like I said it's just the bottom itself that you may want to reinforce a bit more if you've got something heavier then rotate and score again so that's one and a quarter two and a half eight and three eighths and nine and five eighths okay so do that on two pieces and again you want to fold and burnish all the score lines so you should have two pieces of this and two pieces like this but I have already done mine here okay so what we want to do is a little bit of cutting so choose a side any side doesn't matter and you want to cut up in fact I'm just wondering if it's easier to see which side oh you can make them out here so in the bottom of each of your corners you should have four equal squares so but one two three and four and this is a reinforced lid or base depending on what one you're doing so they work the same way so lots of you would have made this before and will know what I'm doing you want to cut up both the lines past the first score line and up to the second so there's my first score line I'm cutting past that one I'm cutting up to the second score line here so now I've got these four one two three four squares three pop it on its side and cut the outer two away completely and then cut that one away so all you should be left with now is just this one three equal square sided square okay then just go around and just take a little wedge off of all of the sides of that corner so those two there and this one here okay so that is what we should have so this is a tab which is going to connect underneath here to form a right angle on the corner of the lid and then these are just going to fold in to reinforce the sides okay so go along to this side here and do exactly the same so we're going to cut up these two pass the first score line up to the second and then remove the outer two remove the bottom one and then just take a little wedge off of each side the reason we do this is just to just get rid of any bulk that you might have sometimes you might leave the score line a bit more than you know usual and things like that will end up kind of like buckling on the sides and it just causes a little bit of tension on the cardstock so it's best to remove it then flip the whole thing around and do exactly the same on this end okay so that's what you should have you should have these four tabs here and each corner and then you'll have two strips on you know each opposite side okay next we want to stick everything together so if you're using a liquid glue if your paper your cardstock isn't coated then you want to add glue on the tops of all of these here and stick them inside like that making sure you get a nice corner okay because i'm using the red tape i'm going to add the red tape on all of the corners just a strip because you're just tacking them inside and then flip it over and i'm going to add tape just on the outer like rectangular piece there again if you're using liquid glue that's where you're going to add your liquid glue so i'm just going to go and apply like i said a bit of red tape but i'm only putting a strip along kind of hugging the score line because it's just to keep it in place it's the reinforced piece that we fold over the top that will actually kind of hold everything in place and give it the strength okay and then i'm going to flip it over and i'm going to pop a strip along the very bottom and i think just for good measure i'm going to pop one along the score line as well okay so just on that outer one near the score line and one on the edge and just do that on all four sides okay so i'm actually going to take all the backing off of everything you might want to do it bit by bit but i don't know i just actually find it easier to remove all of the backing so i'm just going to take all this off okay then i'm just going to take the backing off of one corner at a time so that's that one there and then i'm just going to bring that around and again just make sure that your corners are all nice okay and then take the next one off and again you're going to pop that one underneath there and then what you can do now with that one where you've got the two pieces underneath is we can stick that one down okay so that was all ready next take the backing off again the next tab and just bring that one around and then the last one and this one you just kind of have to prise it apart a little bit and then pop that one in there and now you can just stick down stick down that side and then stick down the other sides and then if you just get something to go in and just flatten the sides just making sure that all your tapes secure okay so for me this is my base so this is what i mean actually everything is upside down just all apart from one there actually that one is perfect look how that's lined up with the base there with the merry christmas if only i'd known that maybe i'll leave that one free we'll see when i get to it i won't stick these on yet i'll leave them for the minute so next so you will have two of those one for the top one for the bottom then we want to stick these two pieces together so along your tab again i'm using red tape but you're fine to use a liquid glue so i'm just going to run this down again kind of hugging the score line not right up to it because otherwise you will see it but just close to it like so you don't need to worry about taking anything off the edges usually i do on tabs but you don't need to on this one and then i don't think this is going to stretch nope so i'm going to just use the last of it here there we go and then grab another one oh i've got another one that's got a bit left here let's get these two used i find it very satisfying when you use up the ends of things right i always get to the ends of paper pads and things like that i'm not someone can those of you that follow me a lot know that i use i do use everything it's very rare i keep paper pads and things like that i just want to use it i want to enjoy it and if it's something really precious i make something for myself so just make sure that's all stuck down and then take the backing off of one of them doesn't matter which one and you're going to stick it to the side of the other one so these are exactly the same height so i just need to focus on that and then just lining up the edge of this with the score line of this one so when you fold it in half you can see there that sits nicely okay and then with this one here i'm just going to take the backing off of that one and what you can do here because you want it to just lay nice and flat is if you just fold that in and then just kind of get the first the top bit started off make sure it all lies nice and flat like so and that way you know you've got everything straight if it lies nice and flat beautiful paper you can really see it again though okay so next whilst it's flat you want to run some more tape or glue depending on what you're using i've got all these thin ones left so i need to get them used because they're the ones that i tend to have like i said left at the end so there's lots of them and because this is um one and a quarter depth it is different to the one i done originally the reason why that one's smaller is because i didn't want to lose the image you'll see on that one i had the presence but i also had the merry christmas thinking about it i probably could oh now i think it was the presence they were going to get covered and i just didn't want to so because this is a bit higher i'm not sure if i'm going to lose that actually i don't think i do lose it maybe i do i can decorate it a bit more it's fine but basically you can go up as high as one and i'd say just a little bit shorter than that so maybe one and one eighth i'm just going to go up to maybe one inch and just stick this go right across both sides and because i'm using the red tape you can wrap it right the way around so we're going to take it all off at the same time anyway so and then i'm going to do another one in the middle now if you're using liquid glue you might find the next bit easier with the liquid glue with the then the red tape but because this is coated card i do have still a little bit of kind of wiggle room with it so what i mean is so basically we're going to now you want to squash it in the sides like this so just pinch a corner and push them all in you're then going to pop it in your base but you want to make sure that the corners hit the corner of the lid and because i'm using red tape i don't want anything else to attach itself unless until the corners are in place so just kind of yeah i mean it's fine it should just pop into its place anyway but um yeah there we go so you want to make sure push it right down make sure it is flush with the bottom of that and then just pop it on its side you'll be able to see in anyway but just make sure that it is all stuck now i do just miss that why did i not think of that i should have gone a bit shorter then because it has just covered the merry christmas there so what i might do because i'm going to be adding these on i do have one i think that says christmas i think it was that one was quite good so i'm going to have that there and then i'm going to put some more holly down here just to cover that and then that'll be fine so i'm not too worried because he's got like the holly and stuff on the bell and in his hat there so that'll look nice but i'll have that one there just so you see the christmas so it's easily you know you seeing me make not a mistake but just a way to correct something if you're not happy with that i think it's good but i like that you can see the christmas there when they take the lid off they see the meaning of christmas there so yeah i really like it but that's how it is so that's that's it done so if you've got a wet glue now make sure you go in with a bone fold and really push it down on the sides i love making these style boxes they're easy but also there's just so many variations that you can do with them so whilst this is here i'm going to stick these down so these measure the gold mirrored card is one inch by five and five eighths okay so you'll need eight pieces and then the pattern is three quarters of an inch by five and three eighths okay i put foam adhesive on the back of the gold and i've just stuck the pattern directly onto the mirrored cardstock again that's entirely optional as as are these pieces completely i did do them on the flip lid and lots of you done the same so i know it is a style that you like so i just thought actually i'm going to do it again i think it just i don't know just makes them look really luxurious especially when you see that i kind of catch the light so i'm going to stick these on these sides oh that was the one i was going to use ah i just stuck it in the wrong one but then i've just realized that's there oh that's the opposite side see i'm confusing myself now okay that's fine we've uh okay i'm totally forgetting what i do and say in these videos so let's pop this one in here so i didn't even check when i stuck them all down originally did i but so i really like that there and now i've put that other one in the wrong place there we go that one still works but then it says mary christ okay well we'll stick with this being the front and maybe i'll just leave the back and i'll just stick one of these down on the other side and i'll leave the back free because i do quite like that but then is it weird but i don't have these on all four sides i don't know i made such a big thing about oh look that worked out perfectly look where it is and then now i've hid it okay so that is the base all ready for the lid so what i've done is i've cut a white piece of card so well actually it's one of the other pattern papers it's one i'm not too keen on it's well it's pretty but it's just plain pinks really i don't know if i use it so this is five and five eighths of an inch squared for the white and then the mirrored card stock is five and three eighths of an inch squared and then i've got a pattern piece that's five and one eighth of an inch squared you'll see it's going to go on top now i've gone and stuck that on top with foam but now we want to make a hole through the center of everything so what you want to do is find the center point put a line through center point there put a line through and wherever they meet that's the center i'm going to just lie this down on my grid so you can see i've come in equally within this kind of square here and then i'm just going to use this line here and just come down and i can pretty much eyeball that that is the center there of my card so i'm now going to use this punch and i'm going to punch right the way through all three pieces there of my of card stock okay it just means now that when i stick that down i can line up with that and i know everything's going to be okay so what i've got is some very very thick ribbon here now it does actually rip this a little bit now you can use a circle die if you've got one that's not too big but you know just the right size but it's only because i'm using this thick ribbon that it does put a bit of strain on probably will be okay on this one because it's very very thick but i'm hiding it all anyway the slight little tear that there might be with the lovely holly which i'll show you in a minute so i'm just kind of prizing this through it's just getting it through that top piece there we go and actually no it's not all got a little tear but like i said it all gets hidden so just pull it through until you are happy with what you have there like i said this is very thick but it's i love it but i just don't use it enough and i think i've got you know i need to i think it's just adds a real touch of luxury to the gift box so now i'm going to just trim that right down and then with some hot glue pop it on each side and then just kind of split it apart so you're not burning yourself onto the hot glue there okay while that's drying i'm going to just grab this pattern piece here and i'm just going to use some double-sided tape i'm just going to run it along the outside there and just pushing that down as that glue setting that's why i've used the foam because it basically is the you know the bulk of this ribbon is the same height as the foam so that when you stick that down you don't see anything you could go all the way through to this if you wanted to but i thought you stick that on top of there which just means the lids really neat underneath as well everything's concealed in so now i've taken all the backing off of that and i'm just going to again very carefully that this one will tear a little bit but like i said it all gets hidden so i'm not worried so i'm just going to bring this one through and then i'm just going to tack the top side like so and just bring the rest of that through and as you do it will just all fall down like so and then you've got your lovely frame okay so that's that already then i'm going to i'm not going to stick that down yet until i i'm going to it's easier to add like any detail you might have on this so show you here what i've done so i've stamped these beautiful holly stamps from the john next door holly stamp and this is the die to go with it so you get the plate so it cuts all that at the same time and that's what i used and um is brilliant i really like it and i love that on the stamp when you stamp it you have these little triangles here that print as well so when you lie your die down you keep it lined up with that like so and it will perfectly sit over all of your holly i think that's just such a clever way to make sure that you get things lined up because i've got quite a few stamps with matching dies and some of them can be quite difficult so i like that they've just spent a little bit of time just to think about that because it makes things like you know it makes life much easier i'm just going to pop a little bit of washi tape down and i'm just going to double check that's all the same oh like so and i'm just going to run that through my die machine okay they fall out perfectly and now you have all these really cool little pieces of holly so i just went around with my finger just kind of rolling the edges just so they lift up a little bit and then to add the red you could use some nouveau drops you could use some embellishments i'm just using a red marker here and then i'm going to go over it with some clear glue and i actually just used my callow and it just created a shine over the berries and just made them look a little bit more authentic so i'm just going to do this and just curl the others okay so they're already so again with my hot glue and this is what i mean you know about if there was any ripping at all you're not going to see any now so just popped a little bit of glue another glue stick i think someone did ask or did i see somewhere someone said about where i got the long glue sticks i picked up a huge amount of these when i lived in china so i'm still working through those but i know there are quite a few companies that do sell the longer ones so i'll try and source them and i'll share the links so then what i've done is i'm just sticking it so they kind of curves up onto the ribbon so it's all going to build up around the bottom of the ribbon so i'm going to have to use a slightly smaller one around santa because i don't actually want to hide his you know image at all so maybe that one there might be a bit better actually okay like so it looks really nice and then i just used my callow glue and just went over the berries and it just that little bit of shine and now if i bring it up can you just see the gloss there over the berries it looks really really nice just a little touch so that's now ready to stick on there i'm just going to let that dry just for a second whilst that's doing that i'm going to show you how i've done my gift tag so i've cut a piece from the six by six pad and i've got my punch here but i do believe that Dress My Craft have the same punch on their website so i believe it's just a punch and then companies just put their branding on it so again i will link that below but i'm using the two and a half width so this is just slightly shy of two and a half you just want to bring it in just under and then i think it was five inches you can go as long as you want you know or short you want pop it in there okay and you can see you get that lovely decorative edge and then i'm using the corner punch and i'm just going to round off the edges there okay and straight away you've got a perfect matching gift tag i just thought it looked lovely and then with these bits here i'm going to add these onto my gift tag again just to keep everything together so i've got this green ribbon really really pretty satin ribbon i don't need too much i've probably needed less than that actually i'm just going to pop it through here and then fold it back up on itself and then i'm going to use some red twine and just tie that off around the bottom and let it kind of slide up and you want it to tie that keep the ribbon nice and tight right at the very top of the gift tag i'm going to add another little knot to that like so and then pop a little boat and then i'm going to pop one of the holly leaves there and maybe one at the top which i just want one on this one maybe i just do one on this one i don't think it needs two so again just going to bring in my hot glue and just pop that just at the top and then also i forgot on the motif sheet on the top one you get all these little cutouts i've already cut one out which i used on the other one so i'm just going to go straight along and use the one next to it which is merry christmas and just cut that out and it's again it's just a nice little easy you know way to just add so i might have that down there because the merry christmas got cut off so if i pop that one there i'm just going to pop a little bit of red tape just to one side because it is going to overhang a little bit but i am just going to pop it on here like so like cute and then i need some more red ribbon which i'm going to then tie around this in a moment but that's now had time to just set a little bit more so now i'm just going to take all of the foam off the back here i've run out of my actual foam tape so um i do need to water some so just uh yeah going crazy with the tabs but i do want to make sure it all stays the same height i don't want it to sink in the center at all okay again making sure i've got everything facing the right way oh yeah of course it's that way isn't it okay it all gets covered anyway so it doesn't really matter but look at that what a gorgeous lid you get that lovely shine coming through from all the gold isn't that lovely so now you can just finish it off on the top of your box which is really close to my camera but now look how lovely that looks oh i love it it's gonna look so nice under the tree so then with this here i just want to tidy up the ends see i cut this down quite short in the end so we're going to go there and do one that way there again i always like to just tidy up the edges you can use glue i know not everybody likes to do it this way but it's the way i've always done it and then i'm going to grab some more red twine which i'm almost out of oh my gosh have i got enough um there we go that's it again really satisfying that i get to use up something else so that's that done and so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to loop it around the top of the tag i mean i guess you could have kept it all joined but i don't know i've done it this way tie a knot there and then i want this to hang down so that'd be about right and then i didn't need this much at all i think originally i was going to tie it under now all i do is just pop some hot glue so what a waste i would put that i've got a little thing because that'd be perfect for bows and stuff i've got like a little jar where i keep all my little bits there so i'm going to pop a blob of glue under this holly leaf and then just with my tweezers i'm just going to go in and just just get the bottom there of the the string and then just bring down the rest of that holly leaf and that will just sandwich itself in between the hot glue there and the ivy or holly ivy holly leaf there we go so now it hangs down and that's going to hang down the side of my gift bag so i've got a really squeaky craft chair that i need to put some oil on and there you have it so now that hangs down doesn't it look gorgeous i love the Santas oh i just think this shows the paper off so well it's such a nice festive looking gift bag or gift box it's got pink in it which is not again something i tend to really go for but i just was really drawn to the paper pad i just thought it was lovely so yeah there you have it so i'm going to let that um the berries still dry a bit because it is the glue on there i need to just add a little bit onto those but i think it looks really nice okay so there are my two very large gift boxes i can't get them both in shot without losing parts you can see here they both are the same height i just pulled that one down but can you see the difference there so if you do want to do the shorter one i'll put the measurements in my blog for that size if you did want to have it thinner if you don't want to have it so thick it's entirely up to you because some of you might have another image and you might want to go for the smaller one there but i prefer the thicker i prefer it kind of balanced at both ends because it doesn't interfere with the actual height inside it's the full 12 inches still so it's entirely up to you but yeah i think they look really really nice i hope you like these i hope you like the product that i've used it will all be shared below as always and over on my blog and until next time please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye