 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 nice little gift box with this ribbon handle and then inside I have these lovely shortbread biscuits which we eat a lot of. These are a pound from the pound shop they come in a really nice tin as well you can see the little doggies there are all 3D and it's just a nice inexpensive gift that tastes delicious but you can obviously make the box really really special for it to go in so yeah straight forward to make pop that to one side and you are going to need so I've got my screw punch the papers I'm using are the Mariposa first edition papers which are gorgeous and then I've already gone and got all my mats and layers ready along with my flower there that's my ribbon okay so I'm going to go through the scoring as we make it so you need a piece of A4 cardstock okay so I've tried to do it so the lid and the back of the the box is all on one piece of cardstock to fit that shortbread tin so this is a piece of eight and a quarter by boy by 11 and three quarters okay so it's the A4 length sometimes it comes just under 11 and three quarters which this maybe just is it's just on the line that's going to be fine because that's what I'm using so it will be okay if you're going to change your measurements and you will have to obviously work those out yourself I've done it for this specific gift however you can see inside there's so much that's going to fit in there anyway so it should still be very handy okay so along the eight and a quarter inch side you want to score it one and a half and six and three quarters then rotate it along the longer side and you are going to score it one and a half and then seven and a quarter eight and three quarters and ten and a quarter okay so you should have then this one and a half piece here then this piece between the seven and a quarter and the eight and three quarters is one and a half then another one and a half and then the other one and a half piece now that one there that last one becomes the front piece here. So if yours is a little bit out I will show you how we can just kind of tidy that all up anyway but you should just be able to make it work even if it's slightly under that length. So that's that piece there. Then for the front of the box you need a piece that is 8 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄4. So this along the 8 1⁄4 inch side you want to score it 1 1⁄2 and 6 3⁄4 and then rotate and along the 7 1⁄4 inch side you want to score at 1 1⁄2. So you can see there that 7 1⁄4 inch width or height here is going to join with that 7 1⁄4 inch score line that we done on this back piece here. So you can see where again if you you know a lot of you ask how I come up with these things and how the math saw kind of works. Everything just kind of goes together like a jigsaw puzzle. You can see that that bottom piece sits perfectly over this and it starts up at that 7 1⁄4 inch score line there. So those are the two main bits that's what's going to make our box okay. Then for the inside little lip which you may not have seen there's this piece here which is separate okay and as always whenever I do those bits I just do them freehand so I've just got a piece of 1 inch by 8 1⁄4 and that was just an off cut okay. So just keep that to one side until we get to it. I'll go through all the mats and there's as we do them. Okay so first of all we'll start off with our main back and lid part. So you just want to go around and just burnish all of those score lines. Okay and what we want to do first of all grab my little snips is in the landscape orientation so you'll have this that's your one and a half inch score line. You want that on your left hand side and then you'll have all these other pieces on your right hand side. You'll have these three squares there's one two and three. You're going to cut down each of those score lines just to that score line there. So again rotate and do that on the opposite side. Okay so don't worry about the bottom for the minute I just want you to kind of understand how this is all going to come together. If you now were to bring that bottom one in like that then that one like so and that one like so. There is your hinged lid okay. Now the ones at the very front you want them to be the last ones or in this case it's the strip at the very top it will be the last one that goes down and it will kind of cover all the others but can you see when you do that you get all these bits hanging out and this is why I always like to take wedges off of things you know I always say in a lot of my tutorials just take a few wedges off because it will make it better when you go to close it and this is the reason why we do it because it eliminates all of this here. So this outer one these two outer ones here you want to keep perfect you don't want to cut them she want them to be that perfect one and a half by one and a half square. Now these two pieces here we do want to cut little bits away from them just to make it a bit more you know tidier. So what you need to do turn it back this way so leave the outer one we're not touching that but these ones here just go in and take wedges off of the sides okay and then when you bring it round you should see that all conceals much better and then I also take a little bit off of the actual length so not much just a tiny bit taking about one eighth of an inch off not even that actually it's more like one sixteenth okay and again do the same on these ones okay so that's now all prepped so if I just light down that's what it looks like we'll do this bit in a minute I just still want to focus on here again now when we bring all that round and cover it you'll see now you got a really nice side and you can see everything's hidden away the the middle one here is where I've got this ribbon piece coming out now this is optional you might not want to add that but if you do you want to do your hole punch and kind of decorate this bit now rather than latex it just makes it a bit easier so to decorate the top here I've got well this mat is going to be the same for the three because I met all of them since five by one and a quarter okay so I've got one two and three and then just the one on the top I've added pattern paper over the top again it's up to you and that's one by four and three quarters okay so I'm just going to get those stuck down okay and then on this middle one here so this whole piece is five and a quarter so you want to come in half way so that will be two and five eighths of an inch okay so that I give you your center and you're just going to punch a hole so two and five eighths I'm just going to put my pencil there and just roughly I can see where the middle is there and then with my screw punch I can just poke the hole right through if you don't have that hole punch then you can just get a pokey tool and kind of work that through there but now I've done the hole that's all I'm going to do for the minute I'll put the ribbon through just tie it up a bit I'll put the ribbon through at the very end but it's easier to do that obviously when it's all flat than when you put it together now you can also decorate the back here so I've got this piece which is five by five and a half so I'm going to stick that one down and then the side pieces are going to be stuck in on this particular one so you don't need to worry about it and then the base of this one here because this is all going to be stuck inside the other one you just want to remove these squares completely just take out any of the kind of bulkiness from the score lines as well like so I'm just going to take some little wedges off of there I'm going to take a tiny little wedge not much just a little bit off of the tops of that one there as well okay so that is now how that piece should look if I like that way you can kind of freeze the pause the video if you want you can just seal the little wedges I've taken out of those keep those ones perfect again little wedges little one off the top of these two sides again down here and a little bit off of those there so it's just all prepared then you've got this front piece so again just burnish your score lines and then with this one you want to just cut in these two sides and again just take some small wedges off of those and again decorate this one so for the front I've got that same size piece as this one here so I'm just going to stick that one down in the middle and then my layer to go on top is four and three quarters by five and a quarter you can do that twice if you want to do it on the back as well but I'm just keeping mine to the front and then I've got these pieces to decorate my side panels so to match them it is five and a half by one and a quarter and then to layer on top so you can see here how it's all going to look these pieces are one by five and a quarter so I'm going to get them all stuck down again all these measurements will be on my blog okay so sometimes it's just easier to decorate these things when they're flat now we're going to add some glue onto these squares here at the bottom so onto the tops of them bring that one down and bring that one around make sure you get a really nice right angle because this is your front piece here okay so this is all going to be everybody sees and again do the same with the other side and fold that one in again and just stick that one down okay so that is the front of our box so now what's going to happen is these three sides here we're going to add glue to and they are going to sit inside like so okay you can see now it comes that one piece so I like to do one at a time I just think it's a bit easier and you're getting you know less mess I'm going to stick my base down first so grab your base your front sorry and with the base bring it in and stick that down inside of there just with your bone folder just go in and make sure that's all spread out now if you want to decorate the inside here now's the time to do it you could easily put a pattern piece of paper in there as well and just bring it up into that shape and just make sure that it's all running nice and flush and you've got a nice back there all right you can see how how quickly it all comes together okay and then I'm going to add glue to this one side here again don't go heavy with the glue and never put loads of this glue on and if you go right to the edges just make sure you're more you're pushing the glue kind of to the edges rather than squeezing more out okay and then bring that one up and once you've got it all nicely lined up on the side there it will just it will just naturally go where it needs to just use your bone folder or even grab a ruler you can get that in there and just spread that all out okay so that's another side now you can see just how nice everything is because we've prepped it all before it should all fall into place perfectly and then do the same with this one and then kind of push it under first like so and then it will again fall into place and you've got wiggle room I've just pulled mine up a bit there just to make sure it was nice and flush with the top again pop it on its side this ruler is exactly one and a half inches wide so it fits in there like a glove it literally I'm getting from corner to corner side to side perfect and there we go so now you can see because we've already decorated it it looks great next we need to stick all this down so first of all you just want to again do it bit by bit so I'm going to pop glue on this inner one first like I said you can add your ribbon right at the end that doesn't matter now but I'm just going to add some glue to that one and then the middle one is going to come down and go over the top and you want to keep it at right angle obviously you don't want to line up that piece to the bottom of this because we've already taken little wedges off of it so the the sides aren't straight now so you just want to make sure you focus on the angle rather than the you see there rather than that side there don't line that side up with this because it would be out you want to make sure that your angle is nice and straight okay that's that one there and again do the same on this side and then you just want to add glue to the insides of those last ones which will be your square ones because they're going to now cover everything and tidy it all up okay and I don't worry if this is all wobbling because we're going to be adding that inside lip and also obviously the velcro on the flower is what's going to keep it all together but now you can see you've got your flip top part there then I've got these little squares to decorate the sides so I've got this one which is one and a quarter squared and this one is one inch squared each of those are going to sit on top like so and then they're going to cover these two sides here so I'm going to stick them down okay so that's my sides all decorated and yeah we're ready to go now I also forgot that inside here once I add my ribbon I've got a piece of pattern paper in there as well so you just need to cut another piece that's this mat here or any of these three that I showed you at the beginning but yeah okay so then you've got that piece that I shared earlier which was that eight and a quarter by one inch yeah one inch and if you watched me do quite a few of my kind of trinket boxes and stuff like that and most recently was the dancing fairy music style box we're now going to add this inside here but I always like to do it kind of freehand so you just want to kind of roll up the whole piece there and pop it inside but this piece right up in there like so and then kind of hold that piece there and then work this into this corner like so and just lightly pinch it you can see what I've done there just very lightly then keep that in that corner trying to keep it roughly the same height and roll it and bring it all the way down to this corner just make sure you're holding it each time between your finger and your thumb and just again lightly pinch it and then when I get to the very end here I just need to take a tiny piece off so I can just eyeball that I think that was roughly about there okay and then just bring down each one there where we folded and just burnish and again if you want to score and then burnish you can do this is a very strong this is that 300gsm cardstock from paper mill direct so it doesn't crack but now I've got the perfect piece that sits in there it gives me that nice lip which is what's going to hold our lid down so you want about I'd say about three eighths of an inch exposed so what you can do is hold it where you want it and pop a pencil mark kind of roughly that's really done badly I can rub that all out and again on the sides there and on that side there and then you know now that anything underneath that is where you can add your glue so I'm just going to not add loads just enough to really kind of tack it in place so you can use double-sided tape if you want and then I'm just going to carefully bring that in it just means you've got that little bit of wiggle room to get it all in place and just make sure you look at it what I might just bring it down a little bit I can cover up some of those pencil marks like so because this is only a smaller piece what you can do as well as round off these corners here before you attach it but it doesn't matter if you don't so sometimes I do sometimes I don't and just rub out those pencil marks now when you bring the lid in just push those side bits in what I tend to do is just curl them in ever so slightly with your finger and your thumb and that just means each time it goes to close it will naturally go that way but now they will fold and it will keep your lid down and then once that flower goes on with the Velcro dot as well that will hold it all in place more so what I've gone and done is I've die-cut and these measure two and three eighths of an inch roughly in diameter and that is going to stick on the top of the lid only so if I just lift this up it's going to stick like that in the centre so roughly where my thumb is I flip that over that's where I want to add glue and again bring that over and make sure it's all nicely lined up and just get an even I mean you yours is all everyone's is going to be different but I'm coming in what's that one yes about one and a half and move across a little bit that way it's about one and one and three eighths of an inch I've come in from each side just stick that down and I've just got some Velcro dots here so let's just pair those up and just stick it on the inside of that piece you just stuck down both of them so I've got sticky on this side here you can use magnets personally when it's something like this that isn't necessarily a keepsake piece and this will probably end up going in the bin I'd rather just add a Velcro dot these are very inexpensive whereas magnets are obviously a bit more pricey and yeah I'd like them to be kept so I tend to use them more in my mini albums and things like that once it's stuck see I haven't been able to put too much pressure on it so I'm going to have to lift that up and kind of eyeball it that half what I should have done is get what you want to put in there pop it in and then do it again so pop that on one side and then push down there we go you can push down then on that metal tin and then my Velcro dot has stayed in place you can just really again work that down like that nice really really nice so then I'm going to add my just got my heat gun warming up I've got my ribbon here so open it up and what you want to do is feed the top through first so okay decide how long you want to I'm going to keep mine about there and then what I've done take that out now it's going to get in my way is split that up and lie it down flat in the back there and then cover it with that other piece of pattern paper okay so I'm going to just add some hot glue to that in a moment while I'm waiting for my glue gun to warm up I have also gone ahead and cut a very small little disc here which is just going to go over the top there just for a little bit of decoration really there was no other reason for it apart from that so I'm just going to pop a little hole in the center and again just feed that through and yeah it's just nice little extra touch this is a thinner paper so I need to make sure I don't rip it now it should I've got a thick ribbon I'm going to use I remember doing it with this one on the other one but it's fine there we go and I'm just going to add a bit of this glue here because this doesn't stay tacky just a little bit around the ribbon there and then that can lie down on top there you go just gives it something so just another ways to decorate pop that back in again close it up and then I've got this here which I've just used my flower punch and I've just made a really pretty little flower and that is going to go right in the middle you could have a tag hanging down here as well if you wanted to obviously it makes it look you know if you want to personalize it a little bit more I've got these glitter glue sticks because I've run out of my clear ones but they're actually really nice pop that right in the center there and straight away now that just really makes it look very very pretty I love that and then just lift it up and open and I'm going to just very carefully pop you can put double-sided tape on this if you wanted to but while I've got my hot glue gun here let's pull this out a bit I'm just going to run a bead just there on that side obviously watch your fingers I do have the little silicon finger bits right in front of me actually these here pop that on your finger let me show you like so and then I always forget to use them and then another little bit of glue there and then you can just push that down and it just takes all the heat just like wearing oven gloves really but just for your finger so now that's nice and flat inside so now I can just add my pattern paper so again just cut like I said pieces that size there onto the top they have it really cool box I like that a lot it's got a nice closure to it and yeah don't worry if you don't have the shortbread you can obviously use that for many other things even a nice little scarf or something will go in there you could probably get some little miniature bottles of some drinks in there as well I love it I like making gift boxes for quite you know like a specific gift as well so I like that these fit this tin of shortbread in perfectly and that obviously that tin makes this really nice to hold as well because it's it is the same width and everything so it fits really really nicely so that's that one and there is the other one really cute and I love those papers that gorgeous hummingbird there with that spot UV but aren't they lovely anyway there they are hope you've enjoyed them if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more 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