 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 a box that will hold a mug. It's a standard size UK mug, I imagine they're all over the world as well but in the UK it's quite a common size. I'm going to show you, the mug is already in here but I can't show you what's on it because it will give it away but it's a really nice, the way I've done this, I mean the box can be used for whatever you want. You've got a little label tag here which I'll show you but you'll see here that it's thread through the lid so you just undo the ribbon and then you'll see it will come off. You can pull it right the way through if you want but in here I've got to wrap it in some tissue is the mug but I don't want to turn it on its side because it has a name on it basically and it's going to give it away but I'll bring in another mug and this was one that was kindly made for me by Simone who's one of our Mixed Up Crafters and this is what I mean by those standard size mugs these are really really common shape and you can find these in lots of your homeware stores and if you do a lot of online personalisation and things this is generally the size mug that people will do them on and you can see there it fits inside and you've got a little bit of space to wrap it in some tissue paper. My one that's going in here is actually a little bit taller than this one so and you have got room if you've got something maybe with a decorative handle or it is a little bit more rounded it will probably still fit quite well in this box but like I said you can use it for other things as well but I really needed it for this one here once I wrap some tissue around that and then you just pull the ribbon through and it will so I've made the lid slightly bigger so that that ribbon can go through the sides and you just tie it all together finish off with your little tag and it's all ready to go under the tree so let me show you how to make it so today I'm using the almost Christmas paper pad it's absolutely beautiful you can see all the sparkle on there and I'm going to be using this one here with the robin and the garland so I've already cut all of that out and I'll go through all of that in a moment so first of all I've already prepared that one you'll want two pieces that are eight and a half by seven and a half okay along the eight and a half inch side you want to score it half an inch and four inches then rotate it and you're going to score at four inches okay so do that twice so you're going to have two pieces I'll do the cutting on that in a moment and then for the lid you'll want a piece that's eight and five eighths of an inch by seven and five eighths of an inch and on all four sides you just want to score at one and two inches so one and two rotate one two just do that on all of the sides whilst I've got my ruler here in the scoreboard just so I can get these measurements you'll also want two pieces that are three and a quarter by three and three quarters so it's two pieces for the sides and then for the front and back you'll want two pieces that are four and a quarter by three and three quarters you can see where I've stuck those down on those pieces there you can do it once it's stuck together as well but then you'll also want this piece for the lid and this is four and three eighths of an inch by three and three eighths of an inch because we've made the lid slightly larger to fit over the top of all of this and there you just want to fold and burnish all of the score lines okay so starting with this piece first like I said I've already done that one so you've got this half inch tab on the left hand side and then you've got the bottom here you just want to cut up to the first score line so you might have already stuck your pattern paper down but you're just cutting up to that first score line okay this piece here you can just remove completely like so and I'm just going to grab my snips and just trim the top and the bottom there okay now these side pieces so these these squares here these are the your rectangles but these squares are actually your side tabs so you can just take a little wedge off of both of the corners and that will just tidy everything up when we go to fold it all together and you won't have anything hanging out of the sides okay so now you'd want to stick down those pattern pieces if you haven't already and then what you want to do is we're going to stick together these pieces so you're just going to pop some glue down here and just pop this one over the top and make sure you line up your base score lines okay the top you can sort out if you need to but the base score lines you want them to be perfectly lined up okay and then if you flip it over and then just pop some glue on this half here and then just fold this whole half over and the whole thing will line up okay and then choose what you want to be the front or the back because you'll have a join you know the both the front of the back so it doesn't really matter I'm just going to go with I've got the three robins there and there's three robins there but I'm going to go for this side I think because yeah they're kind of a bit more spaced out so I'm going to stick down the back one festival and I'm just going to pop my glue over that one I'm going to pop one side and the other side and then finally the last one and you should have everything line up nicely and then just turn it over you can go in there just spread everything out and this is a great size box on its own so you don't have to put the mug in here okay so now we've got the box next we can do the lid so you would have just folded all of those score lines and banished them so choose one of the long sides so okay and then you just want to cut down all of the score lines to the second score line so you're going to pass the first one down to the second again down to the second okay then on each side you want to remove the two outer squares again so and then you want to remove just the top square like so and then take a little bit off of all of the sides so these ones these ones just the top there don't do anything with that piece and also this side because all of these are reinforcements they're all going to fold in and again on this side just a little bit there okay and then rotate it all the way around and then do the same on the other side basically you should now have something like this next you want to stick it all together so I'm going to use my quick grab glue and I'm going to just pop my glue on the little square tab and you want to bring it under bring that one round so you're forming the corner of the lid make sure you get it nice and lined up and then go around to the next one put a little bit of glue on there okay and just repeat that on the other two so that's that done and then I'm going to go back to the cloud glue and add that to these pieces because that will just help strengthen the lid and you're just going to pop the glue on the inside I do mine all at the same time and then when you fold them in you can just go around and burnish them all like so and then fold them all in like so and then get your bone folder you can just go in and just make sure that sticks down and whilst you do that it will just burnish the sides just to make them really smooth okay so now we've got our lid and then you just need to stick that piece on the top and then I've also gone ahead and cut these now these ones have this lovely bow detail and it's from the paper pad and it's the strips so you can just cut pieces out of them and I just found the one that would match this paper so you can see here you've got all the bows but you've got baubles there to match the bauble paper you've got the holly leaves you've got the music notes even the wood grain here they match all of the other papers so I've pulled those out you'll want two pieces that are well they're all three quarters of an inch wide but two of them need to be four and three eighths and two need to be three and three eighths and they're going to go on the two sides and the front and the back okay so my doorbell just went and then I got sidetracked and then I started again doing the rest and realized I hadn't hit record so what you want to do now is make your holes so you just need to with a ruler you want to measure it's about two and a quarter in from both sides and this is on the long side and then just hole punch you can see there and I just used this one here and just went in underneath so you've got the room there and just make sure you've got it as centered as possible really then I've got this beautiful red velvet ribbon I can't remember I want to say it's from the range I'm pretty sure it was because I remember I bought tons of it there so this like bin full of ribbons so possibly it could be wrong okay then you're going to pop your ribbon underneath your box like I've just done there and you're going to come inside and then thread it back out because we've made it that little bit bigger the ribbon has room to go underneath and I mean this is a thick ribbon anyway and then with this one you're just going to go again come in from the inside and that's what gives you that nice effect it just works really well with these papers with that red ribbon bow image and then the you know the ribbon that I'm using here and then I'm just going to make sure I've got an even amount and then just tie a nice bow I will make that look much nicer but I'm just going to just trim the ends there and I will seal those better in a moment but now how gorgeous does that look I really really like it so I'm just going to do my little tag okay so I just heat embossed with a red tinsel embossing powder can you just see there we go and I've used this one here this is tag one by Simply Creative these are only 99p they're such good value for money and they're just really cute and it just works perfectly I've used a cream cardstock and you can see it matches so I'm actually going to yeah I'm going to feed it through this one here before I tie it in a bow I've already sealed the ends of the ribbons they're not going to fray anymore but now that's all ready for me to just write who it's for oh actually I need to put the mug in there as well just to um well actually I'll be able to put the actual the genuine one in here because I'm going to do it like this so you won't be able to see or the person that may look at this video won't be able to see what is on there but you can see if it's in there perfectly and then I'm just going to pop the lid over pull the ribbons through then pop the tag on I may well pop some tissue around that as well so I'll get some I think I've got some red tissue somewhere actually need to work on that bow but there we go it's all in there and I think it looks great I hope you found this tutorial useful the box doesn't have to be used just to hold a mug it can you know you can put all sorts in here but I'm really pleased that I'm definitely going to put some tissue because I can feel it just moving just a little bit because there is a little bit of room in there but yeah really pleased so this one's almost ready to go under the tree so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon with another tutorial 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