 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 really lovely display box to put the teacup and saucer in, so I made that last week. I will share a little link up here for anybody that's new to the channel, hasn't seen it, it's a beautiful really lovely little Mother's Day project that I made and I have loved seeing what you've been making, you've been sharing so many over on the Facebook group, they're amazing, they're so nice and yeah I love little twists and stuff that you've added to them. I asked the question in that tutorial if you wanted a gift box, I shouldn't have asked the question, I should have just done it because pretty much everybody commented or sent me a message saying yes please we'd like a box, when are you doing the box, so I've done it, fingers crossed you like it, so I'm going to bring it to the side, I can't bring it right over because the chocolates fall out, probably should have taken them out but basically I have decided now that I'm going to leave my teacup in here so I've attached it with glue dots and the idea is you can just see there, this is how lovely it will look in this display box on someone's shelf in their craft room you know even if you're making it for yourself I said before you know you don't have to give this to someone just make it and appreciate it yourself, so go all the way around there, so it's got a raised base so it's that's why I've called it a display box, take off the ribbon here, now you can decorate this I'm going to also link up here my big bow birthday box, now that is five and a half no that's five by five and I think six inches tall or five and a half tall, now that one may also work I'll get to that in a second but if I was to take out the chocolates and kind of all the mother's day stuff this is what you're left with, so if I bring it up now you see how lovely is that really really pretty and there's the flower in the bottom, so you can see here this is this kind of raised base, now this isn't hard to do this is pretty straightforward but you're working with acetate and acetate has a mind of its own, now if you watch me do the tutorial and you think oh gosh I just don't know if I can do that one, look at that big bow birthday one because I do think the teacup if you followed the exact dimensions that I've done here that teacup will also fit in that box and it's a more easier version I would say and it's all using cardstock, now also you can use this and use cardstock make this one and use cardstock, so if you imagine all the acetate is cardstock but you could cut a window, so you could cut a circle die you could have a square die and just put a small piece of acetate behind it, so yeah if you don't have the acetate don't worry because this is using 12 by 6 acetate which I'll share as well but I just wanted to talk you through a few alternatives at the beginning here so watch this one see what you think but then do revert to that big birthday box and look at the bow that I make on top, so the bow is brilliant and that would look fantastic on the top of this but I'm just going to use a nice old ribbon for this one I think that looks really nice as well, so hopefully I've given you lots of options I always like to kind of you know share more than one way of doing something because not everybody has these things so this is always ways to adapt so I'm going to just feed in all these lovely little bits here so if you again if you haven't seen this this is just little Mother's Day this has got a tea bag in it and then there's chocolates so the idea is is Mum on Mother's Day takes some time out and sits down appreciates her nice little gift enjoys the lovely strawberry Lindor chocolates and enjoys her cup of tea so pop them all in there or like I said keep it as a nice little display piece for yourself all right I'm not going to faff about with the ribbon now I will do all that later okay so sorry about all the glares because obviously I'm working with plastic today so you've got four corners here um those pieces here this is the acetate which I've shared before I've got the link to this I think on my amazon storefront which I will link in my blog post but this is the do crafts 10 sheets of clear acetate 12 by 12 and it is very strong it's really strong stuff and again it doesn't tell you the microns which is really annoying but it's just strong it's heavy stuff so I paid four pound nine for this from trego mills I don't know if you can get it that cheap I can't remember how much it is on my link that I've shared but it's really really good and it's 12 by 12 so again apologies for the glare there so I've got two pieces here so these are six by 12 so it's just one piece of the 12 by 12 acetate just cut in half okay so you can see there so that's those then you'll need four pieces of one by six and these feel corners now you might want to do something really decorative you might have some dies or something that you can use on the corners there it's entirely up to you and also depending on what tape you're using I'm using red tape which is pretty much invisible you can hardly see it here if you can see your tape you may want to add a pretty kind of border die along here so if you imagine that's the flat end of the border die and all the detail comes up over the acetate that would look really pretty as well so like I said there are you know quite a few ways to decorate this very differently then for your base you want a piece of seven and a half by seven and a half and whatever your print is that will be facing obviously up so it's what you're going to see so just play around see what you've got you want something that's not directional really so you can see with this it's just the rose print it's in all directions that's what you want and then for the lid it's a reinforced lid which I like and this is nine and five eighths of an inch squared okay so first of all we're going to score the base so this is your seven and a half by seven and a half piece all you want to do is score it one inch on all four sides so one inch one inch one inch and one inch okay then you want to grab your lid okay while we've got our scoreboard out and you want to score it one and two okay then you want to pull out slightly just like I did for the lid that I had to redo for the Daffodil stepper card so you're going to pull the card out slightly just so it's revealing a little bit of your scoreboard there and then you want to score at seven and three quarters and eight and three quarters then rotate pop it right into the corner again and you're going to score it one and two and then pull it out slightly again and score at seven and three quarters and eight and three quarters okay so that's your reinforced lid and that is your base you've got your four corners and then we've just got our acetate now we'll get all this prepared first and then we'll go back to the acetate so you'll need your scoreboard again in a moment so for these pieces here along the one inch side sorry you want to score at half an inch okay and then just fold and burnish and what I've done is I've put some red tape on the two sides there closest to the outer edge not so much in the corner it doesn't matter I mean if you've got half an inch tape and it feels all of that that's fine but I just used quarter of an inch here and just made sure I hugged the outer sides so four of those fold and burnish and then we'll start with the base here which will just have those four score lines so again just fold and burnish and then pick a side any side and you want to very neatly cut down the score line to the first score line so you're just creating a little tab and again on this side like so and then rotate the whole thing around so those bits are facing away and again cut down and cut down and then like I always do you just want to cut little wedges there so just cut in just so you're creating little tabs flip it right the way around and again like so and like so okay so that's what you should have there for the base and then I'm just going to grab some of my wet glue and just put a very thin amount cover that tab and bring this around there make sure you get a really nice corner to it try not to go in too much you want to make sure that the edge of that meets right up with the fold you want a perfect right angle if these are slightly out it's going to affect the acetate sticking to the outer side which will then affect the top which will affect the lid and again just bring that one around and just carry on and do that on the other two okay and I'm just going to go in on all those tabs just make sure all my glue is spread out you should have this tray but we're going to be turning it upside down so we've actually got this raised a little platform now I'm also going to use my red tape now this is this stuff is brilliant now I I've always used this one which is from every crafts a pound you get 23 rolls for 10 pound and you get all different sizes this is the thickest one this is I think five eighths of an inch I know it is half well I thought it was bigger than that anyway I think they might be bigger than still but it's really good value for money and it is as clear as you're going to get when you're using acetate so again I'll link that in on my blog where I get this I'm going to actually put in another order soon because I'm getting down to the last few rolls now it's up to you whether you want to hug the bottom like the actual edge here or the folded part so if you have got a tape that you're going to see you might want to put it right through the middle and then have ribbon over the outside as a decorative piece if you're going to be covering this again like I said with those dies or something then it doesn't really matter but I'm going to keep mine kind of towards the bottom like so and you just want to keep it nice and straight make sure you've got no bits underneath it or any dust or hair or anything like that that sometimes kind of gets stuck and just very neatly work around and again whenever you're using tape as I always say burnish over it afterwards make sure you remove all the air bubbles because they're the kind of thing that you will actually see they they can be quite visible so you want to bring it right to the corner there and then just cut that away neatly and I'm just going to flip it over I'm just going to burnish is a bit slidey kind of slips everywhere I just want to make sure that it's nice and stuck down and I've got all the air bubbles and it should go really dark in colour so it's a little bit lighter on that side because there's obviously lots of air still where it's not actually stuck right down I'm just going to do that and just check make sure you'll know when it's all stuck down like said you'll get rid of all those bubbles and that all helps with it becoming really clear and almost see-through okay so that is our kind of platform ready then we'll move over to our reinforced lid so again just go around and fold and burnish all of those score lines okay and then again you're going to cut up both of the score lines in the corners so again as always with the reinforced box you will have four squares in each corner one two three four one one two three and four you want to cut up the two of them to the second score line so here's the first score line you're cutting up to that second one so again here I'm cutting past that first one down to the second and like so okay then you want to remove the outer two completely so and again this one and then remove the top single one like so you should be left with a little tab so it will look very similar to the base but this time you'll have two pieces of this rectangle side because that's what we're going to use to reinforce it so now again I'm just going to take little wedges off of them I'm going to take a little wedge off the side there one off the side there I must have something sticky on my scissors again off of that one that one that one and then rotate the whole thing around now and you're going to work on this side and do exactly the same again okay so that is what you should have and then we're going to do it again the same we're going to put glue on each of these smaller tabs so bring that down and bring this side around and stick it and again make sure that that's a perfect right angle if you've gone in too much then it's going to obviously be too tight to fit on top so just make sure you spend a bit of time getting that all nice and lined up so again the next tab bring that down bring the next side up okay repeat again the same on the other two okay so that's what you should have and then you'll have these four sides hanging like so and you just want to add glue and just fold them in so you don't have to be too exact with it just enough to tack it into the inside just fold it back in on itself pop it on its side and give it a good old rub with your bone folder so you get a nice side so just do that on all of the other sides and there is one reinforced lid again these papers are gorgeous so the ones from the works the same ones that I used for the teacup and again I'll share all of that in it was an English rose was it garden something like that I'm really bad like I said I lost the top to it so all my mum did right now on to our case okay so I've got my piece of 12 by 6 acetate along the 12 inch side you want to pull the card out ever so slightly okay from the side just the same as you're done with your lid and you want to score at 5 and 5 eighths of an inch okay really go over a few times like so so now if you burnish this we're going to do it bit by bit because it's easier because I'm aware you know not everybody will be working with acetate for this like I said you can do this bit with card stock if you really burnish that and then kind of bring it back again like I said acetate does have a mind of its own but it will go exactly where you want it to go so you can see there it's got a nice right angle so this now will sit in there lining up really nicely okay and then coming around to this side here okay so now what you want to do is take that away where we've just scored okay so that's 5 and 5 eighths then put that folded piece into the corner here okay and score at 5 and 5 eighths now because we've added that piece in there that fold is already kind of bringing it out from the very edge here so we don't have to pull it out because that fold has already kind of given us the room that we need so that's 5 and 5 eighths okay and then you will have this tab so again you can fold that now I actually think that tab is too big so let me just cut this down because I think you might be able to get away with normal size acetate if I remember rightly because that is yeah that's way too big let me just trim that because it only needs to be half an inch yeah so it now means that you can use 11 and a half inch so normal size acetate normal a4 acetate obviously if you don't have that where you're from and it's just 11 then you would have to get the 12 12 inch stuff but now you will have this so when it sits inside here it will perfectly sit around there okay and you'll be able to stick that to it and if you've got any kind of you know bits that you don't like or maybe it's stuck a bit funny we're going to be covering all the corners and you can cover all the bottom as well the idea is is I wanted something really open which is why I've gone for all this acetate so you want to do that again on the other piece so again here I'm going to just trim off half an inch already so like I said we now know that that's 11 and a half by 12 by so we now know that's 11 and a half by six so again I'll just put a little note in on the tutorial so again you're going to pull the card stock out from the beginning and score it five and five eighths pop it back in and score it five and five eighths now I've got a smaller tab but that'll be fine anyway I don't know why that's happened either way you've got enough tab okay to stick it all together so talking about tabs let me get rid of this and what we're going to do is we're going to join the whole thing together so I'm going to pop some red tape and again you want to make sure you get this perfect with no bits of hair no bits of dust bits of paper you know what it's like in the craft room we have all kinds of little like die cuts that find their way in and then really go over that making sure that you've got all your air bubbles out and then we're going to attach that to the plain edge of the six inch side so there's the tab on this end I've got my middle fold and you've got the plain side there that's what you want to stick but the good thing is with acetate is if you don't get it on first time just peel it off she says as she catches the end there and if the tape gets funny peel the tape off as well so it is forgiven in that sense it's not like paper once it's stuck we've got to rip it and start again so it's um but once it does kind of catch it's there so you want to just line them up perfectly like that and then just go over it again with your bone folder and get out as many air bubbles as possible all you really should see is the just the overlay of the plastic as opposed to the tape if I bring that up there you can you can see obviously the line of the tape but you can't actually it just looks like it's where the plastics you know just it's overlaid if you know what I mean so I think it's great stuff it's really really good just kind of manipulate your acetate back into place again and open this up and then you want to add some tape on the other tab there at the other end and I'm using double-sided paper because obviously it's really pretty but you see the other side so once I stick this on you're going to see all that lovely rose print as you look inside the like little display box so yes try and use red tape and try and use double-sided pattern paper where you can okay so now that is ready so you can do a little test run before you take any tapes off and actually sit it in there and it should wrap around perfectly okay you see there and obviously all that's going to now get stuck down we want to do this now in stages bit by bit okay so we're going to start off by removing one side of this like so okay so just do one side at a time and just fold that kind of back on itself we're then going to lift this kind of tab up a little bit like I said you can bend the acetate if you're using paper this obviously wouldn't be a little bit different for you but you basically want to stick oh gosh make sure you get it the right way up so you want the open end at you know facing the bottom because remember this is a raised platform so it needs to be this way up okay so you know treat it like a lid all right so now you want to start from this piece here and you want to line up the bottom perfectly with the bottom here and just kind of let it kind of find its way just kind of guiding it right down to that other corner and then make sure you get that really stuck down so the key to this is doing it bit by bit so now I can leave that if the phone goes you know someone's come to the door you are going to be able to come back to this and it's still okay so that's that one then we want to come around here and actually do I want to do no we want to come around this side here so I'm just going to grab my pokey tool and I'm just going to pick that red tape because that's the other join that's the other end and we need that bit out but that's fine I'm just going to lift it up carefully there like so and again kind of pull that away okay and then again focus on the edge here you want to make sure you get your base all lined up perfectly and it should bring you to your corner again and then take off your backing here and again just carefully start bringing that around so just bit by bit and then the last one like so take that out it will also stick that side down and then what you can do is take this one out here which is your side tab and stick that order like so now what you want to do is turn it on its side and just go in with your bone folder and just make sure that's all stuck down and on your joins there as well and now you'll have your box okay really really nice next we need to just cover up all of our corners so again this is optional but I think it looks really nice and again if you've got any little bits that you don't like then this will cover it up so bring it up to the corner here start from the top or the bottom it's entitled to you that it's exactly six inches so I'm going to start from the bottom and get the corner meeting up and kind of wrap it and then just let it kind of follow all the way up like so and just do that on all of your corners okay so now you should have your little display case really nice you can obviously use this for anything as well it's a handy sized box now I've got my other teacup here and I'm just going to add a few glue dots on the base here you could use wet glue if you want because it's just paper sticking to paper hot glue if you've got you know maybe yours is a little bit heavier and it's got other bits on it you may not want to do this at all this is because I'm thinking it's quite nice to just keep it in there but you might have other ideas and I know some of you have already put them in really nice cellophane bags so you know if you're doing any craft fairs or you're selling them then that's probably much quicker way to do it so you can obviously do that as well but for those of you that have asked like I said there's quite a few then here it is and then you want to decide how you want it displayed you might have a preference to the way your box looks I'm going to do mine that way and have it and then grab your lid and that should fit perfectly over the top and just remove it about like so and there you have it how cool is that we love this thing looks so nice and then I've got I think I'm going to use this ribbon so let's go like so twist it around get back over I think that's enough ribbon again this was that ribbon that I got from the range I've done that in my what did I get little video a couple of weeks ago beautiful get that a nice big boat okay I need to fiddle with it a bit more but how beautiful is that I absolutely love this I think it's just brilliant so I will link in those other boxes as well because I have got other sizes that I think this would work with well um if you don't like acetate change it up and if you want to do more of a window look then do have a look at that other box because I think you'll get a lot of inspiration but how beautiful is that what a lovely Mother's Day gift all for anybody there you have it guys hope you've enjoyed it hope you like it hope it has inspired you hope you make it I'll be back again next week with another tutorial thanks for watching bye