 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, I'm calling it a pop box, purely because I don't know what else to call it. It is an explosion box of sorts but if you put explosion on your title, on your YouTube video it gets flagged and it has very very limited audience. I'm going to call it a pop box but it does have this explosion look about it. Now again my mum sent me a link and apparently I've seen it now but it was in the new Kit Kat advert in the UK to do with some kind of time travelling and the guy opens up a box and it's something similar to this so by just seeing an advert this is my kind of version so you just undo the ribbon or you may not choose to put ribbon on it and then when you lift this off this bit just opens out. And this is that kind of explosion, it's very very similar the base concept to an explosion box so you can just fill it with treats and that's what it's filled with Kit Kats and when he lifts this off it pops open like this. It's exactly the same shape everything and probably not too far off the size either. It takes two pieces of well it's just smaller than 12 by 12 but it's just a really nice box so you could just have it like that and decorate it with flowers you could have a nice sentiment here if you want but it is a really really fun box and you can see inside there as well it's a really clean finish. Yeah so I racked my brain and I'm pretty pleased with this one that I've come up with it so yeah here we go let's crack on. So I am using those papers this one here is all the same as these ones that I'm using today and it's from the Beyond the Shore which is the first edition 12 by 12 paper pack. I've used this on numerous um projects now and again I'm using this one which I made the clutch bag from a few um couple months back now so I'm using that one and then I've just got my own um purple kind of purpley well yeah it is I guess violet colour. So I've made two templates here because um there's a lot of scoring it's easy but there is a lot of scoring but I'm gonna photo these two templates and put them up on my blog just so that you can kind of um revert to these just to check that you are where you need to be. So all you need for this is a ruler and pencil we're not going to be using the scoreboard um and this is how I have found it the easiest to do so um I think I'm I think I'm there I don't know why I've got these rounder bits you don't need them it's literally just two pieces so for the lid this is the smallest piece here you need a piece of um paper or card strong paper um 10 and one eighth of an inch by eight and five eighths of an inch this is our lid so it's that that one eighth of an inch and that extra one eighth over the eight and a half there just allows it to sit over the base okay so get that ready for the lid and then for the base that you need a piece which I've got here which is 12 by 10 and a half and it's the base that we're going to start with first of all so what we want to do first of all is come in from the top along the 12 inch side and put a little pencil mark at three and a half okay then again from this side here put a pencil mark at three and a half then along the bottom you want to do exactly the same and then from this side so one two three and a half so that's eight and a half okay and then you're going to do the same on the sides so again three and a half and one two three and a half and again at this end so on all four sides then we're going to be rubbing all these pencil marks out you don't want to be heavy with them but now with a light pencil line you want to join up each opposite little marker so I'm using my grid underneath here as well so that's that one by getting these straight lines in place it allows us to be able to create the next set of lines this is 12 inch ruler and it's a 12 inch line so it just marries up and again like so now you don't want to do this on the score but we're not scoring these lines these are here as a guide for where we do our next score line so the lines that we do next will be scored but these are just going to be rubbed out so that's why you don't want to you know do them don't press down too hard so now again with the template here we now need to create these lines inside these so we've just done these pencil lines here across these straight ones we need to create these ones here okay now we're going to score this square in the middle okay and we're going to score these but to get that square in the middle you needed to do this so that's why we've got those pencil lines so next what we want to do is in every one of these squares here we want to put another little marker at one inch coming in so there's one inch there and one inch there and that's what this is that's that square that we done the pencil the straight line this coming in here is one inch so that's what I've just done and then we don't want to do we want to score we don't want to do any unnecessary pencil marks so then again here one inch one inch and again so now we don't need to do any more pencil marks now we can just grab our stylus so I'm going to use this one here and I'm going to use my metal ruler now and first of all we'll start with these corner squares so what you want to do is score from the corner okay we'll start from so basically we're going to score from this mark here to the corner okay so from there to there which is from here to the corner we're going to cut this out later so I'll just go around again and do this and then show you once it's done okay so I've just gone and scored and you can see the score line there you can see another one there here in all of those four corners okay then we now where we've done these little markers that come in one inch we're going to score from that marker to that point so we're joining the top of these previous score lines that we've just done okay so again make sure you really ingrain these score lines because these are our main ones as if we were using a score board like so and you just want to go around and do that in every of these squares on the outside just bringing them to meet up with each other so you'll have three score lines all joining up to the same corner in every corner so just show you there you've got that score line here meets there you've got the one through the middle of the square and then you've got it starting again here so there's three score lines and you'll want that in every one of these corners here so you can see those score lines kind of coming together and they will resemble this now but imagine you've got the corner still here this is the pencil mark but in terms of score lines there's this score line this score line and this score line and then this pencil mark and this pencil mark so again pencil mark pencil mark and then score line score line score line okay so now we can rub the pencil marks out you don't need those anymore oh before I do that one I've got to just score the square in the middle so now you're just joining up where those three score lines all meet that's the corner of this middle box so we just literally want to join those up and this will form the base of our pop box okay so you can just see it catching in the light there there I've scored that square in the middle so now just carry on and get rid of all those pencil marks okay so that's all my score lines gone just want to get rid of that template now for the minute now we can burnish everything so first of all I would because you need to pinch most of these score lines start with your very corner ones so these ones here you just want to pinch just go around and do them first because once you start pinching the rest it will all start to come together and as you do them you can start to do the square in the middle and then you see this one then naturally starts to fold doesn't really matter which way as long as you can just get them burnished and some I'm just going to push that one in there actually like so if you push them in and then they kind of start to go into the shape that they need to but don't worry if they go the other way whatever works best there's a good card you're using it won't crack whatever way you fold it so and then I can do those square ones there on the bottom okay so then now if you bring in all of these corners I mean they won't all fit but you can start to see it will all come up eventually so now what you want to do is on each one of these is bring one of the corners in okay and then with your scissors this is kind of just freehand but what I would say is if you come in let's say let me do a little test oh yeah that's fine I think that's what I'm just looking here it's about one yeah no so come in one inch okay you can see so from one inch and then cut down on an angle and that's what you'll have so you want to create a side which that still does because you don't want anything falling out but you don't want all the bulk inside inside so again let me show you if we come to this one here so again one inch so I'm just going to put my finger and my thumb there start off with the scissors and then just go down straight so you're cutting out another kind of triangle and you can see that I've got similar sides okay so again I'll show you again roughly with my ruler as long as you go straight you want to go straight down because you're removing it you don't want to go on an angle you want to remove all that bulkiness and again that last one like so so now you will have something that should resemble that shape and that is roughly the same as my template so I didn't think I done too bad there yeah yeah well I guess if you've got that it is isn't it one inch it's like where the pencil mark was you imagine these were originally our pencil marks I guess you're kind of cutting in from that so that is the shape that you want and now I bring all that up that is your top half your base of your explosion box so now with this because the colors will match this is the lid from the one before it will just sit nicely over the top it's really flush as well so I'm pleased with that that it works and it does explode out even more so what I would do is just pinch them don't burnish them any more than they need to because you want it to explode you want it to pop open like that if you burnish them really heavily which I probably did maybe two yeah I think I did because they're kind of shiny so that's a lesson there so don't don't burnish these just pinch them like we did and leave it because it will it will hold it in place obviously like so and we're going to pop ribbon around that or I mean it's lifting up a bit now so maybe that's why I burnished it but it stayed down just now but play around I mean if you want it to be quite tight anyway then do so you may want to glue this and actually stick it together because even stuck together you can fit everything inside you can still fit your bits and pieces in so you might want to keep that all together so you can you know there's a few ways anyway that's the base done now let's cut on with the lid so that's the template and this is what I've got here now this is what I'm going to have on the front of my lid so I'm going to flip over and do the pencil marks on this side because then if they don't rub out too well it's not the end of the world because it's not most of it will be cut away and not seen anyway so this is a very very similar process but we're kind of doing things opposite so with the one inch little markers that we've done coming in with this time they're going to go out because this needs to sit over the shape so sorry chatting away to myself there so again with your ruler we're going to create that crisscross effect so three and a half and put a little marker and you want to do that on all four sides three okay so I've done all my little pencil marks now you just want to join them up so again I'm just using my grid mat underneath and again just lightly and this is so we can get that square in the middle which will form this time the top of our lid so it will be a smaller square that rectangle will be this size that you will have in the middle so that's those two and then again make sure that's all nicely lined up so now this is quite dark you can make it out can't pick it up for some reason you can see now we've got this smaller rectangle and that's good because that's now going to be this bit here so now we've done that so now we want to do the one inch so just bringing it in here so we've just done these pencil lines here and here and created this area now we want to do one inch going out from each of these pencil lines so before we went inside the box this time we're going outside of it so one inch one inch just bring that up so here's the square you're doing the one inch from that side and then you're coming out to that side so again show you here one inch and again there and just do that on the other two sides okay so I've done all those markers now um we're going to score those so don't use your pencil so that is everything now the pencil I don't need to do any more grab your stylus and starting from the corner you want to come all the way up I'm going to use my little ruler again up to that corner of the middle rectangle so you can see there so these are the pencil marks then you've got these four squares on each corner from the very tip there up to the corner of this inner rectangle so again go around to the next one so this is all kind of the same now as to what we did with the base that last one so I hope this is all I hope I'm teaching this clearly enough they go can you see that's what you should have then we can then do so we've got the little one inch markers that you've done coming away from the this main box again you want to join them up to that same point and again you'll have three score lines all meeting to that same but this time the three of them are all within this corner square whereas before you had one here and one here and one in the middle this time they're all together you can see there in that corner so again I'm just going to go around and do that on the others okay so you can see now I've got my three scored lines within that pencil square then you just want to score the middle rectangle and join up all four of those corners okay so that's all done once again now just go around and rub out all of those pencil lines okay you can actually see the rubber is rubbed almost looks like it's rubbed the image I think it's just a bit dusty on top it doesn't matter because this is inside so now you want to do the same again so this time I'm going to fold it this way because I can see that they've come through on this side so because this is the front so just doing the middle square first and again remember not to burnish it with the bone folder just do it with your finger and your thumb so those fold like that and then this one you want to fold inside like so okay and then just pinch that again and if you've scored them like deep enough this should all fall into place quite easily okay so now you can see the lid coming together now we've got all this sticking out so what you want to do now is similar to before but we're going to be gluing this so you don't need to cut away as much at the beginning just find my scissors there we go so what you want to do here again is trying to get as close to the corner you can kind of bend it out a little bit as close to the corner as possible and then just cut up so you want to have that there you don't want to have any overhang because we're going to then glue all this together and then we're going to cut away again even more so again I'll do this one here get your scissors in right to the the join here okay and then cut in so don't worry if they're not all exact because like I said we are going to cut away even more it's just you need that amount really to glue it together and again that last one like so okay and just make sure when you go around that you're getting a nice join there if one's longer than the other then you need to go back and look at your score lines because once this is over the top you need it to all be flush so that it sits flush on your base okay so now that's all done I'm going to grab my wet glue flip it over and just apply it on one side of I guess it's kind of like a triangle shape like so okay and then just pop it together if you go inside and put it on once you know bend it to one side you can actually then push it down on your mat and just make sure if you get anything kind of coming out and then grab your bone folder and just make sure you get that glue right up to the edge there and right down to the corner because what we're doing once this is all dry we're going to cut right up here just leaving a very thin strip okay so you can see now that one all stuck down so you want to go around and do that on all four corners okay so that's now all stuck down so grab your base and it should neatly completely fit over the top and be completely flush because this is exactly three and a half this is three and a half so it all matches in perfectly so now if you want to keep it like that you could put a little fastening here if you wanted to with some velcro you could do the stick them on the bottom have them coming up the side and have the velcro here if you wanted to seal it that way if you burnish these sides it will stay in its shape and this won't lift off on its own so if you look at the one I've done before where I burnished it that doesn't move that stays in place so if you want to keep it like this and just decorate on the top with flowers you can but I like the bounce of it I like that it's going to kind of lift and have that explosion look so again when I open that you see it does all really pop out which is good so I'm going to keep that like that I'm not going to burnish it too much I want to leave it and I'm going to grab this ribbon and start from the top there we go that's not too bad I've got there in the end but there you have it I think that's really really cute so there's my two designs I'm calling it a pop box just so that it doesn't get flagged on YouTube but it is an explosion box of sorts I will share the video of the Kit Kat one so you can see it so you can just get an idea of exactly what it is I'm on about Mum I hope you like it I hope you can make it and I want to see your version and as always I like to see all your versions too guys you know I love seeing your projects your pictures so yeah hope you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye