 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so it's quite a quick video I wanted to show you how to make a 7x7 and an 8x8 box envelope so I've already done a 5x7 and 6x6 box envelopes they're very popular it's a tutorial that people go to you know a lot especially when they've just made their dimensional cards but these boxes are also very handy for gifts as well scarfs, jewelry, chocolates things like that you can pop inside here they're really quick to make so I've got two sizes here 7x7 and 8x8 when I say 7x7 it's actually 7 and a quarter by 7 and a quarter it's just like when I done the 5x7 and the 6x6 is I've increased them by a quarter of an inch because sometimes we like to add tissue around our cards and sometimes we add dimension and that may go over the edges this gives you that little bit extra space so just to give you an example I've popped this card in here and that fits really nicely like I said it's got that little bit of space a little bit of wiggle room there on the sides these are easy to obviously close you could pop some tape on there pattern papers wax seals look really nice as well if you want to close them because you can keep it on the outside and then use your wax seal on that section there you could also add a strip of card stock if you wanted to kind of bring that down a bit longer than you can this one here I actually have three cards these are all going off to my friend's little boy who's just turning three so he's got the swing boat the swinging chairs and then in the middle is the ferris wheel and they all sit together and I just thought it was really nice to have them as a trio of cards rather than just the one so I'll be wrapping those in some tissue just so they're protected but I will be giving that by hand and you can see they all fit in there really nicely as well so what I'm going to do is give you the measurements for both sizes and then I'll show you how to put together one and then I'll put the other one on high speed because you put them together exactly the same way so first of all the eight by eight you'll want one piece of 10 and a quarter by 10 and three quarters and then one piece of 10 and a quarter by nine and a quarter this is going to be the front piece so along the 10 and a quarter side you just want to score at one inch and nine and a quarter and then pop it along the shorter side and score at one so you've just got those score lines there and then this piece here is going to be the back and this has your little flip lid so along the 10 and three quarter side you want to score at one inch nine and a quarter and 10 and a quarter and then rotate along the 10 and a quarter side you want to score at one and nine and a quarter so that's all the scoring and the measurements for the eight by eight and then for the seven by seven this piece is for the back this is nine and a quarter by nine and three quarters and then this piece is for the front this is nine and a quarter by eight and a quarter so along the nine and a quarter side you're going to score at one and eight and a quarter and then along the short side you're going to score at one so just like the other one you've got your three score lines there and this piece is your back piece with the flip lid and along the nine and a quarter side you want to score at one and eight and a quarter and then along the longer side you're going to score at one eight and a quarter and nine and a quarter. Okay next you want to fold and burnish all of the score lines. Okay so I'm going to talk you through the cutting and put together the smaller the seven by seven and then the eight by eight will be put together exactly the same way but I'll speed that one up. So first of all we'll start with this one with the three score lines so you want to have it so that you've got your two score lines on the side and one on the bottom you should have nothing along the top there okay move that one out of the way so you want to cut up these score lines like so and then I like to just cut a little wedge off of the sides okay and then with this one you will have that half inch and the one inch that's the top that's the flap piece so the bottom here you want to do the same so you're going to cut up those two score lines and then again just take a little wedge off of the side then flip it all around so you're working on the opposite end and this time you want to cut down past the first score line down to the second and again that's the first one down to the second and then you want to take the small little rectangle piece off the top and again and then keep these pieces because they're going to be our side tabs now whenever I do these kind of boxes you want to take a thin amount off not a big wedge just a little bit because you want the lid to be able to kind of wedge itself closed so when you when you slide that little wedge when you slide this piece in you want it to kind of lock against these pieces so if you cut too much away it might just pop out if that happens it's not the end of the world because it's an envelope you can pop a nice you know decorative piece of tape some people have their hand made by me stickers that they pop on things like this so and you might even use a wax seal they look really nice as well so just take a very very small amount off it's just to take away some of that bulk it's mainly the score line you're cutting away and again here like so okay so how I've cut those two you'll do exactly the same with the eight by eight but you're not going to need the tabs on both of these for the base pieces so I'm actually going to take um this off again completely so on that one where you've got the three you can actually remove this completely because we've already got them on this piece okay so you'll actually have that just the three sides again like I said do that with the eight by eight one as well go back to this piece make sure this half inch tab is away from you because that's the top of it these are the bottom tabs pop some glue on these and then you just want to bring that under and bring the base around like so and again that one under and just make sure you've got nice right angles next you're going to stick this right over all the three sides so you've got a really nice finish on the front it'll be neat on the back as well and then that will just fold inside so I'm now actually going to use the calow glue because this will really add strength to the sides of this so just around those three sides and then just wrap this around bring it up like so just to make sure that it's nice and flush with the bottom and then if you get a ruler you can go around all the sides and just make sure it's all stuck down okay so now you'll be able to fold in the sides there and this is what I'm saying about not cutting away too much here because you now want this to kind of lock itself in like I said if it doesn't it's not the end of the world pop a bit of tape on there wax seals but it should now if it doesn't go in so I've actually not cut enough away on this side so I'm just going to snip a little bit more off there that works perfectly and it's got a really nice snug fit so there is one envelope box so I'm just going to do the other one now so that's both of the boxes all done and I've actually popped the cards in so you can see now in this one here I've actually got three because this is it's like one card all together so this is going off to my friend son so he's got the main one in the middle and then a different ride either sides so it's all three together so they fit perfectly into the larger one there and then in this one here this one's not two-dimensional but it's the seven by seven size but you can see that fits in there perfectly so I hope you found this tutorial useful lots of people have been asking for the larger sizes so I thought the seven by seven and the eight by eight although they are slightly bigger we're going to be you know popular ones we do love our larger cards in the UK the eight by eight cards are um are pretty popular and you can find those um a lot in the card shops as well but like I said these are really handy for gifts as well so scarfs, jewellery, chocolates things like that I think they're just a useful box and they're quick to make as well so as always I'll link as much as I can in the description box below and I'll be back again very soon with more tutorials take care